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  1. Surprising good news: Seafloor species are creating new habitats out of unexploded World War 2 munitions in the Baltic Sea. Article links to open access paper. phys.org/news/2025-09-scientis #ocean #environment #pollution #ecology #science #sciencenews #benthic #openaccess #oceanfloor

  2. Evolution of #DeepSea Anglerfish Illuminated today.ucsd.edu/story/evolution

    Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea #anglerfishes nature.com/articles/s41559-024

    "deep-sea #pelagic #anglerfishes evolved from a #benthic ancestor and quickly underwent rapid diversification... these results demonstrate that spectacular evolutionary radiations can unfold even within environments with few ecological resources and demanding physiological challenges."

    #Fish #Evolution

  3. Evolution of #DeepSea Anglerfish Illuminated today.ucsd.edu/story/evolution

    Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea #anglerfishes nature.com/articles/s41559-024

    "deep-sea #pelagic #anglerfishes evolved from a #benthic ancestor and quickly underwent rapid diversification... these results demonstrate that spectacular evolutionary radiations can unfold even within environments with few ecological resources and demanding physiological challenges."

    #Fish #Evolution

  4. A look back at my 1st paper in 2021, when my 1st PhD chapter was out, on the role of body size and mesohabitats productivities in the linkage of #pelagic & #benthic systems, with David Boukal.
    #ecology #limnology #eutrophication #foodweb
    doi.org/10.1111/ele.13772

  5. Hello to new Blue people! I'm an artist who works a lot with researchers on all sorts of environmental things. Currently artist-in-residence with Convex Seascape Survey looking at #benthic #invertebrates One of my recent pieces made together with refugees and asylum seekers. Called SeaBed. 🧪🦑

  6. Hello to new Blue people! I'm an artist who works a lot with researchers on all sorts of environmental things. Currently artist-in-residence with Convex Seascape Survey looking at #benthic #invertebrates One of my recent pieces made together with refugees and asylum seekers. Called SeaBed. 🧪🦑

  7. Started From the Bottom oceanbites.org/started-from-th

    Animal #evolution at the #ocean’s water-air interface cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "#neuston did indeed evolve from ancestors that were substrate-attached but not necessarily to the #seafloor. This means that the neustonic organisms may be derived from #benthic organisms and other organisms that aren’t benthic but still attach to a substrates in the #pelagic zone."

  8. Started From the Bottom oceanbites.org/started-from-th

    Animal #evolution at the #ocean’s water-air interface cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "#neuston did indeed evolve from ancestors that were substrate-attached but not necessarily to the #seafloor. This means that the neustonic organisms may be derived from #benthic organisms and other organisms that aren’t benthic but still attach to a substrates in the #pelagic zone."

  9. Some #Caribbean #parrotfishes find benthic #CyanobacterialMats particularly tasty oceanbites.org/some-caribbean-

    Preferential consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats by Caribbean parrotfishes link.springer.com/article/10.1

    "this research shows that #parrotfish grazing may help control the overgrowth of #benthic #cyanobacteria mats in #reefs, providing further support that parrotfishes are critical components of #reef ecosystems"

    #fish #bacteria #microbes #CoralReefs #BacterialMats

  10. Some #Caribbean #parrotfishes find benthic #CyanobacterialMats particularly tasty oceanbites.org/some-caribbean-

    Preferential consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats by Caribbean parrotfishes link.springer.com/article/10.1

    "this research shows that #parrotfish grazing may help control the overgrowth of #benthic #cyanobacteria mats in #reefs, providing further support that parrotfishes are critical components of #reef ecosystems"

    #fish #bacteria #microbes #CoralReefs #BacterialMats

  11. #Researchers discover a #NewSpecies of larger #benthic #foraminifer from the #Ryukyu islands
    phys.org/news/2023-09-species- paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti #protists #forams

    "#Foraminifera are tiny, single-celled organisms that live in the #oceans. Their hard shells, made of #CalciumCarbonate, can withstand the test of time and their #fossils reveal a lot about Earth's history, including past climates and environments."

  12. #Researchers discover a #NewSpecies of larger #benthic #foraminifer from the #Ryukyu islands
    phys.org/news/2023-09-species- paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti #protists #forams

    "#Foraminifera are tiny, single-celled organisms that live in the #oceans. Their hard shells, made of #CalciumCarbonate, can withstand the test of time and their #fossils reveal a lot about Earth's history, including past climates and environments."

  13. Deep-sea imagery and observations reveal novel #octopus feeding behavior
    phys.org/news/2023-07-deep-sea

    Miles down for lunch: #DeepSea in situ observations of #Arctic finned #octopods #Cirroteuthis muelleri suggest #pelagic#benthic feeding #migration royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

    "Videos from remotely operated vehicles and towed observation systems suggest that the #DumboOctopus Cirrotheutis muelleri migrates from the water column to the #SeaFloor, where it catches #crustaceans and #polychaetes."

  14. Deep-sea imagery and observations reveal novel #octopus feeding behavior
    phys.org/news/2023-07-deep-sea

    Miles down for lunch: #DeepSea in situ observations of #Arctic finned #octopods #Cirroteuthis muelleri suggest #pelagic#benthic feeding #migration royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

    "Videos from remotely operated vehicles and towed observation systems suggest that the #DumboOctopus Cirrotheutis muelleri migrates from the water column to the #SeaFloor, where it catches #crustaceans and #polychaetes."

  15. Marine #fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems
    phys.org/news/2023-07-marine-f

    The quality of the #FossilRecord across higher #taxa: compositional fidelity of phyla and classes in #benthic marine associations peerj.com/articles/15574/

    "An analysis of more than 60,000 specimens indicates marine fossils are preserved in the fossil record in proportion to their diversity, enabling their use as a benchmark to assess the health of modern marine ecosystems."

  16. I've released Pythia, an open source web API/service for running #MachineLearning inference on images using #yolov5. The repo and instructions for running your own model are at github.com/mbari-org/pythia. We have a demo sever UI running on a small VM at fathomnet.org:7777 that can id #deepsea #benthic animals off the coast of California.