#MarineLife

2025-05-02

Fiadh waiting patiently to get a look the Squat Lobster (Galathea squamifera) I've picked up. I think she was hoping to see something a bit more snackable. 🤣🤣
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #squatlobster #dogslife #dog #Ireland

2025-05-02

Guillemots (Uria aalge) and Kittiwakes (Risa tridactyla) occupying their nesting ledges for the breeding season at the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #seabird #guillemot #kittiwake #Ireland

Wanderin' WeetaWWeeta@flipping.rocks
2025-05-02

Older hermit crabs molt less frequently than the youngsters. This geezer has collected barnacles on his carapace; his hairs are coated with hydroids. (No harm done; he's fine.) #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

An old Hairy hermit crab. His carapace is coated with algae and hydroids, and barnacles have settled in. (One is feeding.) There's even a barnacle on his knee. Under the coating of algae, he's green and brown, with pale blue highlights. His eyes, looking up at us, are striped; his antennules are segmented, with a thorn-like tip. He wears a white shell, speckled with yellowish algae. There's a two-tentacled worm sharing the shell; the tentacles wave in the water near the front of the shell, on the right side of the photo (Hermie's left.)
2025-05-01

I is for… #Invertebrate 💚
Don’t call them jellyfish! Sea Jellies are not fish!
Join us for more #ArtABCs
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dotart.blog/karin-wanderer-lea

#MastoArt #Art #Watercolor #Watercolour #MarineLife

Watercolor sea jelly is blue-purple-pink & having a fun day.
2025-05-01

Dolphin strandings are taking a toll on LA County's lifeguards: Experts say there's no end in sight phys.org/news/2025-05-dolphin- 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Science

2025-05-01

[Baldachini et al.] Drivers of biosonar click rates in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) over the West Florida Shelf frontiersin.org/journals/marin 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Science

2025-05-01

[Darias-O’Hara et al.] Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species sciencedirect.com/science/arti 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Dolphins #Porpoises #Pinnipeds #Seals #Science

Wanderin' WeetaWWeeta@flipping.rocks
2025-05-01

Hermit crabs are scavengers; they will eat almost anything they find. A favourite treat is the large, fleshy bladder of the bull kelp. Here, a Hairy and a Grainy Hand hermit stand on a half-eaten kelp bladder. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Two hermit crabs; on the right, a very green Hairy hermit (dotted-line antennae), and on the left, a Grainy Hand hermit (orange antennae). Both wear well-aged shells; a couple of dark limpets are cleaning algae off the shell on the left. The hermits stand on a broken kelp bladder, a thick-walled globe and the top of its stipe. The outer skin is brown, mostly eaten away by now; beneath that, there's a thin yellow layer, and the inner flesh is white. In front, here, there's a blade of eelgrass and another of red algae.
2025-04-30

LA Times: "L.A. lifeguards taking mental health leave as beach algae bloom takes toll"

"...Now, things have gotten so bad that L.A. County lifeguards have begun taking mental health days off to cope with the devastation as an algae bloom is poisoning and killing marine life from San Diego to Santa Barbara..."

latimes.com/california/story/2

#marinelife #climateemergency

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