Oh wait, three years after Twitter. The baby corals miss their baby coral frens!

Two years after Twitter, I'm still not sure where my social media home is. But as of rn, I have two views on tiktok. Gonna shoot high and aim for three. www.tiktok.com/@marhaverlab...

Good question! I will put this on my increasingly weird to-do list!

Now I'm wondering what exactly is "safe poultry temp" for a slimy venomous animal on the bottom of the sea that evolved hundreds of millions of years before poultry or cooking 🤷

🍗More🍗Baby🍗Corals🍗Eating🍗Leftovers🍽️

This is actual turkey and WOW ancient benthic cnidarians love a dry brined flightless birb roasted to a safe temp. Surprising but not?

Mountainous Star Coral O. faveolata. Baby age: 2 yr. Video speed: 100x. Sharing work+nutrients among polyps: Cute+terrifying.

Baby Coral Holiday Tips! If you want to eat more turkey, use your other 6 mouths. If you want to save more turkey, use your other 100 arms. It is easy.🍗

The critically-endangered Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus. Baby age: 15 mos. Video speed: 100x. Top left polyp having thirds: That's how you win

On the left: Baby Boulder Brain Coral C. natans. On the right: Baby Grooved Brain Coral D. labyrinthiformis. Baby age: 2 or 3 years. Video speed: 100x. Underdog: They crushed it.

Happy Thanksgiving Baby Coral Friends 🍗🪸

Just like us humans, the Baby Corals Eating Turkey are thankful for their many new Bluesky friends, their many arms, their many venomous stinging cells, and their many digestive filaments.

Don't forget to eat and leave no crumbs today 🧡

Baby Coral Holiday Tips! If you want to eat more turkey, use your other 6 mouths. If you want to save more turkey, use your other 100 arms. It is easy.🍗

The critically-endangered Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus. Baby age: 15 mos. Video speed: 100x. Top left polyp having thirds: That's how you win

Thank you! Excited to learn more about your work. They are all very good slimy creatures.

It’s tiny pieces of actual Thanksgiving turkey! Humans helped eat the rest.

Friends of slimy ruffly sea things! Can we show some love to this account of slimy ruffly land things? They’re new! They need us! LOOP IN THE SLIME MOLDS

Unforced error of a whole order of magnitude! Baby size is 1 cm. Still tiny.

Blueksky is DELIVERING in the category Friends of Friends Who Want More Baby Corals Eating Turkey 🍗

Meet O. faveolata, the Mountainous Star Coral. Baby age: 3 years. Baby size: Let's call it 1 mm. Video speed: 300x. All that gnashing back and forth: Kind of scary tbh?

Jorunna funebris is our #Nudivember species today. They feed on sponges in the Indo-Pacific regions.

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Oh gah I forgot my alt text. A round, orange coral polyp, 1 cm wide, surrounded by pink encrusting algae. A piece of Thanksgiving turkey falls onto the coral. The coral uses 6 of its 42 tentacles to smash the turkey into its mouth and then closes its lips. Being a plankton looks terrifying.

More Baby Corals Eating Turkey🍗 🍗 At least two people asked for this continued nonsense.

Here's the Boulder Brain Coral C. natans with a vicious speed-snarf. Baby age: One year. Video speed: 100x. One handed? Pretty close.

We'll be bringing you this nonsense all week. If you want.

It's that time of year! 🎉 Time to slow down and count our blessing and watch baby corals eat Thanksgiving turkey like the venomous minibeasts they are! 🍗

The Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa. Baby age: one year. Video speed: 100x. Slow zip at the end: Brutal.

Still wondering about this

Some coral species stay a humble meatball size! But the biggest reef builders can easily grow to be 3 meters wide like these corals on the north shore of Curacao. (I'm the scale bar.) And a coral colony was just documented in American Samoa that's over 30 m wide!

Aren’t they fabulous?? And they grow up to be the size of cars!?

Wowww. Altmetric puts so much care into tracking research impact and that involves a LOT of mini link embiggening📝

Omg this took me out. Is it a riddle? A metaphor? No. Hi Rick!!