Ichthyologist | Collection Manager of Fishes at Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Beer and bike lover | Horror fan
San Diego, CA
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Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
๐ข Headed to #ComicCon this week? Check out "More Science in Your Fiction with The League of Extraordinary Scientists and Engineers," featuring Scripps Oceanography scientists Ben @Frable & Lisa Zeigler!
๐ July 24
๐ 1 PM
๐ Omni Grand Ballroom DE
๐ bit.ly/3Tc5cFu
ALT Lisa Zeigler and Ben Frable
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
1/9 Interesting study. As noted in the IFLScience piece, macroevolution is not amenable to experimental manipulation, and hypotheses about events tens of millions of years ago necessarily rely on inference. That applies equally to our hypothesis and to Brownstein et al.'s.
Tuna are truly odd fish, growing to massive size and featuring warm blood. But what made them this way? iflscience.com/did-the-dinosโฆ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Congrats to @aintzane11, @R_BetancurR and our co-authors on our new @NatureComms paper: Ecological and genomic signatures of the convergent evolution of planktivory in fossil and living reef fishes over deep time nature.com/articles/s41467-0โฆ 1/4
ALT https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73110-3
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
These fishes, many collected from Caribbean reefs and coastal ecosystems, are now protected, digitized, and available to scientists, educators, and the public. 3/5
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We made a short video to share how this rescue effort is helping keep biodiversity alive for future research and discovery: youtube.com/watch?v=tjjqdKJrโฆ 4/5
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Behind every specimen thereโs a story, and sometimes a rescue mission.
youtube.com/watch?v=tjjqdKJrโฆ
When the fish collection in Puerto Rico was at risk, the National Science Foundation stepped in to help preserve decades of scientific work 1/5 @Scripps_Ocean @NSF @betanricar @Frable
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Scripps Oceanography's Ben @Frable joins the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation to share more about the fascinating deep-sea specimens known as #oarfish, and why they're washing up on California beaches.
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July 19
๐ 10 AM
๐ Batiquitos Lagoon Nature Center
sandiegouniontribune.com/202โฆ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Our new paper reporting several new records of deep reef fishes at Australia's Coral Sea is out in Coral Reefs! Great team effort led by @fishguykai and including records made both by diving and ROVs. link.springer.com/article/10โฆ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Our friend Francesca recently spotted this cool creature washed up on La Jolla Shores, so naturally we had to phone our other friend Ben @Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection here at Scripps Oceanography. ๐ Here's what he had to say. โฌ๏ธ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
"This is our most common deep-water eel, the dogface witch eel, Facciolella equatorialis. They occur around 300 to nearly 2,000 feet on the seafloor. I have been seeing them in greater numbers in the last few years." - @Frable
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๐ ๐ Some interesting fishy finds have been spotted around the world lately, like this rare humpback #anglerfish. Ben @Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Oceanography, shares more about this cool creature for @Salon. โฌ๏ธ
salon.com/2025/02/13/rare-foโฆ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
The New Zealand sole (Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae) is host to many different species of parasites.
This study looked at the parasite fauna of this flatfish, and the role played by this sole in the transmission of those parasites.
cambridge.org/core/journals/โฆ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Paper alert ๐ !!!
We investigated the evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across different oceans.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10โฆ
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Another day, another #oarfish โ although these chance encounters are anything but oar-dinary. Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Manager Ben @Frable weighs in on the latest oarfish discovery for @nytimes. โฌ๏ธ
The oarfish, a striking deep-sea creature nicknamed the โdoomsday fish,โ has eluded researchers over the decades. For scientists in California, where three oarfish have washed up in recent months, itโs an exciting find. nyti.ms/3CDppeZ
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Opisthoteuthis californiana(Berry,1949)
A Flapjack octopus is hit and shaken by a Lanternfish.
Off Rausu Coast | Depth:700m
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Look what decided to make another appearance! ๐ Last week, another #oarfish washed up on Grandview Beach in Encinitas and was spotted by Scripps Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere. This cool creature measures roughly 9 to 10 feet long.
ALT An oarfish found on the beach
ALT An oarfish found on the beach
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
โLike with the previous oarfish, this specimen and the samples taken from it will be able to tell us much about the biology, anatomy, genomics and life history of oarfishes.โ - Scripps Marine Vertebrate Collection Manager Ben @Frable
ALT An oarfish found on the beach
ALT An oarfish found on the beach
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Check out our new study revealing an increase in #microfiber and #microplastic consumption by myctophids along the Pacific Coast from the 1960s to 2016! Congrats to lead @BoisenOlivia and thanks to @Scripps_Ocean @Frable and @burkemuseum @KMaslenikov for specimen access.
New #STOTEN study led by @BoisenOlivia using museum-archived myctophids to trace increased #microplastic and #microfiber ingestion (1960s - 2016) highlights value of collections for evaluating long-term impacts!
doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.โฆ
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Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Are #oarfish really harbingers of natural disasters? Scripps #MarineVertebrate Collection manager @Frable spoke to @washingtonpost on why the 'doomsday fish' moniker is based more in folklore than in fact. โฌ๏ธ
washingtonpost.com/climate-eโฆ
Ben Frable ๐ retweeted
Today at @Comic_Con! ๐ฅ Be sure to attend this panel led by Scripps Oceanography scientists @Frable & @lzeiglerallen, who will dive into putting the 'science' in science fiction. โฌ๏ธ #SDCC2024
๐ Sunday, July 28
๐ 4 p.m.
๐ Room 28DE
๐ bit.ly/3zFcJCN
