Aquariums🦊 Zoos 🦆 Nature

Take five minutes, as a little treat 💙 youtube.com/watch?v=H0yt4…

The pelagic red crab, also known as the squat lobster. Not a crab. Not a lobster. Just vibes.

Wishing that the new year brings you as much joy as this picture of Ruby chomping on ice. 🦦🧊 Sea otters are one of the few marine mammals that can drink seawater—thanks to their otterly impressive kidneys, which filter out excess salt! Still, most of their hydration comes from the food they eat.

Would you swipe right? #SeaOtters #SwipeRight #ValentinesDay #BeMine

Our volunteers are leading by example this Earth Month with reusable water bottles! Every small action, like ditching single-use plastic, makes a big difference for our ocean. Join us and make waves of change, one refill, one action, one person at a time. 🌱💙

Revisiting: Eastern Chipmunk Snout Variations #Mammals

Congratulations to our 2024 Photo Night Winners! 🥇Grand Prize Winner: Joshua Gluck's shrimp rave 🥈First Runner-Up: Dominique Vasquez's baby seahorses 🥉Second Runner-Up: Rich Esteban's lumpsucker

I always hear the Bell Miners but they’re usually in the tree tops so I hardly ever see them. So that’s cool.

Meet Red X, an animal so new to science that it doesn’t have an official name! With our research partners at MBARI, we’re learning more about them—and the deep sea—every day! You can see Red X today in our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit! www.youtube.com/shorts/6u….

The Oregon Coast Aquarium has welcomed a new Pacific harbor seal, and while “Garry” is the youngest and smallest of the Aquarium’s seals, she’s making a big splash! 🦭aquarium.org/welcome-garry

🎉✨Happy 39th Anniversary, Aquarium!✨🎉 Share your favorite Aquarium memory below 💙🌊

My kids: “Mum, Mum, quick! There’s an eagle on the driveway!” The eagle:

"We love the Aquarium! Especially the penguins!" While we don't have penguins here at the #OregonCoastAquarium, it's the thought that counts! 💙 Today's #DidYouKnow features the common murre, a dapperly plumed seabird native to Oregon's rugged coastline.

What’s aflutter in Lorikeet Forest? Our scaly lorikeets! This species is officially a part of the aviary, see if you can spot them among the rainbow. 🌈 Photo by Animal Care Specialist Michelle

You help us feed our lorikeets their nutritious nectar daily, but they also enjoy several types of fruit, like strawberries, apples, and cantaloupe! When was the last time you fed the lorikeets? 🦜🍓🍎🍈 Video by Animal Care Specialist Michelle

You’re one in a vermilion, rockfish! No, really! Rockfish nearly disappeared in Monterey Bay due to overfishing. But thanks to people—the fishing industry, scientists, and government agencies—working together, the Sebastes populations are rocking on!

The 🦭face when someone pinni-poos 💩

It’s a Pumpkin Palooza! We carved out some time for fun this spooky season--huge thanks to Seattle Aquarium for coordinating this gourdeous collab! youtube.com/watch?v=6IwJb…

Goudvink male (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) E.: Bullfinch, foraging on privet berries #birds #nature #Lauwersmeer

We’re tuckered out from another pawsome Sea Otter Awareness Week! 🦦💤 Loved what you learned about otters all week with our otterly adorable sea furball content? Please consider donating to the Aquarium via the link here: mbayaq.co/4gvMWOe

We’re celebrating the release from the Biden-Harris Administration of the first-ever White House-level strategy focused on ending #PlasticPollution 🎉 mbayaq.co/3y19uVT

Cladonia spp lichens. Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Happy Fursday

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Crazy Feeding Day. Read the full story here: buff.ly/3hZKKFA Photo by Krisztina This is an encounter from 2022 #WhaleTales #orca