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Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:59:13 +1000

oceanramsey:#Grateful for experiences, the #sharks #ocean &...

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:33:51 +1000

#Grateful for experiences, the #sharks #ocean & my team 🦈💙 @oneoceandiving . This is a special deep water place @juansharks ❤️introduced me to years ago that we rarely go & an image he’s wanted to capture for years #DreamComeTrue. Meet #tigersharkviolet named after @savingjawsmovie director @keonishoots daughter Violet for the V split in her right pectoral. (2nd photo is Violet, Keoni, and Sky when they found a baby hammerhead at chocolates that someone had killed and left on the beach 💔) This summer #JuanSharks and I are starting to offer a new longer & advanced @oneoceandiving @oneoceanresearch #AdvancedOneOcean #Shark program for those who want to learn even more in depth information about shark behavior and get much sharks with higher chances of encountering #TigerSharks and other deep water #pelagicSharks #LearnAboutSharks it’s Not #SharkWeek it’s #SharkLife trying to #KeepSharksAlive #helpsavesharks #StopSharkFishing say #NoSharkFinSoup #savetheocean See @oneoceanconservation for more ways to get involved with #sharkconservation Check out @juansharks for better photos of #sharkidviolet & #freediving photos with @mermaid_kayleigh @waterinspired @sharksummers @oneoceanglobal @sharkysophie @oneoceansharks for video and @ge_keoni @oneoceanhawaii for video of #SharkIDSparkles #TigerSharkSparkles he spotted this morning #grateful #oneoceandiving (at Oneoceandiving.com)

laughingsquid:The Gruesome History of the First Underwater Film

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:30:09 +1000

laughingsquid:

The Gruesome History of the First Underwater Film

seatrench: Bobbit Worms are predatory marine worms capable of...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:25:23 +1000

seatrench:

Bobbit Worms are predatory marine worms capable of growing up to 3m. Bobbit attacks can be so vicious they fully bisect their prey. Having no eyes, they catch prey when one of their five antennae are triggered.

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tamatoa-teoteomona: lokifenokee: loudest-cricket: craycrayanon:...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:08:50 +1000

tamatoa-teoteomona:

lokifenokee:

loudest-cricket:

craycrayanon:

baptizedbooty69:

the-meme–queen:

sixpenceee:

This strange creature was found on the sea floor In Bali. It turned out to be a carnivorous nudibranch.

A what now

meat-eating nakedstick

WTF

@lokifenokee

That’s Melibe viridis! These things are fabulous! All nudibranchs are carnivorous, but these are particularly weird with their big fishing-net mouth. They use it to catch small crustaceans (or anything else, really).

The nudibranch will fling it out across the sand like a net, then little sensory appendages feel if there’s anything in it. If they catch something, the edges draw back in to slurp it up.

There’s video of it here!

//This reminds me of some cone snail vids I was watching the other night.

i-am-seawolf: Humpback Whales (Life Story, BBC)

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:07:39 +1000

i-am-seawolf:

Humpback Whales (Life Story, BBC)

csnews: Country diary: bottlenose dolphin attack shatters...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:05:48 +1000

csnews:

Country diary: bottlenose dolphin attack shatters Flipper illusions

John Lister-Kaye - June 18, 2018

There are occasions when nature shatters our cosy assumptions. Last week we were watching the bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) on the Moray Firth, much loved by tourists because they come so close to shore. They flip and leap, roll and dive, singly or in pods of a dozen or more, only a few yards from camera-clicking visitors thronging the shingle spit.

The dolphins gather in the Chanonry narrows to feast on salmon migrating upstream to spawn. We often see salmon being flung high in the air and swallowed whole. A feeding spectacle. We know dolphins eat fish and we are comfortable with it. But what we witnessed in front of our lenses that day spun us into shock. Forget film-star Flipper, forget frolicking Fungie in Dingle Bay, forget chummy Sebastian in Disney’s Shark Tale – these Moray Firth dolphins are killers.

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Yes Dolphins can be complete a holes too!

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:40:51 +1000

anudibranchaday:The Dendronotus iris is often called the Giant...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:35:10 +1000

anudibranchaday:

The Dendronotus iris is often called the Giant nudibranch, and for good reason. This nudibranch can grow to a whopping 30cm in length! It lives in muddy subtidal areas from northern Alaska to northern Mexico, at most 200m below the surface. Like many other nudibranchs, the Giant nudibranch has a very specific diet- it feeds solely on the tendrils of the tube-dwelling anemone (as seen in the picture). Funnily enough, the anemones sometimes pull the nudibranch into their tube when they try to hide, although no one seems to be harmed in the process.

marinebiologyshitposts: todropscience: NOT TWO, BUT SIX...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:26:53 +1000

marinebiologyshitposts:

todropscience:

NOT TWO, BUT SIX SPECIES OF OPAH!

Opah or moonfishes (genus Lampris) currently comprises two species, Opah (Lampris guttatus) and Southern Opah (Lampris immaculatus) presently known in both hemispheres in all oceans from tropical, temperate and sub-polar waters. But a new genetic and morphometric study describes three news species, and resurrects a opah species described in 1830, we have now 6 new opah species.

As they are present in fisheries, fish buyers, initially noted variations in the appearance of opahs. Further investigation of external characteristics revealed that some specimens had a noticeably smaller eye diameter relative to body length and possessed variable spotting patterns and body pigmentation, proving that there were more than two species.

Though no directed fishery currently exists for opahs, their common occurrence as bycatch and growing culinary popularity make these fishes a valued, and thus retained, addition to commercial fisheries. Also, opah (Lampris guttatus) have the ability of circulate warm-blood throughout the body, so it is the only known fish that has warm-blood. The endothermy in opah differs from other endothermic fishes in that they are able to circulate warm blood throughout their entire body and thus being the only fish group known that is able to elevate the temperature of their heart. This allows them to maintain enhanced physiological function at depth without returning to the surface to warm the heart.

Opahs often exhibit rapid vertical diving behavior, recent electronic tagging in the Pacific Ocean has documented Lampris spp.from the surface to depths in excess of 500 m.

Image: Species of opah (in order) Southern Opah Lampris immaculatus, common opah Lampris guttatus, Southern Spotted Opah Lampris australensis, East Atlantic Opah Lampris lauta, Bigeye Pacific Opah Lampris megalopsis and Smalleye Pacific Opah Lampris incognitus.

Reference: Underkoffler et al., 2018. A taxonomic review of Lampris guttatus (Brünnich 1788) Lampridiformes; Lampridae) with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa

opah winfey

its-a-whale: coastalpelagicabyssal: seatrench: (source) he...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:57:10 +1000

its-a-whale:

coastalpelagicabyssal:

seatrench:

(source)

he wiggle and scream

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csnews: Do dolphins feel grief? Virginia Morell - June 19,...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:37:21 +1000

csnews:

Do dolphins feel grief?

Virginia Morell - June 19, 2018

When an adult striped dolphin emerged from the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 pushing, nudging, and circling the carcass of its dead female companion for more than an hour, a nearby boat of scientists fell silent. Afterward, the students aboard said they were certain the dolphin was grieving. But was this grief or some other response? In a new study, researchers are attempting to get to the bottom of a mystery that has plagued behavioral biologists for 50 years.

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agenderjeri: A Basking Shark not feeding is a lot less scary...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:36:12 +1000

A post shared by Jeri Rae 🦄 (@jeriraeinsantafe) on Mar 18, 2018 at 10:06am PDT

agenderjeri:

A Basking Shark not feeding is a lot less scary with its huge mouth closed.
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This is a #repost from @baskingsharkscotland via @PhotoAroundApp
We’ve had everything from dolphin super pods to sunfish this past week and let’s not forget the sharks! Lots of food around for the sharks so we’ve seen a lot of feeding as well as some other interesting behaviours like breaching (yes this giant animal can propel itself fully out of the water!). This particular individual was cruising while it looked for some denser patches of zooplankton. #baskingsharkscotland #scotland #hebrides #wildlife #shark #sharks #baskingshark #underwater #BaskingSharks #underwaterphotography #ocean #gopro #brilliantmoments #lovescotland

A fish is swimming upriver and bumps it’s head.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:07:53 +1000

it-was-a-joke-bitch:

Dam.

lifeunderthewaves:2018-05-07 023.jpg by H-Shige

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:05:45 +1000

lifeunderthewaves:

2018-05-07 023.jpg by H-Shige

whaletalesorg:#tbt to our whale watching trip in Monterey last...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:53:43 +1000

whaletalesorg:

#tbt to our whale watching trip in Monterey last fall when we stopped to pick up FIVE different balloons that had fallen into the bay. Just another reminder that what goes up must come down! Countless animals are killed by consuming the fallen remains of helium balloons and birds and other animals can also be entangled in any attached string. Always be sure to tether your balloons tightly and to always deflate them before properly disposing-another great item to add to #talesofsavingwhales⠀
#whaletales #pickitup #whatgoesupmustcomedown @gowhales #whales #whalesofinstagram #savethewhales #whalesareawesome

seatrench: Baby Cowfish (source)

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:46:39 +1000

seatrench:

Baby Cowfish

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timwendrich:tidal

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:42:51 +1000

timwendrich:

tidal

seatrench: The Blue Ringed Octopus is one of the most venomous...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:41:34 +1000

seatrench:

The Blue Ringed Octopus is one of the most venomous marine animals. Despite its small size, 12 - 20cm, their venom is capable of killing 26 adults within minutes. Their venom is a powerful tetrododoxin found in their saliva, which affects the nervous system and causes severe paralysis, leaving the victim unable to breathe. Because the bite is small and often painless many victims do not realize they have been bitten. It is possible to survive a Blue Ringed Octopus bite with artificial respiration.

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montereybayaquarium: How does an octopus breathe? Where are its...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:38:19 +1000

montereybayaquarium:

How does an octopus breathe? Where are its organs? And what’s this about a siphon?

Find out from intrepid cephalopod aquarist Candace about the general body plan of a giant Pacific octopus and what provides the cephalopower to all that inkredible octopus behavior.