Chloé Fourreau

An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.

People know this, right?

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Bad Bunny understands the value of the humanities, history and academia.
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a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like an opabinia, a leaf insect, close up of a starfish, and so on. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, pixel art, ceramic, fursuit, post it, and so on.

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book!

Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz...

#Art #SciArt

J aime bien ce tableau car le peintre a fait figurer la légende de la bataille navale dans cette feuille peinte dans un coin du tableau

This research is part of the first author, Takahiro Sugiyama san’s PhD ! I’m super grateful to have been able to contribute with my samples, and proud that we could deliver this teaming up worms and sea cucumber nerds 😎@miselab.bsky.social

It is indeed one species, with remarkable camouflage abilities !!! Please take a moment to marvel at their top level mimicry skills 🪱 💯 And there is a ton more research to do to figure out how they do this, if they can change color when they switch hosts and so on!!

Because they have different colors and live on different hosts we suspected they could belong to different species, or perhaps be on their way to becoming different species… so we looked at the similarity in their DNA to check… 🧬🧬🧬and DNA proved our hypothesis wrong!

Check out their super cute faces! Some color morph even match the aspect of sand grains on their host!

In coral reefs there is a very cool species of scale worms that lives on sea cucumbers! 🌊🥒 They change colors according to the sea cucumbers they are living on.🎨

Host specific camouflage in a holothurian-ectoparasitic scale worm: testing the host-race hypothesis using COI and genome-wide SNP data - Marine Biology Marine Biology - Gastrolepidia clavigera (Annelida: Polynoidae) is an ectoparasitic scale worm living on the body surface of holothuroid sea cucumbers in warm shallow seas. This species exhibits...

I’m super happy to share that our paper is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#thisishowMISErolls
#WormWednesday

MISE representation at JCRS 28th edition in Nago, Okinawa!!
#jcrs #thisishowMISErolls

A dark blue sea slug with vivid blue polka dots and gills. It's about halfway turned towards the viewer.

#Nudivember Day 18

I love how this little one looks like the photographer woke them up!

(Acrylic gouache and gelato crayon on black paper)

So much work!!! The picture is stunning

Phyllodoce lineata against a black background. The head (top middle-left) has a bright yellow main colour, turning more muddy towards the tip. There are 4 short antennae located at the front as well as 4 pairs of long "tentacles" (tentacular cirri), 3 of which point backwards, and 1 forwards. In the front half, the back of the body, which is segmented as in all annelids, is also yellow with 3 brown spots per segment (one in the center, 2 on either side at the base of the parapodia). This gives the worm a stripy look. In the back half, the worm is entirely brown. The bottom side of the worm is a light turquoise colour and slightly iridescent. On each segment, the worm carries to leaf-shaped appendages, sometimes referred to as paddles.

It is finally #WormWednesday again! 🪱
The perfect time to post my photo of this 40 cm long beast! :D

Scientific name: Phyllodoce lineata

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#marinelife #polychaetes #invertebrates

Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Omg that’s gorilla chop!!!! I’m a snorkel guide I was working there today!! I saw a group of people with a guy that looked like Ben Shirey. I thought there’s no way must be a lookalike. It all makes sense now ! Wish I’d say hello, I’ve been following you since I was an undergrad🥺

New York City was visited by nine different whales in one day and the photos are incredible Cleaner waters mean the whales don't just pass through, they stay and put on a show.

New York City was visited by nine different whales in one day and the photos are incredible - Upworthy

symmetrical art of a sea angel on a dark blue background with a lined pattern contouring to the animal

#invertober 22, sea angel

#invertober2025

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

New Nature paper!

Vaga et al. (2025) reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogeny of stony (scleractinian) corals, which suggests that some could be resilient to climate change.

Congrats @claudiavaga.bsky.social

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

color block art of a bobbit worm with its long body looped and coiled across a vertically long canvas. its head, at the bottom, has its mandibles and antennae flared. it is colored in a bright rainbow gradient across its whole body, and there are lines of emanata coming from its mouth

#invertober 14, bobbit worm! rainbow edition!!

#invertober2025

Day 14: Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)

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Order Phyllodocida Phyllodocida from Bitung, Sulawesi du Nord, Indonésie on July 26, 2024 at 09:34 PM by Mélodie Caussat

Some Tropical Indonesian #wormwednesday today! WHOA. now THAT is a heck of a worm! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

カタツムリ（陸産貝類）の這跡。非常に美しい自然の造形美。

ガードレールを見ると巻貝アート発見！
これはカタツムリが這い回った証拠。カタツムリには歯舌（しぜつ）と呼ばれるヤスリのような歯を持っています
Spotted some snail art on a guardrail! These are the trails left by land snails as they move around. Snails have a radula, a tongue-like organ covered in tiny teeth, which they use to scrape moss and algae.
#無脊椎動物 #巻貝アート#貝#陸産貝類

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence “I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO Re:wild, recalled. “I just had a feeling, but I couldn’t be sure because we turned over a lot of rocks before that and we saw nothing.” Springer’s intuition proved correct when his […]

Good news! 🐍

The world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been spotted again! It had been missing from scientific observation for 20 years.🌏🧪

Read more in @mongabay.com 

Celebrating my recent paper published in Development with a new art from my #sci-art project Wormly Speaking. “With Maturity”
#annelid #worm #art #comics #love #resilience #peace #polychaete
#WormWednesday
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(3/10) Is it a nudibranch? No, it is a syllid worm mimicking a nudibranch (left on the image)!

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@alciopidae.bsky.social

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024!

Do you have a favorite?

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#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Wow I didn’t know that!!! That’s so fascinating. This is inspiration for some goofy horror movies