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Daxter / He / Trans boy This is my (mostly) marine biology blog

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Good ol' Rugby. Having gay dreams about his friends datemates.

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A female southern right whale is spotted with two calves - her own plus an orphan that she has adopted - near Walker Bay in South Africa. It is rare for whales to adopt abandoned calves.

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Picture: Mogens Trolle / Barcroft Media (via Pictures of the day: 2 January 2013 - Telegraph)

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Watch a Massive Swarm of Crabs Scuttling Along The Ocean Floor

Marine biologists say this behavior has never been seen before

The expedition took place in 2015. The footage shows a massive swarm of red crabs on Hannibal Bank Seamount.

Thought this was cool and you’d all find it interesting.

The scientists leading the expedition are not entirely sure why the crabs were behaving this way. One theory mentioned in the article is that they were hiding, the location had a very low oxygen content (hypoxic) and is difficult for many animals to survive in, so there would be fewer predators. 

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NEW CATSHARK SPECIES FOUND IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Brazilian researchers found at 530 m depth off Cabo Frio in northeastern Rio de Janeiro state, a new species of shark. Part of a family known as a catsharks, the new species is about 45 cm roughly the same size as a housecat.

Called Scyliorhinus cabofriensis, this carioca catshark is distinguished from all southwestern Atlantic congeners by its color pattern, clasper and neurocranial morphology and proportional measurements. 

The catshark genus Scyliorhinus consists of 16 species of mostly colorful sharks distributed in subtemperate to tropical waters of all oceans. They are usually found in demersal habitats of coastal to continental slope areas, reaching depths of about 1,000 m. Scyliorhinus species are usually small-sized sharks, with adults reaching a maximum size of about 160 cm in total length, but usually attaining only 70 cm.

Photo: Lateral view of mature and inmmature female. Scale bar = 5 cm

Reference: Soares et al. 2016. Taxonomic review of catsharks of the Scyliorhinus haeckelii group, with the description of a new species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) BioTaxa

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鳥羽水族館「ダイオウグソクムシが脱皮」国内初、世界初の可能性も - 伊勢志摩経済新聞

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please dont ignore this post.. thanks..

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The beauty of shark interaction. Showing sharks as curious and social  animals towards humans, not killers. They are even able to create different relationships with specific human individuals(ej. Eli Martinez, Jim Abernethy, Cristina Zenato, etc…) and they can learn from observation. As top predators they must be respected. But the contact we are able to have with sharks is not possible with a lot of land or ocean predators. And as long as there is respect, understanding and appreciation in between, we can have close encuentres with them with no real risk of danger. 

Unfortunately the only tool they have for feeling is the one that our skin can’t tolerate. In most cases they use their snout to touch things, there is no damage at all, and there is no need to use their teeth. But when they do use them which is extremely rare, the wound is mostly superficial and if death ocurrs (which is even rarer), the cause would be blood lose not because the shark “ate” the person".  

Out of thousands of animals, the shark is one of the few we can truly interact without getting instantly harmed.  

“there are no dangerous sharks, only dangerous situations” - Dr. Erich K. Ritter

Photos by: Jean Marie Ghislain

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Prostheceraeus belliostriatus

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@gorefurs @rockafirings STOP ROASTING THE FUCKING GRINCH. ALL OF YOU.

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Flint keeps talking about Uteri. Someone please stop him.

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Sea Lion @Cape Cross by Fabio Bellavia

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Aurelia Aurita (Moon Jellyfish)

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What are those?

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marine biology side of tumblr please help

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these are Dorito lobsters. they live at great depths but come to feed on the surface when they here the crinkles of Doritos. Little else is know about these chip loving crustaceans.

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Blue Whales feeding. Photos by David Reichart