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Wall was feeling a bit bare

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“I would die for you” that’s cool but I would live for you let’s hang out later

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good fight guys @autismswagreblogs

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i love sludge

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I’m drawing fish for Lent and sharing daily on my patreon discord server! 

Here are fish 1-5 :D

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Wind deers :] weird mimic-esque animals that look like wind turbines. they settle down in one spot and open their face panels during the day to absorb solar energy & they often camp out for weeks by windmill farms before moving on. People sort of just leave them alone when they show up

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entering my decomposition era

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A wheal shark slipping through bioluminescent algae appears to be swimming in space | source

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my silly lovesong 4 the siphonophores

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New Year New Body

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Could be a christmas decor. But no this is a Siphonophore colony called Physophora hydrostatica. 💧 They can reach a length of 8-12cm. On the top you can see a gas-emitting pore that controls the buoyancy of the colony like our BCD!

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Self-Indulgent deep ocean stimboard with Lots of jellies :]  X / X / X  X / X / X  X / X / X

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Praya dubia

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Jingle bells in the deep sea.🔔🎄✨⁠

This siphonophore, Bargmannia lata, has a “head” (nectophore) made of swimming bells and a “stem” (siphosome) that contains parts for feeding, defense, and reproduction.⁠

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As with the ctenophores, siphonophores are found from the ocean surface to the seafloor. Also like ctenophores, many siphonophores are bioluminescent, which makes them prime targets for MBARI’s Biodiversity and Biooptics team to investigate. Siphonophores range in size from 10 millimeters to 30 meters (less than half an inch to almost 100 feet)—longer than a blue whale! They are important midwater predators, deploying long curtains of stinging tentacles to prey upon a variety of crustaceans and fish. These gelatinous animals are exceptionally fragile and easily fall to pieces, so they must be collected carefully with the ROV.⁠ Happy holidays, deep-sea squad!

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stop right there!

you have reached….

the siphonophore zone!

ok that’s it. we’re done here goodbye.