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“Rare photo from original slide given to me by Ornithologist Dr. Charles Trost who studied the now extinct Dusky Seaside Sparrow.Dusky Seaside Sparrow -Female

Photo was taken in 1964 in St. John’s Marsh,Florida.”

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Anteaters are very, very good at destroying things in a quest for snacks.

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Beluga whale

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Cute but you shouldn’t encourage whales to come up to boats, they can become port pests and get hurt :(

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This is probably��Hvaldimir.  A captive Russian Beluga that was released into the wild, unfortunately. So while you definitely shouldn’t encourage any animal to come up to you, he was raised with humans.

I think this one is from Willow, these sometimes happen with new layers and it seems ISA browns are extra prone to it.

Must murder the crinkle ball

“ Megaptera “ // Paul Nicklen

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This is the life

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what the hell kinda thing is that

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Stop Motion

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New Release: Sea Turtles Resource Collection

Sea turtles are a key part of marine ecosystems worldwide, but they face many threats today. Explore a collection of NOAA webinars, a virtual reality dive, lesson plans, videos, posters, web stories, and more to gain a deeper understanding of sea turtle species and NOAA’s efforts within the sanctuary system to protect them and limit the threats they face.

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💝 SUPERBES

Made some Gray Jay (Canada Jay) friends in the mountains.

nereid worms (Alitta sp.) prowling the tidal mudflats

nereids and other predatory polychaete worms (such as bobbit worms) are related to earthworms but have a more complex brain, leg-like parapodia, eyes, antennae, and sharp retractable jaws for grasping prey. I think of them as marine centipedes.

normally they stay out of sight buried in the mud, so I was a bit surprised to see these ones crawling out in the open, various smaller invertebrates scrambling out of the way to avoid becoming the worms’ next meal.

(PEI, Canada, 7/29/22)

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Ocean Spray

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Le Four Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Brittany, south of Grand Château.

triops are one of my all-time fave little guys

Dangerously low oxygen levels are killing Dungeness crabs off the Pacific Northwest Coast, including NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Scientists are undertaking a collaborative project to understand the impacts and relationships of the multiple stressors involved in order to shape the future of ocean science and fisheries management in the region.

Read about this project here:

Stressed Out: Dungeness Crabs off the Pacific Northwest Coast

Dangerously low oxygen levels are killing Dungeness crabs off the Pacific Northwest Coast, and scientists are undertaking a collaborative pr

https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/nov22/stressed-out.html

Another beautiful day in #Squidtember

Whiplash squid are one of the more commonly found squid in the deep sea, but their anatomy is far from common. Their tentacles are totally different from other squid. Typically, squid tentacles are long and rubbery, with suction cups and often hooks on the clubs. In whiplash squid, they have suction cups all along the limb which makes them super sticky!

This video is from NOAA, and try as I might it wouldn't let me add it by embedding the youtube video- here's the OG.

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Alien-like chatter of the world’s deepest lake as photographer shares eerie sounds of newly-formed ice. Alexey Kolganov films himself skating on transparent ice of lake Baikal, as new cracks form under his skates

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Bro that is literally nature telling you to stop

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always fucking something with this lake

What do you see in this photo? 🔬

Students across the nation in all 50 states looked up at their class projector screen this year and witnessed what some describe as “alien-like life decked out in discoware grooving across the dance floor!”

While kids have access to a lot of interesting content these days, it's not often a student can watch microscopic life magnified and projected over the internet by plankton experts. The featured plankton was collected from surface waters just off of San Francisco, and shared nationwide as part of the celebration of NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary System’s 50th anniversary.

Read the full story:

Plankton Visit 50 States to Celebrate 50 Years of National Marine Sanctuaries

NOAA staff took plankton on a road trip through cyberspace this year, engaging teachers and students in all 50 states.

https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/oct22/plankton-50-states.html

What's going on in this clip?

This tiny free-swimming jellyfish larva is called an ephyra. As it feeds and grows it will develop the stinging tentacles of an adult jellyfish. Visual description: Translucent, microscopic living organism pulses several times.

Credit: Janai Southworth/NOAA/NMSF