They pay me to talk about anatomy and biology, but these posts are mine. When I grow up, I want to live in Sea Base Alpha 🌊🐬🦈🐳🐟🦑🪸🐚🦀🐠🐙
🦖🦑🧪🦈New blog post! I wrote about a paper my student Addie Miller published a few years ago, all about the concentration of juvenile giant shark teeth in the Oligocene (25 myo) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina - a nursery for giant sharks. coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-nu...
these monopolies were hilariously corrupt as well, and they had few friends. henry huntington (of LA's red cars), or charles yerkes (of the chicago eleveated) were as detested as bezos and zuckerberg were today. 4/
💯 believe. It is extremely difficult to get close enough to take a good pic and very easy to over estimate your control.
“This destruction [of learning, research, and the life sciences] will take place most easily in an atmosphere of worn-out apathy and helplessness, so give them the opposite. Make it hard for these people, because if they get their way it’s for sure that they want to make it very, very hard on you.”
Jeremy Berg@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2
"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths." "Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"
Helen Grantwww.theguardian.com/environment/...
Provided that enforcement, funding and political will follow, the extinction crisis of sharks and rays has reached a new milestone, with two new national commitments to protect these species having been declared at the Our Ocean Conference, hosted last month in Kenya.
Historic sharks and rays commitments declared at Our Ocean - OceanographicMadagascar and Zanzibar have announced sweeping new national protections for sharks and rays at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa.oceanographicmagazine.com
New fiddler crab species! Get'em while they're hot! 🦀 doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
Description of Leptuca capillosa sp. nov., a new fiddler crab species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the continental coast of Ecuador
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This Shark Awareness Day, meet the overlooked electric rays: numbfishes. These small rays are often poorly studied, rarely recorded, and incidentally caught in coastal fisheries.
Hey everybody! I’m giving a free public talk about sharks and shark conservation at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium! www.pittsburghzoo.org/event/why-sh...
Why Sharks Matter: How To Save Sharks and Why We Should - Pittsburgh Zoo & AquariumSharks are some of the most misunderstood, most ecologically important, and most threatened animals in the world. Join Montgomery County resident and marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman to learn all about...www.pittsburghzoo.orgHappy Shark Awareness Day! If I had to distill my outreach goals into one post, it’d be for you to learn that: Sharks are awesome! Sharks aren’t a threat to you. Sharks are ecologically important! Sharks are threatened and need your help! We know how to help sharks! Follow for more.
www.latimes.com/california/s... The Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered species and paving the way for more drilling and mining. 🧪🌎
Trump slashes wildlife protections, putting endangered California animals at riskThe Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered species and paving the way for more drilling and mining.www.latimes.com