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Debra Quick-Jones
Apr 111 min read
Octopus surprise!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tiktok-familys-octopus-had-big-231504099.html What is most amazing about This story is that this family,...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 233 min read
Rare Sharks with Glowing Mouths
The Idaho Statesman Catching a glimpse of a basking shark off the Southern California coast is rare. So rare that Andrea Mills has only...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 213 min read
Who Knew?
A Female Stingray That Hasn't Had a Mate in Eight Years Is Mysteriously Pregnant. Is a Shark the Father? Though the round stingray, named...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 31 min read
Octopuses Are Colorblind. Here’s How They See the World
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/octopuses-are-colorblind-heres-how-they-see-the-world/ This article does not explain how...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Dec 31, 20231 min read
Sea creature with 328 tentacles found suctioned to rock in Japan. It’s a new species
https://www.aol.com/sea-creature-328-tentacles-found-174326153.html
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Debra Quick-Jones
Nov 7, 20233 min read
Answer to the dilemma: where is a starfish's head?
the Guardian A Starfish 'Body' Is Just One Giant Head, Study Finds Genes associated with the torso are largely absent in a species of...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Oct 29, 20232 min read
Goofiest way ever to cross ocean
Coast Guard officials arrested a Florida man after they intercepted an unusual hamster wheel contraption that he was allegedly using to...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Oct 29, 20231 min read
Adorable walking fish
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3157154773966-a-rare-fish-with-hands-is-spotted-in-a-surprising-place
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jul 17, 20231 min read
Baby Barracuda
This is a fish I found in my night fish lights at Catalina Island. The video quality is poor - it was moving around a lot, but I found...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jul 17, 20231 min read
Blue Button Jellyfish
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/09/1186664798/blue-button-jellyfish-texas-beaches I saw this vibrantly colored colonial hydroid in the water...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jul 1, 20232 min read
Summer Fun
Now that the sun has returned to San Diego, we can start complaining about how hot it is...just kidding! Seriously, we can think about...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Oct 23, 20223 min read
Starting up again!
I have not written for a long time, starting with COVID. It was so long ago, but remember that even the beaches were closed down. We all...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 8, 20221 min read
Goldfish Drives Car
https://youtu.be/-DBAY7ywPpo https://youtu.be/-DBAY7ywPpo watch youtube video!
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Real Treasure from the Ocean
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/brief-fascinating-history-ambergris-180978517/?utm_medium=flipdigest.ad.20210902.carousel&u...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Oceans Have Value
Horseshoe crabs are in danger because everyone wants their blood Demand for horseshoe crab blood for vaccine and drug testing has...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Superpredator
https://www.yahoo.com/news/octopus-hunting-truly-super-predator-133003149.html mesmerizing video
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 4, 20221 min read
World's Cutest Worm
https://www.facebook.com/588183634/posts/10158694674528635/ Check out page!
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Debra Quick-Jones
Nov 24, 20211 min read
Football Anyone?
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertainment/the-scene/ultra-rare-deep-sea-monster-washes-up-on-san-diego-beach/2799506/?_osource=db_npd_nbc...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Oct 19, 20211 min read
Holy Mola Mola!
This huge sunfish was found caught in a net. It was one fortunate fish, as it is not one that is eaten in Europe, so was released in good...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Oct 17, 20211 min read
San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition
Don't miss the San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition. It is FREE and virtual this year and there are some beautiful film images from around...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Sep 22, 20211 min read
Worth Waiting For!
Great news! Birch Aquarium is adding a Blue Penguin habitat next summer, in 2022. They are the smallest species of penguins, and they are...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Sep 7, 20212 min read
Hermit crabs gather for ‘house swap’ party, Texas video shows, and it looks stressful
Mitchell Willetts, The Charlotte Observer Video recently taken off of the Texas gulf coast captured a fast-paced ritual on the seafloor;...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Sep 7, 20211 min read
The finalists of the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards are here to make us all smile
Lisa Walden, found in Good Housekeeping Newsletter Philipp Stahr go to: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/g37496968/comedy-w...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Aug 21, 20211 min read
Carlsbad Aquafarm open for Tours
The Carlsbad Aquafarm has been around since the 70's, but has been reopened since the Power Plant there has been shut down, removing a...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Aug 10, 20211 min read
Majestic Visitors
We were visited last night by a ballet of Bat rays. Counted 28 of them, circling our boat. We are moored at Cherry Cove at Catalina...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Worth a Trip to Birch Aquarium
(All forwarded from Birch Aquarium newsletter) Meet the Melibe Check out this awesome close-up of a melibe, a unique type of nudibranch —...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Octopus anatomy Revealed
(from Ocean Conservancy) Need a reminder that our ocean is full of unusual animals? Look no further than the glass octopus. The glass...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Wish I Could Work Here!
from "Designing Buildings Wiki" Fish Building, India The unofficially named ‘Fish Building’ is a regional office for the National...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jun 17, 20211 min read
A Whale of a Reaction!
Don't miss this viral video of a Beluga whale's reaction to the stuffed one the little girl is holding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Whoa, Noah!
from Fox news article https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-lobster-diver-swallowed-whale Ever wondered what it would be like inside...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Celebrate World Oceans Day
Protect 30x30 is an initiative started by the Biden Administration to preserve 30% of both the waters and lands of the Nation. Here is...
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Debra Quick-Jones
May 28, 20211 min read
See it to Believe it!
What's not to love about this fish?! Picture is of a rare intact angler fish identified as a Football fish that washed up last week in...
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Debra Quick-Jones
May 24, 20212 min read
Not a Pipe Dream
This is a pipe commonly used in the 1700's - and is also the inspiration for the name of one of my favorite fishes, the Pipefish! I...
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Debra Quick-Jones
May 7, 20211 min read
How Pelicans Soar
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Easy read about how Pelicans gain lift from arching waves before the waves break. See if you can...
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Debra Quick-Jones
May 7, 20211 min read
Critter pics
Here are some recent photos of my critters. Mossy chiton. You can see where it has eaten algae off the rock. Anemone posing for beauty...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Apr 21, 20211 min read
Earth DayTomorrow
Celebrate earth day all month! Nature Conservancy has a live webinar going on right now until 2:30 https://natureconservancy.brand.li...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 24, 20211 min read
Coolest Photobomb Ever!
Rudy Esadell photo in CNN report A photographer was taking pictures of surfers on a Florida beach and happened to get something extra -...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 23, 20211 min read
Beauty Shots
Here is a picture of my fluorescent anemones under blue light. There are many types of animals that fluoresce, even in different colors...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 23, 20212 min read
Just Scraping By
I am fascinated how most snails (mollusks) scrape algae off of surfaces to eat. Here is my Wavy Top Turban cleaning growth off the side...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Slip-Sliding Away...
Above is an Encinitas, CA (northern coastal city in San Diego, my home) subdivision map from 1883, overlaid with surveys up to 1980....
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 10, 20212 min read
Help Me!
(article and photo from the Independent) A penguin was captured on film escaping from a pod of killer whales by jumping into a boat full...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Talented Sea Slug Regrows after Decapitation
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/sea-slug-cut-its-own-head-and-lived-tell-tale Two theories as to why some sea slugs do this is to...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Cuttlefish Totally Ace the Marshmallow Test!
(image from wallup.com) March 7, 20217:50 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday JAMES DOUBEK A cuttlefish swims in an aquarium at the...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 6, 20212 min read
Sea World Reopens
Good news! Sea World reopens today from 10-7 with COVID protocols in place. No roller coasters, but that puts focus back on the...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 15, 20211 min read
Just a Teaser
Unfinished drawings for a story book I am doing on my tidepool creatures in my aquarium. The stories will be somewhat fanciful at the...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 3, 20212 min read
Amazing Video!
OK, I know I am an Ocean Geek, but this video shows some California Blue Mussel behavior that really made my day. Yesterday I collected...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Dec 20, 20201 min read
Longest Animal Ever Recorded
Even planet Earth has a few marvels that rival imaginary visions of alien life. The giant sea whorl of 2020 is one of them. This large...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Dec 12, 20202 min read
King Tides Return
view of San Elijo Lagoon at 730 AM today. It's time again for a King Tide event due to the alignment of the Moon, Sun and Earth. Sunday...
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Debra Quick-Jones
Dec 6, 20201 min read
Santa Cares About Octopuses
My Octopus (as yet unnamed) received its early Christmas gift from Santa today. Let's see if it was a hit... copy and paste this link: ...
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