CLIONE CLIONE CLIONE!! I finally saw them in person! I had such a wonderful time yesterday at the Osaka aquarium with @sawaharuhiko.bsky.social and @pinesan2.bsky.social fulfilling a long-time goal of finally meeting clione. ありがとうございます!

Happy #crustmas 🦀🦐 !! Is it okay if I share this for crustmas? I just finished this huge illustrative field guide on organisms found in Biscayne Bay's seagrass for my DOS deliverable project with MISS~ There are lots of crabs & shrimps in Biscayne Bay!! #sciart #natureart #illustration #marinebio

This is how pixel games are meant to look

A larval-stage Brama pomfret clings to a ctenophore (comb jelly). #pomfret #brama #bramidae #larvalfish #ctenophore #combjelly #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

✨ #art

STARTORCH ACADEMY 🌌 DEPT OF EXOSTRIDER ENGINEERING 🧑‍🔬🤖 This was done with my Rover OC in mind~ I'm so excited for the Lahai-Roi update ✴️

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

✨ #art #illustration #oc #ocart #sketch #originalcharacter #sketches #drawing #cute #originalcharacter #осарт #dligitalartist #арт #рисунок #иллюстрация

EXPEDITION 33 !!!!!!

A strange Starfish in Lombok - Gili - Indonesia #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #gilimeno #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #diver #padi #starfish #echinoderm

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc. F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨ Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne More info below 👇

QRP with something with horns🐲

Added in the shiny reflections and he is pretty much done. I'd like to touch up certain areas after resting for a bit, but I may as well show him off early. This is "Regal", a male Australian blue swimmer crab that took nearly 250 hours to paint, spanning over 3 years #sciart #crustmas 🦀

The toxic crab (Lophozozymus incisus), a rare and very beautiful species found in warm waters the world over, including off the coast of Australia. Toxic crabs can be incredibly dangerous, containing toxins that are similar to those of the pufferfish, called tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin. #crustmas

Interested in the marbled crayfish, an emerging global invader? We examined how their feeding efficiency is affected by temperature & reproduction. Projected climate warming will reduce feeding rate and increase the frequency & duration of gravid states. #Crustmas link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Meet the carrier crab, an animal that brings its defence wherever it goes. Its back legs are specially adapted to hold anything it can wedge between itself and danger: a bit of dead coral, seaweed, a broken shell. Sometimes, though, that shield is alive – like this jellyfish! 🛡️🪼👇 🎥: Jacob Guy

today's study~

I am excited to share with you a new paper, probably my last of 2025. @drcatmac.bsky.social is a coauthor. Our paper presents advice for early career shark scientists who want their work to be useful for conservation and management policy. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🦑🌍🦈

Freeing the Spirits of the Sea

🕹️ 5 games to get to know you 🎮 ☕ Persona 5 🗡️ Hades 🌊 Wuthering Waves ⚜️ Bravely Default 🎃 Little Nightmares

Blahaj is coming out of this pretty bag to wish you a good Trans Awareness Week. ✨🦈🏳️‍⚧️ #art #cuteart #transawarenessmonth

Jashn-E-Bahaaraa #kaveh #alhaitham #haikaveh Leftover sales of Vasileia: Haikaveh Fantasy AU zine is going on! Link to the shop is below~

A fun finale for the #nudivember festivities! Isn't it pretty? And it does look just like it has a leaf for a cape! Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back. #SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters

🎨 Excited to share this beautiful collaboration inspired by #IconicFishes from the Philippines! 🇵🇭 Artist Kathleen created this stunning work, now being used by at the Philippine Seahorse Program to support seahorse conservation efforts. 🔗 www.iconicfishes.art/updates/seah...

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) 🐳 Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) 🎏 Dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) 🐎 Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) 🦈 Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) 🦭

Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨

3/3: From Tacoma to the tropics: this is conservation in action. 💙 pdza.org/zebra-shark-pup-hatches-in-indonesia 📸: Photos from Mardia Sultan - RARCC/ReShark

2/3: Local “shark nannies” are now caring for Jelly with minimal human conditioning. Once she’s grown, she’ll be tagged and released into the protected waters of Raja Ampat as part of the StAR (Stegostoma tigrinum Augmentation and Recovery) Project.

1/3: Help us welcome Jelly to the world — a newly hatched endangered zebra shark pup in Indonesia! 🦈💙 Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.

Shrimpies what live on FIRE URCHINS! Urchin is Asthenosoma varium.. spines are basically hypodermic needles! don't touch! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

🎉 INCREDIBLE SIGHTING Scientists have captured the first-ever confirmed live photos of the elusive Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale! This rare moment gives researchers an exciting new opportunity to learn more about these mysterious deep-sea animals. 🌊🐋 people.com/researchers-...

Tidepool posting~ 🫧 First time going to Sitka and tidepooling !! I grew up on white sandy beaches, so tidepooling just wasn't really a thing, but I'm excited to go more often~ Will post a few a day till they're gone, starting with sea anemones~ 🌊 #tidepooling #marinelife #seaanemone

BREAKING NEWS: California sea stars WANT you to photograph them, actually! In our December cover story, we dive into Solstice Sea Star Search, a monthlong quest to document California’s sea stars.

the only montage I'm interested in!!!!!

A couple of pics of a pair from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. I think this is a phyllosoma (the larval stage of a lobster) riding a purple-striped jelly which is really too small for it... ID very tentative in both cases though! #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🦀🌿

f you’ve never heard of the Circular Seabird Economy, it’s the idea that seabirds feed on marine prey, and at their colonial nesting sites, primarily on islands, they deposit significant amounts of those nutrients (mostly in the form of guano) onto land. 🧪

龍 #HonkaiStarRail #DanHeng

Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭

happy pride month!

yearning for blue poppies

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

Japan’s new “samurai jellyfish” is simply stunning

The monstrously beautiful #shrimp #Cerataspis #monstrosa. Seen here as its #larval stage, spinning crazy spirals. I’ve let the speed increase up to its real-life speed at the end to give you an impression of how it really swims, and the difficulties in filming it😵‍💫.

Wishing you a deep-sea Halloween! 🎃 It may be spooky season, but really, the only thing scary about the deep sea is how little we have explored it. We’ve figured out the tricks on how to get down there, now it’s time to find the treats!

Quick thread of the many crabs named for Halloween related topics. This one is Gecarcinus quadratus, aka THE Halloween crab 🦀 1/

Appreciating fish details at the aquarium 🐟

Announcement: 30 new species discovered from expeditions to the Southern Ocean. Read more 👇 oceancensus.org/press-releas... @schmidtocean.bsky.social #NewSpecies

🐌 I guess National Snail Day is a good time to share the overwhelming diversity of •pelagic gastropods• we saw in the Gulf of California, Mexico, last month. We used scuba and trawls on the R/V Sally Ride, supported by NSF grants and expertise of Brad Seibel and Amy Maas. 🦑🧪

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

New phylogeny and family-level classification of Stomiiformes (viperfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths) bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....