There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean.
Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE.
The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells.
But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.
Another xkcd classic out today
Annual catch summaries of whales caught during "modern" industrial whaling (1864-present), now available online from the International Whaling Commission
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Brilliant work by Rose Hilmo shows individual blue whale tracks in *winter* on feeding grounds in the NE Pacific, demonstrating some that are transiting and others hanging out
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Bacteria inside toadfish make sand from seawater
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OK, sure, but did the toddler get coauthorship?
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This is the 1st time I've seen a Flota swimming with the little stick legs fanned out. Usually they're moving fast and have them pulled in like little spikes
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 929 #Doldrums #MarineLife
Massive fight in Alaska between commercial fishers and subsistence salmon harvesters heats up as Attorney General steps into the fray, invalidating the Board of Fish decision
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Mary Jane Rathbun (June 11, 1860 – April 4, 1943) was an American #zoologist who specialized in crustaceans. She worked at the Smithsonian from 1884 until her death.[1] She described more than a thousand new species and subspecies and many higher taxa. #womeninstem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J....
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An unnamed company reportedly racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees after letting employees run loose with the AI tool.
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Scientists have uncovered evidence that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world's oceans. The new study, led by former graduate student Anthony Bonacolta at th...
Overview This record describes the aggregated (summary) whale catch dataset compiled and maintained by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The dataset brings together historical catch data ori...
