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/…

.Comic-Con International is right around the corner! 💥 Be sure to attend this panel led by Scripps Oceanography scientists Ben Frable 🐟 & Lisa Zeigler Allen, who will dive into putting the 'science' in science fiction. ⬇️ #SDCC2024 📆 Sunday, July 28 🕓 4 p.m. 📍 Room 28DE 🔗 bit.ly/3zFcJCN

Today at Comic-Con International! 💥 Be sure to attend this panel led by Scripps Oceanography scientists Ben Frable 🐟 & Lisa Zeigler Allen, who will dive into putting the 'science' in science fiction. ⬇️ #SDCC2024 📆 Sunday, July 28 🕓 4 p.m. 📍 Room 28DE 🔗 bit.ly/3zFcJCN

Are #oarfish really harbingers of natural disasters? Scripps #MarineVertebrate Collection manager Ben Frable 🐟 spoke to The Washington Post on why the 'doomsday fish' moniker is based more in folklore than in fact. ⬇️ washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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 Olivia Boisen and thanks to Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ben Frable 🐟 and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Katherine Maslenikov for specimen access.

Look what decided to make another appearance! 🌊 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.

“Like 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.” - Scripps Marine Vertebrate Collection Manager Ben Ben Frable 🐟

オオメンダコゆれる ハダカイワシの衝撃 ふにゃふにゃボディ 羅臼沖 | 水深:700m Opisthoteuthis californiana(Berry,1949) A Flapjack octopus is hit and shaken by a Lanternfish. Off Rausu Coast | Depth:700m

Paper alert 🐠!!! We investigated the evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across different oceans. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Another day, another #oarfish — although these chance encounters are anything but oar-dinary. Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Manager Ben Ben Frable 🐟 weighs in on the latest oarfish discovery for The New York Times. ⬇️

👀 🐠Some interesting fishy finds have been spotted around the world lately, like this rare humpback #anglerfish. Ben Ben Frable 🐟, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Oceanography, shares more about this cool creature for Salon. ⬇️ salon.com/2025/02/13/rar…

Our friend Francesca recently spotted this cool creature washed up on La Jolla Shores, so naturally we had to phone our other friend Ben Ben Frable 🐟, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection here at Scripps Oceanography. 🐠 Here's what he had to say. ⬇️

"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." - Ben Frable 🐟

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/10.100…

Scripps Oceanography's Ben 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. 📅 July 19 🕙 10 AM 📍 Batiquitos Lagoon Nature Center sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/09/com…