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#News: A toxic ocean crisis in #PapuaNewGuinea is causing mass #fish die-offs, #ecocide and giving locals severe chemical burns! ☠️🌊 #Agricultural runoff from #palmoil plantations is the suspected cause. Fight corporate ecocide when you shop! 🛑🌴 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives insideclimatenews.org/news/290…

#News: Around 16,000 new species are discovered every year! 🧐🌿 From glow-in-the-dark #fungi to new #fish, Earth is more alive than we could imagine! 🌎🔍✨ #Biodiversity #BoycottPalmOil #Vegan #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…
sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…

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#News: Around 16,000 new species are discovered every year! 🧐🌿 From glow-in-the-dark #fungi to new #fish, Earth is more alive than we could imagine! 🌎🔍✨ #Biodiversity #BoycottPalmOil #Vegan #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…

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No red blood cells? No problem. Icefish, meet the Asian noodlefish news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/…

"Antarctic Icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of needle-shaped, warm-water fish also lacks #hemoglobin and red blood cells. Like #icefish, its veins are filled with translucent white blood... #noodlefish adults retain juvenile features... In many other #fish, juveniles don’t need to make red blood cells because they absorb oxygen through their skin"

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500,000 Taxa on iNaturalist! inaturalist.org/blog/103155-50…

"that’s 23% of all known species on Earth... #Birds stand out: nearly all species have been observed on #iNaturalist. 349 species (2%) are yet to be recorded... For #reptiles, #amphibians, & #mammals there are about 10x as many unobserved... Like birds, most unobserved species only remain in tropical regions. This is not the case for #fish, #plants, #invertebrates, & #fungi where there are still many left to observe in all parts of the globe"

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This is a fish ladder in Switzerland. It allows fish to get around a dam.

#Fish #Switzerland #ecology

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coolest fella in town

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Animals #Fish #Redraw

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I'm putting up this painting of two Australian Blue Mackerals just for @Girl Of The Sea.
Enjoy!
#myart #art #fish

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Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former #shark-#poaching ship's new mission phys.org/news/2024-07-ecuador-…

When #Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the #Galapagos in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached #fish including hammerhead and thresher #sharks. Today, the vessel has been repurposed for environmental patrols of those same waters, helping to hunt down predatory vessels of the kind it once was. It has also been renamed #Hualcopo for an Indigenous leader of centuries ago.

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Metabarcoding, metagenomics and other omics methods revolutionize the study and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. Come and join the 350 scientists and managers who will be discussing the use and development of these methods.
aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr…

#metabarcoding #metagenomics #fish #algae #protist #DNA #bioinformatic #pipeline #omics #MolecularEcology

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Happy Easter! A seascape of fish and other critters at Richelieu Rock in the Andaman Sea. Your #sealife #photooftheday

#Easter #Sunday #fish #Sony #RichelieuRock #SonyAlpha #Nauticam #Inon

sea #ocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wild #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #water #climatechange #reef #photo #photography #pictureoftheday #picture #Indianocean #AndamanSea #Thailand @thesmilingseahorse

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Daily Sketchbook Challenge No. 76
March - Sea Creatures

#art #artist #sketchbook #sketch #aestheticsketchbook #dailychallenge #dailysketch #sketchbookartist #drawing #drawdrawdraw #quickart #painting #illustration #peinture #ukartist
#pastel #watercolor #gouache #pencil #inkandwash #watercolour #watercolorart #watercolourillustration #pencildrawing #inkandwatercolour
#seacreatures #fish #seal #marinelife #sealife #naturelovers

Here is a free read-only link to our latest paper on retention and export of planktonic fish eggs in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico #fish #barcoding #DNA #oceanography #science #USFCMS #fisheries
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/…

Oceans Away from Home: The Suffering of Fish in Captivity (2023) #AnimalRights #marinelife #fish #captivity bornfreeusa.org/campaigns/anim…

The media frenzy about shark bites is always over the top, given the very low risk, but this is a new one: the headline simply says "shark spotted near swimmers at Florida beach." In other words, the shark was swimming at home, bothering exactly no one. news.sky.com/video/shark-spott… #sharks #fish #animals #animalwelfare #animalrights

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Hoping to see some new #science folks exploring Mastodon so figured it’s time for another #introduction - I’m Mya, a professor at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. Our lab studies #microbes (bacteria, viruses, protists) in the oceans and other environments and also works on #fish egg identification. I also post about my cute dog and cat a lot! #USFCMS #ocean #marine #oceanography #microbiology #virology #research #seagrass #urchin #academia

Excited to share our new paper - Evaluation of DNA metabarcoding for identifying #fish eggs: a case study on the West #Florida Shelf - published today in PeerJ
peerj.com/articles/15016
#Fisheries #Barcoding #DNA #oceanography #science #IABO #USFCMS @PeerJ

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Here goes nothing - let's see if this old dog can learn new tricks! I'm Mya, a professor at the University of South Florida. Here's my happy lab enjoying the Florida sunshine - we love #marine #science , #virology, #genomics, #oceanography #phage #seagrass #fish

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Friday nights are slack food nights, so tonight it was cheesy potatoes with shallots and bacon, and crumbed fish fillets (because I like the irony of an atheist eating fish on fridays).
#food #dinner #fish #potato