Azzy-Maggotmorph

Ah to rest somewhere safe and warm.

[azzy-maggotmorph]

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Ah to rest somewhere safe and warm.

Well-known celebrity on Para-Site and leader of the alternative (non-FurAffinity group) of anthros. Find me on:

Gomph,

NicoNetwork,

YGUN,

Mania,

PanWorld,

EMPIRE,

RingO,

Mona,

and TheOneChannel.

[pat-the-sea-angel]

[edwetan-morsceam]

Imma be honest wit you fam.

[eddie-the-one-punch-snail]

If you don't know how Saitama and snails are connected, my blog will confuse you a %@$#in' lot.

[eddie-the-one-punch-snail]

No no, I won't stop you. Please, go ahead.

Revenge is a dish that's best self-served.

[oceanportal]

Sea butterflies, a group of swimming sea snails, are canaries in the coal mine for the ocean. Delicately beautiful and highly sensitive to the changing oceans, these tiny creatures—most smaller than a pinky nail!—present a unique way to gauge climate. One-quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere dissolves into the ocean, which makes the water more acidic and makes it more difficult for these animals to build their own shells.

Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History are studying them to learn how ocean acidification will affect a wide array of ocean animals. Read our article at Smithsonian Magazine about the animals and scientists studying them—with stunning photos.

All photos © Karen Osborn (Smithsonian biologist)

[earthstory]

Sea butterflies

These beautiful gastropods (the same family as snails) have been called the potato chips of the oceans, since they lie at the base of the food web and haunt the seas from tropics to pole. They are the most abundant of the order, floating with the currents and swimming around in the water in search of plankton. The snail’s foot has turned into beautiful wing like features that flap to propel them around, and they hunt with a web of mucus that they weave and cast around them. Their average size is less than a centimetre though they range up to orange size, and the shell is so thin as to be transparent, and very fragile.

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[ameliaapfel]

sea butterflies

[marinebiologistjotaro]

Sea butterflies are adorable but also creepy af

They’re also very very small. Most are only about 1 centimeter across, so even if you ran into one, you probably wouldn’t even notice. I guess the only “creepy” thing about them could be the net of mucus they use to catch their food, but it’s just mucus. Again, completely harmless.

[sprucesap]

behold

these here lovelies,, are called  sea butterflies

they’re basically snails, except the part that would be their foot is modified into “wings” that they can swim with

they’re really pretty when they swim too

idk man i just thought tumblr was lacking in sea butterflies

here’s image links

images 1, 4, and 5  image 2  image 3  gif 1  gif 2

[braingels]

Limacina helicina or “sea butterfly”, small pelagic snails

[azuredemonart]

[agypsycrystal]

The ocean holds many secrets (Sea Butterfly Snail)

[earthfirstjournal]

Amazing “Sea Butterflies” and Ocean Acidification

by Emily Frost and Hannah Waters, Cross Posted from Smithsonian

The shelled sea butterfly…

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[kaiaminalcrossing]

Over the winter I was really excited about there being sea butterflies in Animal Crossing because they’re one of my favorite sea critters. I was cleaning my room just now and found my sea butterfly plush!

[jellhound]

I made a new character, her name’s Cheesecake.

She’s a sea butterfly

[whatthefauna]

This tiny snail is known as a sea butterfly for the way it appears to “fly” through the water with the flapping of its wing-like parapodia. When it is hungry, it secretes a mucus web to ensnare plankton, then gobbles the entire thing back up to avoid wasting any precious resources.

Images: Alexander Semenov (1, 2)