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Eli
@ichthyosauria.bsky.social
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Biology graduate, deep sea enthusiast
26, he/him
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New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!

doi.org/10.59319/YHF...
July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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staycurious.bsky.social
Today’s minus tide superstars are the chitons! #marinelife 🦑 #intertidal #minustide #kachemakbay #alaska #tutkabay
Chiton w blue lines on its plates. S pink coiled worm on one plate Oval shaped Chiton w green girdle, overlapping plates are orange to brown w white curvy lines Green-brown girdle w nubby protrusions. Plates are olive green w cream colored triangles Chiton w Speckled girdle w yellow spots, plates mostly brown w thin blue lines and three plates have narrow white triangle
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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marathon-rana.bsky.social
To celebrate the start of Pride Month, here are some Pride rainbow trout! Happy Pride everyone! #SundayFishSketch
Digital illustration of a rainbow trout, recolored with the colors of the bi pride flag, with dark blue on top, pink along the side, and deep magenta along the belly. Digital illustration of a rainbow trout recolored with the colors of the trans pride flag with light blue along the top and belly, pink along the sides, and a white stripe along the lateral line. Digital illustration of a rainbow trout recolored with the colors of the lesbian pride flag with oranges along the top, purples along the belly, and a white stripe along the lateral line.
June 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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austsocfishbiol.bsky.social
Our #FishOfTheWeek this week is… the Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) 🐟

👇More #fishfacts and the latest ASFB #research below.

#Australia #fish #biology
April 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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snailseyeview.bsky.social
We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole.

In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9)

Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC
Small, perky snail with head poking out between its two shells. The snail has a pair of long, tubular tentacles. The shells are like clam shells, except they are vivid green. The hinge is at the top. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/166680082 In this photo, the snail is lying on its side with the hinge of the two shells pointing towards the camera. The shell and snail are both very bright green. The snail has white blotches on its back. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/263219540
March 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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cooperpalaeo.bsky.social
New #megalodon paper! 🦈

This work further applies the new "slender" hypothesis to some of the shark's basic biology, including suggesting a lemon shark-like body.

Congrats to the authors! Will probs dedicate my 1st website blog to my thoughts on this paper: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025... 🦈
Biology of Otodus megalodon
Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontida
palaeo-electronica.org
March 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Another new cavefish just dropped!

Barbodes klapanunggalensis, a new species of blind subterranean fish (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from Klapanunggal karst area, West Java, Indonesia, with notes on its conservation

Wibowo et al. 2025

HT Daniel Lumbantobing
Photographs of the holotype of Barbodes klapanunggalensis sp. nov.
February 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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moistmacro.bsky.social
So this little #SeaSlug is a type of sap sucker in the genus Costasiella. These are not technically #Nudibranch and belong in the super order of #Sacoglossa. They perform kleptoplasty where they steal chloroplasts from their Avrainvillea algae host and utilise them for photosynthesis
#🦑 #🦐 #📷
A photo of a small sea slug that is primarily green with pink tipped cerata. The green colour comes from the stolen chloroplasts that the slug uses to photosynthesise and produce sugars. It has two small black “eyes” on its face with a yellow patch below.
January 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian ivory sculpture of a leaping dog. The ivory is now biscuit coloured. Dimensions: 18.2 cm (L) × 6.1 cm (H) × 3.6 cm (W) A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth. The inside of the mouth is red. The eyes are outlined in black. Dated Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC.
January 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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danakorneisel.bsky.social
How often do you see an ichthyosaur fossil from this perspective? They are so frequently preserved flattened that it is easy to forget how massive they must have been. This specimen is at in the Evolutionsmuseet in Uppsala #Fossilfriday
A mounted Ichthyosaur skeleton from the perspective of the tip of the nose.
January 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ichthyosauria.bsky.social
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shoalorg.bsky.social SHOAL @shoalorg.bsky.social · Jan 2
Some #conservationoptimism to start 2025 ‼️

The European Sturgeon is being increasingly caught in nets around Britain, signalling a growing population and that breeding and release efforts are working.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sturgeons caught around British coast raise hopes of return to UK rivers
Slow-growing fish became extinct as a breeding species in Britain in 1950s but rewilding schemes aim to lure it back
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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moistmacro.bsky.social
Last #Nudibranch for the year - this is Nembrotha milleri from the Philippines. Have a great day wherever you are - and may 2025 be a Nuditastic year for you.
#MarineLife #Inverts #Invertefest #SeaSlug
A close up photo of a Sea Slug that is primarily green - its rhinophores are dark blue. It has some red markings around its head and some small spots on the body
December 31, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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December 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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jfcudennec.bsky.social
Bones can fossilize, soft tissues can fossilize, tracks, burrows, and faeces can fossilize — even joyful moments can be preserved in the fossil record !

#FossilFriday #PaleoSky
Pregnant Ichthyosaur (Stenopterygius quadriscissus) fossil. This Ichthyosaur has been preserved with the skeletons of unborn young inside. A fourth may have just been born - its skeleton can be seen below the tail. Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles. This specimen lived between 187 and 178 million years ago. Source : https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/439203/view/pregnant-ichthyosaur-fossil
December 20, 2024 at 1:12 PM
ichthyosauria.bsky.social
Really interesting article! I had no idea there would be so little overlap in the species detected with each method 🐟
austsocfishbiol.bsky.social Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · Dec 29
📑 #NewStudy by Burns et al. finds complementary results using two #fish community monitoring systems – BRUVS and #eDNA – in the Great Australian Bight. Both methods distinguished depth-dependent communities.

👀 https://buff.ly/41TgtMZ
December 30, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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the-episiarch.bsky.social
Snailfishes in the Careproctus genus lay their eggs in a place which is well-protected and well-aerated - in the gill cavities of king crabs. 🦀
These crabs essentially become mobile incubators for snailfish eggs
#Invertebrate 🧪
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Female snailfishes of different Careproctus species. From the top (A) C. melanurus, (B) C. colletti, (C) C. furcellus, (D) C. simus From the paper: Gardner, J. R., Orr, J. W., Stevenson, D. E., Spies, I., & Somerton, D. A. (2016). Reproductive parasitism between distant phyla: molecular identification of snailfish (Liparidae) egg masses in the gill cavities of king crabs (Lithodidae). Copeia, 104(3), 645-657. Egg mass of snailfish Careproctus furcellus beneath the carapace of a golden king crab Lithodes aequispinus. From the paper: Gardner, J. R., Orr, J. W., Stevenson, D. E., Spies, I., & Somerton, D. A. (2016). Reproductive parasitism between distant phyla: molecular identification of snailfish (Liparidae) egg masses in the gill cavities of king crabs (Lithodidae). Copeia, 104(3), 645-657. Egg masses of Careproctus furcellus and Careproctus colletti taken from beneath carapace of a scarlet king crab Lithodes couesi. From the paper: Gardner, J. R., Orr, J. W., Stevenson, D. E., Spies, I., & Somerton, D. A. (2016). Reproductive parasitism between distant phyla: molecular identification of snailfish (Liparidae) egg masses in the gill cavities of king crabs (Lithodidae). Copeia, 104(3), 645-657.
December 29, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
#Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts
a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.
December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM