Blanket Octopus Sightings
There have been a couple of blanket octopus sightings recently. Jacinta Shackleton filmed one whilst snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef. According to the Twitter post, “This species of pelagic…
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There have been a couple of blanket octopus sightings recently. Jacinta Shackleton filmed one whilst snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef. According to the Twitter post, “This species of pelagic…
I was assisting the Estuary Care Foundation to check their oyster baskets at Outer Harbor during October, when I was asked if I had seen a particular crab before. My…
David Muirhead and I did a dive with three others at Rapid Bay jetty on 9th March 2018. Three of us dived whilst two women just snorkelled. It was a…
This was actually going to be my first lock-down story before I got carried away with the story about how my nose surgery affected my diving. (These ‘Lock-down’ stories aren’t…
Further to my articles Sea urchin barrens and mini-barrens and Follow-up re Sea urchin barrens and mini-barrens, when Chris Roberts posted this photo of Red-tipped Urchins, Heliocidaris tuberculata, seen at…
The Discovery of a 23m-year-old fossil in Mount Gambier By Steve Reynolds (STEVE’S SDFSA SCIENCE STORY for the month of November) I confess that I maintain only a limited interest…
Alex Chalupa, Senior Biosecurity Officer, Aquatic Pest Response, Biosecurity SA, Invasive Species Unit, Department of Primary Industries and Regions, has sent us this message below. It is the annual reminder to…
New species of bobtail squid discovered By Steve Reynolds (STEVE’S SDFSA SCIENCE STORY OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST) A new species of bobtail squid (genus Euprymna) was recently discovered in…
Nectria sea star species have now been reduced by one by Steve Reynolds (STEVE’S SDFSA SCIENCE STORY OF THE MONTH OF JULY) The number of Nectria sea star species has…
Cuttlefish Attacks On Divers by Steve Reynolds (Taken from the Marine life Society of South Australia Inc 2007 Journal, Number 17, December 2007 ) I must say from the outset that I don’t want to put…