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Shark boy who stays in the lab late. Feed on fast food to survive.
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
🦈 Happy #InternationalWhaleSharkDay!

The whale shark, the world’s largest fish, feeds largely on the ocean’s tiniest creatures: plankton. This whale shark (aptly) appeared in the "Field Book of Giant Fishes" (1949). 🧪

Explore it in BHL: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6279169

#ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of a Whale Shark, Blacktip Reef Shark & Spotted Eagle Ray, swimming in the sea.
August 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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oceanoculus.com
Some predators don’t chase their prey. They wait.

Meet the sponge ambusher worm Eunice siphoninsidiator, a deep-sea polychaete worm found around 1,000 metres down in the northwest Pacific.

Image credit: Yadong Zhou (Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory)
Glass sponge (left) and worm (right). A worm can also be seen inside the sponge
April 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Pliocene otoliths from NW #India reveal first fossil osphronemid & structure of a Himalayan freshwater ecosystem

Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Ramesh Kumar Sehgal, Abhishek Pratap Singh, Konsam Nildy Devi, Rigzen Angmo et al

Art: Yun-Kae Kiang

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Caption from the paper: "Reconstruction of Pliocene freshwater ecosystems in northern India based on fossil fish otolith assemblage recovered from the Mohand section, Siwalik Group. The illustration highlights key ecological components, including Channa, Trichogaster, and gobiid fishes. Artwork by Yun-Kae Kiang" Underwater view of shallow water, leafy bottom, green vegetation, various types of fish and a view of the water surface above.
March 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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triloboii.bsky.social
#Cenozoicrewind2025 Meet Zealandorhynchus fordycei!

#vectorart #paleoart #swordfish
Vector illustration of Zealandorhynchus fordycei, a large fossil billfish form the early Eocene of New Zealand. The large fish is seen cruising from slightly above, with its tall dorsal and anal fins extended. It has a short, pointed bill and a long lower jaw. It is silvery in color with a coppery sheen and dark stripes along its sides. Text reads: Zealandorhynchus fordycei. Seabourne Rust, Morne Wium, Rodrigo A. Otero and Marianna Terezow. "Fossil Billfish (Xiphioidei) from the Eocene of Hampden, North Otago, New Zealand". Gondwana Research (2025) Oct 24 2025
January 26, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
It's #FossilFriday! Here are zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. Featured are a dead sauropod, #SeaRex #Hybodus #Hypsocormus #Metriorhynchus #Aspidorhynchus & #Allothrissops

#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Pliosaurus
January 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM
goloworm.bsky.social
Bon appetit!
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
goloworm.bsky.social
Found on a rotten wood.
December 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Use creativity in designing your stratigraphic figures! For this one (in McDavid and Thomas 2025), I sampled color values from pictures of rocks from the Patuxent, Arundel, and Patapsco Formations, and then extrapolated the trend forward for the Raritan.
A stratigraphic column figure showing the formations of the Potomac Group, aligned to the Geologic Time Scale (Aptian-Cenomanian) and local pollen zones. The colors for each formation block grade from reddish brown at the bottom (Patuxent Formation) to olive at the top (Raritan Formation)
August 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
goloworm.bsky.social
It's always contradict that as a ichthyologic student always wants to find the target species in the fish market, another hand you want them to keep away the fishermen's net.
August 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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blueappaloosa.bsky.social
Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close?

Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.

#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
July 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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nhm-london.bsky.social
Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough.

Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!
David Attenborough in a blue suit standing in front of the Natural History Museum with text that says "Happy 99th Birthday Sir David Attenborough!"
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
I missed #StGeorgesDay, but what the heck: here's St George vs. #Tyrannosaurus for #FossilFriday. You don't have to look hard for the Paolo Uccello reference, but this Tyrannosaurus looks to be giving St. George a tougher time than the dragon in his painting. #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur
St. George, famed slayer of endangered reptiles, squares up to an enormous, dark Tyrannosaurus in the dead of night. His white horse rears in panic at the looming giant, who casts a great shadow over them both. George aims his lance up, conscious that his weapon is a mere needle to his 10-tonne opponent. "I much preferred being painted by Paolo Uccello", he thought to himself. "He made the reptiles small, gangly, and fictional. I didn't sign up to fight real giant reptiles, and I _especially_ didn't sign up for being painted by someone who clearly wants the reptiles to win." Moments later, George's feeble lance broke upon the scaly, rib-lined belly of the tyrannosaur. He had a split second to respond: now defenceless, flight was his only choice! But before he could even begin to steer his horse away, he was wrenched from his mount and tossed back into the dinosaur's jaws. His final sensation was being crushed by spike-like teeth, his flesh mangled and cut by his own dark armour. The chewy flesh and metal confused the king tyrant, but she swallowed him whole anyway. The experience reminded her of eating an ankylosaur, but this had a greater taste of... justice? As if centuries of reptilian persecution by humans had been avenged, in a minor way at least. She walked off into the night, not bothering to chase the horse, who galloped into the nearby treeline. Her legend, Tyrannosaurus the St. George Killer, had begun.
April 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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euphanerops.bsky.social
New #OA paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org #RSOS: we use CT to describe a 3D shark from the Cretaceous Chalk, giving a rare skeletal perspective on shark evolution.

A bit of the backstory in 🧵below featuring
🦴 MYSTERY FOSSILS
🦈 CUTE SHARKS
🦷 CHALK DENTISTRY

doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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A reconstruction of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark menacing a crab in a shallow sea, crinoids, ammonites, and belemnites in background. Credit: Julio Lacerda A fossilised shark head in chalk limestone, and CT data showing the 3D skull preserved inside
April 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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pbruegel.bsky.social
Big fishes eat small fishes https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/big-fishes-eat-small-fishes-1556
Big fishes eat small fishes
April 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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bdj.pensoft.net
Introducing the BDJ portal, hosted on the @gbif.org platform!

Another initiative that will make it easier to use and reuse biodiversity data.

More @pensoft.net journals will soon follow suit!
March 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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saveourseas.bsky.social
A spectacle to behold, in the shallows, hugging this island, we see broad cowtail rays and mangrove whiprays - and looking with a close eye, few juvenile blacktip reef sharks weave between the rays.

Footage by Sebastian Staines.

#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
goloworm.bsky.social
What a wonderful day! Even though it's freezing outside, I still made a big progress.
February 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
#Fossil #fish assemblage of the Laguna Formation, #Philippines: unveiling the uniqueness of #Pleistocene freshwater ecosystems in Southeast Asia

Tomáš Přikryl, Abigael Castro, Allan Gil Fernando, Chien-Hsiang Lin et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Herklotsichthys sp. from the Laguna Formation, Philippines. a Overview of the specimen COG-005. b Specimen COG-003. c Specimen COG-004" - Three images of three fairly well-preserved fossil fish.
January 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
Oh sure, when I eat a crinoid and vomit, nobody cares . But when a fish did it 66 million years ago & we just now find its puke, that's somehow big news.

(P.S. This find is also a great example of ichthyological ichnology, or ichnological ichthyology. 🧪🐟)
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM