#giant deep sea isopod

[placki26]

SHOP OPEN !

Consider getting some isopod girl stuff like a keychain, badge, or print ! You can also leave a tip to help me out with the production of this merchandise and future items too :-)

-> SHOP LINK :-D

[kin-flags]

Are there any snow leopard or giant deep sea isopod kin/therian flags you know of? Thank you!

apparently there's only one for snow leopard

[meowllorydesigns]

THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!

[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Giant Isopod

Olive’s wet beast fact: These giant, wet pill bugs have a reflective layer at the back of the eye that cats have, which reflects light and increases the ability to see at night. It’s also what makes cats' and isopods' eyes appear to glow.

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[prinz-vassago]

missed drawing guts

[bedupolker]

visited my muse again yesterday

[wallaceandpestle]

creature of a culture

[linseedling]

Sticker sheet!!

[nightfallsystem]

[da-real-god]

[oceanicscribbles]

Day 29 - Massive

I would personally like to thank giant isopods for existing and rewiring my brain permanently.

[pleistocene-pride]

Bathynomus giganteus, more commonly known simply as the giant ispod is a species of aquatic crustacean, in the giant isopods genus Bathynomus and the order Isopoda. As such it is related—albeit distantly—to shrimps and crabs. They are enemdic to the western atlantic ocean, particularly with in the Caribbean sea and gulf of mexico where they prefer cold benthic waters some 1050 to 7050ft (320 to 2150m) below the surface. Bathynomus giganteus is notable for being the first giant isopod known to science, being documented and described in 1879 by French zoologist Alphonse Milne Edwards after the isopod was found in fishermen's nets off the coast of Tortuga. Like many animals that live in the deep sea, giant isopods are scavengers which feed primarily upon detritus, carrion, and other aquatic debris. Reaching 7.5 to up to 20 inches in length, like all crustaceans, it has jointed legs and a hard exterior called an exoskeleton. Three segments make up its body: the head (cephalon), the thorax (pereon) and the abdomen (pleon). It moves about using 14 legs, a fan-like tail called a uropod, and fluttering swimmerets called pleopods. The head possess four jaws, 2 large compound eyes, and two sets of antennae. Breeding tends to occur in winter and spring. Mature females develop a pouch known as a marsupium, where the eggs are stored until the young are ready to emerge as miniatures of the adults, known as manca, completely bypassing a larval stage. Under ideal conditions a giant isopod may live up to 30 years.

[krookedreality]

podtober - ocean

[magistralucis]

so unbelievably happy with my deep sea giant isopod figure

[abyssal-lawyer]

I'm not that attractive but I like to think I'm beautiful in the same way that a whalefall is beautiful. I'm a lovely little interconnected system full of interesting things, but I'm still when you really get down to it, just a rotting corpse.

Sorry I meant carrion, not corpse, carrion.

Carcass if you're nasty.