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No animal can nail the whole "spectacular creature" thing as well as the whole "a little cutie patootie" thing like a bobtail squid can.

🦑📷Adrien Cantat (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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So is this the Eight-armed Club?

🐙📷Emily Sonter (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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NEW #SharkLeague #ICCAT Factsheet outlines key steps needed to strengthen existing measures & close critical gaps - from enforcing the finning ban & rebuilding shortfin mako populations to protecting basking & white sharks, & ensuring sustainable blue 🦈 fisheries sharkleague.org/2025/11/10/i...
ICCAT 2025: Shark League Calls for Stronger Protections
The Shark League’s ICCAT 2025 factsheet outlines science-based steps to protect sharks and rays and strengthen Atlantic conservation.
sharkleague.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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In the early 1990s, only about 1,300 manatees remained in Florida’s waters.

Today, their population has grown to more than six times that – all thanks to laws like the Endangered Species Act and people taking action to protect them. 💙

Learn more: https://oceana.ly/440kWh7
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I know I should probably be impressed by cuttlefish catching a fish that is almost as big as it is, but they just look too goofy doing it.

🦑📷Simon Pierce (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Progress made on my big oil painting of nautiluses. 🧡

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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ok yes those are definitely skeleton panda sea squirts
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
keep it up and push harder! this is no different than killing beavers for their pelt or bison for their tongues, and both barely survived (even though neither has anywhere near their previous wild range anymore either). #protect #sharks #endangered #bansharkfinning
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Among various kinds of plastic pollution, I am most concerned about those that animals mistake for food.
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
Southern Water is being investigated amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🐙📷Shaun Lee (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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What's the name of their debut album?

🦑📷emajorova (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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#Ecosde2Cañones sea life & fish w/antifreeze proteins! “It was wonderful to see the notothenioid fish curiously approach the ROV camera, reminding us that every encounter with marine life is deeply connected to the physical dynamics shaping their environment.” - Chief Scientist Dr. Silvia Romero
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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While the Global South faces floods, droughts, and deforestation, Exxon spread confusion instead of solutions.

A deliberate campaign to delay climate action, protect profits, and undermine cooperation.

It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable.

#COP30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Take a deep dive into the history and legacy of the nation’s deepest-diving crewed submersible, #Alvin.

📲Hear from Alvin pilots and researchers past and present, and dive deep into discovery with Yankee Magazine: go.whoi.edu/yankee-sub

#DeepSeaHistory #DeepSeaDiscovery
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Curse you, Red Baron!"

🐙📷ajhg (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Why do eagle and manta rays have long, whip-like tails? 🦈 Our study shows that they act like kite tails, adding drag to keep rays stable as they glide!
Thanks to @georgelauder.bsky.social, Connor White, Harvard MCZ, @nhm-london.bsky.social , CSIRO & @tamu.bsky.social Article: shorturl.at/gSf7P
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Our #FishOfTheWeek this week is… the Eastern Blue Groper (Achoerodus viridis) 🐟

👇More #fishfacts and the latest #research featuring ASFB members:
doi.org/10.1071/MF24...

🌐 Info via Fishes of Australia: fishesofaustralia.net.au

#Australia #fish #biology
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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It's time for your regular reminder that flamboyant cuttlefish eggs (Ascarosepion pfefferi) look like toy capsules.
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Composition and conservation status of rays sold in Baja California Sur, Mexico 🦑🌿🐟🦈 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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On Sunday (2/11/2025), Greenpeace South Asia carried out the giant Polluters' Climate Bill in Podampeta, in Ganjam district of Odisha, India, where the community has been facing severe sea-level rise, repeated cyclones, coastal erosion, forcing people to relocate multiple times over the years.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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moment of zen
November 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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A well-needed win! 🐢🎉
A conservation victory for green sea turtles was announced: a downgrade of the conservation status from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
November 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM