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Happy Marine Day from Okinawa!
Marine Day (海の日, Umi no Hi), also known as "Ocean Day" or "Sea Day", is a public holiday in Japan usually celebrated on the third Monday in July. The purpose of the holiday is to give thanks for the ocean's bounty and to consider the importance of the ocean to Japan as a maritime nation.
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A blue whale's heart sometimes only beats around twice a minute
Listen to it on the embedded video #whales #nature #marinebiology
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/8/11/23291991/largest-animal-blue-whale-heartbeat/
Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse
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Although I'm really a microbiologist who happens to work with Eastern oysters, I never get tired of looking at pretty oyster shells. These two beauties from Tuesday's field work have hitchhikers - Crepidula fornicata or slipper shells. See a couple of these tiny molluscs stacked on top of each other? (Left oyster, right edge.) Fun fact: Crepidula are sequential hermaphrodites, and change sex depending on where they are in the stack. Large shells at the bottom are female, small shells on top are male. If the female dies, the largest male in the stack becomes a female.