Life always seems to find a way. An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life. @AssociatedPress has more:
Weekend #Plankton Factoid
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
My coral reef collection was the first themed collection I ever released and I have to admit that I had an insane amount of fun with it! I'm also super thrilled with the love it's gotten so far!
I will work on a new collection after the holidays and I have several theme ideas I think you'll love 
In the meantime, you can adopt my past creations here 
True crabs share specific features: four pairs of walking legs, one pair of claws, and reduced tails tucked beneath their bodies. Many creatures we call "crabs" fail this test, including king crabs and hermit crabs.
True crabs share specific features: four pairs of walking legs, one pair of claws, and reduced tails tucked beneath their bodies. Many creatures we call "crabs" fail this test, including king crabs and hermit crabs.
Can Palau's 'lucky reefs' save our oceans?
By Hugo Hodge
Palau's corals have emerged unscathed from the world's devastating marine heatwaves. Researchers are breeding and planting them to save reefs from disappearing.
@Anima@gulp.cafeSo, I think it's time. We were always going to head that way eventually, so we may as well get started.
Time to make a #crab #fursona. #Carcinisation #furry #marinebiology
Les presento:
EL FITO PLANKTON
#Fediscience #marinebiology #SorryForMisusingHashtags
Why sample the seas if birds can do that for you:
"Avian vomitomics: using seabird regurgitations to assess forage fish size and age distributions as a complement to traditional survey methods", Pelletier et al. 2025
https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/82/8/fsaf141/8230582
It takes 30 minutes to check the health of a dugong. This is what's involved
By Zoe Kean
The world's largest health study of dugongs in Moreton Bay provides critical clues for helping conserve the enigmatic marine mammal, especially in other locations where numbers are falling.
Leopard Seal Mating Songs Are Eerily Like Our Nursery Rhymes. #Zoology #Nature #WildLife #Conservation #MarineBiology 
Leopard Seal Mating Songs Are ... [www.sciencealert.com]
@DolphinSeeker@mstdn.social'Whale poop loop' keeps ocean and humans alive and well https://phys.org/news/2025-07-whale-poop-loop-ocean-humans.html 
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean.
From @AssociatedPress: "Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to find tubeworms and mollusks flourishing at over 31,000 feet (9.5 kilometers) deep."
New review: Grounded in fact and shorn of sensationalism, this is a great first book on shark biology for non-biologists.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/07/28/book-review-shark-the-illustrated-biography/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Sharks #MarineBiology #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature @bookstodon
Every evening, after twilight gives way to dark, hordes of marine creatures — from tiny zooplankton to hulking sharks — rise from the deep to spend the night near the surface. They revel in the upper waters, feeding and mating, before retreating back down before dawn.
Known as the diel vertical migration, this mass movement is often heralded as the largest synchronous migration on Earth.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2021/up-downs-great-vertical-migration
Our favorite headline so far today: "Orcas may be able to make and use tools, with a little kelp from their friends.'''
From NBC News: "Researchers using a new drone say they have observed killer whales finding and modifying stalks of kelp to preen each other."
@GrrlScientist@mstdn.scienceThe Portuguese Man Of War Is Actually Four Distinct Species, study led by Yale University with Griffith University, published by Current Biology
#MarineBiology #ecology #NewSpecies https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/06/23/the-portuguese-man-of-war-is-actually-four-distinct-species/
Weekend #Plankton Factoid
Did you know some #copepods can "porpoise" out of the water, even though they are only mm sized? The forces required for them to break the significant surface tension of the water is enormous, 10x larger than other animals scaled to size. This requires swimming escape velocities > 1 m/s!
Surface dwelling copepods (neustonic) doing this is one thing, but so can pelagic ones. Full paper in link 
#science #oceans #MarineBiology
https://www.oceanlifecentre.dk/news/nyhed?id=b2d38ca9-df5f-4c7d-b4c2-320cd3c16890
Humpback whales are known for blowing spiral bubble nets to hunt with, but why do the create bubble rings for human observers? Are they trying to communicate?
@ScienceAlert looks at new research: https://flip.it/Dhcwde
