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A new study shows how a group of sperm whales in the eastern Mediterranean developed its own distinct dialect.
image of todays sea surface temperature using this website
i find it dope as hell. imo it has a lot of cool visualizations
a screenshot of the scale is not easily done on the site. it's roughly like this
bright purple 31C 88F
dark red 29C 84F
bright red 26C 79F
orange 21C 70F
yellow 18C 64F
green 11C 52F
dark blue 2C 36F
A strange, multi-colored Pacific Ocean species once thought lost to devastating disease has been found again in the waters off Northern California.
Scientists located 18 spiny sunflower sea stars – one of the largest sea star species on Earth, spanning over three feet in length – in the waters of the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary last summer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this month.
“This is promising news, as sea stars suffered a massive die-off ten years ago as a result of sea star wasting disease during the largest marine epidemic ever recorded, which also devastated kelp forests,” the agency’s National Marine Sanctuaries said in a release.