Our most popular (and controversial!) post from the Naming of Things blog was in celebration of #OrcaActionMonth in 2019 and here it is again: Killer Whale or Orca? buff.ly/34ajABd Meme by @emmaluck22.bsky.social‬ #WhaleTales #NamingOfThings

HAPPY PRIDE Y'ALL THE OCEAN IS GAY AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌟🐙🦞🦐🦈🐡🐠

Spider 🦀 liftoff @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 84 #MarineLife

Juvenile fish sometimes shelter in and around jellyfish. This one's a juvenile jack of some kind. Pic from Balayan Bay, Anilao #MarineLife 🐟 #Invertebrate #Blackwater

CSIRO Publishing is seeking Social Media Editor(s) for the journal Marine & Freshwater Research. The engagement is for a term of two years, with potential for renewal. 👀 Expressions of interest are now open here: www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Expressio... #scicomms #job #fish #biology

😔 I totally borked the resin layers on this piece. Super sad because the pink corals came out so pretty 🪸🪸🪸 and I love this species a lot. What should I do with this piece?? 😭 #ArtYear #Art #MixedMedia #Sculpture #Bleh #Help 🐡🦑

The subtle sproing of a sea spider #Invertebrates

CLIFF JUMPING CRABS LETS GOOOOOO

Day31 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Today John (H. sapiens) is cozying up to the echinoid Phymosoma texanum(PRI78781) #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🦑⚒️ (We can keep going even if you help us!)

Today's Oarfish comes from jojovilll on Instagram! This is another ensemble, with the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

If you’re a scientist with even a little bit of experience talking about your science to the public, I’d encourage you to sign up to do one of these. I can help. 🧪🌎🦑

Beware the Britifh Sea-Pen

Today's Oarfish comes from Amphisbaena on Tumblr! This is a blog from a duo of artists, erikasignini and umberto! They challenged each other to draw an animal each day for a year! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

My newest video is up on YouTube! And has been for an entire week! I'm so bad at social media! This is part 2 of my series on geoduck clams, and it's all about how these odd looking bivalves kicked off one of the greatest crime sprees in Washington state history! youtu.be/-gmVnHL1k0M 🦑

I. LOVE. THIS.

silly bee, that's not a real sunflower, it's my sunflower star model 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

Fluffy Crab! :D #MarineLife #Crustacean #Crab #MacroPhotography

5 things you can do if you’re ANGRY about the latest Trump EO www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...

@theoctopuslady.bsky.social I created an “octopus lady bingo card” from some recurring themes I noticed in your videos. Thoughts?

Space vibes 🌌 with Halcyon Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics and pigments 🎨💕 #Sculpture #Handmade #Art #ArtYear #Octopus #Invertebrates #OctopusArt #ArtOriginals #OOAK #Stars #Space 🐡🦑

SOMEONE DREW FAN ART OF ME!! (And I love those boots, I would totally rock those!)

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Grudge Match: Seastars vs Anemones 🦑 #PNW #travel #oregoncoast #starfish #photography #seastar #hiking #beach ##smallwonders

Today's Oarfish comes from AlienTripod on Reddit! They shared this to a subreddit all about deep sea creatures! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

Remember the shark-riding octopus? youtu.be/F9osYO9VRlg?... I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...) 🦑🐡

Here's the still photo of the Whale Shark. I really dig the way the background turned out. 🦈 #sciart #fishart #ArtYear #marinelife #nature #animal #shark #art #blueskyartists #ocean

🥁Drumroll, please! The 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 is… 𝘔𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴, the 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘂𝘀! 🐙 Over 4,000 fans voted and though all the creature candidates were impressive, 𝘔𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 stole the show and our hearts! The prize: complete genome sequencing. @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social 🎥:@schmidtocean

Oh, I miss taking care of cuttlefish 💜

This Trans Day of Visibility I want to talk about sand dollars 🦑🐙 #TDOV 🧵

Whole squad in formation #squidsquad #caribbeanreefsquid #squad #formation #cephalopod #synchronizedswimming #cephalopodsofcoralcity #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

My latest episode of Alien Ocean is up on YouTube! This time, we're talking all geoducks and why they look like...THAT. And...I don't really know what else to say! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGI... 🦑

SOMEONE DREW MORE FAN ART OF ME!!

Can’t believe it took me so long to try putting the kelp crab on a pink beanie… it’s so cute 😭 🦀🦑🐙🐡

HELL YEAH I WANNA SEE AN OCTOPUS RIDING A SHARK.

SOMEONE DREW FAN ART OF ME 😍😍😍

Tiny little opisthoteuthis blinking. Thanks @jeffday.bsky.social for the ID! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 805 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

Beautiful basket star and some amphipods. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 805 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

Everything is better with googly eyes and that includes snails. Today’s #AtoZ is S for Strombus (Strombidae), marine snails with lens-bearing eyes, excellent vision and quite the dashing personality. (1/8) Pic: © Squidpastry CC BY-NC

A scrawled filefish - Aluterus scriptus (night dive) #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #trawangan #holidays #sealife #marinelife #ocean #filefish #nightdive

A notebook of ‘Orkney Sea-weeds presented by Gunner at Hoxa Battery’ in WWI was the inspiration for Sheila Fleet Jewellery's new Sea Moss collection. Both feature in our Seaweed Secrets exhibition until 10 May 2025, and the jewellery is on sale in our Museum and online shop. [📷 Sheila Fleet]

🦑 #Marineresearch #clownfish #anemones #nematocyst "We conclude that anemonefish regulates the level of sialic acids in their mucus to avoid nematocyst discharge." bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New bumper stickers are here! I wanted to update my giant isopod sticker design and ended up designing three more new ones :) This time last year I designed my first sticker inspired by the local brood X emergence so I’m happy to be drawing them again! 🪳🪲🐙🐡🦑 microbiomearts.com

They were saying snailfih will lay eggs in the gills of crabs! 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 805 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

🤗💐 Happy Monday, friends! Cozy 🐙 hugs! 📸 "Makana" Sculpted from clay & lovingly painted 🎨💖 #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🦑

Parasites on pycnos....this Pallanopsis sp. sea spider (Pycnogonida; Pallanopsidae) has a gooseneck barnacle tag along....captured in #Antarctica on the continental shelf. LMG13-12 cruise. 🧪🦑🌎🐧🇦🇶

Carina 🌌🐙 the Nebula Octopus 🎨 Sculpture #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🦑

Banner design complete and off to the printers! #octopolis 🐙🦑🐡

⭐ Tarak the Kingly 🌌🐙 Sculpted from clay & lovingly painted 🎨💖 #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🦑

The view from here, trying to get a little perspective after being super close and painting details all morning. Alllllmost done! #deepsea #deepseacreatures #brittlestar #seastar #scienceart #artstudio 🐡🦑