Kristen Marhaver
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Kristen Marhaver
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Coral scientist running a gene bank-IVF clinic-NICU-daycare for baby endangered corals, so of course it's super easy and nothing ever goes wrong. Fighting for baby corals because they have very short arms. www.marhaverlab.com

🍗More🍗Baby🍗Corals🍗Eating🍗Leftovers🍽️

This is actual turkey and WOW ancient benthic cnidarians love a dry brined flightless birb roasted to a safe temp. Surprising but not?

Mountainous Star Coral O. faveolata. Baby age: 2 yr. Video speed: 100x. Sharing work+nutrients among polyps: Cute+terrifying.
December 1, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Baby Coral Friends 🍗🪸

Just like us humans, the Baby Corals Eating Turkey are thankful for their many new Bluesky friends, their many arms, their many venomous stinging cells, and their many digestive filaments.

Don't forget to eat and leave no crumbs today 🧡
November 28, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Baby Coral Holiday Tips! If you want to eat more turkey, use your other 6 mouths. If you want to save more turkey, use your other 100 arms. It is easy.🍗

The critically-endangered Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus. Baby age: 15 mos. Video speed: 100x. Top left polyp having thirds: That's how you win
November 27, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Blueksky is DELIVERING in the category Friends of Friends Who Want More Baby Corals Eating Turkey 🍗

Meet O. faveolata, the Mountainous Star Coral. Baby age: 3 years. Baby size: Let's call it 1 mm. Video speed: 300x. All that gnashing back and forth: Kind of scary tbh?
November 26, 2024 at 2:33 PM
More Baby Corals Eating Turkey🍗 🍗 At least two people asked for this continued nonsense.

Here's the Boulder Brain Coral C. natans with a vicious speed-snarf. Baby age: One year. Video speed: 100x. One handed? Pretty close.
November 24, 2024 at 2:06 PM
It's that time of year! 🎉 Time to slow down and count our blessing and watch baby corals eat Thanksgiving turkey like the venomous minibeasts they are! 🍗

The Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa. Baby age: one year. Video speed: 100x. Slow zip at the end: Brutal.
November 23, 2024 at 4:43 PM
How it’s going / How it goes about a year after it really starts going 🪸

Baby Boulder Brain Corals (C. natans) today in the CARMABI wetlab. Big ones: a few years old. Small ones: a year old. Video speed: regular speed. Fluorescent protein? So so green.
November 16, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Filmed today in Curacao: Baby corals being tiny, wiggling tentacles, not knowing about humans or their politics 🏖️🌴

The Great Star Coral M. cavernosa. Baby age: 3 weeks old. Baby size: About 0.5 mm. Video speed: 250X. Thinking speed: Probably pretty slow?
November 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Can we reuse our Twitter jokes here? Great, here's a live view of my to-do list.

A fertilized coral egg developing in the lab overnight. Boulder brain coral C. natans, about 0.5 mm wide. Video speed 1000x. DNA replication speed So So Fast.
November 14, 2024 at 3:01 PM
🎉WE'RE HERE WE'RE HERE 🎉

The baby corals have been trying to move over from Twitter but they can only swim like 300 m a day and they can only grow like 30 microns a day 🐌

Would you like to meet a 5-month-old baby pillar coral doing a stretch? Video speed: 125X, Polyp size: Still so tiny 💙
November 12, 2024 at 6:03 PM