#mola

[tofublock]

🐟 mola is experiencing social anxiety ✨

available as a sticker for patreon

[samimarkart]

life sized mola mola quilt complete (although he leans on the side of juvenile size) my first fully machine quilted project. thinking about plankton, drifting, large creatures, beached animals, softness, taxidermy and blankets all at once

cotton fabric, high loft poly batting, cotton sewing and perle cotton thread

[weirdmarioenemies]

Mola mola. The mola we all knowla. The mola we all molove. What an incredible creature, Mola mola is! Such a strange shape, so many eggs, no swim bladder... and the size. Its most prized aspect! If you know one thing about Mola mola, it’s that it is the largest bony fish, right?

...Right?

Nuh-uh-uh, Mola mola. Don’t try and sneak away. It’s very noticeable. After all, you are one of the biggest bony fish!

Let me repeat that. One of the biggest bony fish.

Mola mola, the ocean sunfish, is NOT in fact the largest known bony fish! You’d think we were talking about Mola tecta, because this sunfish has hoodwinked us!

Behold MOLA ALEXANDRINI! Known, very appropriately, as the giant sunfish. This is the true heaviest bony fish! Not Mola mola, as has so been thought, and as I have even claimed in front of all of you. I was wrong! Mola alexandrini has been recorded weighing up to 6,049 pounds, with Mola mola trailing in the measly little 2,000s range. But if Mola alexandrini can be so much bigger, how was Mola mola seen as the champion for so long?

It was a misunderstanding. A misidentification! That huge specimen was caught all the way back in 1996, but thought to be Mola mola until it was reevaluated in 2017! Members of the Mola genus are just always accidentally tricking us humans. I’m sure they would say “sooorry” in a deep and booming, yet slow and gentle voice if they knew.

So how can you #KnowYourMolas? It is easy to confuse them- even scientists do it- but generally, be sure to notice the shapes of both the face and the clavus (the funny butt fin)! If the face is relatively smooth, and especially if the clavus has a scalloped shape, that’s Mola mola. If the face is bulgy and bumpy and the clavus is smooth and round, that’s Mola alexandrini! And if the face is smooth but the clavus is too, then you have been hoodwinked by Mola tecta!

So there you have it. The truth about the Mola mola! Not the biggest after all... but that does not matter to me. Mola mola will always be my favorite! That being said, please show Mola alexandrini some love too, as despite its size, it is still a lesser known Mola!

And who knows? Maybe even alexandrini will be dethroned! Maybe we will find a bigger alexandrini, or maybe a bigger mola! Maybe even a different species altogether is the true largest bony fish! There is no way to know what the future has in store... so many secrets in the ocean!

Refer here for more information on the updated identification!

[sundogscoops]

Yeag

[viejospellejos]

MoooOoooola!!

[antonio0gamer]

A Sharp-tail mola

[caleod]

5-12-22

[snowiferart]

Shining

[forbescaroline]

So, do you think Lola and Miles get back together? Amanda Arcuri: In the future, when we’ve learned all of our lessons. Right? Eric Osborne: Right — yeah! When we’ve learned all our lessons. Miles Hollingsworth & Lola Pacini in Degrassi Next Class

[degrassi-daily]

it was such a powerful, passionate thing for both of them. it was an important part of their lives. i think that it would be a shame if they just never interacted again. i’d hope that they would find a way to rebuild some kind of relationship - eric osborne (insp)

[thatshowthingstarted]

“Harpole” Necklace,

A 7th century burial discovered in the Northamptonshire village of Harpole contains a gold and gemstone necklace that is the richest ever discovered from the period.

The necklace turned out to be part of the bed burial of a high-status individual who had died between 630 and 670 A.D. The bones have long since disintegrated, but the necklace is evidence that the deceased was female, as is the bed burial itself, a funerary practice almost exclusively reserved for elite women in the Saxon period. She was not wearing the necklace when she was buried. It was placed next to her on the bed.

Few of these burial sites date back earlier than the 7th century AD, when burials of high-status men were more common, and as Christianity took root, later graves rarely featured valuable objects because being buried with ornate jewelry, such as the necklace, was frowned upon by the early Christian Church, said Lyn Blackmore, a senior finds specialist at MOLA.

The woman buried in this exceptional grave was a leader in an early Christian community during the short transitional period between pagan burials with all their grave goods and the burials of established Christianity which explicitly eschewed grave goods. She was wealthy and powerful, likely born to a prominent family and held an important religious position like an abbess.

Text courtesy: The History Blog

[barlowbarlowbarlowbarlow]

Sunfish ☀️

[simauita]

Props to El'the Mola for being the only sane person at the whole University.

[bjekkergauken]

Sea lion king, part 2

Part 1

[viejospellejos]

Flipante 😳

[artistfingers]

Hi, what’s your favourite kind of fish?

Probably the ocean sunfish! i saw one at the monterey bay aquarium when i was in college. they're impressively huge and beautiful, but also so fucking funny looking. like, look at this thing. i love it <3