Dr Lauren Smith
🤿 Marine Biologist focusing on elasmobranchs
🌊 Project Manager for an environmental non-profit
🏔️ Munro bagger 165/282
⚽️ 🦁 AVFC fan
- 🦈 Nurse sharks living in light-polluted waters off Miami had supressed melatonin levels compared to those living in nearby darker environments. This wasn’t true for blacktips, which are more mobile & move between areas of high & low artificial light at night. sharkresearch.org/wp-content/u...
- 🪼 Very cool ROV footage of a giant Phantom Jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea) off the coast of Argentina! www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... #marinelife
- 🐸 🐟 Crikey! Wednesday again already, time for my “wind-back Wednesday” post! An absolute cracker of a #Frogfish I think these are incredible, they can take some spotting too amongst the reef! 📍 Philippines, 2010. 📸 Panasonic. 🤿 🌊 #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #wildlifewednesday #marinelife
- ❄️ 🌕 Tonight’s Snow Moon! Fortunately I managed to step outside as there was a break in the (relentless) cloud cover! Dashed back in and grabbed my camera, pleased to have captured the second full moon of 2026! #snowmoon #moon #moonphotography #canonphotography #nightsky
- 🙌 Successful Flapper Skate Egg-case Hunt on Friday with Tattie! Fifteen found which isn’t bad for the Scottish mainland! A few interesting ones and some with evidence of potential predation 🐚 🐙 🦀 #flapperskate #eggcase #spaniel #coast #marinelife #scotland
