New crustacean named after its unique butt Along with 23 other newly discovered critters living in the deep-sea.

New crustacean named after its unique butt
Along with 23 other newly discovered critters living in the deep-sea. www.popsci.com/environment/...

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

New Nature paper!

Vaga et al. (2025) reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogeny of stony (scleractinian) corals, which suggests that some could be resilient to climate change.

Congrats @claudiavaga.bsky.social

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Papuan women's mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution On the southeastern coast of Jayapura city lies a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter.

“Plastic bottles, tarpaulin sheets and pieces of wood are seen stuck between the mangrove roots. The water around the mangrove forest is polluted and dark.” Sanyi said once she removes the trash and gets to the muddy ground where the clams live, there are many fewer than there used to be.

Those Dire Wolves Aren’t an Amazing Scientific Breakthrough. They’re a Disturbing Symbol of Where We’re Heading. We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.

Colossal’s bungled wolf announcement isn’t a conservation win. It’s a sad reminder of how the offensively rich want to foist their vision of the future on everyone. My latest for @slate.com

This needs more traction - please repost. It would've been earth-shattering 2 months ago. Trump is trying to force Columbia to unseat the dept chair of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies department by March 20. What if Trump gave your university 1 week to dismantle your department?

Ancient DNA reveals 6,000 years of the lives of Antarctic penguins Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross Sea coast, showing how animals in the region responded to climate and environmental change events over millennia.

Ancient DNA analysis from Antarctic sediments has traced 6,000 years of Adélie penguin history, revealing shifts in diet and interactions with other species due to environmental changes. doi.org/g865p9

A round jellyfish with glowing golden stripes on the bell and long tendril tentacles against a background of deep sea sediment.

An anemone with many white thin tentacles

A close up into the centre of a feather duster worm with radiating striped white and brown tentacles

A semi-translucent octopus with a spotted mantle and blue tentacles.

Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.

Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscript…

A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI (including Diversity, Taxonomy, Frontiers in Marine Science) to a level comparable to non-peer reviewed journals.
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/f...

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’ From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.

www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/06/c...

Ok, I’m loving the starter packs! This one is for women (inclusively defined) in Ocean Science.

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I'm hiring a coordinator for our #mesophotic Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) program! This exciting new project will generate unprecedented amounts of information about the biodiversity of deep reefs in the Pacific. Spread the word! us242.dayforcehcm.co...

This underwater robot just ran into something bizarre at the junction of three vast tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean What it found was literally dazzling...

Have a look at the video of this amazing, iridescent, deep-sea polychaete worm.

Who says worms aren’t beautiful! 😍

(Also, this is eerily similar to a plot point in the novel, Der Schwarm, by Frank Schätzing.)

🧪🌎

www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Also check out “The Coral Triangle and Strait of Malacca are two distinct hotspots of mangrove biodiversity” rdcu.be/dmJn6

Global diversification and evolutionary history of onchidiid slugs (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) Many marine species are specialized to specific parts of a habitat. In a mangrove forest, for instance, species may be restricted to the mud surface, …

Hello Blue Sky! I’m here to read about biodiversity, ancient DNA and evolutionary biology. I research marine snails, and previously focused on slugs in mangrove forests. Here’s one of my papers from that work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...