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Because life can be full of bullshit, here's some pleasant counterprogramming:
Meet 3.3 m/11 ft #InspectorClouseau
(Old people like me will get the #PinkPanther reference)
First spotted off #Australia in 2015
The only #pink #mantaRay we've discovered in the world, now or ever
Researchers have studied him (yes, a he) as to cause
Diet: no. Stress: no. Toxins: no. Infection: no
They now think it is just a rare genetic mutation
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
#Ocean #Biology #Zoology #Fish #Oceans
Rare Pink Manta Ray Spotted Near Australia’s Lady Elliot Island
Researchers suspect a genetic mutation may have gifted the giant fish, named Inspector Clouseau, his rosy hueKatherine J. Wu (Smithsonian Magazine)
Released last Friday, a digital reconstruction of the Titanic chronicles a never-before-seen view of the wreck that is “accurate to the rivet,” a statement says.
thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/tit…
#titanic #history #photography #science #ocean #technology
'Titanic: The Digital Resurrection' Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster — Colossal
In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean, revisiting the remains of HMS Titanic.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
#Tuvalu, likely first modern country to become uninhabitable, has new plan for keeping control of fishing rights even if its land disappears by #climatechange.
#LawOfTheSea treaty says sea territory, fishing rights only exist with reference to land territory, but is silent on what happens when land changes, disappears. Tuvalu has multi-pronged strategy to form intl consensus that sea borders remain if their land disappears.
reuters.com/investigations/sin… #geography @geography @geopolitics #ocean
Sea hares (ocean slug-like creatures) are hermaphrodites that mate in chains of up to 20, with each one simultaneously acting as the male for the one below and the female for the one above.
I’m pretty sure that every weird idea about alien life written by science fiction writers already exists in the ocean. Life on land is so same-y by comparison.
In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean.
Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.