The baffling ecological disaster that’s killing America’s freshwater mussels. Via @scientific_american #MarineBiology 🌊

The baffling ecological disast...
The baffling ecological disaster that's killing America’s freshwater mussels

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

Scientific American
⟦Thorpe & Heath⟧ Seal population recovery and conservation can be reconciled with viable commercial fisheries in the North Sea, although both may be threatened by climate change https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/83/4/fsag041/8651479?login=false 🦭 #Pinnipeds #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Seals #Science #Fisheries
Seal population recovery and conservation can be reconciled with viable commercial fisheries in the North Sea, although both may be threatened by climate change

Abstract. Seals are key predators in the North Sea, with the potential to exert top-down control on commercial fish populations and reshape energy flows th

OUP Academic
Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus

Supposed “first octopus” was something else entirely.

Ars Technica
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“Darling, it’s better / down where it’s wetter”*…

From our old friend Neal Agarwal, a long (and illuminating) scroll from the surface to the “bottom” of the ocean (10,924 meters down)…

The Deep Sea,” from @neal.fun.

* “Sebastian, “Under the Sea,” The Little Mermaid

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As we dive: we might send connected birthday greetings to a man who put the sea floor to use, Clarence Mackay; he was born on this date in 1874. An early telecom entrepreneur, he supervised the completion of the first transpacific cable between the United States and the Far East in 1904. He laid a cable between New York and Cuba in 1907, and later established cable communication with southern Europe via the Azores and with northern Europe via Ireland. And in 1928, he became the first to combine radio, cables, and telegraphs under one management. (He sold his business, Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation, to International Telephone and Telegraph Company [ITT] for an enormous amount of stock… just in time for the stock market crash in 1929, which wiped him out. He survived the Great Depression by selling his art and antiques.)

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Painkillers Change How Lobsters React to Shock, Raising Questions About Humane Killing for Food. Via @discover.magazine #Conservation #WildLife #Zoology #Nature #MarineBiology 🌊🦞

Painkillers Change How Lobster...
Scientists Found Human Speech-Like Patterns in Sperm Whale Clicks. Via @sciencealert #MarineBiology 🌊 🐳

Scientists Found Human Speech-...
Scientists Found Human Speech-Like Patterns in Sperm Whale Clicks

The staccato clicks of sperm whales may sound like meaningless background noise to human ears, but a new analysis suggests they may be part of a communication system with a level of complexity approaching that of our own.

ScienceAlert