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pangeen

A beautiful Fin Whale, Pacific White-Sided Dolphins, and glassy seas!

by Domenic Biagini

Happy 420!💚

goddamnshinyrock

every so often I remember that whales molt

I’m not sure why I feel this way, but imo this is the most cursed marine mammal fact I have ever heard

gallusrostromegalus

THAT’S RIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME SO I CAN INFLICT THIS ON EVERYONE AT 1AM!

Mammals normally shed their skin in small flakes all the time when their skin cells die off, but because whales are living in the ocean -AKA, Bacteria Stew- flaking off like that would cause microabrasions (really tiny cuts) that would mean the whale is continually fighting off infections. So, when a whale needs to replace it’s dead skin cells, it preps it’s new skin underneath, then sheds all it’s dead skin cells at once, like a lizard:

but not having hands makes it hard to remove this gross film, so molting brings many whales clsoe to shore where they can roll around on rocky/sandy coastal seabeds to scratch it off. Here’s a bunch of Beluga coming in for a mass scratch:

And THIS is what a chunk of Sperm Whale Molt looks like, floating in the water before it’s devoured by pelagic microfauna, because you take what calories you can get in the open ocean:

Nature is Amazing!

bogleech

wish it still held in one big piece like a snake though. Wish you could be swimming in the ocean and you see a huge empty whale billowing like a balloon. like a latex glove a hundred feet long. imagine getting tangled in that. what if you died cause you got caught in an empty whale like it’s a big blanket

gallusrostromegalus

@bogleech this is absolutely the best Cryptid Concept I’ve heard of in YEARS and i am chilled and delighted to the core.

smilecapsules-deactivated202106

A PERFECT PLANET - 1x04 - “Oceans”

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roseboy89

You have no idea how long I looked for this

alondrayp

pieartsystuff

HOLY CRAP THERE IS A FUCKING BREAD TURTLE ON YOUR DASH RIGHT NOW.

YOU BETTER REBLOG THIS SHIT.

It so cute

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little-red-stiles-hood

No, it’s fine. I didn’t need my heart.

gaylienz-deactivated20151005

Are we crying about a doodle of dinosaurs?

lil-banshee

Yes

aphotov

Welcome to Tumblr

221cbakerstreet

Oh god it hurts why would you ever

twinamericas-blog

The meteor was coming.

Oh, God, it was coming and she didn’t know what to do. Her son, her beautiful little son, pressed close to her side, craning his neck to look up at his Mother.

“Mummy, why is everyone moving? There’s plenty of food here.” He asked in his sweet, innocent voice.

“Because, my sweet, sometimes it is best that we move on. It is our way.” She replied, forcing the words past the lump in her throat.

“Oh,” Her son said, turning his gaze to the fiery rock in the sky that would spell their deaths out for them, “the old Triceratops told me it was cuzza that rock. He said the rock could hurt us real bad.” He continued, not understanding what he meant by those words in his innocence.

“Triceratops is being silly, he just wanted to tease you one more time before he left.” She lied, choking on her tears. Oh, God, he son, her lovely son, was going to die not understanding.

“Oh.”

She turned her face to the meteor- it was close now. It wouldn’t be long. Swinging her head around, she dropped her face to her sons and nuzzled him one last time. “Let’s play a game, yes? And then we’ll go join the others.” She suggested.

“Okay! What game shall we play, Mummy?”

“Let’s play pretend. We will imagine the sort of place we would like to move to, and when we open our eyes, that’s where we shall be.”

“How do we play?”

One last look at the meteor- it was almost time.

“Close your eyes and imagine the place, and count to thirty out loud. Just like when we play Hide-and-Seek.” She curled herself around her son, both of them now laid on the beach.

“Ok, Mummy. 1, 2, 3, 4…”

She watched the meteor approach with sad eyes, and just before it hit land she turned her head, laying it and her neck over her son and bracing herself.

Her son had not yet said 30, but it was over.

ronweasley-moved-blog

what the fuck is wrong with you

cute-little-princess-deactivate

WOW HOLY FUCK THANKS FOR SHITTING ALL OVER MY HEART

eelydeely

SOBBING

polkadot-cookie

Wow what the fuck. I didn’t need this.

whatmoredoyouwant

I LITERALLY SCREAMED NO WHEN I CAME ACROSS THIS AGAIN. THE ONLY POST ON THIS SITE THAT MAKES ME CRY IN 0.0002 SECONDS.

thesassyducks

these are the headlines that are most important

via: thedodo.com

penisennui

livinmokotory

adhdalistair:

penisennui:

(via Justin Jorgensen) “In 2007 I worked with photographers Williams + Hirakawa to create a concept piece of me sleeping on a sheet cake. I though these cakes looked like pillows, and there’s the obvious play on ‘sweet dreams.’

I wondered if I could fall asleep on a cake and have sweet dreams. I didn’t. It was pretty gross really and wasn’t easy to wash off.

A few years later, outtakes from the shoot were sold to Getty Images as stock photos. I didn’t know this until 2011 when one of those photos made #13 on the wildly popular Buzzffed.com list of “60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos.”

Into 2014, the Getty Image photo continues to make the rounds on Facebook and Tumblr.”

skylorde

i can’t believe i leveled up enough to unlock cake pillow guy’s backstory

coelasquid

I can’t believe the “sweet dreams” joke didn’t occur to me

marandart-deactivated20201102

This is my new favorite hangout spot. I walked here from home with a cup of tea and my watercolor supplies. A floating dock out of the reach of sun or rain floats underneath the marina. And it has friends. 😍