Another gorgeous Red Cage (aka Coeur de Sorcière, Sorceror's Heart/Witch’s Heart) fungi out this morning. This one smelled very strong 😂🍄

#fungi #mycology #mushrooms #MushroomMonday

If you like penguins and cushion plants on windswept beaches, you can vote for my photos in the EcolSocAus competition 🙂

There are also many beautiful images of Australian landscapes, wildlife, and hard-working ecologists!

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The funny (but annoying) way samples get trapped in other samples 😂🔬

Two tiny snail shells with a mite and a springtail caught inside 🐌

#microscope #microscopy #fieldsamples #snail #shell #springtai #collembola #mite #acari

I think I found my Halloween costume this year

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Twitter no longer loads comments or threads, I can only see single tweets 🙄 Does anyone else have this problem? It’s getting impossible to use

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This is cyphonautes - a wandering planktonic larva of bryozoans. Helgoland, North Sea 🌊. It often reminds me a flying hat.

Starfish bearing young (brooding) is a CRAZY thing. Most species live around the Peninsular region. But there's like 5? 6? DIFFERENT lineages/groups that ALL brood in DIFFERENT WAYS. Young around mouth. Internal brooding. Brooding among arm spine baskets!

Two young elephant seals that wanted to have a practice fight... but also wanted to have a nap.

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#MacquarieIsland #ElephantSeal #SubAntarctic #Wildlife #Cute #Sleepy #Seal #FunnyAnimal #Wildlife Photography

Zootaxa updates FIRST! NEW BROODING SPECIES! Paralophaster ferax! ferax means 'fertile' or 'fruitful' For a specimen coll. in 1963 THIS was a CRAZY discovery! It and others were from 3138-3239 m! Scotia Sea! Juveniles inhabiting its coelom (as far as I could tell)

This is the tiny, delicate, planktonic larva of a sea urchin. At metamorphosis the tissues reorganise into a young adult form that will sinks to the sea floor where it will live the rest of its life. ZEISS Microscopy

The annual reminder from the family dogs: If you have nudibranch pictures, you don't need fireworks. (from Humboldt tide pools)

It's an Umbrella Crab! A crab with a broad carapace that acts as an umbrella over the crab legs and abdomen that you can see are very dainty and flat so that it can fold itself up securely underneath the carapace, which is nearly indistinguishable from a stone in this case.

This TINY little creature is a sessid moth. They are remarkable little creatures and are capable of hovering stationary while feeding from surfaces. Their wing beats are so fast. These photos were taken with a shutter speed at 1/6400 of a second!

NOOOO WAY beautiful flatworm dancing ontop of a frogfish!! 😭🧡