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08/26/2025

Fish aren’t seafood,

They’re someone, not something.

08/26/2025

when nature wants you to do something special in your life 🥰🥹

08/25/2025

POV: You’re trying to leave the ocean… but this turtle has other plans 🐢💙
Admit it — you’d stay forever too 😍

08/23/2025

Clever seal vs. hungry orcas 🐋 Who else is rooting for the little guy?

08/22/2025

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08/21/2025

08/21/2025

The marbled crayfish lays 200–700 eggs every 8–9 weeks, with young maturing in under six months—allowing a single escapee to unleash an explosive, self-cloning invasion.

08/21/2025

hasta 🐋 Blue whales, capable of emitting sounds up to 188 decibels, have begun to shut up.
Recent studies from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have revealed that blue whale numbers have decreased nearly 40% in the past six years, and that's not by accident.
According to experts, the cause is a marine heatwave known as The Blob, which in 2013 altered the ecological balance of the ocean, triggering the proliferation of toxic algae and causing a collapse in krill and anchoa populations, essential food for this endangered species. When waters warm, krill migrates or decreases, forcing whales to spend more time and energy looking for food.
Biological oceanographer John Ryan explained: "When you analyze it in detail, it's like trying to sing while starving." They spend all the time trying to find food. We didn't hear them singing. "They spend all their energy looking for food."
Whale songs are not just a poetic symbol or biological curiosity, they are essential for navigation, mating, and social cohesion. Its decline indicates a deep stress on the health of the ocean and the life that inhabits it.
📑 Fuente: PLOS One — "Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific".

08/20/2025

Humpback Whales Are Gathering in Massive Superpods — and Scientists Don’t Know Why: Some groups contain more than 200 individuals.Something strange is happening off the coast of South Africa: humpback whales, once thought to be largely solitary creatures, are forming massive super-pods — gatherings of 20 to 200 whales. For a species where even 10 individuals used to be considered a "large" group, this shift has scientists scratching their heads. 🤩

08/20/2025

The blue-ringed octopus carries one of the most potent neurotoxins on Earth, tetrodotoxin (TTX), and there is no known antivenom for its bite. Found in tide pools across Australia, Japan, and the Indo-Pacific, this tiny octopus, only about the size of a golf ball. Despite its small size and beautiful appearance, a single blue-ringed octopus has enough venom to kill 26 adult humans.
The toxin works by blocking nerve signals, leading to rapid paralysis, including the muscles needed for breathing. What makes it especially dangerous is that its bite is often painless and may go unnoticed until symptoms begin to appear.
However, survival is possible. According to WebMD, if the victim receives immediate artificial ventilation, such as CPR or mechanical breathing support, for about 15 to 24 hours, the body can naturally metabolize and clear the toxin. The venom doesn’t affect the heart or brain directly, so with proper respiratory support, patients can recover fully with no lasting side effects

08/20/2025

Octopuses aren’t just smart they’re genetic rebels. Scientists have discovered that these incredible creatures can edit their own RNA in real time, essentially rewriting their brain’s operating system to become smarter than evolution originally planned.
While most animals rarely alter their RNA, octopuses tweak up to 60% of their neural RNA sequences, creating thousands of unique proteins that aren’t in their original DNA. This “on-the-fly” genetic modification is heavily focused in the nervous system, meaning they’re literally upgrading their brain software as they go.
The implications are mind-blowing RNA editing lets octopuses boost their intelligence within a single lifetime, without waiting for slow generational evolution. This could explain their legendary problem-solving skills, tool use, and even complex social behaviors.
Researchers have found RNA edits linked to improved memory, learning, and sensory perception suggesting some octopuses might even be super-intelligent compared to others.
In essence, they’re running upgraded software on basic hardware, proving that intelligence in nature can be far more flexible, adaptable, and self-directed than we ever imagined. Evolution might have written the code but octopuses learned how to hack it.

08/20/2025

In one of the most mind-blowing wildlife observations ever caught on film, dolphins have been seen possibly getting high, using pufferfish toxin as a kind of recreational substance. Captured by BBC filmmakers, this incredible behaviour shows young dolphins carefully handling pufferfish, gently chewing on them to release small, controlled amounts of tetrodotoxin, a powerful neurotoxin. Then, in a stunning display of social interaction, they pass the fish around, almost like they’re sharing an underwater joint.
Unlike their usual prey, which they rip apart in seconds, the dolphins treat the pufferfish with extreme precision and care, spending 20 to 30 minutes in what looks more like a ritual than a feeding session. What follows is even stranger: the dolphins were observed floating just beneath the surface, seemingly mesmerised by their own reflections, moving slowly and dreamily, behaviour scientists describe as trance-like.
The toxin in pufferfish, tetrodotoxin, is incredibly potent, it’s about 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide. In humans, even trace amounts can cause paralysis or death. But dolphins appear to instinctively know how much to handle. While some researchers are cautious, suggesting this may just be playful behaviour, others see it as potential evidence of intentional recreational drug use in the animal kingdom.
If true, this not only highlights the astonishing intelligence of dolphins, but also their complex social lives and ability to experiment and explore altered states. It’s one of those rare moments where animal behaviour crosses into something profoundly human-like, the urge to share experiences, to explore, and perhaps, to feel something different.
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