PRD’s Life by the Sea

@peearrdee’s marine biology and nature blog

[acoester-comics]

A zine inspired by both my spiritual and scientific appreciation for the coelacanth. What a gift it is to spend my life on the planet with these creatures and all the other people that love them.

[wizardsisananimal]

my awesome 3 mile chain. and yes it's alive

[wizardsisananimal]

[onlytiktoks]

[log6]

the shallow sea that once covered the Earth would have been beautiful this time of year

[distant]

[sendentaryworm]

Assortment of crustaceans from shrimp trawler bycatch(Not in actualy scale)

A love letter to the unnamed, undescribed and overlooked crustaceans

A lot of the species I collect usually aren't subject to underwater photography or aqaurium trades, and let alone commercial uses as food hence they end up in piles of bycatch. They get relatively little attention and remain as a collective, discarded , grinded in fish food or becoming colorless specimens in jars. And yet they're colorful and diverse with their strange appendages and bristles, dots of pigmentation forming their own stories to tell. I think they deserve a little spot of their own in our appreciation towards marine life.

Unnwanted or low value catch are dumped together before being trucked away to be grinded into fish feed in factories.

The collected specimens are either discarded by workers or left in bycatch piles, deemed as unappealing. Obtaining them means getting my hands soaked in foul smelling ooze excreted by the mass of death. Their entry into our peripheral is not the most flattering, but peeling away the mucus and muck are organisms so bizarre and wonderful it's as if we weren't meant to behold them with our eyes.

My "studio" that I photograph their fresh coloration with.

And to end their story with proper adoration, inviting them as my muse, I hope, is much more deserving, even if they're long gone to agree with the arrangements.

[prdunderthesea]

Everyone wants me for my ability to pick up polychaetes with ease

[zinjanthropusboisei]

I have long been obsessed with Blaschka glass models, plant and marine life both, and this is by far the most I've seen at once. I can't stop thinking about how cool it would be to get versions of the magnified cross sections as beaded jewelry

[wizardarchetypes]

deeply obsessed with the salmon edit by _olive_ridley on TikTok

[wizardarchetypes]

I'm baffled that some people seem to think this video/post is a joke & find it funny that someone ascribed emotions & music to the salmons' journey, as if that's new. Humans around the world have told stories about salmon since time immemorial. Salmon are sacred symbols of life, loss, and recovery. In many places, depletions tell stories of colonialism and genocide, and their recovery is a victory hard-won by Indigenous activism.

It's impossible to overstate the necessity Salmon have been to entire cultures for tens of thousands of years.

I get that the humor around this video may not be "that deep," but capitalism and colonialism divide us all from the sacredness and inherent value of all lives. Many of us have become completely disconnected from the cycles of life which support us every day and from the food that nourishes us. If a music edit about salmon moves you, hold onto that. Foster that! Salmon have always moved us. Listen to a story in Tlingit about the Salmon People:

Shanyaak’utlaax̱: Salmon Boy Told in Tlingit (with English Subtitles) - YouTube Find stories about Salmon in the Irish Folklore Collection:

CBÉ 0407 (Part 1) · The Main Manuscript Collection

This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition.

This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition.

Read about what Salmon are to Peoples of the North Pacific, from the Ainu people to the Ulchi people:

[wizardarchetypes]

exactly

[cutequius]

@catadromously

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I made a video about the northern pike :]c

[wizardarchetypes]

deeply obsessed with the salmon edit by _olive_ridley on TikTok

[ofishal-fish-posts]

Official fish post

[egotisticalslimemold]

@is-the-salmon-horny

[is-the-salmon-horny]

From the start until about 0:20

These salmon are ✅ Horny!

From about 0:20 to about 0:35

These salmon are ❌ Not Horny!

From about 0:35 to the end

These salmon are ✅ Horny!

[prdunderthesea]

@catadromously this feels like your salmon comic

[montereybayaquarium]

Whale, whale, whale, look what the ROV dragged in… 🐋🦴🤔

⚠️TW: graphic image of dead whale⚠️

In 2021, a dead fin whale washed up on a beach in Monterey Bay, giving us the unique opportunity to collect one of its back bones for display in the Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit at the Aquarium. 

Before its debut, MBARI helped us sink it in the deep sea to “marinate”. Three years later, we returned to retrieve the whale bone, freshly colonized in Osedax bone-eating worms!  

Check out this collaborative process with @mbari-blog to bring the deep sea closer to you!

[tanadrin]

It is a common error that many faiths believe the souls of the dead depart this plane of existence for some mythical heaven or hell. In fact, the souls of the dead go to UDFj-39546284, a high-redshift Lyman break galaxy in the constellation Fornax, about 32.7 billion light years away. When asked why the dead from across the universe should all be converging on this one faint galaxy, NASA astrophysicists said “it’s like an eel thing,” and refused to elaborate further.

[roychewtoy]

my watery friend... are you too brushed with the pattern of the dappled light...?

[mysillycomics]

🩵 oarfish 🩵

[bowelflies]

sea butterflies, Limacina helicina (Gastropoda: Limacinidae)

source

[hunter-rodrigez]

It's hard to see here... but sea butterflies are a kind of snail

[theyoungwaldschrat]

It is literally impossible to come up with a fantasy worldbuilding concept that is more outlandishly weird, wonderous and magical than something that already exists in the real world

[babyfoxcollectionthings]