To commemorate #InternationalWomensDay, some of my favourite pics of women being badasses. First up, Saffiyah Khan.

The good news! This morning I found a dead GREENLAND SHARK washed up on a beach in Newlyn, Cornwall! 1/2

Amazing footage of a minke whale among surfers

Necropsy conducted yesterday by CSIP pathologist James Barnett and #CMPT volunteers. 3.96m juvenile female shark, with evidence of live stranding (sand running through part of the digestive tract). Also possible signs of infection, although this requires further investigation.

National Geographic Picture of The Year. Black images are shadows of zebras. Zoom in and you will see zebras.

The Comparative Functional Anatomy of Cephalopods 🦑🐙🫧 #sciart #scientificillustration #infographic #zoology #octopus #squid #cuttelfish #tentacle #giantsquid #octopi #art #artistsontwitter

Kitefin shark finds out about hagfish slime the hard way 📸Reddit

Mesmerising movement of blood cells around the external gills of an embryonic #shark (Scyliorhinus canicula). #shark #babyshark #devbio #evodevo Ella Nicklin UF Department of Biology

I spent 7 hours shooting around a million photos of our sun, hoping to capture a solar flare. What I captured was incredible- back to back flares launching material into space!

Is anyone else even the slightest bit worried that everytime we kill a mosquito that we feel biting us, we select for more stealthy ones we can't feel?

4 shades of blue captured in a single image in Antarctica

Smoke is unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down. Instagram channel macrofying shot this photo from a video showing the smoke of a candle after blowing it out [video + photos and more: buff.ly/3sv4Hov]

New #OA paper: Mysterious circles of giant #BaskingShark explained - each is confirmed as a courtship display 'torus', where equal numbers of >7m males & females exhibit slow-motion 'speed' dating MBA - Marine Biological Association Irish Basking Shark @SeaFever2 BaskingSharkScotland Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

WHAT KILLED THE CRABS? The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.” If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea. A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀

Wait for it... The atmosphere is a fluid by definition and sometimes it looks like a sea full of waves. The setting sun is the cherry on the top. Outstanding timelapse from Tenerife, Spain 🇪🇸 by Tristan Heth

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.

🌊 The MISS Summer Camp* is a free, weeklong marine science camp being offered by MISS for teens 13-17 (as of June 2023) from groups historically excluded from STEM: racial/ethnic minorities, gender minorities & members of the LGBTQ+ community & teens from underserved communities

Shark or No Shark?

What I'm dubbing the "Valentine's Day Storm" - one of the most amazing nights of auroras I've had in my life. When I saw them getting bright, I had to pull over on the side of the road - I ended up staying there the entire night because the auroras never quit!