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grown men posting about marine life.
-—the ocean wants to take me & i'm about to let it.
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sea-dwellers 🪸 @autismfreaks.bsky.social · May 4
get vortexed, idiots
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butano.bsky.social
Captura del artículo de Wikipedia de epinephelus itajara, una especie de mero, aquí llamado "Mero guasa"
February 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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antifapatriot.bsky.social
Risso's Dolphin

Adult bodies are usually heavily scarred with scratches caused from teeth raking between dolphins, as well as circular markings from prey

📷: Douglas Croft Images
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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joeymaier.bsky.social
Don't stick endangered mollusks in your pants. Doing so can be expensive:

"Under state law, abalone poaching can carry penalties of up to $40,000 in fines and one year in jail."

Woman caught poaching endangered abalone, hiding it in her pants: Officials - ABC News share.google/bGPDs29faCX1...
Woman caught poaching endangered abalone, hiding it in her pants: Officials
Wildlife officials in California caught a woman poaching an endangered species and hiding it in her pants.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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menestune.bsky.social
This is a throng of yellow tangs hanging out together just a few feet from the ocean shore.

#fish #nature #photography #marinelife #love #yellow #maui #hawaii #bluesky #goodnight #peace #nokings #vacay
Green ocean wave you can see through with a few dozen yellow tang fish swimming just under the surface.
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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cephwarden.bsky.social
Ctenophores glimmering like alien angels
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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joeymaier.bsky.social
"Abandoned FADs pose numerous problems. They shed plastic as they break down, damage coral reefs and collide with artisanal fishing boats...scientists routinely find sharks, turtles, sea lions, seabirds and other wildlife entangled in the netting "

news.mongabay.com/2026/02/aban...
Abandoned tuna-fishing devices pollute the Galápagos Marine Reserve
SANTA CRUZ, GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador — “Good morning,” Walter Borbor, a social media-famous fisher, says to his followers in a 2022 Instagram video. “What we have here is a plantado.” He points to a...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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kayamalie.bsky.social
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
can i offer you a shark in these trying times?
a ¾'s view of a hammerhead shark. you can see the white underbelly and its mouth, open and rimmed with many teeth.
February 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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schmidtocean.bsky.social
This is a Labichthys snipe eel.

Like many of the animals studied during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, Labichthys shelter in the depths & make a daily migration to feed near surface waters at night. Read full caption: youtube.com/shorts/zWjxE...
February 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
It's your classic sitcom set up: a shrimp, an octopus, and hundreds of thousands of her rowdy children.

🦐🐙📷nathan_fripp (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
A Day Octopus (Octopus cyanea) brooding her eggs in a crevice while a Durban Dancing Shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis) walks on the ceiling. The octopus only has her eye and two of her arms visible. Her arms are raised to the ceiling and are some of twisted so the suckers are going in different direction. Her eye is below several clusters of eggs, and she is staring at the camera. She is dark red with orange arms. The eggs are in long clusters that sort of look like a corn cob, if the kernels were thin and also octopus eggs. The eggs are off white with black dots that are the octopus babies' eyes. There are some hints of orange,. One cluster appears to be more developed. The eggs are bigger and translucent and have a lot more orange chromatophores. The shrimp is on the ceiling and facing to the left. It is a vibrant red with white lines and spots, and pale, almost neon green eyes. It is very point. The rock at the top is red.
February 10, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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As I was walking along the rocky shore as usual, I found a moray eel washed up...

Its expression seems to tell the story of how harsh the sea can be…!!
February 10, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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autismfreaks.bsky.social
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT THE ORNATE OCTOPUS:

- they hunt nocturnally on fish and crustaceans.
- they are usually found on coral reefs.
- their stomachs have been found to contain the beaks of other octopus species, which means they are predators to their own kind.

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hawaiianimages.bsky.social James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · Sep 12
How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙
A large orange octopus with white spots and a long thin body wrapped in a semicircle around a large algae covered boulder
September 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
mandatory
an image of fish appearing to stand up straight on the seabed, posted on pinterest. two comments are present at the bottom. one by addison.nguyenn reads, "bullshit happening in the ocean at all times." in response, pinterest user dicklechips commented, "it's probably mandatory."
January 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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xenomatt.bsky.social
Enough of the horrors for one day. Here is a nudibranch.

This is (I think) Hypselodoris bullockii. Pic from Anilao.

#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
A white nudibranch on top of an algae-covered coral projection, with sand in the background. It has a thin, very white line at the margin of its mantle; the body is slightly translucent and some internal structures are visible. The rhinopores have a purple base and orange tips; the gills have a purple-orange base and more yellowish tips. #Macro #MacroPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #Nature
January 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
blue button jellyfish are fascinating
January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human.

Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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drcraigmc.bsky.social
Osedax worms dismantle bones molecule by molecule, no spectacle, no force. Long-term change often looks boring if you don’t understand the process.
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
hey, guys, guess what? green sea turtles have recently been unlabeled as endangered!
autismfreaks.bsky.social sea-dwellers 🪸 @autismfreaks.bsky.social · Jun 16
in honour of world sea turtle day, here are some ways you can help save sea turtles today:

1. push organisations into reducing their carbon footprint. the negative effects of climate change on coral reefs cannot be understated!
2. seek out responsibly sourced seafood!
3. don't buy souvenirs »
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Photo dump from the dive so far.
Sea star, urchin, munidopsis 🦀
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 853 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife
September 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT THE ORNATE OCTOPUS:

- they hunt nocturnally on fish and crustaceans.
- they are usually found on coral reefs.
- their stomachs have been found to contain the beaks of other octopus species, which means they are predators to their own kind.

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hawaiianimages.bsky.social James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · Sep 12
How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙
A large orange octopus with white spots and a long thin body wrapped in a semicircle around a large algae covered boulder
September 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙
A large orange octopus with white spots and a long thin body wrapped in a semicircle around a large algae covered boulder
September 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
The smallest squids are the aptly named Pygmy squids (order Idiosepida), with their mantle length reaching about 2 cm and weighing less that 0.2 g.

They are known as the "Post-It notes of the sea", since they will glue themselves to sea grass in order to ambush their prey.

#SQUIDtember
A Two-toned Pygmy Squid (Idiosepius pygmaeus) holding a crab like crustacean in its arms. The pygmy squid has itself glued to a branching sea plant. The sea plant is black with a purple tinge and has a bunch of dark yellow frilly things sticking out of it. The pygmy squid is attached to the sea plant at its mantle. The pygmy squid translucent, and have a yellow colour with tiny black spots all over. Its eyes are silvery with some iridescent cyan on top. The crustacean is grasped within its arms, and the crustacean is helplessly reaching out with all its limbs. The crustacean is a very light pink colour and a bit translucent. A Southern Pygmy Squid (Xipholeptos notoides) hiding on a piece of sea grass. It has glued itself to the piece of sea grass to wait for prey to ambush. The sea grass is dark green with some greenish grey stuff covering much of it. The pygmy squid has camouflaged itself, with much of its body being a translucent, almost transparent, grey with some dark green chromatophores. Around its eyes it has an iridescent greed. The pygmy squid has its mantle pointing down, then it has its neck bending a bit forward, and then its head and arms are pointing up. A photo of two-toned pygmy squid (Idiosepius pygmaeus) sitting on a leaf. Its body is translucent, with its eyes and organ visible through its skin. It have brown and black chromatophores all over its body.
September 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
today we're learning about NITROGEN NARCOSIS!
September 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
autismfreaks.bsky.social
did you know that orcas in different areas can speak in different dialects?
a killer whale is swimming in the ocean
Alt: an orca, otherwise known as a killer whale, breaking out of the water to crash back into the ocean.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM