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Did you know? There are about 300 species of sea pens that can be found swaying on the ocean floor around the world.
You might be surprised to find out that this feather-like structure is actually a colony of polyps that work together to survive. Different polyps have different responsibilities depending on their location on the body. There are feeding polyps that catch plankton, as well as polyps that circulate water to keep the colony balanced and upright.
Photo: Richard Ling, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr; kidney sea pens (Sarcoptilus grandis) pictured
#AnimalFacts #OceanLife #SeaPen #Ocean #nature #fish #dyk #MarineLife #MarineBiology
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Grab your baskets! Here are a few “Easter eggs” for you to consider today. Banded jawfish dads-to-be carry eggs in their mouth.
This behavior—which helps protect offspring from predators—is known as mouthbrooding, and it’s common across the jawfish species. To attract females, males do a “dance” that involves a series of sweeping movements and fin-flashing. And the crescendo of this courtship ritual? Males open their mouths as wide as possible to boast their mouthbrooding potential!
Photo: Kevin Bryant, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr
#AnimalFacts #nature #NaturalHistory #OceanLife #EasterEggs #eggs #fish #BandedJawFish #MarineBiology #easter
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coconut octopus pin (Instagram @qelffy)
Tiny sea bunny (Instagram @qelffy)
Have you even had a seaweed cake? Dr. Isabella (“Izzy”) Aiona Abbott, a renowned algae marine biologist and first Native Hawaiian to receive a PhD in science, wrote a book with a recipe for such a cake to better connect Hawaiian flora and culture.
As a child, her mother taught about the edible Hawaiian seaweeds and instilled in her a love for plants that’s shown through her education, as she earned her bachelors (1941), master’s (1942), and PhD (1950) degrees all in botany.
After being hired as a Biology lecturer at Stanford University in 1960, she had the chance to show her exceptional teaching and research prowess. So much so, that the school promoted her to full professor in 1972 despite not being hired for a tenure-track position.
Authoring 8 books and over 150 publications, Dr. Izzy Abbot was considered the authority of algae of the Pacific Ocean. Her love for botany and her culture was so great, that even after retiring in 1982, she continued to work in ethnobotany at the University of Hawaii.
To read more about this incredible scientist (and for a recipe for seaweed cake), explore the links below!
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/december/izzie-abbott-obit-120710.html
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Jellyfish
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That time when @thekarlapacheco called in a Wasteland favor and got me and @decomprosed a free behind (and in front!) of the scenes tour of the *shhh* Aquarium and I nearly died from childhood wonder.
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