marine

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