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Gobyologist and birdo. Emeritus Curator of Fishes at NT Museum Darwin, living in the Wet Tropics of NE Australia.

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All strength to Guam!

12.03.2026 09:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dr. Beaman is on my list of dream expedition team members. This was a fantastic observation.which you can find on dive 402 part B starting at timestamp 1:34:52! Congrats Robin!

10.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Stop Trump Tower on the Gold Coast! If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting!

If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting! petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au

03.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this one.

14.02.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Goblin sharks off Sydney: The young scientist unveiling creatures of the deep Australian scientist Yi-Kai Tea is investigating one of the weirdest realms of the ocean – and it’s right on Australia’s doorstep.

Cool research by Dr. Yi-Kai Tea!! Goblin Sharks!

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

25.01.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Computer animation of a preserved specimen.

04.01.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very different to me, who grew up with English and Australian writers! I wanted to be Gerald Durrell.....

16.12.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Awful things. I’ve seen what they do to fish trapped in a trawl net, just foul.

13.12.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NOT a Tasselled wobbegong which is a shark. This has gone around several times before. It’s an anglerfish.

06.12.2025 07:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody understands what a taxonomist is so I tell them I am a fish detective. If they are young I get great questions back.

02.12.2025 05:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study The United States is the main market for β€œornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study of U.S.-based online retailers has found that nearly 90% of traded species…

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study

18.11.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨New Website blog 🚨 🧡

Did you watch Shark Whisperer on Netflix? I did & it was pseudoscientific rubbish. In this blog, I do a deep dive into the documentary; its subject, Ocean Ramsey; & the harmful effects of β€œshark influencers” on shark conservation (1/9)

www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...

31.10.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Ram's Horn Squid (Spirula spirula) is the only living member of the order Spirulida. It's rather unique squid, with a spiral internal shell, photophores on the tip of its mantle, and the way it swims upside down.

The first time we saw one alive in its natural habitat was in 2020!

#SQUIDtember

20.09.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Sam has a pretty good shirt!

22.08.2025 02:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like Amblyglyphidodon.

25.06.2025 09:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Warthogs are good for you.

24.06.2025 04:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This article on β€˜Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

14.06.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 349 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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The gutless won't share

12.06.2025 22:45 πŸ‘ 1627 πŸ” 613 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 24

I had to follow you because you are a Goby cat and I am the Goby queen.

28.05.2025 09:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rubycon is perfect desert music.

28.05.2025 07:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This works for fish conferences too. Perfect.

26.05.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Restricted to house by fractured pelvis so working on β€œtrauma teddies β€œ for kids in hospital. 4-ply and 8-ply sizes.

25.05.2025 23:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
How to get rid of a dictator Gene Sharpe, non-violent tactics

He's a DICTATOR and the sooner we accept that fact the sooner we can organize against him.

citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a...

15.04.2025 03:27 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Simon, can you send me a pdf please please? I cannot do these expensive pdfs.

25.03.2025 03:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We enjoy your nice mushrooms very much! Keep it up.

25.03.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That is a katydid!

24.03.2025 06:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes that is correct!

13.03.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Computer-generated thing.

12.03.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow the Naso are wonderful!

01.03.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.

Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.

We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list.

Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.

A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:

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urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

19.02.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4