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Wait, beneath the sea floor?

OUGHGH??

OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!

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thinking about whale falls

(inspired by the work of @catadromously )

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Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work

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sometimes I will find myself thinking of

*~*~*~slime molds~*~*~*

oughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

(photo by alexis_orion)

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wow i wonder what trans women could possibly dislike about a prescriptive system of categorisation assigned at birth. good thing sherlock holmes is public domain because nobody else could crack this big fucking mystery

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Do you have cool velvet worm facts? They're my favourite bug-creatures :3

I love velvet worms! Absolutely bizarre creatures. They don't have an exoskeleton and they move by changing the fluid pressure in their body. ALSO there's a species (Euperipatoides rowelli) that lives in social groups lead by a dominant female.

Let's admire that species.

EXQUISITE. Photos by squiresk

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siphonophores will never not freak me out. stop doing that its SCARY but also please don't ever stop doing that you ethereal marine cryptid

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Found this very cool thing with a millipede in it. The sphere thing has the most interesting texture to it. Do you know what this is? We found a second smaller one.

This is what's known in nature as a "kinder egg surprise"

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Cave fish time!!

Cryptotora thamicola or the waterfall climbing cave fish are extremely rare, found in only eight caves on the border of Thailand and Myanmar. Like most cave fish they are blind and pigmentless but what makes them special is there ability to cling to walls and climb up flowing water.

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Here is video of the 2nd largest cellar slug climbing on my hand!! A couple people asked why they’re one of my favorite slugs, and besides being big slugs with a beautifully slimy color scheme, they have the rare quirk of originally being cave animals that spread all over the world by adapting to cities! They don’t like living in soil and vegetation like other slugs, but they find a lot of man-made structures indistinguishable from a cave environment including moist crawlspaces, basements, public restrooms, storm drains and sewers! The only other creatures to share this cave-to-pest transition are all arthropods, like cellar spiders, house centipedes, silverfish or various roaches. I only even learned about these slugs after moving to the Pacific Northwest, where they’re definitely the most common invertebrate to be exclusive to urban habitat, but a lot of people probably never notice because they hate sunlight even more than other slugs and snails, crawling up from the drainage tunnels to graze on moss only once it’s pitch dark and hiding again before dawn even begins. I know how many there are because I’m the only person deliberately taking walks with a flashlight at 3 am in the rain. A final thing I like about them is that like many slugs they have a special slime they exude when they feel threatened (like hagfish) but theirs is vividly yellow. I don’t know of any other slug with defensive slime so colorful. This other one was more upset about being picked up, you can’t see the yellow color too well but you can see how thick the angry-slime is:

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Aragonite ''flowers'' from cave in Mallorca island, Spain

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A sea hare (蓝斑背肛海兔; Notarchus leachii cirrosus Stimpson) by the South China Sea. The purple in the water is ink.

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Alien-like chatter of the world’s deepest lake as photographer shares eerie sounds of newly-formed ice. Alexey Kolganov films himself skating on transparent ice of lake Baikal, as new cracks form under his skates

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Pyromorphite Burgam Mine, Shelve, Shropshire, United Kingdom      

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these are alive they have souls