#whale NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...

I can make lobster jokes all day because I'm on a roll.

Click through to watch video of a brittle star spawning on the Great barrier reef share.google/X4AXvBWhlD3J...

My latest for @science.org—a major European effort to understand the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining begins this year. It aims to answer major open questions as the ISA finalizes regulations.

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

#Pacific #salmon #NOAA Conflicting Ocean Indicators Suggest Moderate Returns of Pacific Salmon | NOAA Fisheries share.google/piyBvb8NjSSg...

"The study shows that many reef fish populations have been heavily overfished and are producing far below what they could support over the long term. By allowing these fish stocks to rebuild, researchers say coral reefs could help address hunger on a global scale." share.google/ydnCD8KjY8b0...

🦑 #Fishing #coralreef "We show that recovering fish stocks on coral reefs can significantly increase the number of sustainable fish servings produced per year and the number of people meeting fish intake recommendations, particularly for countries with high malnutrition." doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

"Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201...to plunder its rich marine life. The fleet regularly becomes so big it can be seen from space" share.google/9KFYEi46wH7V...

"... in June 2025, the team concluded that the reduction in the ocean’s aragonite saturation state needed to be much lower than previously thought to keep the ocean healthy: around 10%, rather than 20%." Researchers Say the Oceans Passed a Milestone for Acidification share.google/vxQKx69k7dnh...

TIL that the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) can pass a mirror test Meet One Of The Only Fish Ever Reported To Pass A Self-Awareness Test. Hint: It’s Smaller Than Your Finger share.google/jFz9V1fjcGXC...

🦞 #lobster "In a story that at first blush appears to be something you would see in a heist movie on Netflix, criminals stole 40,000 pounds of lobster meat valued at approximately $400,000 from a warehouse in Taunton, Massachusetts and vanished without a trace." share.google/GFsDk7BxEjK3...

"The first auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market typically sees fish selling for exorbitant prices." Tokyo fish auction sees bluefin tuna fetching record $3.2m - BBC News share.google/hCGOqCwQHT59...

Azores must respect its exceptional network of marine protected areas (commentary) news.mongabay.com/2026/01/azor... 🧪🌎🦑

A multi-method assessment of elasmobranch diversity and abundance in the southern Red Sea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spawning biomass is doing very well, clearly conservative catch quotas

Canada sees best cod landings, exports in decades - Undercurrent News share.google/yy3dwko1I8PJ...

Greenlandic firm to invest in new cod fishery as other quotas fall - Undercurrent News share.google/arawKJipTXtV...

🦈 Bonus weirdness, the author of this puff piece is fond of alliteration, and referred to the #shark as a Tangerine Terror; I don't think I have previously heard "terror" used to refer to a #nurseshark 🤣

Back in Aug of 2024, a nurse shark with albino-xanthochromism was caught near #CostaRica. This resulted in a publication to Marine Biodiversity releasedin Aug. 2025. That caused a bunch of late 2025 pop. sci. articles then....but ScienceAlert is covering it *now* 🤔 share.google/hVph6YyCaZNy...

@echinoblog.bsky.social that's a beautiful sea star! Also crab and urchin. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

Great collection of this Brisingid! Double checking, is that Novodinia sp. @echinoblog.bsky.social? They didn't lose a single arm either! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

🦑 High-frequency diel sampling of #RedSea #reef waters during #mesotrophic winter and #oligotrophic summer conditions revealed distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities compared to nonreef waters, along with previously undescribed #dielcycles. share.google/fRpxA4Mzfd0C...

And here's even more popular press coverage, this time from the BBC, of last year's paper on beaked whale sounds The sounds revealing the secrets of world's most elusive whales share.google/JNvfnCgkh0m3...

In 2026, Norwegian startup Flocean is slated to launch the world’s first demonstrator and commercial-scale subsea desalination plant at Mongstad, Norway. share.google/WnVIl38qvRGS...

If this interests you, follow the snotbot page on Instagram www.instagram.com/snotbot?igsh...

Popular press article about the use of #snotcollecting #drones to detect cetacean #morbidovirus in the #Arctic How scientists used drones to find a dangerous virus among whales in the Arctic share.google/c15GBr1Utp4f...

North Atlantic #Orca appear to be expanding from harassing #yachts to going after #commercialvessels North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...

Using #satellite images to track areas of #copepod abundance NASA scientists peer into the ocean and discover the tiny creature that keeps the titans of the sea alive - AS USA share.google/ZxAXMWPwzxM7...

#Artificialreef #Destin #Florida The legendary SS United States sets sail for the last time, and its final destination is not a port, but the bottom of the ocean share.google/aB6MuuVKhdoL...

Further coverage of this beaked whale paper in Marine Mammal Science from july of 2025 First At‐Sea Identifications of Ginkgo‐Toothed Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens): Acoustics, Genetics, and Biological Observations Off Baja California, México share.google/MyrxcE4D4WvW...

Scientists Solved the Mystery of the Shark That Bites Perfect Circles

Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: ‘Like Deer Crossing the Road’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/n... 🧪🦑🌎

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Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society &the American Academy of Underwater Sciences offer two scientific diving internships. Intern applicants can be students from colleges and universities with an interest in science and diving. The program runs primarily from mid-May through August.

The prehistoric shark found in a suburban town in Scotland

Every single “inspirational” video you’re sharing of a random hero guy randomly finding a shark on the beach and rescuing it is actually a video of that guy catching a shark and handling it poorly, and sometimes illegally, resulting in the need to rescue it. They just edit out that first part.

15 Million Years before the Megalodon, This Giant Ancient Shark Prowled the Oceans

“We discovered that tiger sharks gather around small islands in summer to hunt fledgling seabirds, which in turn forces other smaller sharks to adjust their habitat use," explains Chloé Blandino, lead author of the study share.google/eheoicAQVTX3...

🦑 #shark New research shows #grayreefsharks spend less time in summer near islands where #tigersharks gather to eat #albatross fledglings, spend more time near these islands in winter when there are fewer tiger sharks present esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

"red groupers also live there, but they do not prey on adult lobsters because they are too big to eat. The tiny juveniles face a higher risk of being eaten once they arrive, however. " How juvenile lobsters fall into a deadly natural trap in the Florida Keys share.google/xTRXqGDdLVgD...

🦑 #FloridaKeys #lobster #redgrouper "We describe a natural ecological trap wherein social, juvenile #spinylobsters are drawn by the scent of larger lobsters to solution hole shelters where predatory grouper also dwell." share.google/dTYGyoNDuTrI...

The plan is two to sync it the #Florida coast near #Destin & Ft. Walton Beach early this year SS United States reef project moves closer to deployment | Daily Echo share.google/sQhXXFuMDIun...

Happy New Year's Eel!

#Florida has critically endangered North Atlantic #rightwhales - a first time mother and her calf - migrating along the the coast of #Brevard Whales near extinction spotted along the Space Coast: 'A marvel' | FOX 35 Orlando share.google/99Wi4L6KrTCH...

Forbidden sushi? No! This tube has five chain catsharks cuddling up. They like to lay along the bottom during the day (because not all sharks need to swim to breathe). It's a cuddle party at the new Mote Science Education Aquarium!!

🦑 Here is a link to @sfortune.bsky.social 's December 11 paper in Scientific Reports describing cooperative hunting of #chinook #salmon hunting by northern resident #orca and Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Further coverage of research by @sfortune.bsky.social. Her lab used drones & camera tags to show cooperative hunting of #salmon by Pacific white-sided #dolphins and fish eating #Orca. In a first, orcas and dolphins seen possibly hunting together share.google/J6VhFG9pTlyY...

It just might catch on.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDt...