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necklace carpet sharks are SO silly and beautiful and it is of upmost importance that you all look at them

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happy lesbian day of visibility here’s a lesbian nautilus 🦑

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Woe, Polar Parrot Cichlid be upon thee

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Drawing rainbow trout in my diary <3

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We know little about the deep sea environments of the Mesozoic but one place where we can get a glimpse into this world is the Münsterland basin. We have here several localities that preserved shallow and deep water animals side by side, caused by underwater landslides. These carried stuff from the rim of the basin and buried them in the deep with other material that was down there.

Tachynectes here is a very early lanternfish. Flattened lanternfishes are no longer a thing these days and we actually have lanternfishes from these localities that show their photophores preserved. We know where they glowed!

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Small fish pendants.....

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This school of scalloped hammerheads was not a sight we expected to see, but what a sight it was! Experts are actually unsure why scalloped hammerheads school, but some theorize they school this way as juveniles, and continue the behavior into young adulthood!

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fish requests #1 :-D

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overstimulated and anxious at the zoo until I looked up and saw an angel dancing in a beam of light

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oops💥💦

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hi!! im super glad i found this blog i think it might be my favorite now😭there are SO many cool creatures on here and i really appreciate that youre bringing them to light!!

i hope you dont mind if i ask this, but do you have anything on crustaceans?? theyre some of my favorite animals!

Thank you so much pudding pop. I love crustaceans too. I haven't blogged a lot of them, but here's what I've done so far.

Herps and Birds (and More) (Posts tagged crustacean) (tumblr.com)

And, here's one of my favorites, a mole crab from the west coasts of North and South America...

Pacific Sand Crab (Emerita analoga), family Hippidae, order Decapoda, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

photographs by Peter J. Bryant

Northern California, photo by Jerry Kirkhart

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stygiomedusa gigantea my beloved 🪼 she’s a biblical angel to me

please don’t repost, but okay to rb

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Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), family Vampyroteuthidae, photographed in the deep sea off the Pacific Coast of North America

Vampire Squids are not actually true squids, but are in their own distinct groups of Cephalopods (most closely related to the Octopuses).

They only grow to a total length of up to 30 cm (~ 1 ft).

They have many light producing photophores on various locations around their body.

They live at depths of 600 to 900 m (2,000 to 3,000 ft) in oceans around the world.

photographs via: MBARI

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Another hurricane with a sardine garnish please.

Ink and watercolour on paper, 6x8 inches.

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some trout patches in my shop 🐟

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sel 🦭

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