#Astronomy #astronomie #fullmoon #vollmond #seastartelecope #seastar Seastarteleskop #iphone #silentsunday

#NewSpecies!
New deepsea starfish from #china just surfaced:

Freyastera jiaolongi

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5234970-A9EB-5EAF-BD7B-BA2B0AC2AC29
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.144918
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #FreyasteraJiaolongi

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #asteroidea #starfishs #seastar #deepsea

We visited the #sunflower #seastar laboratory yesterday to check on on all the little #starfish. They're almost to their one year spawn-iversary!

https://www.sunflowerstarlab.org/

Every year I participate in #ArtAdventCalendar. It’s a great way to fill your feeds with art at the end of the year. All are welcome & it’s definitely not just for people who celebrate Christmas. Join in! It can be a bit of an antidote to all the commercialism of the season cause it’s just about sharing art. I tend to focus on recent art. I made so many prints this year, I can share a piece from 2024

Tiny orange seastar is disrupting the path to ‘progress’.
Move seastar out of the way to “minimise disruption” to traffic?

The live-bearing sea star has been vanishing from Tasmania's waters for some time. Now the marine creature has to be moved out of the way to fix traffic woes on a marine causeway.
Plan is to relocate the species on the brink of extinction to aquariums during road construction. >>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/tiny-and-rare-marine-creatures-to-be-moved-from-path-of-major-aussie-road-project-011101333.html
#ParvulastraVivipara #seastar #marine #biodiversity #roads #sprawl #traffic #cars #congestion #InducedTraffic #progress

Raising Hungry #SeaStar Babies Is No Cinch https://baynature.org/article/raising-hungry-sea-star-babies-is-no-cinch/

"Not so long ago, you could count on #pycnopodia to devour #PurpleUrchins and keep them from eating too much #kelp. A decade ago, the mysterious wasting disease began plaguing #SeaStars, right around the time that a #MarineHeatWave struck... In the absence of their primary predator, urchin populations exploded. Since then they have mown across the sea floor unhindered, leaving urchin barrens where #KelpForests once flourished."

I made this print for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt intertidal in mind. My Lino block print of two Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. A common sea star, or starfish of the Pacific, it is a keystone species considered an indicator of health in the intertidal zone.

No matter where you live, you can bring the energy of the sea into your journal, vision board, or book of shadows with our exclusive Sea Witch Sticker Set. This sheet features 13 full-color images relating to ocean magick and mermaids.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com/products/sea-witch-sticker-set
#SeaWitch #Mermaid #Stickers #Shell #SeaShell #Sea #SeaStar #Water #Ocean #Magick

Now seems like a good time to share a small moment of beauty. August 27th, 2023-- the first time I've seen a starfish in cornet bay in several years. Take it easy friends and enjoy the small things in life. #starfish #seastar #ocean

The next prompt for #printerSolstice is Triadic Colours, or 3 equidistant colours on the colour wheel. I went with secondary colours: orange, purple & green. My Lino block print of 2 Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 1/n
#starfish #seastar #ochreStarfish #invertebrate #sciart #purpleSeaStar #PisasterOchraceus #kelp #MastoArt