Studying for life

Enviro science graduate working for marine biology experience. This was originally a studyblr and is now branching out around it. Spambot blogs not welcome here.

[fullfrontalfish]

Kuhli Loach (Pangio kuhlii)

[mbari-blog]

Deep-sea mom life

For decades, marine biologists assumed that all squids laid their eggs in clusters on the seafloor, where the eggs developed and hatched without any help from their parents. However, MBARI scientists discovered that some female deep-sea squid, like this Gonatus onyx, brood their eggs by carrying them between their arms until the young hatch and swim away. ⁠ ⁠ Gonatus females will have approximately 2,000 to 3,000 eggs in a sheath between their arms for as long as nine months. During this time they are unable to feed and must rely on stored fats from previous meals. This observation of the first known parental care behavior by squid was also an important discovery made possible by the use of MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles.

[snailfish-enthusiast]

The wonderful Glass Octopus. Living at depths of around 3000 ft and only being about a foot long, these strange little creatures are rarely seen by scientists.

[ends-2-beginnings]

karl.ramsdell

Maine

They don't get much cuter than this.

Good morning 🦭🌞

#karl.ramsdell

[samimarkart]

more embroidered fish fossils

[casualcarpetshark]

BOW DOWN TO THE ANCIENT ONE

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[reality-detective]

A male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece. ✨

[great-and-small]

Wait long enough in a mangrove swamp and you’ll see something magical. In this case, a small school of golden cownose rays. 

[strawlessandbraless]

Oh to be a Dumbo Octopus without a care 🐙

The dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis) is a deep sea animal that lives on the ocean floor at extreme depths of 9,800 to 13,000 feet.

Females usually find a mate around their second birthday and take a seamen packet from the male so they can fertilize their eggs on the go when they please. They can even get pregnant while being pregnant, they’re basically always pregnant.

Love to sea it 🌊

[silverhawk]

i think one of my fave shark facts is this thing that some species of sharks do where they sorta peek their heads out of the water to see whats above the surface…..its called spyhopping and great white sharks do it all the time

[thatsociallyawkwardfan]

This gave me so much serotonin for some reason.

[naomster]

They look like they forgot they can breathe underwater and think they’re drowning

[definitely-not-iorveth]

#dont they reckon they learned this from whales?#bc whales have been doing this for as long as weve been observing them but sharks have only started doing it in the last decade or so#OH HEY THAT REMINDS ME#ON THE TOPIC OF SHARKS LEARNING THINGS FROM OTHER SPECIES#theres a pod of orcas that have recently started hunting sharks off the coast of south africa#started with one orca with a collapsed dorsal who reportedly HATES sharks and was the only orca on record to hunt them routinely#WELL#he taught his buddies and now theres a whole pod that hunt them#and the sharks (who arent used to being predated by anything) USED THE SAME EVASION TECHNIQUES THAT THEIR OWN PREY USE WITH THEM#so seals and turtles and etc will try to evade a GWS by swimming in a tight circle and keeping the shark in their line of sight#the GW has a larger turning circle than the prey so if the turtle/seal/whatever is able to got into the right position then they can evade#the shark. well the orcas started hunting the sharks and the sharks TRIED EMPLOYING THE SAME TACTIC THAT THEIR PREY USES#this is huge in terms of lateral learning bc its not as though the sharks have an instinctive orca evasion technique bc if they did it#would be something different. given that sharks are solitary hunters but orcas are pack hunters and the smaller turning circle method#will only work with a solitary hunter and definitely HAS NOT worked when applied to pack hunters. BUT THIS MEANS!! that the sharks are#intelligent enough to recall the behaviour of their own prey’s successful evasion techniques AND TO THEN MIMIC IT THEMSELVES.#incredible!!!!!!! but yeah as stated it very much only works against solitary animals so the sharks that employed it did not get away and#the orcas have killed a handful of GWs and literally all the other sharks have fled the area entirely - like - there’s not a single#one to be found and the ones with tracking devices show them getting the fuck out of dodge and of course this is having a big negative#impact on the local economy which runs largely on shark tourism. but yeah like the facinating thing here is that an adult orca has taught#fellow adult orcas how to hunt sharks AND the sharks have tried to employ evasion techniques that they have known to work in the past#its two instances of lateral learning and ONE OF THEM IS CROSS SPECIES LATERAL LEARNING#its amazing!??!? (via @bundibird)

ok you can not just leave all of this in the tags this is fascinating

[hellolovelyscientist]

can’t leave these out either #hold the fuck up what#this reminds me of how octopuses are said to be engaging in submarine warfare like..#there’s some geopolitical shit going on in the water and we don’t even know !!!#the anti-sharks orca party has successfully made their area unsafe for sharks for the first time in known sharkstory !#crazy shit !!#aquatic life

[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Warty Frogfish

Olive’s wet beast fact: also known as a Clown Frogfish (rude and hurtful), these guys actually belong to the anglerfish family

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[chunkecheeks]

when u think about his soulful brown eyes…

[chunkecheeks]

him

[mocweepe]

[ID: a photo of a glaborous fan lobster; a type of slipper lobster that is off white with many red dots, giving its body a pink hue. it has circular brown eyes. end ID]

[chunkecheeks]

i’m so glad this post is reaching the marine animals enthusiasts and i’m getting tags adoring this little guy bc i had to sit through a LOT of “ewwww i hate this!!!” for so many years…. thank you for loving him

[montereybayaquarium]

It’s hard to have a bad day when you’re looking at a swell shark! Swell sharks are nocturnal, spending their days snoozing in rocky crevices. Their name comes from their ability to inflate their bodies like little water balloons to keep predators from dislodging them. 

Sweet little shark face, inflatable balloon body, and snoozes during the day—what’s not to love?

[wachinyeya]

Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Everything about the Greenland shark seems to be slow: these long-bodied animals swim slowly, grow slowly and reach maturity slowly. Their m

[itscolossal]

Tons of Discarded Fishing Nets Are Formed into the Wildlife They Entangle in Sculptures by Ghost Net Collective

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #247

Cleaner wrasse!

Cleaner wrasse have the ability to recognise themselves from a mirror! When wild-caught wrasses are presented with a mirror, they will first engage in aggressive behaviour towards their reflection, but soon start acting strangely in front of it: they'll swim upside down next to it, for example. Once the cleaner wrasses were marked with a brown dot on their throats, they would immediately attempt to scrub it off upon seeing their reflection! This means they have some sense of themselves and their bodies.