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— diksha suman (moon poet)

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columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

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౨ৎ༉‧₊˚✧ .Pearl, 0444 ، .˓ ִֶָ 𖥔

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I love you ocean, I love you beach, I love you seashell, I love you fish, I love you moon, I love you sun, I love you stars, I love you mermaids, I love you ships, I love you sailors, I love you surfers, I love you weird deep sea creatures, I love you pearls, I love you fossils, I love you treasure chests, I love you houseboats, I love you anchors, I love you waves, I love you sea foam, I love you sea glass, I love you-

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J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm - Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842

J.M.W. Turner, Peace - Burial at Sea, 1842

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furling golden sails

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Vintage opal necklace

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“When you reach your fifteenth year, you will have permission to rise up out of the sea like your sisters before you…”

 -The Little Mermaid’s Grandmother

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Set 3 Dutch Delft Blue & White Pottery Mythological Mermen Tiles 19th Century ebay eronjohnsonantiques

2 Antique Dutch Delft Blue & White Pottery Mythological Sea Creature Tiles 19th ebay eronjohnsonantiques

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Inktober Day 24: Shallow

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One of the best ways to hide in the deep sea: Ultra-black skin

Deep-sea animals have a variety of remarkable adaptations to help them hide in the midnight zone. But the fascinating fishes featured in this video have the best strategy to hide from predators and prey in this dark expanse: skin shades among the blackest of blacks known.

While there is no sunlight deep in the ocean, more than 75 percent of deep-sea life can produce light, a process called bioluminescence. When a single photon can blow your cover, ultra-black camouflage keeps these fishes hidden in the wide open darkness and also enables them to sneak up on unsuspecting shrimp or fish for a tasty meal.

Ultra-black fishes have unique structures in their skin that very efficiently trap and absorb light. Melanin—the same pigment found in human skin—is densely packed into super thin layers on the outermost surface of their skin. While most light photons are immediately absorbed, the specific shape, size, and configuration of these melanin layers scatters any missed photons into neighboring skin cells, where they are absorbed. Ultra-black skin absorbs 99.5 percent (or more) of the visible light with virtually none reflected.

The very blackest fishes known in the deep sea are the dreamer anglerfishes (Oneirodes sp.). Anglerfishes have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract a snack. Their ultra-black skin absorbs the bioluminescent glow so as not to reveal the giant mouth just beyond the lure. This incredible skin adaptation has evolved in many other fish species as well.

You can learn more about these amazing animals of the deep on our website.

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Today’s Seal Is: The Giggler

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sometimes i wonder if i use too many exclamation points in my posts on this account

but my enthusiasm for fish (fish!!!) simply cannot be expressed without them

i just love all the fishies so much!!!!!

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Whales! I know this is kicking in an open door but folks, they are really fucking big

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Back to the Arctic on labradorites, aurora borealis and a ship for @star-of-flame-eternal