#Marine signs

[bestial4ngel]

S T U R G E O N S T A M P S ! !

[c-o-u-g-a-r]

I love it when marine bio people post on here because they’ll be like “look at her… Stunning… She is so beautiful… Gorgeous…” and it’s a sculpin

[reasonsforhope]

"The world's coral reefs are close to 25 percent larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometers (24,700 square miles) of coral reefs – an area the size of Ireland.

That brings the total size of the planet's shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 meters deep) to 348,000 square kilometers – the size of Germany. This figure represents whole coral reef ecosystems, ranging from sandy-bottomed lagoons with a little coral, to coral rubble flats, to living walls of coral.

Within this 348,000 km² of coral is 80,000 km² where there's a hard bottom – rocks rather than sand. These areas are likely to be home to significant amounts of coral – the places snorkelers and scuba divers most like to visit.

You might wonder why we're finding this out now. Didn't we already know where the world's reefs are?

Previously, we've had to pull data from many different sources, which made it harder to pin down the extent of coral reefs with certainty. But now we have high resolution satellite data covering the entire world – and are able to see reefs as deep as 30 meters down.

Pictured: Geomorphic mapping (left) compared to new reef extent (red shading, right image) in the northern Great Barrier Reef.

[AKA: All the stuff in red on that map is coral reef we did not realize existed!! Coral reefs cover so much more territory than we thought! And that's just one example. (From northern Queensland)]

We coupled this with direct observations and records of coral reefs from over 400 individuals and organizations in countries with coral reefs from all regions, such as the Maldives, Cuba, and Australia.

To produce the maps, we used machine learning techniques to chew through 100 trillion pixels from the Sentinel-2 and Planet Dove CubeSat satellites to make accurate predictions about where coral is – and is not. The team worked with almost 500 researchers and collaborators to make the maps.

The result: the world's first comprehensive map of coral reefs extent, and their composition, produced through the Allen Coral Atlas. [You can see the interactive maps yourself at the link!]

The maps are already proving their worth. Reef management agencies around the world are using them to plan and assess conservation work and threats to reefs."

-via ScienceDirect, February 15, 2024

[frogposting]

Panamanian Golden Frog

Atelopus zeteki

These guys are tiny. So small, in fact, that they’re born without eardrums. They use a form of sign language called semaphore to communicate with other frogs. This sign language involves waving hands and raising feet to greet each other, defend territory, or attract a mate. For example, male frogs will wave their arms to attract females, and females will wave back if they are interested.

Unfortunately, they’ve been extinct in the wild since 2007 due to the amphibian chytrid fungus but they’re being bred successfully in captivity.

[xomnus]

destiny trio + zodiac headcanons

[wolfbrotherzach]

I uh…

[turianjournalist]

Started reading the Horus Heresy and I love how the astartes are, at their hearts, teenagers who make fun of each other, have their little secret clubs, and do shit like jumping up to slap pipes

Blah blah stunted social growth due to being made into a killing machine blah blah I’ll write about that later, I’m just endeared to them rn

[felinisnoctis]

Bonded Pairs: Separation Anxiety

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Gerhardt seems to have calmed down almost *suspiciously *rapidly after the peach pie incident. In fact his behavior has been wavering between apologetic withdrawal and anxious monitoring. He still rarely talks to me and doesn’t want to come too close most of the time, but he also seems to not like it when I leave. Fortunately I work from home. I had to drive into town recently and from the security cameras he was pacing and looking at the driveway the entire time I was gone - and then fled back to the basement the minute I got out of the car.

He’s remarkably faster than I expected for being blind, especially given that the stairway has a low ceiling and he has to duck down to get past it. Clearly Gerhardt has already memorized the layout of the house enough to move through it quickly. It’s remarkable how silently he moves given his size and physical condition - he could come up right behind you and you wouldn’t even know until you turned your head.

Meanwhile Asariel appears to have slipped out and helped himself to one of the neighbor’s calves and carried it back to the basement. Normally this sort of thing would have been prevented by the bull in the field, but I’ve seen how fast an astartes can move. Frankly I’m just impressed that he brought a calf back and not the bull.

Still, I chided him for it briefly, although I don’t know how much of my language he understood. “You can’t be taking domestic animals like that. Wild game is fine, but people are going to want payment for their livestock.” Blood-red eyes stared back at me for a long moment before he went back to pulling the carcass apart, pushing the heart and much of the meat over to his companion. Gerhardt responded for him after a moment “I will try to explain to him. He does not trust you.”

That was, I suppose, understandable. I really need to get an astartes apothecary in here soon. Someone who can explain to these to what the hell is going on and help them get acclimated properly. Our local doctor is good, she's a former army medic, but she's still a baseline human. I don't think they're going to listen to anyone other than another astartes.

[linddzz]

Luckily the "what if the SHARK impregnated our ray???" seems to be dying down and bigger news organizations have the corrected information in their articles, but I wanted to share this great blog post by marine conservation biologist David Shiffman that covers both the cool actual science that got overshadowed while actually calling out the facility for how unscientifically they handled it and for the fact that they doubled down (esp since newer media they've put out is softly backtracking and it looks like they're attempting to play it off as a joke that the news misreported. Nope. They put the idea out there like it was as possible as parthenogenesis while calling themselves scientists at a "shark lab")

From the conclusion:

Unfortunately, poor handling of this story has made it likely that we are on track for another year where the most-shared news story about a shark or ray is pseudoscientific nonsense, rather than about their dire conservation needs, their importance to marine and coastal ecosystems, or amazing new discoveries about them. As a longtime supporter of zoos and aquariums and the roles they play in public science education, I am especially troubled by some of the public-facing communications here. If your goal is sharing knowledge with the public, there’s value in gaining accurate knowledge about the subject yourself first. Sharing wrong facts is not “raising awareness” or educating the public, and falsely claiming “anything is possible, don’t trust the experts” is, to put it mildly, not helping the ocean.

It's a great article to drop in if the "omg shark/ray babies???" keeps spreading. Or if you just enjoy niche science drama. The aquarium world doesn't get much of that

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Shout out to autistic people with dumb special interests

We can’t all be into astrophysics and math. Sometimes our special interest is just anime. Sometimes it’s turtles. Sometimes it’s a dumb little book series that does nothing to better the world, has no complex equations or important dates or big math, and won’t help you find a job of any sort.

[firemenenthusiast]

Need to be namors little pretty knocked up wife more than anything fr fr. Like I need him to spoil me to death, hand feeding me grapes as I lie down on the bed. He would throw a fit if i was doing anything but resting up cause he’s just so protective and wants me and our baby to come out as healthy as we can be, I wouldn’t have to life a finger.

👩🏻‍🦯👩🏻‍🦯 not that he doesnt spoil you on a daily basis but when youre all knocked up and round with his baby (s)….. he get super protective. in that period he really think everything could harm you that he decides to mother proof your chamber. no sharp edges, no objects lying around on the floor, he commands an extra of 2 of the talokan maids to have their eyes on his pregnant wife and to give you everything you ask for on days he couldnt be with you but other than those days, he clears up everything not as important in his schedule just so he could sit and watch if you need anything. he would feed you, he would go out himself to find the food you crave for even if theyre crazy ass pregnancy foods because he wouldnt forguve himself if anything happened and you dont get to eat what you asked him for. he woukd rearrange your sheets so youre always warm and comfy, and would try to talk to the baby inside your belly because he read that its good for their growth. yes, he read both human and talokanil pregnancy books to really know what he should expect from you. sometimes youre worried for the people because instead of doing his job as the king, he decides to spend a lot of time taking care of you and when you ask him about it he responds with “i had attuma take care of everything, do not worry. my job right now is to take care of my two loves”

[starmocha]

Then can you feed me? Please?

[eddieintheocean]

My parents sent me 6 fishy based posters and I tried my damned hardest to get all 6 up on my walls (and doors)

[natileroxs]

I think one of the biggest missed opportunities in all the Gear 5 at Marineford fics I read (still love them btw) is the fact that if Luffy had gone Gear 5 there would be nothing that could stop Zunesha from stepping over the Red Line and coming to see their oldest friend Joy Boy.

[tekikato]

some traditional art doodles

a conversation in a moment's rest

also warriors and legend

[elisela]

got the good seats for the last game of the season 😭