ocean love

San Clemente Island

by Domenic Biagini

Source: Instagram

Marine life (and conservation) blogs please reblog this.

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If you want to take the ocean’s temperature, young white sharks are a jawesome thermometer!

 In a new study, Aquarium researchers and partners chronicle the movement of juvenile white sharks into Monterey Bay following a series of oceanic heat waves—a tell-tale sign of the warming conditions in our changing ocean. 

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Let’s connect on Instagram!  @whalesofthisworld

I am now sharing whale love on there as well! 

Amid the 24/7 party of boisterous birds and loud lions of Morro Bay harbor, a sea otter curls up for a paw-er nap to seize some Zs from the seas alongside sea doggo dockmates 

Fried egg! Fried egg! Gotta get down on fried egg! Today is an eggsellent day for admiring Phacellophora camtschatica, aka the fried egg or egg-yolk jelly.

When these glorious golden globs glide along on the current, their colorful innards filled with plankton make them look like fried eggs—and they’re over-easy on the eyes.

Below the surface, the long, lacy oral arms trail down like a poached egg recently dropped into boiling water, with hundreds of sticky stinging tentacles flowing about to grab other jellies and pelagic drifters to fold into its omelette—yum!