Ocean Science

Stories from every depth of our #oceans - Utilising the largest marine archive to educate, entertain and conserve | A Part of TOOG.

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🌏 An intro thread to our archive…

We are fortunate enough to have one of the largest marine archives in the world - collated from some of the worlds leading photographers.

Check out a small snapshot of our archive and material - from Plankton to Neon to Sharks…

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🐍 The beasts of the reef - The Moray Eels...

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Ever seen this fish before?

This is the False Stonefish - Scorpaenopsis diabolus.

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🔍You can see just how well the flatfish camouflages into the ocean floor...

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😈 Who do these horns belong to?

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A Pair of Crabs - Anyone know what are they up to?

Sp. Portunus pelagicus.

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A Clownfish looking After its eggs...

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There is an Ocean Alien burying itself in the sand...

Anyone know what it's called?

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Fish Pairing Up! A Chinese Trumpetfish and Sweetlips...

Sp. - Aulostomus chinensis.

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This Ocean Alien is a...

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When we tell our followers to like and they still don't...

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🧹Blue Triggerfish Being Cleaned...

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Another for the nudibranch fans - accompanies by a shrimp...

The Chromodorid Nudibranch - Ceratosoma gracillimum.

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Rather than a hermit in a shell like last week, we have a blenny in a shell. Really mixing things up.

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One of the locations that our content was filmed at.

Rather be there?

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Fish and Feathers...

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Squid at Night - Some amazing shapes...

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One of my personal favourites from the archive...

The Arrowhead Crab - Huenia heraldica!

Would you believe that this is an animal?

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#RARE Shot! A juvenile oarfish up in the shadows...

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An Eagle Ray Gliding Past!

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An amazingly ugly creature!

The Stargazer Fish - A Species fo Uranoscopus.