Check out this exceptional sea cucumber from Singapore. Real nature can be more bizarre than fiction.

The photograph is by @budak, well worth a follow on both Mastodon and Flickr. They find and photograph amazing animals.

https://flic.kr/p/2qTe1uR

Monterey Bay FC was brave to launch a new mascot, call it Kelpie, which looks like an off brand Gritty, and nothing like kelp.

I know a bunch of marine scientists who are annoyed about this

Exciting work studying the chemical bonds in membrane lipids of #archaea (#marine #microbes) which are often used for #paleoclimate reconstructions suggests improvements to #temperature reconstructions.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25000925

More evidence #MicroPlastics are causing harm to humans

#Marine Microplastics Linked to Neurologic Dysfunction
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/marine-microplastics-linked-neurologic-dysfunction-2025a10005na

Very nice study @Palaeo3 by Petrizzo et al. reviewing and synthesizing #extinction of several shallow #marine #organisms during Ocean Anoxic Event 2, a period ~94 million years ago with widespread #oxygen depletion in Earth's #oceans with lessons for the future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225001762

Two paintings originally known as ‘Tempête’ and ‘Calme’ (Storm and Calm), were commissioned as a pair by Stanislas Augustus, King of Poland, in 1772. However, Vernet instead sold them to the British officer and East India Company official Lord Clive.
These are two of Vernet’s greatest #marine paintings and the type of work for which he was most famous in his day.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-shipwreck-in-stormy-seas-1773-claude-joseph-vernet.html
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-landscape-at-sunset-1773-claude-joseph-vernet.html