budak · @budak
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Stephen Matheson🌵🌲 · @sfmatheson
595 followers · 388 posts · Server fediscience.org

Great cover image at @PLOSBiology

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/



**Floating neustonic life in the plastic-rich North Pacific Garbage Patch**
Floating life (obligate neuston) is a core component of the ocean surface food web. [...] Clockwise from top left, by-the-wind sailor (*Velella* sp.), blue button (*Porpita* sp.), Portuguese man-o-war (*Physalia* sp.), blue sea dragon (*Glaucus* sp.) and violet snail (*Janthina* sp.). *Image Credit: Chong et al.*

#Cnidaria #pacific #oceanography

Last updated 1 year ago

Peter Barnes · @infinite8horizon
488 followers · 1091 posts · Server aus.social

miscellany

Beaches are endlessly fascinating. There's the ever changing weather, clouds, waves and slowly changing shoreline, and then there's the constant parade of offerings thrown up by each high tide.

Together with seaweed, flotsam, jetsam, shells and so on, from time to time there are stranded jellyfish (and bluebottles, and other predators, but not in this post).

Here are several larger jellyfish encountered on dog walks. For scientific purposes, each has an ISO standard foot meter (not to be confused with an imperial foot, like Harry's, or an SI metre) included in the shot.

#dogwalking #photography #whimsy #jellyfish #beachcombing #iphoneography #iphone3gs #humour #Cnidaria

Last updated 2 years ago

Baldo Buttman · @Buttfool
170 followers · 5453 posts · Server baraag.net

@skulker558 @frankuwu idk how they even got faces. :blobbroken: 👍

#Cnidaria #radialsymmetry

Last updated 2 years ago

sohkamyung · @sohkamyung
650 followers · 2162 posts · Server photog.social

Spotted a number of these Mangrove jellyfish (Acromitus sp.) moving about in the water at the dam leading to the east entrance of Coney Island, Singapore, on 13 May 2021. First time I've spotted jellyfish in the wild.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/7 ]

#Cnidaria #jellyfish #photography #singapore #nature #inaturalist

Last updated 4 years ago