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pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social
🩵 🫧☔️ Tue, Dec 2
Orcas keeping a presence inland Puget Sound. Reports this morning have a group up in Port Susan, east side of Camano Island.

📸 A member of the T137s navigating Deception Passage on Nov 30th. The family exited via Canoe Pass. By Michelle Brodsky from the bridge.

#psws
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social
NOAA's #OceanAcidification Program is funding 6 new awards to help U.S. coastal communities adapt to ocean acidification.

Check out the project in Lingít Aaní, southeast Alaska. #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑

oceanacidification.noaa.gov/funded-proje...
Developing tools for resiliency planning in Southeast Alaska - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
This project provides tools communities and decision makers in Southeast Alaska can use for assessing vulnerability and resilience to ocean acidification and inform adaptive strategies.
oceanacidification.noaa.gov
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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whoi.edu
In the game of life, longevity depends on the resources available in your environment. Some organisms, like the mayfly, live for about one day, while others can live for decades or even centuries.

What do you think the oldest animals on Earth are? 🦍🐋🦁

👉Let us know what you think!
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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zebrafish007.bsky.social
Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
“Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” —

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
This photo of this octopus always making think its doing some haughty laugh at my expense.

🐙📷Oonagh (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
An East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens) in a plastic container. It is up at the side, with one arm sticking to the side, going up and then curving down at the halfway point and then curling in a spiral at the tip. The octopus is looking out of the container, but they are at a slight angle and the curled arm is covering up the bottom of the head/top of the arms, making it sort of look like a person trying to cover a smirk on their face. Its mantle is going to the left and down, and the octopus has orange colour of differing shades.
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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race2extinct.bsky.social
If your invasive-species strategy depends on sewage and industrial runoff, you don’t have a strategy. “Protection” by pollution is a coffin, not a barrier. 💀🌊
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Invasive Scud Is Threatening the Great Lakes. Pollution Might Be Helping to Keep It Back. — Inside Climate News
Long-polluted waterways near Chicago are part of a system of natural and manmade barriers keeping invasive crustaceans at bay, a recent study suggests.
apple.news
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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hellskitchen.bsky.social
Finally something to smile about!
Wordle 1,625 3/6

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#wordle #quordle #WQuers #wordle1625

Basket of all basket cases !
🌎 Nov 30, 2025 🌍
🔥 30 | Avg. Guesses: 3.55
🟨🟥🟩 = 3

globle-game.com
#globle

#galapagos #reefshark #whitetipshark #isabelaisland
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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saltwaterlifeuk.bsky.social
🦑 🧵 A fascinating find at the Ythan Estuary! Last night a friend contacted me with videos of large cephalopod appendages found here in Newburgh, today I went to go and take a closer look.

#cephalopod #marinelife #marinebiology #beachfinds #ythanestuary #scotland #scicomm
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December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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dominocean.bsky.social
#SharksNearMe special Christmas Market 🦈🌲
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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scuba-licia.bsky.social
Nature is so incredible! This Blue Spotted Stingray seems to have been born without an eye! The hole you see is it's gill slits and where the eye would have been, but there doesn't seem to be any injury.

What do you think - Natural anomaly or injury?

#marinelife #macro #bluespottedstingray
Close up of the face of a blue spotting stingray missing its left eye.
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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scuba-licia.bsky.social
Stubby season is here in the Pacific Northwest and this chonker is showing some big feelings about being photographed by turning white and burying itself in the sand!

This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.

#marinelife
Stubby squid burying itself in the sand Stubby squid burying itself in the sand
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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scuba-licia.bsky.social
More Salish Sea cephlapods - The brave Rubies are out and about in Cove 3 right now! This is rhe same individual showing off its colors for the camera.

#octopus🐙 #pnwdiving #underwaterphotography #coldwaterdiving #marinelife #macrophotography #macro
Close up of a red and white Ruby octopus in the sand Close up of a red and white ruby octopus
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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sharkscience.bsky.social
Relative abundance and diversity of sharks and predatory fishes across Marine Protected Areas of the Tropical Eastern Pacific 🦑🌿🐟🦈 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Relative abundance and diversity of sharks and predatory fishes across Marine Protected Areas of the Tropical Eastern Pacific
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) support globally distinct reef fish populations, which exhibit differences between the remote oceanic islands and continental coast....
journals.plos.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
Given their amazing colour changing abilities, it's easy to forget that European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) will decide to not bother with that and just cover themselves in sand.

🦑📷Virginie Zajdel (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
A European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) laying on the sea floor, covered in sand. It in a small depression, and is almost entirely covered in sand and small rock. The only parts that aren't covered are its eyes and some skin below the eyes, as well as a small part of the mantle opening and the sides of some arms. Its skin is beige with some bits of brown. You can make out that it is a cuttlefish being despite being covered it is still cuttlefish shaped, and the depression in the sand is also cuttlefish shaped.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
blackmanta1978.bsky.social
nice. #creativity #artforendangered #oceans #extinction
"Why don't I do a fish-mas tree?" Oliver Jeffers on his charming new project for Apple
I speak to the picture book maker about his Christmas-themed projection.
www.creativebloq.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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misselasmo.bsky.social
Taking measurements, tagging, data collection. Just another day of the week. 🦈

AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY! 💙
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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saltwaterlifeuk.bsky.social
🦈 Good news for Oceanic whitetip sharks! Their protection level has been upgraded at the 20th Conference of the Parties (CoP20) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to Appendix I.

#oceanicwhitetip #shark #cop20 #cites #appendix1 #conservation
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November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Plastic pollution is one of the most urgent threats facing our ocean. It’s clogging coastlines, harming wildlife and overwhelming coastal communities. 🚨

But this #GivingTuesday, you can help #ProtectWhatsPossible.

Donate now and have your gift MATCHED dollar for dollar! ⬇️

🎁 https://bit.ly/481icTe
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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wcs.org
“This is one of the greatest days in the history of shark and ray conservation.”

Historic trade protections were adopted at #CITESCOP20 today. The next step is strong implementation on the ground, says WCS’s @lukedavid301.bsky.social. 🌏
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
Hey you two, get a room!

🐙📷hakkahamushi (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
Two East Asian Common Octopus (Octopus sinensis) mating. The one on top is dark brown, while the bottom one is light brown. The top one has a slightly rough skin texture and the bottom one has papillae raised around its eye. The top one is on top of the bottom's mantle, completely covering it. You can see the the bottom's eye sticking out in between the top one's arms. The arms are going in different directions and the bottom one has its webbing stretched out.
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Sweeping trade protections adopted for sharks and rays at #CITESCOP20.

“It’s taken 20 to 30 years to get recognition that sharks and rays — keystone predators in marine ecosystems globally — need that protection,” says WCS’s @lukedavid301.bsky.social.

🌏 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
What new protections will mean for these widely hunted sharks
The sharks and rays are widely hunted, their parts used in commercial products like makeup and moisturizers and in culinary delicacies.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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wcs.org
Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES.

“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.

🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
Historic Victory for Sharks as Oceanic Whitetips Upgraded to Appendix I at CITES Banning International Trade
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 27, 2025 – CITES CoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. The vote marks a major victory for one...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Despite their common name, sea spiders (like this one) aren't actually spiders. They belong to their own group called Pycnogonida — distant relatives of spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs!

📷 sudharsan_wary45 on iNaturalist
📍 India
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A translucent, long-legged creature floats in dark water. A translucent, long-legged creature floats in dark water.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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iucnshark.bsky.social
The last proposal for sharks has just passed at #CITESCoP20. Gulper Sharks have been adopted into Appendix II of CITES.

This marks a major victory for sharks and rays as all proposals have been adopted!

#CITES #CoP20 #gulpershark #shark #ray #chimaera #biodiversity #conservation #trade #conference
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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wcs.org
‼️ Historic and sweeping trade protections have been adopted at #CITESCOP20 for sharks and rays.

It's the most comprehensive advance in global shark conservation in CITES history. It belongs to the Parties who championed these protections, says @lukedavid301.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/486puVJ
WCS Celebrates Historic and Sweeping Trade Protections for Sharks and Rays Adopted at CITES CoP20
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 28, 2025 – The following statement was issued today from CITES CoP20, celebrating the adoption of sweeping and historic adoption of new international trade protections for ...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM