After 8 months at this job I have become the sort of person who says random marine facts (‘did you know some southern sea otters eat so much purple sea urchin that their skulls turn purple’) at parties
After 8 years..?
https://dailyotter.org/posts/2024/4/29/lining-up-those-urchins-for-noms
Elephant seals take short naps while on deep dives. On the way to 7000 ft below, they fall asleep while diving in spirals downwards. When they get there, they wake up and forage for food
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-04-21-elephant-seals-drift-sleep-while-diving-far-below-ocean-surface
VC Star: Two boats run aground in Ventura amid 'decent swell' off county coast
(Faria Beach, apparently)
(paywall)
#Marine #microbial communities are driven primarily by positive, mutually beneficial interactions rather than competition, a trend that intensifies during periods of elevated #ocean temperature.
#MarineBiology #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/mb01212601.html
