Alpine ridge. Elevation 2,320 m.
for the duck in the eagles talons. The Bald eagle has its own observation. Bald eagle 2
Not a true “observation” but wanted to share and tag anyway. A pair of footprints left by a small amphibious creature about 310 million years ago. An eight year old kid found it within five minutes of our tour. I honestly got a little emotional holding it. It was added to the museum’s collection. Joggin’s Fossil Cliffs are famous for their record of fossils from a rainforest ecosystem dating back to the Pennsylvanian 'Coal Age' during the early Carboniferous Period.
Middle Pliocene (3.6-3.0 Ma), Kaawa Formation. Decalcified external mould
Washed up on shore in May. Still remarkably intact. Died from entanglement in crab fishing gear. Could smell it downwind from several kilometers away. Identified for me by marine bioligist Bruce Hatcher.
Lanternfish observed on a DFO Greenland Halibut survey.
Found 8 live larvae and 2 empty puparia, presumably from a previous year, under a rock. No ants were present though tunnel openings suggest it was the mouth of a nest. Checked under the few other rocks in the immediate area and located a single larva (last photo) beneath one about 20 feet away. Ants were not observed near this larvae either, just two millipedes, but there were many adult ants and larvae under most of the other rocks.
Looks from the spots like a damsel fish
This observation is part of a long-term project examining plankton biodiversity in the nearshore waters around the Hakai Institute's Quadra Island ecological observatory. A COI DNA sequence from the organism has been deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Photo license and credit belong to the Hakai Institute.
This organism is a genetic match to a species with the provisional name of Cerebratulus cf. marginatus TCH-2015
Collected from FRV Kapala midwater trawl: station K78-07-03; seabed depth 330-350 m, capture depth 0-220 m. (AMS specimen I.20516-007).
Captured by FRV Kapala demersal trawl: station K78-07-01; depth 135-145 m.
Not sure of genus or species
@villu If Genus is correct, could this be something in the C. smaragdula complex?
Along shore of Cocagne River.
Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed forest habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Found this guy engaged in a battle with a frog. :-)
Growing in cracks in sandstone. Trunks to 1.5m with 2m flower spikes
~4mm long female.
Tentative id by Dr Miguel Machado, confirmed by Ron Atkinson.
Miguel said "This one appears to be similar to Stephanopis longimana".
Miguel is working on the Stephanopis & Sidymella groups and their name will change, as will the name of this species.
https://journals.australian.museum/machado-2019-rec-aust-mus-716-217276/
All the other known records of this species are along the Eastern Seaboard nearer the coast (and Hobart, Tasmania). This are the 1st for SA.
This is our 5th specimen, the only female we've found; at a very different time of year.
1st: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/83849690
2nd: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/83848949
3rd: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/83847945
4th: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/83847302
Caught fishing in NAFO area 4Vn
Ramal do Pau Rosa, Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Image captured during 2014 field season for Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation and Atlantic Whitefish Recovery Project. Location obscured to Southern NS.
For more information on the Atlantic Whitefish Project visit: http://coastalaction.org/Wordpress/
For more information on status and recovery on Endangered Atlantic Whitefish Project see: http://dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/profiles-profils/whitefish-coregone-eng.html
Found washed up on Merigomish Point by Robert Lange
Deceased, with black spot parasite (neascus)
On flowers of Red Osier Dogwood at edge of old field - garden and mixed woods.