proper skeletal view of the dunk
cartilage should be distinguished from bone in these types of things
along with mulitviews
helps provide a good idea of the volume of the animal

Another weird shark for you: Frilled Shark. #LetsChangeThat

Cool, a new species of Schindleria (Schindleria nana)! These are probably the ugliest gobies I've ever seen 😅 They are a paedomorphic species, meaning they retain larval features.
doi.org/10.25225/jvb.2…

クロテングギンザメ
Paddlenose chimaera
Rhinochimaera africana Compagno, Stehmann & Ebert, 1990

Bloater is a hilarious name honestly lol #animalfacts

Here’s a wee 330 million year old fossil tooth from a mysterious cartilaginous fish called Petalodus (Ctenopetalus) serratus

A weird fan-favorite: Goblin Sharks! #LetsChangeThat

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The Upper Cretaceous rocks of Alabama yield many large oysters. Here are a few large examples from a single site with ~78 million-year-old limestones. Specimens Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums. #FossilFriday ! #fossil #paleontology #RollTide

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!

📰NEW research from Palaeo Birmingham

3D mouth of an ancient jawless fish suggests they were filter-feeders, not scavengers or hunters birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/3d-m…

Predicting time-at-depth weighted biodiversity patterns for sharks of the North Pacific
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
#phylogenetics #machine_learning #open_ocean_ecology
Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

A professor worried no one would read an algae study. So she had it put to music buff.ly/3xCnu7K

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.

southernfriedscience.com/heres-what-i-t…

I have a review paper out now published in Diversity MDPI. All about the many times pycnodonts have invaded brackish/freshwater habitats throughout their evolutionary history. mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/4…

Ctenaspis. getting more confident with scales

Terelabrus is a genus comprising small, unusually slender wrasses. There are only 5 recognised species, spread across the entire Indo-Pacific region, to as far east as French Polynesia. All the species are confined to deep or very deep reefs in excess of 100 m.

Believe it or not, there is fish in this photo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinopias…

The only thing better than seeing a magnificent leafy seadragon in the wild, is a friendly photographer capturing the moment for you. Huge tick off the bucket list!

Time for more Australian #mesophotic beauty! This is the Swallowtail Angelfish (Genicanthus melanospilos, male with bars), it's widely distributed through the western Pacific and was very common in the Coral Sea between 40 and 80m depth. #ichthyology