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Sharks are friends

@sharkseveryday.bsky.social

Tiger sharks look so silly from the front. I love them 😭

Pic by Ed Lyman on wiki commons (public domain)

Front view/close up of a tiger shark's (Galeocerdo cuvier) face

February 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Anthony vs dead turtles

@mosasaurologist.bsky.social

Happy #FossilFriday from the Sternberg Protostega, a giant sea turtle from Kansas. While adults reach fin spans of about 15 feet, this poor lil guy died when it was only 4 years old and only 3 feet wide. It was tough going then, this plastron preserves marks that look like they were mosasaur bites

Starburst-shaped plastron bones of a long dead sea turtle, glove for scale.

January 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

@arctomet.bsky.social

#FossilFriday The Cretaceous Brazilian coelacanth Mawsonia at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum

Cast of the skeleton of the coelacanth Mawsonian

January 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM

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Norin 🦈 🔜Katsucon

@mahoukarp.com

i love digimon

illustration of digimon characters agumon, gabumon, patamon, gomamon, gatomon, biyomon, palmon, and tentomon

February 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM

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Elliott Blackwell

@elliottblackwell.bsky.social

What was something that endlessly fascinated you as a child?
(art by Mark Janssen)

February 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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I'm Uni :3

@unicouniuni3.bsky.social

Why so round? :3

February 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Miss Melly

@wildhornedhermit.bsky.social

Fuck yeah look at this thing

A green car with an illustration of a shark on its sides, captioned, "BreakTheStigma," "Together For Mental Health, Together For All," "'There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't' –John Green," "It's ok not to be ok," and "Your feelings are valid."

February 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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Doki Rosi 🌷🌷🌷 de FÉRIAS

@dokirosi.bsky.social

Pokémon Cards 🎏 Water team #fanart

February 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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Veeloxxy Bites

@the-episiarch.bsky.social

Sea lions can get little a combing, for science.
This post is about a non-invasive method for sampling lice from sea lions 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/05/anta...

Top left: A man leaning out of the side of a boat, combing a sea lion resting on a platform using a lice comb with an extended handle.
Bottom left: A man on a beach combing the neck of a sea lion using a lice comb with an extended handle. The sea lion is leaning its head back and has a contented look.
Right: A photo of the lice comb attached to an extended handle which was use to collect lice from sea lions.

January 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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I'm Uni :3

@unicouniuni3.bsky.social

Uni ate a whole chicken for dinner…
Chicken boy!

January 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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AJ

@pintofangrybees.bsky.social

A sketchbook page of belugas from a while back, this was from the life drawing class held with Little White and Little Grey of the Beluga Sanctuary in Iceland