For a sharky mind, it brings happiness to see a vampire cape on Halloween day well fitted with the friendly Devil Ray in this comic. So funny 😄😅

Bio students may grumble about physics. Some departments are even dropping the requirement, but understanding mass-force relationships allows students to answer questions related to the 'hows' and 'whys' of anatomy. Example: How do sharks swim? #physics #ComparativeAnatomy

Old (1978) Tamil Lacewing and Sri Lankan Birdwing stamps. They are worth storing 🤗
#philately #hobby #collectingstamps #stamps

The CITES CoP19 listing of #sharks was significant!

Do you have an interest to work with developing countries on defining needs to speed sound implementation of trade provisions — so that legal & sustainable trade can proceed

Yes!
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See how the gentoo penguins of Antarctica build their very own snow highways to get around. ❄️🐧 #WorldPenguinDay

Footage by Michael George

Oops, looks like I forgot to set a reminder for a special attention day yesterday! But no worries, we can give them an attention again today. #WorldPenguinDay #penguins #happypenguineday

Is this:

A. 🦊 🦈
B. 🐯 🦈
C. 🍋 🦈
D. 🦓 🦈
E. 🍦 🦈
F. None of the above

This one is a trick question. Ye be warned!

A year since tagging #SorchaThePorbeagle & #DanuThePorbeagle ? Time for an update! Following their journey over the last 12mths has been mind blowing. Safe to say Danu is Scottish at heart & Sorcha is a boundary breaker, from Ireland to Norway to West Africa 🦈 more to come soon!

Species check:

A. 🐅 🦈
B. 🍋 🦈
C. 🥱 🦈
D. 🏖️ 🍫🦈
E. C and D are correct.
F. 🎨🎺 🦈
G. 🐊🦈

Are you 18-25, interested in marine conservation, but don’t know where to start? This eight-week Marine and Community Conservation Remote Externship is for you!
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#GenGeo Nat Geo Education

I thought back to this adorable embryo inside the aptly named 'mermaid purse' during this Easter egg celebration. That was the first time I'd ever seen a live shark egg - Brownbanded Bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum) egg on display in an aquarium.

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Researchers have discovered the first known 'virovore,' an organism that feeds on viruses. Probably there are many others like it -- an entire, previously unknown food chain.
One day into 2023, and already things are going topsy turvy.
eurekalert.org/news-releases/… #ecology #life

One more for Christmas Eve plus it's freezing out—a population density map of Norway.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A startup in India is making these sneakers (a $70 billion market) made of garbage (12 plastic bottles and handful of trash bags). And for $110, they will be shipped anywhere in the world.

Out now in Conservation Biology - our study led by Patrick Smallhorn-west Pip Cohen and team showing evidence of SSF co-management improving stock resource status, but less evidence of achieving other #SDGs related to livelihoods, food security and nutrition. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…
@WCSOcean

Exploring guitarfish aggregations to map habitat use and population structure in Southern Brazil 🇧🇷
#raysneedlovetoo
#womeninsharkscience

Our new #RedListIndex analysis published in Science Magazine!
60 years of increasing #extinctionrisk , effective fisheries management has recovered tunas & billfishes, yet #extinctionrisk continues to increase for sharks.
We need to act now!
Full article bit.ly/3Ei5mkH

This is a time travel to Utopia when we are trying to convince our mind that anything is possible simply by appreciating how beautiful becoming is!
(P.S. Utopia - an ideal world in terms of politics, economy, ecology, social, laws and technology)
Thanks…lnkd.in/dfcAB-Fq