💁🏻♀️ TIL: Paleontologist Peter Ward shows how fossil beds at Lyme Regis, #England record #cephalopods flourishing after the #Triassic extinction wiped out #fish. 🦑
Today, with overfishing removing #sharks and warming #oceans slowing currents, #octopus, #squid, and #cuttlefish are booming again – a 400% increase since the 1960s. 📈
👉 https://nautil.us/the-cephalopods-are-coming-1281395
#climate #climatechange #paleontology #fossils #ammonites #marinebiology #lymeregis #ocean #evolution #jurassic
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#cuttlefish #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #singaporedivers #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish
Ċirkewwa Marine Park, Malta
At the end of the dive a curious cuttlefish approached the diver for a closer look.
Photograph: Kirsty-Jo Muddiman
I'm sometimes convinced that if they had longer lifespans, cuttlefish, octopus, and other cephalopods could be giving us a run for our money as dominant species on this planet. Incredibly smart, and if they ever figured out how to live out of the water…. (Well, there is the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, so I suppose it's just a matter of time now.)
📷 Nikon D70s / Tamron 28–75mm f/2.8 / June 2010
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