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Few-minute study in oil pastels of a screenshot from the Rankin/Bass animated Hobbit movie. Reference image under the cut [:

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Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊💙 🪼

For decades, MBARI's underwater robots have explored the ocean’s pelagic realm—one of Earth’s largest, but least-understood, living spaces—revealing the astonishing diversity of animals that live there. Every expedition uncovers new insights about the biodiversity, food webs, and processes that sustain life in the ocean.

As human activities and climate change continue to reshape marine environments, long-term exploration and observation are more important than ever. This #WorldOceanDay, we celebrate the scientists, engineers, communicators, and operations crew working together to advance ocean knowledge and the discoveries that help inform the future of our blue planet.

Happy World Ocean Day! The ocean has been perfecting 🪼 this 🪼 design for more than 500 million years. That's right, sea jellies are older than the dinosaurs! They have adapted to our entire world ocean: from tropical to Arctic temperatures, deep sea to shallow reefs, and freshwater to saltwater, jellies are found in every ocean environment.