tessa
@tesskou.bsky.social
Science Journalist 📰 & Fact Checker 🔎 @ScienceAlert 🚀 ❤🦇 #Nature, #Climate, #Health, #SciComm, #Sciart, #WildOz &
📷 Wildlife Photography 🐌🕷️
🎓MSciComm, BSc. Zoology & Genetics 🐋
🌿 Views my own 🦎 Narrm 🇦🇺 ♾🧠 🌈ally
My work: https://muckrack.com/tesskou
📷 Wildlife Photography 🐌🕷️
🎓MSciComm, BSc. Zoology & Genetics 🐋
🌿 Views my own 🦎 Narrm 🇦🇺 ♾🧠 🌈ally
My work: https://muckrack.com/tesskou
Woah!! What an utterly incredible perspective of coral 😍 🧪🦑🌿
Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips.
Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉
📷 Ross Gudgeon
Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips.
Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉
📷 Ross Gudgeon
August 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Woah!! What an utterly incredible perspective of coral 😍 🧪🦑🌿
Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips.
Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉
📷 Ross Gudgeon
Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips.
Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉
📷 Ross Gudgeon
There's a massive flock here in Abbotsford atm, along the river, like 50 or more. Way larger than I've seen in previous years.
July 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
There's a massive flock here in Abbotsford atm, along the river, like 50 or more. Way larger than I've seen in previous years.
I did finally plant up my little garden bed with natives in between naps. Surprised to finding weeding quite meditative so far (I'm sure I'll get sick of it at some point though, lol). Loving the little bursts of #WildOz colors though 🥰
July 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I did finally plant up my little garden bed with natives in between naps. Surprised to finding weeding quite meditative so far (I'm sure I'll get sick of it at some point though, lol). Loving the little bursts of #WildOz colors though 🥰
Here you can see a trail of detritus she stores on her web, some of it a larder for times of scarcity, but these caches also include plant materials. So researchers suspect the rotting vegetation may lure more prey.
April 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Here you can see a trail of detritus she stores on her web, some of it a larder for times of scarcity, but these caches also include plant materials. So researchers suspect the rotting vegetation may lure more prey.
A chonky mother-to-be tending a web so strong she could occasionally feast on tiny birds, bats or snakes.
Didn't find the male on the meter-wide web. They are tiny in comparison, 4 mm compared to the 4 cm Australian golden orb-weaver female pictured.
🐡 🧪 🌏 #InverteFest #WildOz #Invert
Didn't find the male on the meter-wide web. They are tiny in comparison, 4 mm compared to the 4 cm Australian golden orb-weaver female pictured.
🐡 🧪 🌏 #InverteFest #WildOz #Invert
April 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A chonky mother-to-be tending a web so strong she could occasionally feast on tiny birds, bats or snakes.
Didn't find the male on the meter-wide web. They are tiny in comparison, 4 mm compared to the 4 cm Australian golden orb-weaver female pictured.
🐡 🧪 🌏 #InverteFest #WildOz #Invert
Didn't find the male on the meter-wide web. They are tiny in comparison, 4 mm compared to the 4 cm Australian golden orb-weaver female pictured.
🐡 🧪 🌏 #InverteFest #WildOz #Invert
A juvenile galah who was incredibly tolerant of my attention 🥰
Here you can see the youngster's nictitating membrane over its eye - a third, transparent eyelid that birds can close for protection against dust, wind, foliage etc, while still allowing some visibility. #WildOz #NatureWriting 🪶🧪🌿
Here you can see the youngster's nictitating membrane over its eye - a third, transparent eyelid that birds can close for protection against dust, wind, foliage etc, while still allowing some visibility. #WildOz #NatureWriting 🪶🧪🌿
January 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A juvenile galah who was incredibly tolerant of my attention 🥰
Here you can see the youngster's nictitating membrane over its eye - a third, transparent eyelid that birds can close for protection against dust, wind, foliage etc, while still allowing some visibility. #WildOz #NatureWriting 🪶🧪🌿
Here you can see the youngster's nictitating membrane over its eye - a third, transparent eyelid that birds can close for protection against dust, wind, foliage etc, while still allowing some visibility. #WildOz #NatureWriting 🪶🧪🌿
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌿 #nativeplants #wildoz
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌿 #nativeplants #wildoz
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
January 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
Is Bob the sea piglet Gilbert uses for cover? 😂
📷 MBARI
📷 MBARI
January 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Is Bob the sea piglet Gilbert uses for cover? 😂
📷 MBARI
📷 MBARI
@flyingtrilobite.com another arrival for the SciArt feed 😊 (Love the heck out of your work Zoe, welcome!)
January 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
@flyingtrilobite.com another arrival for the SciArt feed 😊 (Love the heck out of your work Zoe, welcome!)
Eeeeeee!! What an adorkably silly face 🥰
Researchers found this baby king crab (Neolithodes agassizii) hitchhiking on a plastic bag in the Gulf of Mexico. They usually live at depths of 200–1,900 metres and grow up to 12 cm in size. 🧪🦑 🌿
What would you name this tiny crablet?
📹 NOAA Fisheries
Researchers found this baby king crab (Neolithodes agassizii) hitchhiking on a plastic bag in the Gulf of Mexico. They usually live at depths of 200–1,900 metres and grow up to 12 cm in size. 🧪🦑 🌿
What would you name this tiny crablet?
📹 NOAA Fisheries
January 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Eeeeeee!! What an adorkably silly face 🥰
Researchers found this baby king crab (Neolithodes agassizii) hitchhiking on a plastic bag in the Gulf of Mexico. They usually live at depths of 200–1,900 metres and grow up to 12 cm in size. 🧪🦑 🌿
What would you name this tiny crablet?
📹 NOAA Fisheries
Researchers found this baby king crab (Neolithodes agassizii) hitchhiking on a plastic bag in the Gulf of Mexico. They usually live at depths of 200–1,900 metres and grow up to 12 cm in size. 🧪🦑 🌿
What would you name this tiny crablet?
📹 NOAA Fisheries
yep it's a sternum below a tucked under abdomen/apron! 🙂 These might be helpful?
📷 Atlas of Invertebrate Anatomy by DT Anderson
📷 Atlas of Invertebrate Anatomy by DT Anderson
January 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
yep it's a sternum below a tucked under abdomen/apron! 🙂 These might be helpful?
📷 Atlas of Invertebrate Anatomy by DT Anderson
📷 Atlas of Invertebrate Anatomy by DT Anderson
OMG I JUST SAW A BLUE BANDED BEE! First time seeing one up close after much searching 😄 And it was while watering my neighbors garden, so I should be able to attract some too!! (Yes, I'm way too excited about this but just look at how freaking stunning they are 😂) 🌿🦑
📷 Possent phsycography
📷 Possent phsycography
January 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
OMG I JUST SAW A BLUE BANDED BEE! First time seeing one up close after much searching 😄 And it was while watering my neighbors garden, so I should be able to attract some too!! (Yes, I'm way too excited about this but just look at how freaking stunning they are 😂) 🌿🦑
📷 Possent phsycography
📷 Possent phsycography
This stringling is so thin it can only fit its anus on its throat!
Slender snipe eels are the most vertebrae containing vertebrates, stringing together around 750 spine bones into their 1.3 m of length. Their miniscule profile helps them hide. 🧪🌿🦑
📷 @whoi.bsky.social, @montereyaq.bsky.social
Slender snipe eels are the most vertebrae containing vertebrates, stringing together around 750 spine bones into their 1.3 m of length. Their miniscule profile helps them hide. 🧪🌿🦑
📷 @whoi.bsky.social, @montereyaq.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This stringling is so thin it can only fit its anus on its throat!
Slender snipe eels are the most vertebrae containing vertebrates, stringing together around 750 spine bones into their 1.3 m of length. Their miniscule profile helps them hide. 🧪🌿🦑
📷 @whoi.bsky.social, @montereyaq.bsky.social
Slender snipe eels are the most vertebrae containing vertebrates, stringing together around 750 spine bones into their 1.3 m of length. Their miniscule profile helps them hide. 🧪🌿🦑
📷 @whoi.bsky.social, @montereyaq.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
January 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
Share a shot from your first birding of 2025 🪶 #WildOz
Was fun to see this Australasian darter fishing up close 😄 Such a prolific hunter - caught four fish in front of us! @alexriesart.bsky.social thinks this fish is maybe a baby Aussie bass?
Was fun to see this Australasian darter fishing up close 😄 Such a prolific hunter - caught four fish in front of us! @alexriesart.bsky.social thinks this fish is maybe a baby Aussie bass?
January 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Share a shot from your first birding of 2025 🪶 #WildOz
Was fun to see this Australasian darter fishing up close 😄 Such a prolific hunter - caught four fish in front of us! @alexriesart.bsky.social thinks this fish is maybe a baby Aussie bass?
Was fun to see this Australasian darter fishing up close 😄 Such a prolific hunter - caught four fish in front of us! @alexriesart.bsky.social thinks this fish is maybe a baby Aussie bass?
Seeing a spoonbills in the wild for the first time 😊
January 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Seeing a spoonbills in the wild for the first time 😊
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
January 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
Thank you! It's two bedroom lengths of this that fences the courtyard in 🙂 Faces northeast so gets plenty of light till about mid afternoon all seasons, is sheltered from east, south & west winds by the long building/hill opposite but does get some northerly winds.
January 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thank you! It's two bedroom lengths of this that fences the courtyard in 🙂 Faces northeast so gets plenty of light till about mid afternoon all seasons, is sheltered from east, south & west winds by the long building/hill opposite but does get some northerly winds.
Hey #WildOz / #OzPlant folk, I've finally cleared my courtyard garden bed so am wondering what native plants would thrive contained and provide the best resources for wildlife. I'd like to encourage more visits from honeyeaters, wrens, pardalotes, paper wasps etc. in Melbs. Would love suggestions! 🙂
January 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Hey #WildOz / #OzPlant folk, I've finally cleared my courtyard garden bed so am wondering what native plants would thrive contained and provide the best resources for wildlife. I'd like to encourage more visits from honeyeaters, wrens, pardalotes, paper wasps etc. in Melbs. Would love suggestions! 🙂
To everyone who felt like they climbed mountains just to stay in place this year, or even fall behind: same. It's hard and so exhausting when things are being relentlessly sucky, but let's keep on trying to defy that gravity, together 💙
December 31, 2024 at 7:39 AM
To everyone who felt like they climbed mountains just to stay in place this year, or even fall behind: same. It's hard and so exhausting when things are being relentlessly sucky, but let's keep on trying to defy that gravity, together 💙
Water dragons are everywhere at the moment! This is the most festive one I've seen so far. He's put on his fancy colors to try impress the ladies. #WildOz #UrbanWildlife 🐍 🌿
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Water dragons are everywhere at the moment! This is the most festive one I've seen so far. He's put on his fancy colors to try impress the ladies. #WildOz #UrbanWildlife 🐍 🌿
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (2/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge
December 30, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (2/20) 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge