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Letting Go, 2014

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Surf’s up, Luke Shadbolt

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0405; princes street gardens

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Louis Boutan. Oceanographer and biologist Emil Racoviță equipped with a standard diving dress photographed underwater. Banyuls-sur-Mer, south of France, 1899.

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Vicki Ling

Eclipse, 2013 water colour on paper

TUMBLR

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Kawah Ijen, Indonesia by kusumadjaja

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NYC. Staten Island. Method Man with his girlfriend and muse Shortie, at home. 1995.

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CapeTown

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Mykines Island // Hannes Becker

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by Sverrir Thorolfsson

Hestfjörður, Iceland

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Skate leech (Pontobdella muricata)

Taxonomy: Animalia, Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinea, Euhirudinea, Rhynchobdellida, Piscicolidae, Pontobdellinae, Pontobdella, P. muricata

Description: Also called skatesuckers, P. muricata is a leech species characterised by its grey coloration and knobbled bodies.

Lifestyle: This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the North Sea. They are parasitic, and as their name suggests, they primarily parasitise skates. If skates are not available, they will also parasitise other flat fish, such as rays and plaice. They are vectors of the protozoa Trypanosoma raiae, which comes from the same genus as the protozoans that cause chagas disease and sleeping sickness in humans. They lay eggs, which can be found on oyster shells.

Photos from marinephoto and aiam.

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Peles Empire

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by Kamila Giedrojć

Argentina