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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A helluva chonk of a bristle worm! This is the larva of a polychaete from the genus Scolelepis and it was hard to miss! #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Little n’ large. Polychaete larvae from my latest plankton sample. #marineplankton 🦑

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Kelly Jarvis @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Selkie Sunday 💙🦭🌕 📸 by Karl Ramsdell kellyjarviswriter.com/selkie-moon #selkiesunday #SelkieMoon #selkies #fairytale #folklore #debutnovella #seal #sealife #oceanphotography #maine

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Anne McKinnell 🇨🇦 @annemckinnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We’ve made a new friend in the anchorage. He’s round, whiskered, and an excellent swimmer. 🐙📷 #marinelife #marine #ocean #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #britishcolumbia

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lomena @lomena.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hey! The offer is still up?

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lomena @lomena.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hi guys I’m on bluesaky. I only use it for good and I love god

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 12/09/2025

Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend? 🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length. 🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Lots of nematodes in this week’s sample! There was a fair bit of loose seaweed in there, so that may be why? 🤔 #marineplankton 🦑

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 02/09/2025

Salps, a clear, gelatinous ocean animal, use jet propulsion to glide through the water without leaving insight into how they move. With harmless green dye, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Sutherland was able to study salp locomotion at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama.

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Cf. Antholoba, snail, sea cucumber (Cucumariidae?), & sea star. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 835 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The Sharp-Ear Enope #Squid is always a special find. This one was quite large (~2cm) and quite the performer! #sharpearenopesquid #enopesquid #🦑 #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug #marinelife

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Between grains of sand. What gets me is the interest in the world around him, the responsiveness, even the curiosity of such a miniscule creature. A Holm's hermit, watching me watching him. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

A tiny orange and white hermit facing the camera, eyes on slightly divergent stalks; each eye operates individually, giving the hermit a possible 360° field of vision. Here he carries his antennae, green and white dotted lines, spread horizontally; antennules between the eyes are lifted vertically; sensory hairs on his chelae detect scent and vibration: all senses alert.
The legs, chelipeds, and maxillipeds are orange with wide white patches. Eye stalks are also orange, the eyes black.
The hermit stands beside and behind two grains of sand, each one bigger than he, borrowed shell and all. On his right (our left) is a part of a food pellet, easily twice his size.

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Wobbologist @wobbologist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Happy Nonbinary Day and Shark Awareness Day from your neighborhood trans, agender, shark person :) I love learning about the sensory systems and mechanics of these amazing animals! 🦈 🐟 🦑 #sharks #sensory #neuromechanics #science #research #TransInStem #agender

A wobbegong shark propped up on the pectoral fins and looking up for food.

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A bubble coral shrimp (Palaemonella philippinensis), Anilao #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

A translucent shrimp perched within the lobes of bubble coral. It has long antennae and think blue lines on its claws, legs and tail.

#UnderwaterPhotography #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Every time I see people getting inappropriately close to sea lions, I wonder if they’ve ever seen a shot of those teefers because… HELL nah 🦊🦑 from yesterday at La Jolla!

A sea lion mid-vocalization, exposing its foul looking teeth.

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Gabriel Jensen @shallowseasgallery.com · 30/05/2025

The legendary rainbow tripod fish ( #Bathypteroisphenax) eventually settles on the seabed and lives its life sitting on its fintips above the silty abyssal plane. In its larval form is is one of the most stunning fish we see on our #blackwater dives. #deepsea #marinelife

A rainbow tripod fish looks directly at the viewer with large green, blue, yellow, and purple fins that radiate in almost a complete circle from its body. The fin ray tips end in purple tips.

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Erik Boman 🪶🦊🦑📷 @erikwb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It's world Sea Lion Day. Here's a Galapagos Sea Lion that just seemed to be napping right underneath me. These are endemic to the Galapagos. They are considered endangered. They will come right up to people as they did many times to me. Once while sitting in a lounge chair at a pool. 🦑🌿🦭

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カニの散歩道Crabs' Promenade @crabspromenade.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Lydia annulipes eating a snail in Okinawa, Japan. 巻貝を食べるキバオウギガニです。沖縄本島にて。今日はカニオフ会です。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Uni isn't just strong. He's elegant too

A black and white cat wearing a frilly black and white collar, sitting upright and staring directly at the camera with a calm, serious expression.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 08/05/2025

This was a highly productive macro dive at Old Garden Beach in Rockport, MA. We didn't swim very far, but found all sorts of critters. #newengland #Massachusetts #scuba #underwater #underwaterworld #underwaterphotography #diving #olympus #macrophotography #nudibranch #shrimp #snail #fish 📷 🦑 🦐

A small moon snail moves across the sandy bottom looking for small bivalves to munch on.

A zebra lebbid shrimp perched among some tunicates. These tiny shrimp are normally super difficult to photograph due to their excellent camouflage.

Staring into the eyes of a zebra lebbid shrimp perched among some tunicates

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Alukslice @alukslice.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Watercolors again

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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another amazing clam from the maldives for today’s post. #travel #scubadiving #marinelife 🦑

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Kina (Evechinus chloroticus) close up. 🌊🧪🦑🐙

A close up of the top of a sea urchin. You can see the spines and the test. The spines have lighter tips and the body is generally dark brown.

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Future Historian @futurehistorian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hello #Nudivember! Today´s slug is an old friend. Tambja morosa. I wonder if they chose to call it morosa because it´s not particularly snazzy (in latin, morosus = hard to please). Well, I for one do like you, little one. This is from The Philippines. 🦑 #UnderwaterPhotography

A green-bodied sea slug with bright electric markings in the edges of its head as well as in the base and tips of its exposed gills, which protrude from its back. The slug is posed on a reef seabed with clear tunicates (its food) around it.

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Jason O’Rourke @jasonophoto.com · 25/11/2024

Before and after his very first molt with Holokai (#MonkSealRG40)... you've seen the "before" as my annual Halloween green goblin photo, but I love the side by side of these two images, taken just a few weeks apart, where the "after" is his fresh coat. 📷📸🦑🦊

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here's a little timeline-cleansing video I put together after a couple of days spent diving with seals and sea lions in the Sea of Cortez. I posted it at the time but most of you weren't here yet. #MarineLife #DiveSky youtu.be/-7f2xGGPx9A?...

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YouTube video by joshua holland

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Kathy Degner @calikatbird.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#OOTD #otteroftheday #marinelife The side eye is strong with this pup. 🦦

Sea otter pup floating in eelgrass and giving a side eye to the camera.

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Terumbu @terumbudivers.com · 21/11/2024

A Blackspotted pufferfish rest on a sponge in Lombok, gili, Indonesia #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #gilimeno #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #diver #padi #pufferfish #mask

a pufferfish sleeps on a blue - grey sponge during a dive in gili islands - Lombok near bali in Indonesia

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 21/11/2024

Cornelius the cone snail wishes you a happy #MolluskMonday and apologizes for the delay #MarineLife

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Lovely to see grey seal pups on the Farne Islands this week #MarineLife #photography

Newborn pup lounges on a ledge behind a group of females on Staple Island

Punk pup! Newborn coat is being replaced as pup moves into post weaning phase on Brownsman Island

Chunky pup sunbathes in the winter sunshine at the lagoon on Brownsman Island

Newborns on the beach by the water's edge on Inner Farne

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Shad @shadgeek.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A thread of finds from last night’s king tide!! Wish to have seen more, but loved everything we got!! 🦑 Don’t know why the horse clam was sitting out there. But we had a log covered in sea stars and a couple chitons chilling around

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wubbazt @wubbazt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I would like to notify anyone reading this Skeet™️ that half of it was stolen from me, and BlueSky user Melody WILL be hearing from my legal team. These actions are simply unacceptable and cannot be allowed to go unpunished. You can sign my petition to have her locked up by wishing for it really hard

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

At depths over 6,000 meters, researchers have discovered “faceless” fish with no visible eyes or nose, relying on unique sensory adaptations to navigate in complete darkness. #marinelife

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Diverdutch @dutchfromtexas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Day 6 of #Nudivember for me (15 for you normal folks) #MarineLife Up close and personal Felimare fontandaui

A close up of the head and rhinophores of a blue and yellow nudibranch

Felimare fontandraui

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