Context: his first time seeing marine fish :]

Holy shit (FINALS WEEK OVER WOHOO)

Was shoving my face under a rock when a piece of barnacle rubble near my nose started rearing up. Turtle Crab! Just what the doctor ordered. They've got the same gig as umbrella crabs but with a few key differences. Stick around and I'll compare the two species side by side. 🦀

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Assessing coral reef conservation planning in Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia) from larval connect...

Wakatobi National Park (WNP), located in the heart of the Coral Triangle in Indonesia, is one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth. Coral ecosystems within the park, however, are threatened...

Look as much as I love birds, I'm not really cut out to be a birder. There was a probable lifer species (henslow sparrow - awful pics later) in the cypress swamp around me, but I was losing my mind over finding Neelids under a scrap of cypress bark 😍🌿 #BUG

Carnivorous Artificial Predatory Tool to Consume Humans and Approximate them

Melon Hill, Perth, light trap- Northern Emerald Prasinocyma rhodocosma. Despite the name, found in coastal regions of most of Australia, where it eats eucalyptus

Today is all waiting, waiting, waiting. So am crab-sketching. We're at the "draw the rest of the fkn owl" stage, except crabbier. 🦀 #SciArt

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm#paleosky#paleontology

"The remaining barrier to bug-eating might be as flimsy as just that: the word bug."

If You Eat Sea Bugs, You Can Eat Land Bugs

Crabs are gross too, okay?