[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @mbari_news MBARI MBARI posts on TikTok about ocean, sea, skin, food the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/tiktok::7008682402043184133/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +45% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/tiktok::7008682402043184133/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +56% - X Year XXX +90% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/tiktok::7008682402043184133/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.08% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.32% - X Months XXXXXXX +5.20% - X Year XXXXXXX +51% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/tiktok::7008682402043184133/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) **Social topic influence** [ocean](/topic/ocean) #1191, [sea](/topic/sea) #2167, [skin](/topic/skin) #3642, [food](/topic/food), [the first](/topic/the-first), [red](/topic/red), [closed](/topic/closed) #579, [chile](/topic/chile), [patterns](/topic/patterns), [at least](/topic/at-least) **Top assets mentioned** [Chainge (XCHNG)](/topic/chainge) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Replying to @Mrs_Ceesayyy While this looks like a siphonophore its actually a salp Salps are colonial animals often forming long chains. They can reach up to XX meters (49 feet) long and are one of the fastest-growing animals on the planet. Salps rhythmically contract their bodies to propel themselves through the ocean and pump water through their guts filtering out microscopic algae and other tiny organisms for food. They play an essential role in mitigating climate change as their fecal pellets are full of carbon and sink rapidly to the sea floor sequestering that carbon for decades or even" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7334978875547569438) 2024-02-13T07:06Z 200.5K followers, 18.8M engagements "Serving up some zooplankton squeee 🥰 Zooplankton can be subdivided into two major groups. Holoplankton (copepods and krill) spend their entire lives as plankton and thus provide major food sources for pelagic fisheries. Meroplankton (larvae of animals like barnacles mussels annelids and fish) spend only part of their lives as plankton. Copepods like the one in this video can be found in massive numbers across the world ocean. They play an important role in ocean food webs as predatorsthey eat even smaller diatoms and phytoplanktonand prey for animals like jellies fish and filter feeders." [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7573838780373667102) 2025-11-17T23:22Z 200.5K followers, 3710 engagements "This deep-sea anglerfish is Chaunacops coloratus related to one of the new species recently found in Chile on Schmidt Ocean Institutes #SEPacificSeamounts expedition. In 2012 MBARI researchers were the first to publish observations of these rare fish in their natural deep-sea habitat. In addition to documenting these fish walking on the seafloor and fishing with their built-in lures the researchers discovered that the fish change color from blue to red as they get older. C. coloratus was first described from a single specimen collected off the coast of Panama during an expedition in 1891." [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7343020424332119327) 2024-03-05T23:09Z 200.5K followers, 240K engagements "Todays #MBARIFromTheVault video features Humboldt squid 🦑 These squid are formidable predators often gathering in large groups for a feeding frenzy when food is plentiful. MBARI research suggests that they communicate with each other as they hunt using changing patterns of light and dark pigment on their skin. Our Video Lab recently completed a three-year effort to digitize MBARIs videotape archive converting 26500 hours of footage from 31000 physical tapes into a digital file format. While reviewing the digitized footage for quality control these spunky squid caught the eye of Research" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7372851056633580842) 2024-05-25T08:27Z 200.5K followers, 152.2K engagements "Vampire squid supremecy 🦑 Its easy to imagine the vampire squid as a nightmarish predator. It lurks in the eternal midnight of the deep sea has a dark red body huge blue eyes and a cloak-like web that stretches between its eight arms. When threatened it turns inside out exposing rows of wicked-looking cirri. Even its scientific name Vampyroteuthis infernalis means vampire squid from hell. In reality the vampire squid is a soft-bodied passive creature about the size shape and color of a football. A living fossil it inhabits the deep waters of all the worlds ocean basins at depths where there" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7407622651117587743) 2024-08-27T01:19Z 200.5K followers, 180K engagements "Floating with our favorite football-shaped friend. 🏈🤩 The vampire squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis has a grim reputation and name but these gentle scavengers are "living fossils" that have remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. This species is the only living member of Vampyromorpha an ancient cephalopod order that gave rise to both squids and octopuses. Vampire squids are often found in the oxygen minimum zone an area ranging from XXX to XXX meters deep (1640 to 2296 feet) in Monterey Bay which is very low in dissolved oxygen and hosts very little life within its" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7512959796807568671) 2025-06-06T22:01Z 200.5K followers, 85.7K engagements "The blood-red stomach disguises the glowing prey inside. Many of the deep-sea animals the bloody-belly comb jelly preys upon can bioluminesce or create their own light. The translucent predator needs to conceal its stomachor risk its most recent meal lighting it up from the inside out and alerting potential predators to its whereabouts. Red is nearly invisible in the deep sea so the vibrant crimson that gives this comb jelly its name is actually helping it hide from its predators. Bloody-belly comb jellies are ctenophores not true jellies. Like other comb jellies they navigate through the" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7563467840024497439) 2025-10-21T00:38Z 200.5K followers, 17.1K engagements "Heres a deep-sea animal youve never heard ofthe threadfin snailfish Careproctus longifilis. #MBARI #deepseatok #nature #ReTokforNature #ocean" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7137736948839386411) 2022-08-30T18:24Z 200.5K followers, 4.8M engagements "The woolly siphonophore thrives in the deep sea stretching out to catch a meal. 🌀 Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts growing together in a chain. The woolly siphonophore (Apolemia lanosa) is a shaggy species we often encounter in Monterey Bay. We know they can reach at least five meters (16 feet) in length but other siphonophores can be as long as a blue whale We often encounter the woolly siphonophore in a spiral coil dangling a curtain of tentacles. Specialized stinging cells stun any unfortunate animal that blunders into those sprawling tentacles. The" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7332947927658188075) 2024-02-07T19:43Z 200.5K followers, 3.2M engagements "Deep-sea friends showing off. ✨ Piglet squids (1st clip) are found throughout the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans and in the Atlantic Ocean in north temperate waters. Their mantle reaches a maximum size of XX centimeters (nearly four inches). Like other glass squids they covered in tiny pigment sacs called chromatophores. They often keep their chromatophores closed so their skin is basically see through. Vampire squids (2nd clip) are soft-bodied passive creatures about the size shape and color of a football. A living fossil they inhabit the deep waters of all the worlds ocean basins at" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7343782140301102367) 2024-03-08T00:26Z 200.5K followers, 911.6K engagements "Our #MBARIFromTheVault series comes to a close with an animal that needs no introduction. MBARI researchers last encountered the giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea) in November 2021 during a dive in Monterey Bay. While exploring the midnight zone this ghostly giant emerged from the darkness. The bell of this deep-sea denizen reaches more than one meter (3.3 feet) across and trails four ribbon-like oral (or mouth) arms that can grow more than XX meters (33 feet) long. Research Technician Megan Bassett was on the R/V Western Flyer when the remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts spotted" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7373528956462697774) 2024-05-27T04:18Z 200.5K followers, 4.8M engagements "Replying to @iheartfishes87 This is Ventana one of MBARIs remotely operated vehicles or ROV. From a control room in the heart of our research vessel Rachel Carson a team of pilots and scientists fly the submersible as we explore the waters down to 1800 meters (a little more than one mile) below the surface. Since 1988 Ventana has explored the depths of Monterey Bay logging the most science dives of any remotely operated vehicle in the world. It has been critical to MBARIs mission to advance marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean. #DragonFish #DeepSeaFish #ROV" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7400919091281661215) 2024-08-08T23:46Z 200.5K followers, 149K engagements "This worm is always on the go. While most worms crawl on the seafloor or slither through the mud the gossamer worm (Tomopteris spp.) swims in the waters far above the ocean floor. Tomopteris lives in the midwateran expanse of water deep below the surface and far above the bottomand never touches the rocks and sand below. Tomopteris is also a fast and efficient swimmer. Researchers in MBARIs Bioinspiration Lab and our collaborators at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have been studying the mechanics of the gossamer worms swimming. They used high-tech toolsfrom lasers that" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7454423520412519711) 2024-12-31T04:10Z 200.5K followers, 323.7K engagements "In November 2014 MBARI recorded what we believe was the first ever video footage of the black seadevil alive and at depth. Deep-sea anglerfishes are elusive animals that are rarely observed in their natural habitat. This little angler about X centimeters (3.5 inches) long is named Melanocetus johnsonii. MBARI's ROV Doc Ricketts observed this anglerfish at XXX meters (1969 feet) in the deep dark waters of the Monterey Canyon. Anglerfishes have evolved a remarkable way to catch preya fishing pole with a luminous lure at the tip. Instead of expending energy to chase food a hungry anglerfish" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7470335802157944106) 2025-02-12T01:18Z 200.5K followers, 3.1M engagements "Meet Helicocranchia the piglet squid. 🦑 This species is found throughout the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans and in the Atlantic Ocean in north temperate waters. Their mantle reaches a maximum size of XX centimeters (nearly four inches). Like other glass squids they covered in tiny pigment sacs called chromatophores. They often keep their chromatophores closed so their skin is basically see through. This invisibility cloak hides them from both predators and prey. Glass squids have a large internal cavity they fill with ammonium a chemical that is lighter than seawater. Building a more" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7537440533246004510) 2025-08-11T21:19Z 200.5K followers, 227.5K engagements "Meet the newest (and cutest) addition to the snailfish family 🐟 MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo with scientists from the University of Montana and the University of Hawaii at Mnoa have described three new deep-sea snailfishes including one first discovered using MBARIs remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts. Snailfishes make their homes in a variety of ocean habitatsfrom shallow tide pools to deep-sea trenches. The newly described bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi) observed in the depths of Monterey Canyon nearly 3300 meters (10800 feet) underwater has a distinctive pink color and" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7547767357616229663) 2025-09-08T17:12Z 200.5K followers, 1.9M engagements "Gracefully drifting in all of its glittery gloryJapetella diaphana. 🐙✨ This midwater octopus is one of the few octopuses that has adapted to life in open water far from the safety of rocks and reefs. Drifting with the currents this octopus conserves energy with a slow metabolism. With a nearly transparent body and the ability to shift to a deep orange in the blink of an eye Japetella uses camouflage to outsmart predators in the dark. But Japetella faces new threats like climate change and pollution. MBARIs cutting-edge technology is helping uncover the hidden lives of deep-sea animals like" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7576907966947872030) 2025-11-26T05:52Z 200.5K followers, 7387 engagements "Love letter to a deep-sea worm 💌♥ Tubeworms like these Oasisia alvinae are abundant at hydrothermal vents at depths of 3700 meters (12140 feet) in the Pescadero Basin located off the east coast of Mexicos Baja California. These hydrothermal vents the deepest yet discovered in the Gulf of California resulted from a unique combination of geology and chemistry. #DeepSea #DeepOcean #MBARI #WormCrushWednesday #WCW" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7579758162442505503) 2025-12-03T22:13Z 200.5K followers, 3256 engagements "Fresh from the deepa rarely seen deep-sea giant that MBARI researchers recently observed in Monterey Bay. 🤩 During a research expedition with the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Ventana in Monterey Bay last month Senior Scientist Steven Haddock and researchers from MBARIs Biodiversity and Biooptics Team happened upon a rare sight approximately XXX meters (2300 feet) deep: a seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus). This sighting marked just our fourth observation of this species in nearly four decades of ocean exploration. Using a 4K camera specially developed by MBARI engineers for deep-sea" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7580118306095385886) 2025-12-04T21:30Z 200.5K followers, 27.2K engagements "Be the chainge you wish to see in the world. Salps are gelatinous animals that live in the open ocean but are closely related to the "sea squirts" (tunicates) seen in tidepools. Colonial salps often form long chains with new animals budding off from others in the chain. These chains can reach lengths of up to XX meters (nearly XX feet) and are one of the fastest-growing animals on the planet. Salps rhythmically contract their bodies to propel themselves through the ocean and pump water through their guts filtering out microscopic algae and other tiny organisms for food. They play an" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@mbari_news/video/7581757690955779359) 2025-12-09T07:33Z 200.5K followers, 1641 engagements
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Social Influence
Social category influence countries cryptocurrencies
Social topic influence ocean #1191, sea #2167, skin #3642, food, the first, red, closed #579, chile, patterns, at least
Top assets mentioned Chainge (XCHNG)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Replying to @Mrs_Ceesayyy While this looks like a siphonophore its actually a salp Salps are colonial animals often forming long chains. They can reach up to XX meters (49 feet) long and are one of the fastest-growing animals on the planet. Salps rhythmically contract their bodies to propel themselves through the ocean and pump water through their guts filtering out microscopic algae and other tiny organisms for food. They play an essential role in mitigating climate change as their fecal pellets are full of carbon and sink rapidly to the sea floor sequestering that carbon for decades or even"
TikTok Link 2024-02-13T07:06Z 200.5K followers, 18.8M engagements
"Serving up some zooplankton squeee 🥰 Zooplankton can be subdivided into two major groups. Holoplankton (copepods and krill) spend their entire lives as plankton and thus provide major food sources for pelagic fisheries. Meroplankton (larvae of animals like barnacles mussels annelids and fish) spend only part of their lives as plankton. Copepods like the one in this video can be found in massive numbers across the world ocean. They play an important role in ocean food webs as predatorsthey eat even smaller diatoms and phytoplanktonand prey for animals like jellies fish and filter feeders."
TikTok Link 2025-11-17T23:22Z 200.5K followers, 3710 engagements
"This deep-sea anglerfish is Chaunacops coloratus related to one of the new species recently found in Chile on Schmidt Ocean Institutes #SEPacificSeamounts expedition. In 2012 MBARI researchers were the first to publish observations of these rare fish in their natural deep-sea habitat. In addition to documenting these fish walking on the seafloor and fishing with their built-in lures the researchers discovered that the fish change color from blue to red as they get older. C. coloratus was first described from a single specimen collected off the coast of Panama during an expedition in 1891."
TikTok Link 2024-03-05T23:09Z 200.5K followers, 240K engagements
"Todays #MBARIFromTheVault video features Humboldt squid 🦑 These squid are formidable predators often gathering in large groups for a feeding frenzy when food is plentiful. MBARI research suggests that they communicate with each other as they hunt using changing patterns of light and dark pigment on their skin. Our Video Lab recently completed a three-year effort to digitize MBARIs videotape archive converting 26500 hours of footage from 31000 physical tapes into a digital file format. While reviewing the digitized footage for quality control these spunky squid caught the eye of Research"
TikTok Link 2024-05-25T08:27Z 200.5K followers, 152.2K engagements
"Vampire squid supremecy 🦑 Its easy to imagine the vampire squid as a nightmarish predator. It lurks in the eternal midnight of the deep sea has a dark red body huge blue eyes and a cloak-like web that stretches between its eight arms. When threatened it turns inside out exposing rows of wicked-looking cirri. Even its scientific name Vampyroteuthis infernalis means vampire squid from hell. In reality the vampire squid is a soft-bodied passive creature about the size shape and color of a football. A living fossil it inhabits the deep waters of all the worlds ocean basins at depths where there"
TikTok Link 2024-08-27T01:19Z 200.5K followers, 180K engagements
"Floating with our favorite football-shaped friend. 🏈🤩 The vampire squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis has a grim reputation and name but these gentle scavengers are "living fossils" that have remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. This species is the only living member of Vampyromorpha an ancient cephalopod order that gave rise to both squids and octopuses. Vampire squids are often found in the oxygen minimum zone an area ranging from XXX to XXX meters deep (1640 to 2296 feet) in Monterey Bay which is very low in dissolved oxygen and hosts very little life within its"
TikTok Link 2025-06-06T22:01Z 200.5K followers, 85.7K engagements
"The blood-red stomach disguises the glowing prey inside. Many of the deep-sea animals the bloody-belly comb jelly preys upon can bioluminesce or create their own light. The translucent predator needs to conceal its stomachor risk its most recent meal lighting it up from the inside out and alerting potential predators to its whereabouts. Red is nearly invisible in the deep sea so the vibrant crimson that gives this comb jelly its name is actually helping it hide from its predators. Bloody-belly comb jellies are ctenophores not true jellies. Like other comb jellies they navigate through the"
TikTok Link 2025-10-21T00:38Z 200.5K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Heres a deep-sea animal youve never heard ofthe threadfin snailfish Careproctus longifilis. #MBARI #deepseatok #nature #ReTokforNature #ocean"
TikTok Link 2022-08-30T18:24Z 200.5K followers, 4.8M engagements
"The woolly siphonophore thrives in the deep sea stretching out to catch a meal. 🌀 Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts growing together in a chain. The woolly siphonophore (Apolemia lanosa) is a shaggy species we often encounter in Monterey Bay. We know they can reach at least five meters (16 feet) in length but other siphonophores can be as long as a blue whale We often encounter the woolly siphonophore in a spiral coil dangling a curtain of tentacles. Specialized stinging cells stun any unfortunate animal that blunders into those sprawling tentacles. The"
TikTok Link 2024-02-07T19:43Z 200.5K followers, 3.2M engagements
"Deep-sea friends showing off. ✨ Piglet squids (1st clip) are found throughout the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans and in the Atlantic Ocean in north temperate waters. Their mantle reaches a maximum size of XX centimeters (nearly four inches). Like other glass squids they covered in tiny pigment sacs called chromatophores. They often keep their chromatophores closed so their skin is basically see through. Vampire squids (2nd clip) are soft-bodied passive creatures about the size shape and color of a football. A living fossil they inhabit the deep waters of all the worlds ocean basins at"
TikTok Link 2024-03-08T00:26Z 200.5K followers, 911.6K engagements
"Our #MBARIFromTheVault series comes to a close with an animal that needs no introduction. MBARI researchers last encountered the giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea) in November 2021 during a dive in Monterey Bay. While exploring the midnight zone this ghostly giant emerged from the darkness. The bell of this deep-sea denizen reaches more than one meter (3.3 feet) across and trails four ribbon-like oral (or mouth) arms that can grow more than XX meters (33 feet) long. Research Technician Megan Bassett was on the R/V Western Flyer when the remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts spotted"
TikTok Link 2024-05-27T04:18Z 200.5K followers, 4.8M engagements
"Replying to @iheartfishes87 This is Ventana one of MBARIs remotely operated vehicles or ROV. From a control room in the heart of our research vessel Rachel Carson a team of pilots and scientists fly the submersible as we explore the waters down to 1800 meters (a little more than one mile) below the surface. Since 1988 Ventana has explored the depths of Monterey Bay logging the most science dives of any remotely operated vehicle in the world. It has been critical to MBARIs mission to advance marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean. #DragonFish #DeepSeaFish #ROV"
TikTok Link 2024-08-08T23:46Z 200.5K followers, 149K engagements
"This worm is always on the go. While most worms crawl on the seafloor or slither through the mud the gossamer worm (Tomopteris spp.) swims in the waters far above the ocean floor. Tomopteris lives in the midwateran expanse of water deep below the surface and far above the bottomand never touches the rocks and sand below. Tomopteris is also a fast and efficient swimmer. Researchers in MBARIs Bioinspiration Lab and our collaborators at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have been studying the mechanics of the gossamer worms swimming. They used high-tech toolsfrom lasers that"
TikTok Link 2024-12-31T04:10Z 200.5K followers, 323.7K engagements
"In November 2014 MBARI recorded what we believe was the first ever video footage of the black seadevil alive and at depth. Deep-sea anglerfishes are elusive animals that are rarely observed in their natural habitat. This little angler about X centimeters (3.5 inches) long is named Melanocetus johnsonii. MBARI's ROV Doc Ricketts observed this anglerfish at XXX meters (1969 feet) in the deep dark waters of the Monterey Canyon. Anglerfishes have evolved a remarkable way to catch preya fishing pole with a luminous lure at the tip. Instead of expending energy to chase food a hungry anglerfish"
TikTok Link 2025-02-12T01:18Z 200.5K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Meet Helicocranchia the piglet squid. 🦑 This species is found throughout the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans and in the Atlantic Ocean in north temperate waters. Their mantle reaches a maximum size of XX centimeters (nearly four inches). Like other glass squids they covered in tiny pigment sacs called chromatophores. They often keep their chromatophores closed so their skin is basically see through. This invisibility cloak hides them from both predators and prey. Glass squids have a large internal cavity they fill with ammonium a chemical that is lighter than seawater. Building a more"
TikTok Link 2025-08-11T21:19Z 200.5K followers, 227.5K engagements
"Meet the newest (and cutest) addition to the snailfish family 🐟 MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo with scientists from the University of Montana and the University of Hawaii at Mnoa have described three new deep-sea snailfishes including one first discovered using MBARIs remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts. Snailfishes make their homes in a variety of ocean habitatsfrom shallow tide pools to deep-sea trenches. The newly described bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi) observed in the depths of Monterey Canyon nearly 3300 meters (10800 feet) underwater has a distinctive pink color and"
TikTok Link 2025-09-08T17:12Z 200.5K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Gracefully drifting in all of its glittery gloryJapetella diaphana. 🐙✨ This midwater octopus is one of the few octopuses that has adapted to life in open water far from the safety of rocks and reefs. Drifting with the currents this octopus conserves energy with a slow metabolism. With a nearly transparent body and the ability to shift to a deep orange in the blink of an eye Japetella uses camouflage to outsmart predators in the dark. But Japetella faces new threats like climate change and pollution. MBARIs cutting-edge technology is helping uncover the hidden lives of deep-sea animals like"
TikTok Link 2025-11-26T05:52Z 200.5K followers, 7387 engagements
"Love letter to a deep-sea worm 💌♥ Tubeworms like these Oasisia alvinae are abundant at hydrothermal vents at depths of 3700 meters (12140 feet) in the Pescadero Basin located off the east coast of Mexicos Baja California. These hydrothermal vents the deepest yet discovered in the Gulf of California resulted from a unique combination of geology and chemistry. #DeepSea #DeepOcean #MBARI #WormCrushWednesday #WCW"
TikTok Link 2025-12-03T22:13Z 200.5K followers, 3256 engagements
"Fresh from the deepa rarely seen deep-sea giant that MBARI researchers recently observed in Monterey Bay. 🤩 During a research expedition with the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Ventana in Monterey Bay last month Senior Scientist Steven Haddock and researchers from MBARIs Biodiversity and Biooptics Team happened upon a rare sight approximately XXX meters (2300 feet) deep: a seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus). This sighting marked just our fourth observation of this species in nearly four decades of ocean exploration. Using a 4K camera specially developed by MBARI engineers for deep-sea"
TikTok Link 2025-12-04T21:30Z 200.5K followers, 27.2K engagements
"Be the chainge you wish to see in the world. Salps are gelatinous animals that live in the open ocean but are closely related to the "sea squirts" (tunicates) seen in tidepools. Colonial salps often form long chains with new animals budding off from others in the chain. These chains can reach lengths of up to XX meters (nearly XX feet) and are one of the fastest-growing animals on the planet. Salps rhythmically contract their bodies to propel themselves through the ocean and pump water through their guts filtering out microscopic algae and other tiny organisms for food. They play an"
TikTok Link 2025-12-09T07:33Z 200.5K followers, 1641 engagements