#Marine signs

[blood-ology]

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

[xomnus]

destiny trio + zodiac headcanons

[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.

[gettheorion]

[starmocha]

Then can you feed me? Please?

[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.

[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.

[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

[yergink]

great god grove was incredible. if you'll excuse me i need to go make some weird art RIGHT NOW

[elisela]

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

[lazywriter-artist]

begging for more mosh and fret content i love them both sm /pos

Well good news for you I’ve been doodling them a lot and also love them UwU

They drip!-

Speaking of their fashion choices mosh actually means more to typical punky-glamrocky kiss style aesthetics while Fret is more David Bowie meets the artist formally known as Prince :3

<3

You Better not be.

Stolen flesh hound to cuddle!!! Bc He can be a bit softie sometimes 🥰

Also!!! Had to be an over achiever and do a little something for my beloved angel face darling Vitus 🥰🥰🥰🥰

They’d be besties and rock out together!! With the levels Mosh and Fret listen to their music I’m shocked THEY don’t have any hearing issues 💀