marinelife
Freckled Hawkfish, aka Lau'ula, pauses at a stand of coral at an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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A robotic arm clamping onto a polymetallic nodule—with a delicate, living coral rooted directly to it—is a photograph of an active extinction event in slow motion. It shows the literal mechanism of destruction in the abyssal plain.
Those nodules take millions of years to form, and for deep-sea corals, they are the only hard surface to anchor onto in a world of soft mud. Scraping up the nodules means erasing the habitat forever.
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Soldierfish, aka 'Ū'ū, crowd an overhang at at coastal reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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Yellowmargin Moray Eel, aka Puhi, wending its way around an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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