Alex Maile (@anoplogaster)

Morning from a Kansas reef

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12.02.2026 14:46 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you and right on the fish IDs! On the cave to the bottom left, there is also a yellowhead jawfish.

27.01.2026 14:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kansas snow day with the reef

26.01.2026 22:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

These MN blizzard conditions make me long for Cretaceous weather.

31.12.2025 22:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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When your R code runs perfectly on the first try
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10.12.2025 14:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Lil puppies with fins

05.12.2025 00:56 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The swimming candy cane

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04.12.2025 02:05 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

An urchin a day keeps the bad vibes away

01.12.2025 23:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Snack time

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01.12.2025 23:49 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If you hold it like this, it’s a hat!

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22.11.2025 18:22 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

When life puts a rock in the way, carry it around like an urchin

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22.11.2025 17:28 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Watching the world go by

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20.11.2025 01:46 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Snack time on the reef

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19.11.2025 03:15 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

No way! I was just talking about your 2021 paper to my students in our Arthropoda/Crustacea lab today. Thanks for the share!

13.11.2025 03:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

POV you’re in a crabby mood

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13.11.2025 03:07 👍 61 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0

Our mini snail aquarium for this week’s lab on gastropods!

05.11.2025 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Snail radula in action

05.11.2025 21:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We didn't carve pumpkins this year, but here are some deep-sea fish jack-o'-lanterns l've made in prior years!

31.10.2025 16:42 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Happy Halloween! 🎃 🦇 🧪

31.10.2025 14:36 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Ever seen a clear and stained little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus)? 🦇

I love how their modified forelimbs, with elongated phalanges that support the wing membrane used for flight. Look how big those fangs are! 🧪🎃

30.10.2025 15:19 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

A 3D printer is glamorous until you have to fix a wiring issue…

24.10.2025 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bellator militaris — the horned searobin. Just like other armored searobins, they possess modified pectoral fin rays used to walk and detect food on the seafloor.

This specimen is TCWC 6818.17 available on MorphoSource.
www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...

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20.10.2025 17:02 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Bellator militaris — the horned searobin. Just like other armored searobins, they possess modified pectoral fin rays used to walk and detect food on the seafloor.

This specimen is TCWC 6818.17 available on MorphoSource.
www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...

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20.10.2025 15:45 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0