Not only is this Sphaerodromia brizops adorable, it is a totally separate carcinization event from "regular" crabs 🦀
Btw this one is not a newly described species, but they probably featured it for cuteness reasons
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Move over, elephant graveyards - this whale necropolis extends 1,200km along the Indian Ocean seafloor at depths from 4,600-7,000m; has accumulated at least 476 fossil whale carcasses over the past 5m years; and has 5 active whale falls. Paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
Can we actually fix climate change? And if so -- how?
This week, I handed Talking Climate over to climate scientist and Project Drawdown executive director @globalecoguy.bsky.social.
His message is simple: yes, we can.
We did a really interesting story a few years ago about how different whale falls around the ocean might actually create a kind of web that deep-sea species can hop between
hakaimagazine.com/news/how-dea...
Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).