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Horseshoe crab aquarium eating and swimming: youtube.com/watch?v=qeZ9aXFxvro
Baby Blue Blood Drive: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/baby-blue-blood-drive
The Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus: 200 Million Years of Existence, 100 Years of Study: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20026491051677
Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type: nature.com/articles/nature09038
Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct chelicerate orders: peerj.com/articles/641
Male mating tactics in the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205802933
Mating Behavior of Horseshoe Crabs, Limulus Polyphemus: brill.com/view/journals/beh/114/1-4/article-p206_12.xml
Dr. H. Jane Brockman of University of Florida: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/hjb/research/
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The Last Days of the Blue Blood Harvest, theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/blood-in-the-water/559229
Blue Bloods, newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/14/blue-bloods
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission: http://www.asmfc.org/species/horseshoe-crab

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What Does This Crab Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine? | Alien Ocean

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Horseshoe crab aquarium eating and swimming: youtube.com/watch?v=qeZ9aXFxvro
Baby Blue Blood Drive: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/baby-blue-blood-drive
The Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus: 200 Million Years of Existence, 100 Years of Study: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20026491051677
Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type: nature.com/articles/nature09038
Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct chelicerate orders: peerj.com/articles/641
Male mating tactics in the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205802933
Mating Behavior of Horseshoe Crabs, Limulus Polyphemus: brill.com/view/journals/beh/114/1-4/article-p206_12.xml
Dr. H. Jane Brockman of University of Florida: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/hjb/research/
Saving the horseshoe crab: A synthetic alternative to horseshoe crab blood for endotoxin detection: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006607
The Blood Harvest, theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/the-blood-harvest/284078
The Last Days of the Blue Blood Harvest, theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/blood-in-the-water/559229
Blue Bloods, newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/14/blue-bloods
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission: http://www.asmfc.org/species/horseshoe-crab

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Why Researching Parrotfish Almost Drove Me to Madness

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This Fish Has Murdered People

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TierZoos Mollusk Video is a HATE CRIME

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The Bizarrely Violent World of Clam Smuggling

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Welch, Craig. (2010). Shell Games (1st ed.). HarperCollins.
BUY A COPY HERE: harpercollins.com/products/shell-games-craig-welch?variant=32207612280866 (I know the cover looks different from the one in my video, but it's the same book!)
st̓əč̓as (Steh-Chass): People of the Water - storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/38fad2d55790451891c8061b72391da3
The Tribes of Washington - washingtontribes.org/the-tribes-of-washington
Burke Museum - burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/culture/contemporary-culture/coast-salish-art/coast-salish-art-style
The Squaxin Island Tribe - squaxinisland.org
Northwest Treaty Tribes - nwtreatytribes.org/member-tribes
st̓əč̓as (Steh-Chass): People of the Water - storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/38fad2d55790451891c8061b72391da3
Indigenous History Now - The Civil Rights Struggle of the Pacific Northwest—The Fish Wars: youtube.com/watch?v=9U5zTalWaxs
Back to the River (2013): youtube.com/watch?v=xzWfuWNuRT0
As Long As the Rivers Run (1971): youtu.be/lN46NWkEFow

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Uh, Why Do Geoduck Clams Look Like...THAT?

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🌟People. Lushootseed: The Language of Puget Sound. (n.d.). tulaliplushootseed.com/people Accessed at 2025-02-27.🌟

(These first two URLs link to the website where I learned those Lushootseed words at the beginning of my video. I wanted to highlight them because I just think Lushootseed sounds really cool and more people need to hear it!)

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This Crab Gave Me Trust Issues

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The Upsetting Reality of Brittle Stars

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Is There An Ocean Underneath The Earths Crust?

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Why Do Humpback Whales Swim Thousands of Miles To Starve?

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These Deep Sea Rocks SEEM to Be Breathing

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Why Coconut Crabs Would Make Excellent Hired Goons

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The Internets Most Misunderstood Worm

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The Bobbit Worm Chronicles (the forum thread about the guy who finds a bobbit worm in his home aquarium) - michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chronicles.84173

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This Cute Fish Can KILL YOU in 7 Milliseconds

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EVERY SINGLE MISTAKE The Octopus Lady Ever Made

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✨Marie Tharp's Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/07/24/marie-tharp-connecting-dots/ (This is the essay Marie Tharp wrote!)✨

✨Ferrini, V. (2020, July 23). Marie Tharp’s Seafloor. ArcGIS StoryMaps. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/232257acdac6409a907abd77b3d83f89 (This is the one had all the cool interactive maps!)✨

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✨Celebrating Marie Tharp Doodle - Google Doodles. (n.d.). Google Doodles. https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-marie-tharp/✨

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01:37 1) Toothed Predators
05:52 2) Lionfish Venom
08:27 3) Negative Potassium Ions
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This Ecosystem Will Kill You If You Move

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De Vries, J., Habicht, J., Woehle, C., Huang, C., Christa, G., Wägele, H., ... & Gould, S. B. (2013). Is ftsH the key to plastid longevity in sacoglossan slugs?. Genome Biology and Evolution, 5(12), 2540-2548.

Rumpho, M. E., Worful, J. M., Lee, J., Kannan, K., Tyler, M. S., Bhattacharya, D., ... & Manhart, J. R. (2008). Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(46), 17867-17871.

Wägele, H., Deusch, O., Händeler, K., Martin, R., Schmitt, V., Christa, G., ... & Martin, W. (2011). Transcriptomic evidence that longevity of acquired plastids in the photosynthetic slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus does not entail lateral transfer of algal nuclear genes. Molecular biology and evolution, 28(1), 699-706.

Bhattacharya, D., Pelletreau, K. N., Price, D. C., Sarver, K. E., & Rumpho, M. E. (2013). Genome analysis of Elysia chlorotica egg DNA provides no evidence for horizontal gene transfer into the germ line of this kleptoplastic mollusc. Molecular biology and evolution, 30(8), 1843-1852.

Christa, G., Gould, S. B., Franken, J., Vleugels, M., Karmeinski, D., Händeler, K., ... & Wägele, H. (2014). Functional kleptoplasty in a limapontioidean genus: phylogeny, food preferences and photosynthesis in Costasiella, with a focus on C. ocellifera (Gastropoda: Sacoglossa). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 80(5), 499-507.

Seifert, A. W., Kiama, S. G., Seifert, M. G., Goheen, J. R., Palmer, T. M., & Maden, M. (2012). Skin shedding and tissue regeneration in African spiny mice (Acomys). Nature, 489(7417), 561-565.

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Are Clownfish Part of the Trans Agenda?!?! | Alien Ocean

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✩ These Strange Triangles Can Make You Lose Your Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=QdUpQf957lI
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✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
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Sources:

The Trevor Project: thetrevorproject.org/resources/category/gender-identity
The Intersex Society of North America: isna.org/faq
interACT: interactadvocates.org/faq
The Ezra Klein Show, If You Read the G.O.P.’s Anti-Trans Policies, You’ll See What It Really Wants podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-you-read-the-g-o-p-s-anti-trans-policies-youll-see/id1548604447?i=1000603123504 (when I was doing research for this video, this was the only source I found that mentioned intersex people AT ALL)
Roundup of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation Advancing In States Across the Country: hrc.org/press-releases/roundup-of-anti-lgbtq-legislation-advancing-in-states-across-the-country

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00:00 Intro
02:08 What is sex? What is gender?
05:42 What does it mean to be transgender? What does it mean to be intersex?
09:04 You're a science channel! Why are you bringing politics into this?
11:32 Intro to Clownfish
13:04 The Anemone and Clownfish Relationship
16:04 Sequential Hermaphroditism in Fish
18:35 Why Don't Non-Breeders Leave or Fight Each Other?
20:03 The Six Phases of Clownfish Sex Changes
21:49 Comparing Transgender People and Clownfish
22:49 Conclusion
23:19 Outro

How One of the Oldest Animals in the World Constantly Rearranges Their Insides | Alien Ocean

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✩ These Strange Triangles Can Make You Lose Your Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=QdUpQf957lI
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✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
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Sources:
etymonline.com/word/porifera

Antcliffe, J. B., Callow, R. H. T., & Brasier, M. D. (2014). Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze. Biological Reviews, 89(4), 972–1004. doi:10.1111/brv.12090

Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Davidson, E. H., Bottjer, D. J., Zhao, F., & Tafforeau, P. (2015). Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201414577. doi:10.1073/pnas.1414577112

Chang, S., Feng, Q., Clausen, S., & Zhang, L. (2017). Sponge spicules from the lower Cambrian in the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: The earliest biomineralizing sponge record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 474, 36–44. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.032

Turner, E. C. (2021). Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs. Nature, 596(7870), 87-91.

Bond, C. (1992). Continuous cell movements rearrange anatomical structures in intact sponges. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 263(3), 284–302. doi:10.1002/jez.1402630308

Müller, W. E. (2003). The origin of metazoan complexity: Porifera as integrated animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 43(1), 3-10.

Dohrmann, M., & Wörheide, G. (2013). Novel scenarios of early animal evolution—is it time to rewrite textbooks?. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53(3), 503-511.

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Funayama, N. (2012). The stem cell system in demosponges: suggested involvement of two types of cells: archeocytes (active stem cells) and choanocytes (food-entrapping flagellated cells). Development Genes and Evolution, 223(1-2), 23–38. doi:10.1007/s00427-012-0417-5

Rupart, E.E., Fox, R.S., Barnes, R.D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach. Brooks/Cole.

How Researching Siphonophores Almost Made Me Have A Nervous Breakdown | Alien Ocean

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✩ How the Mantis Shrimp Can Punch Through Glass: youtube.com/watch?v=C_bBFomNwQA
✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
✩ Wait jk lol maybe magnapinna squid ARE kinda scary?: youtu.be/zOMEmn_r-sw
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Sources:

Land acknowledgement adapted from: Land Acknowledgment – Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office. (n.d.). https://manoa.hawaii.edu/nhpol/auamo/land-acknowledgment/

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Damian-Serrano, A., Haddock, S. H., & Dunn, C. W. (2019). Shaped to kill: The evolution of siphonophore tentilla for specialized prey capture in the open ocean. bioRxiv, 653345.

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Damian-Serrano, A., Haddock, S. H., & Dunn, C. W. (2021). The evolutionary history of siphonophore tentilla: Novelties, convergence, and integration. Integrative Organismal Biology, 3(1), obab019.

Mackie, G. O. (1963). SIphonophores, Bud Colonies, and Super Organisms. In E. C. Doughtery (Ed.), The Lower Metazoa: Comparative Biology and Phylogeny (pp. 329-337). University of California Press.

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Dunn, C. W. (2005). Complex colony‐level organization of the deep‐sea siphonophore Bargmannia elongata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) is directionally asymmetric and arises by the subdivision of pro‐buds. Developmental dynamics: an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 234(4), 835-845.

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Mackie, G. O., Pugh, P. R., & Purcell, J. E. (1988). Siphonophore biology. In Advances in Marine biology (Vol. 24, pp. 97-262). Academic Press.

Mapstone, G. M. (2014). Global diversity and review of Siphonophorae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). PLoS One, 9(2), e87737.

Dunn, C. (2009). Siphonophores. Current Biology, 19(6), R233-R234.

Dunn, C. W., Pugh, P. R., & Haddock, S. H. (2005). Molecular phylogenetics of the Siphonophora (Cnidaria), with implications for the evolution of functional specialization. Systematic biology, 54(6), 916-935.

Mapstone, G. M., & Arai, M. N. (2009). Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press.

Wait jk lol maybe magnapinna squid ARE kinda scary? | Alien Ocean

The Octopus Lady 2023-04-07 | Check out my first video about magnapinna squid! youtu.be/Hb5T-G5nf_M

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✩ youtube.com/watch?v=o6qDcCMeI30
✩ youtu.be/QdUpQf957lI
✩ youtu.be/C_bBFomNwQA
✩youtu.be/-Cf26GXssT4
✩ youtu.be/s-iuENcZ-2Q
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Sources:
And no real sources for this one, since it's all just speculation! I do reference my first magnapinna squid video a few times, and you'll find proper sources there.

Why Sperm Whales Are, Unquestionably, The COOLEST Marine Mammal | Alien Ocean

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✩ How the Mantis Shrimp Can Punch Through Glass: youtube.com/watch?v=C_bBFomNwQA
✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
✩ Can You Build Up a Tolerance to Pufferfish Toxin?: youtube.com/watch?v=s-iuENcZ-2Q
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Sources:
Halsey, L. (2002). Ultimate divers. Biologist, 49(4), 161.

Deep-diving Adaptations in the Sperm Whale. (n.d.). orcaireland.org/deep-diving-adaptations-in-the-sperm-whale

Clarke, M. R. (1978). Buoyancy control as a function of the spermaceti organ in the sperm whale. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 58(1), 27-71.

Werth, A. J. (2004). Functional morphology of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) tongue, with reference to suction feeding. Aquatic Mammals, 30(3), 405-418.

McHedlize, G. A. (2002) Sperm Whales, Evolution. In W. F. Perrin, et al (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press. archive.org/details/encyclopediaofma2002unse/mode/2up?q=sperm

McClain, C. R., Balk, M. A., Benfield, M. C., Branch, T. A., Chen, C., Cosgrove, J., ... & Thaler, A. D. (2015). Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. PeerJ, 3, e715.

Cantor, M., Gero, S., Whitehead, H., & Rendell, L. (2019). Sperm whale: the largest toothed creature on Earth. Ethology and behavioral ecology of odontocetes, 261-280.

Hopkin, M. (2004). Sperm whales suffer the bends. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/news041220-13

Whitehead, H. (2018). Sperm whale: Physeter macrocephalus. In Encyclopedia of marine mammals (pp. 919-925). Academic Press.

Roeleveld, M. A. (2000). Giant squid beaks: implications for systematics. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 80(1), 185-187.

Bennett, M. (2022, February 22). Ode to the Sperm Whale. In Our Nature. inournaturemag.com/all/features/ode-to-sperm-whale-whjir3

Marine Biologist Flounders Her Way Through Subnautica

The Octopus Lady 2023-02-06 | The title is a pun. Get it?

This is also my very first stream! Hopefully it won't be a complete disaster!

If you want to other streams of me playing Subnautica, go check out my second channel! @TheOcTWOpusLady

OH BOI KOI MALOY | ALiUm OsHuN

The Octopus Lady 2023-01-23 | The Octopus Lady was on vacation when making this video. I don't even know what to put here.

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✩ These Strange Triangles Can Make You Lose Your Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=QdUpQf957lI
✩ How the Mantis Shrimp Can Punch Through Glass: youtube.com/watch?v=C_bBFomNwQA
✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
✩ Can You Build Up a Tolerance to Pufferfish Toxin?: youtube.com/watch?v=s-iuENcZ-2Q
✩ This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE?: youtube.com/watch?v=3RSh8i2MKoY

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The Mystery of the Bloop Has Been SOLVED | Alien Ocean

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And my other videos:
✩ The Destructive Power of the Lionfish: youtube.com/watch?v=6tDbb7OYinQ
✩ These Strange Triangles Can Make You Lose Your Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=QdUpQf957lI
✩ How the Mantis Shrimp Can Punch Through Glass: youtube.com/watch?v=C_bBFomNwQA
✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
✩ Can You Build Up a Tolerance to Pufferfish Toxin?: youtube.com/watch?v=s-iuENcZ-2Q
✩ This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE?: youtube.com/watch?v=3RSh8i2MKoY

And Jef Chang!
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andrewdc.co.nz
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What Lurks Beneath - They Heard THIS In The Deep Ocean (The Bloop): youtube.com/watch?v=yUn4kfC9tog

Psychopoly - IS THE BLOOP REAL? 😰 #shorts #mystery: youtube.com/watch?v=IAWvx_fNzMQ

Dark Docs - The Bloop: Did a Creature Make the Most Mysterious Sound Ever Recorded in the Ocean?: youtube.com/watch?v=G3E6HRprGaU

Stuart Wahlin - The Bloop is Back: youtube.com/watch?v=SgX7MBgX7Rw

Concerning Reality - "The Bloop" Played at Normal Speed (1X): youtube.com/watch?v=3j0NDgh_VkU

Sources:

Wolman, D. (2002, Jun 15). Calls from the deep. New Scientist, (2347). web.archive.org/web/20130206021811/http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/102ns_001.htm

Steadman, I. (2012, Nov 29). The Bloop mystery has been solved: it was never a giant sea monster. Wired. wired.co.uk/article/bloop-mystery-not-solved-sort-of

NOAA. (2021, Feb 26). What is SOFAR? oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sofar.html

NOAA. (2021, Feb 26). What is the bloop? oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bloop.html

NOAA. (n.d.). Icequakes (Bloop). PMEL Acoustics Program. pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/sounds/bloop.html

NOAA. (n.d.). Cryogenic (Ice). PMEL Acoustics Program. pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/specs_cryogenic.html

Dziak, R. P., Park, M., Lee, W. S., Matsumoto, H., Bohnenstiehl, D. R., & Haxel, J. H. (2010). Tectonomagmatic activity and ice dynamics in the Bransfield Strait back‐arc basin, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 115(B1).

Aaaaand even though I didn't end up using it in my video, here's the source for that article I went to the library to get.
Schneider, D. (1997 Aug). Blue Note: Seismologists find a mysteriously pure tone in the ocean. Scientific American, 277(2), pg. 18.

The Destructive Power of the Lionfish | Alien Ocean

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✩ How the Mantis Shrimp Can Punch Through Glass: youtube.com/watch?v=C_bBFomNwQA
✩Just How Scary is the Deep-Sea Magnapinna Squid? youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M
✩ Can You Build Up a Tolerance to Pufferfish Toxin?: youtube.com/watch?v=s-iuENcZ-2Q
✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy and 1 Way They're Definitely Not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6...
✩ This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE?: youtube.com/watch?v=3RSh8i2MKoY

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FWC Saltwater Fishing - Lionfish Removal: Pensacola Pyramids: youtube.com/watch?v=5IDlTMLLYEw

LakeHickoryScuba - How To De-Spine A Lionfish: youtube.com/watch?v=QDPDLyge98k

Albins, M. A., & Lyons, P. J. (2012). Invasive red lionfish Pterois volitans blow directed jets of water at prey fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 448, 1-5.

Sources:

Rizzari, J. R., & Lönnstedt, O. M. (2014). Cooperative hunting and gregarious behaviour in the zebra lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra. Marine Biodiversity, 44(4), 467-468.

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Galloway, K. A., & Porter, M. E. (2019). Mechanical properties of the venomous spines of Pterois volitans and morphology among lionfish species. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(6), jeb197905.

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Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people: theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/vodou-haiti-endangered-faith-soul-of-haitian-people

What does a dolphin use to get high? A toxic puffer fish that makes them lapse into a trance-like state: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2530664/High-not-dry-Dolphins-filmed-chewing-toxic-puffer-fish-enjoy-narcotic-like-effects.html

How Did They Get This Footage of the Giant Squid? | Marine Biology in a Minute

The Octopus Lady 2022-05-12 | My first TikTok! Thought I'd throw it up here for funsies.

What is Making Our Oceans Glow Like This? | Alien Ocean

The Octopus Lady 2022-04-15 | Check out my Patreon: patreon.com/theoctopuslady

And the first video of this series: youtu.be/xIcGWun6mZg

And my other videos:
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y0...
✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy and 1 Way They're Definitely Not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6...
✩Where Did the Fishman From "The Shape of Water" Actually Come From? Marine Biologist Reacts!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY_fZ...
✩Jellyfish are Filled with Bio-Weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdm6n...
✩ This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE?: youtube.com/watch?v=3RSh8i2MKoY

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Photo Credits: docs.google.com/document/d/1aMXITfuaLQ34qy3i-MmWTnDZbgN9vS6rR31pEzeH-R8/edit

Video Sources:
Franz Krachtus - Red Tide Causes Bioluminescent Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=NjWTr_cXqNs
Franz Krachtus - Red Tide Bioluminescent Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=bdTz4sUAgc4

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This Microscopic Organism Has 90x More DNA than Humans?! | Alien Ocean

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And my other videos:
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y0...
✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy and 1 Way They're Definitely Not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6...
✩Where Did the Fishman From "The Shape of Water" Actually Come From? Marine Biologist Reacts!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY_fZ...
✩Jellyfish are Filled with Bio-Weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdm6n...
✩ This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE?: youtube.com/watch?v=3RSh8i2MKoY

Photo manipulations, creative consulting, digital art, and thumbnail by Friscoborn.

Music provided by TuneTank.com

Photo Credits: docs.google.com/document/d/1aMXITfuaLQ34qy3i-MmWTnDZbgN9vS6rR31pEzeH-R8/edit

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oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html

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This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE? | Alien Ocean

The Octopus Lady 2022-02-15 | Talk about eating your heart out. Or...your heart being on your sleeve. Or...SOMETHING about your heart being outside of your body.

Check out my Patreon: patreon.com/theoctopuslady

And my other videos:
✩No Animal in the World Eats Like a Sea Star | Alien Ocean: Episode 1: youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9tCSGLU
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8yS1gRmA
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9BhLHuM
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y01zlpsk
✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy and 1 Way They're Definitely Not | Alien Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6hTm-YI
✩Where Did the Fishman From "The Shape of Water" Actually Come From? Marine Biologist Reacts!: youtube.com/watch?v=tY_fZFURqSQ
✩Jellyfish are Filled with Bio-Weapons: youtube.com/watch?v=hdm6nhGgj2I

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Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on www.audionautix.com

Photo Credit:
Sea Cucumber Fossil Photo: Matt Heaton/FossilEra.com fossilera.com/fossils/4-fossil-sea-cucumber-achistrum-pos-neg-mazon-creek
Other photo credits: docs.google.com/document/d/16JqEF7qKGSq3vAOfyXOCsoqPRaIabbTFWU63ZRNc45g/edit?usp=sharing

Video Sources:
MA MarineFisheries - Tube Feet: youtube.com/watch?v=tvTH3Q4OLdQ
seacid2002 - sea cucumber crawling: youtube.com/watch?v=toazzZOIM8M
EVNautilus - Pelagic Sea Cucumber Drifts Past | Nautilus Live: youtube.com/watch?v=TEa3SaBVg3M
Procrastination Pictures - Demonic Chorus Sound Effect: youtube.com/watch?v=DYKtNzBL2_4

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Hey, you made it to the end! As a treat, here's some really great Existential/Cosmic/Lovecraftian horror (without all the racism, classism, and xenophobia):
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer: mcdbooks.com/books/borne
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer: jeffvandermeer.com/book/annihilation

Jellyfish are Filled with Painful and Deadly Bio-Weapons | Alien Ocean

The Octopus Lady 2022-01-15 | No wonder jellyfish stings can hurt so much.

Check out my Patreon: patreon.com/theoctopuslady

And my other videos:
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8yS1gRmA
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9BhLHuM
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y01zlpsk
✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy From, idk, the 1800s (& 1 Way They're Definitely Not): youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6hTm-YI
✩Where Did the Fishman From "The Shape of Water" Actually Come From? Marine Biologist Reacts!: youtube.com/watch?v=tY_fZFURqSQ

Photo manipulations, creative consultant, digital art, and thumbnail by Friscoborn.

Line art for Artist's Rendition of My Creative Consultant by Bryan Mann, shading and photo manipulation by Shea Breslin

Wet Riffs Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Ghostly critters from the deep sea: Stygiomedusa gigantea: youtube.com/watch?v=sszjsGGJzkk An extraordinary deep-sea sighting:

An extraordinary deep-sea sighting: The giant phantom jelly: youtube.com/watch?v=9bzQYKm3xTA

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Where Did the Fishman From The Shape of Water Actually Come From? Marine Biologist Reacts!

The Octopus Lady 2021-12-16 | Take a shot every time I say "parts per thousand."

I also had to re-upload this video because I accidentally uploaded it in 720p, so...THAT WASN'T ANNOYING.

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And my other videos:
✩No Animal in the World Eats a Like Sea Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9...
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8y...
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9...
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y01zlpsk
✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy From, idk, the 1800s (& 1 Way They're Definitely Not): youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6hTm-YI

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Recommended Videos:
Lindsay Ellis - My Monster Boyfriend: youtube.com/watch?v=YesMWAxqJ60
Innuendo Studios - CO-VIDS: that one guillermo del toro movie - youtube.com/watch?v=pp-EmsmCsRE
Quality Culture - The Shape of Water is Misunderstood: youtube.com/watch?v=lGvkczgir2c

And thanks for watching our video "Where Did the Fishman From 'The Shape of Water' Actually Come From? Marine Biologist Reacts!"

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The Octopus Lady 2021-11-15 | Hang onto your petticoats, your ulster jackets, and your canes with ivory handles -- seahorses are about to get scandalous, y'all.

Check out my Patreon: patreon.com/theoctopuslady

And my other videos:
✩No Animal in the World Eats a Like Sea Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9...
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8y...
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9...
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y01zlpsk

Photo manipulations, creative consultant, thumbnail, and digital art by FriscoBorn.

Creative Commons Music “Emerald Therapy” by Jason Shaw on audionautix.com

Nowhere Land Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Video Sources:

Cow Turtle - Seahorses eating guppies and ghost shrimp: youtube.com/watch?v=XFPPwYWMzQQ
The Smithsonian Channel - Watch a Male Seahorse Give Birth to Hundreds of Babies: youtube.com/watch?v=wILL_rDRkIA

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merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seahorse

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Žalohar, J., Hitij, T., & Križnar, M. (2009). Two new species of seahorses (Syngnathidae, Hippocampus) from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) Coprolitic Horizon in Tunjice Hills, Slovenia: The oldest fossil record of seahorses. Annales de Paléontologie, 95(2), 71–96. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2009.03.002

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Van Wassenbergh, S., Roos, G., & Ferry, L. (2011). An adaptive explanation for the horse-like shape of seahorses. Nature Communications, 2(1). doi:10.1038/ncomms1168

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JONES, A. G., KVARNEMO, C., MOORE, G. I., SIMMONS, L. W., & AVISE, J. C. (1998). Microsatellite evidence for monogamy and sex-biased recombination in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus angustus. Molecular Ecology, 7(11), 1497–1505. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00481.x

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Barnacles Have the Biggest Male Reproductive Organs in the Ocean | Alien Ocean

The Octopus Lady 2021-10-16 | Check out my Patreon: patreon.com/theoctopuslady

And my other videos:

✩No Animal in the World Eats a Like Sea Star: youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9tCSGLU
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8yS1gRmA
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9BhLHuM

Creative consulting and video thumbnail by Friscoborn.

Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on audionautix.com

Video Sources:

Barnacle feeding and reproduction: youtube.com/watch?v=V7fWmF--Xes
2016-12-17 : Diving GCS - Barnacles Feeding: youtube.com/watch?v=Lyb2doGWbYc
Coral Spawning: youtube.com/watch?v=qSU51AweDBYOther

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This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE | Alien Ocean

The Octopus Lady 2021-04-18 | Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/theoctopuslady

Check out my first video!
Alien Ocean: Sea Stars | Episode 1: youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9tCSGLU

Photo manipulations, song lyrics, creative consultant, and digital art by Friscoborn
(But those dumb crayon drawings at the end were done by ME. And they took FOREVER)
For inquiries, please check the About section

Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com: audionautix.com

Videos:
How Fish Eat (in SLOW MOTION!) - Smarter Every Day 118: youtube.com/watch?v=Wq48opvHsNI
Moray Eel Hunting: youtube.com/watch?v=MMHHZXsfRdY
Valerie Taylor Befriends a Spotted Moray Eel: youtube.com/watch?v=3IQ2I-P8Ucw
Food Too Big...Why Knot?!: experiment.com/u/goJd5A
To knot or not? Novel feeding behaviours in moray eels: link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12526-015-0404-y
Raptorial jaws in the throat help moray eels swallow large prey: nature.com/articles/nature06062#ref4

Other sources:
Phylogenetics and phylogeography of Moray Eels: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1289&context=etd
Eels Imitate Alien: nature.com/news/2007/070903/full/070903-11.html
Moray eels: The most cosmopolitan of reef fish, but why?: sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100407121217.htm
Moray eels in knots over food: phys.org/news/2015-10-moray-eels-food.html
The fish that ties knots in its own body: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151010-the-fish-that-ties-knots-in-its-own-body

No Animal in the World Eats Like a Sea Star | Alien Ocean: Episode 1

The Octopus Lady 2019-03-03 | My very first episode of Alien Ocean! Holy mackerel, am I relieved that it is done.

✩Links!✩
Sunflower Star Has A Weird Way of Eating: youtube.com/watch?v=l6dnmLDu6Eg

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