#seasnakes — Public Fediverse posts

"Planes on a snake? On the identities of crab larvae rafting on sea snakes"🐍

📊DATA: https://bit.ly/49YiZ85

📖ARTICLE in @ecol-evol.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3ShXPvt

#biology #opendata #openscience #seasnakes #ecology #Snakes #crabs #openscience #openresearch

Sea #snakes regain advanced color vision, recovering a complex trait once lost https://phys.org/news/2024-12-sea-snakes-regain-advanced-vision.html

Dynamic Expansions and Retinal Expression of Spectrally Distinct Short-Wavelength Opsin Genes in Sea Snakes https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16/8/evae150/7710638

"Nine species of #SeaSnakes have now been identified as having regained the genetic requirements for advanced color vision, demonstrating that once a complex trait has been lost to evolutionary time, it may be regained in some way."

12-Jul-2023
Sea snakes may have evolved to see colors again

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/994768 #science #evolution #ColourVision #SeaSnakes

Just listened to episode 169 of Common Descent podcast. It is about sea snakes. Covers modern sea snakes like Hydrophiinae, Acrochordidae (file snakes), and Laticaudinae (the semi-aquatic sea kraits), as well as numerous extinct (likely independently evolved) sea snakes of the Paleogene, and the Late Cretaceous.
Good episode.
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2023/07/08/episode-169-sea-snakes/

#snakes
#ocean
#seaSnakes
#fossils

Hey snake experts! Do sea snakes swim at night? I’m having a hard time finding information on this. If they do, how do they see where they are going? #snakes #SeaSnakes #Herpetology #zoology

Spent my morning talking #SeaSnakes with Arne Rasmussen, trying to home in on specimens and stories for the #Biodiversity gallery in the new #NaturalHistoryMuseum Denmark (#NHMDenmark ). Check out these magnificent animals.

Citizen science grandmas for the win. 🙂 "Snorkelling grandmothers uncover large population of venomous sea snakes in Noumea"

#Marine #Women #CitizenScience #SeaSnakes #Snakes #Environment #Biodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/24/snorkelling-grandmothers-uncover-large-population-of-venomous-sea-snakes-in-noumea

Amazing. "Meet Hydrophis cyanocinctus, a snake that can breathe through the top of its own head."

#Biology #Nature #Snakes #SeaSnakes

https://theconversation.com/deep-breath-this-sea-snake-gathers-oxygen-through-its-forehead-122784