The decline of freshwater megafauna triggering significant consequences for ecosystems 🐊🐬🦛❌

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The Five-striped Hogfish (Bodianus paraleucosticticus) is common in #mesophotic ecosystems of the Western Pacific. In the Coral Sea, we found it between 80 and 120m depth, always solitary in areas of high habitat complexity. Oh and I almost forgot, it's a beauty!

Just received this all-time favorite picture:

Glenn Harper, range & wildlife division manager for the Santa Ana Pueblo, plugging a certain #roadecology book at a Senate staff briefing in DC on tribal support for wildlife crossings.

Dr. Solomon David Always reminds me of W. T. Hornaday's 'Our Vanishing Wildlife'

Dr. Solomon David Christopher E. Smith I hate when people try to justify senseless slaughter with “well the meat gets donated so it doesn’t go to waste!”

As if they’re still not removing important parts of the ecosystems for dumb reasons

Blooms in Death Valley.

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Dr. Solomon David double-garreled

The Cool Green Science annual Earth Day book review features turtles & bears, dystopian fiction, Arctic travels & more. Gloria Dickie Mountaineers Books

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TODAY in Minnesota!
The Longnose Gars (pictured) and Shortnose Gars are getting more active as things warm up!

📸C.Vaughn; all fish released during fisheries agency survey👍

The alligator's name is 'The Tyrant' and you will love her or crumble into dust.

Looking for an excuse to visit #DoorCounty in the summer? Fisheries outreach specialist Titus SeilFISHMASmer will be co-teaching a seminar about water for the Björklunden seminar program July 21-26 in Baileys Harbor.

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Sculpin Challenge: Clean your house with your mouth.

During spring spawning season male sculpin will build a nest under a rock or log by clearing out pebbles with their mouths and brushing away debris with their fins.

Video by Ryan Hagerty / USFWS.

I have my marine biology and ocean conservation students do an exercise to learn about the job market.

Several people have asked me for more information, so I wrote it up as a blog post.

I hope you find it useful. My students say they do.

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New Scientist Spotlight! Meet Dr. Alison Davis Rabosky, Associate Professor and Curator at the University of Michigan.

DOI link: doi.org/10.1643/t20240…
50-day free access link: ichthyologyandherpetology.org/ihbjbd/jct2024…

📸 Check out the latest pics from the search for the fat catfish!

The team are fresh from two new expeditions to Lake Tota for eDNA sampling, trawl fishing and diving - in the hopes of detecting the distinctly fat-ringed species.

Stay tuned to see how the search progresses 🔎

Why are some ocean creatures at the poles bigger than their counterparts in warmer waters? 🤔⁠
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In this edition of “Ask a Marine Biologist,” David Shiffman discusses polar gigantism 👉 padi.co/15rjh57h
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🖊: David Shiffman, Ph.D.

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