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BABE WAKE UP NEW COLOSSAL SQUID FOOTAGE!!!!

and it's a

BABY!!!!

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Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s Wet Beast is: Sea Pig

Olive’s wet beast fact: Unlike the stupid pigs on land, the sea pig has never been elected president.

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The family Cranchiidae comprises the approximately 60 species of glass squid, also known as cockatoo squid, cranchiid, cranch squid, or bathyscaphoid squid. Cranchiid squid occur in surface and midwater depths of open oceans around the world. They range in mantle length from 10 cm (3.9 in) to over 3 m (9.8 ft), in the case of the colossal squid. The common name, glass squid, derives from the transparent nature of most species. Cranchiid squid spend much of their lives in partially sunlit shallow waters, where their transparency provides camouflage. They are characterised by a swollen body and short arms, which bear two rows of suckers or hooks. The third arm pair is often enlarged. Many species are bioluminescent organisms and possess light organs on the undersides of their eyes, used to cancel their shadows. Eye morphology varies widely, ranging from large and circular to telescopic and stalked. A large, fluid-filled chamber containing ammonia solution is used to aid buoyancy. This buoyancy system is unique to the family and is the source of their common name "bathyscaphoid squid", after their resemblance to a bathyscaphe. Often the only organ that is visible through the transparent tissues is a cigar-shaped digestive gland, which is the cephalopod equivalent of a mammalian liver. This is usually held in a vertical position to reduce its silhouette and a light organ is sometimes present on the lower tip to further minimise its appearance in the water.

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HAPPY APRIL FIRST ON TUMBLR

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The Alabaster Nudibranch is a soft-bodied marine mollusc indigenous to the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Hey, it's ok

The Sniler

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Clawed Arm-hook Squid aka Black-eyed Squid (Gonatus onyx), mother with egg mass, family Gonatidae, off the coast of Costa Rica

The mantle length for this squid is about 18 cm (7.09 in).

photographs via: Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Izu-Ogasawara snailfish tribute

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Shark friend

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Sperm whale mimics a spinning diver.

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GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

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Longfin bannerfish at the Cairns Aquarium in Cairns, QLD, Australia

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Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Man-of-war Fish

Olive’s wet beast fact: this little fishy has evolved to live within the extremely dangerous tentacles of the Portuguese Man O’ War. It is here that the fish feasts upon their gonads. Happy Pride.

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