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From the genus Magnapinna, the Bigfin Squid's long tentacles can grow up to four and six meteres (13-29 feet). Their purpose? Scientists speculate that they run them along the sea floor to snatch prey.
gif source:MBARI(2001)
Image: taken from this video
Interested about genus Magnapinna? here more info via Tolweb
two thing I didn’t know (and probably you too) about the giant isopod (Bathynomus sp) swims very well, and digs burrow.
A important detail is the two red dots are from lasers mounted on the ROV and are 10 cm apart (this techique is called photogrammetry)
gif from Andrew David Thaler’ videos
More about giant isopods at Griseus
Just a reminder:the natural diet of these birds is BONES. Not just bone marrow; actual bone shards. They pick up huge freaking bones from carcasses and drop them onto rocks until they get spiky pieces and then they swallow them. Their stomach acid dissolves bone.
look me in the eye and tell me that’s not a fucking dragon
And they aren’t naturally red like that. That’s self-applied makeup. They find the reddest earth they can to work into their feathers as a status symbol.
And they don’t scavenge other parts of carcases, just the bones. 85-90% of their diet is exclusively bone. Hence why it’s only a myth that these birds would just pick up whole lambs and carry them off. It’s not true, but in German they’re still called Lämmergeier as a result.
So metal
ZOOLOGGER: Mollusc Grows Hardest Teeth in the World
Species: Chaetopleura apiculata Habitat: The waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the north-west Atlantic
For more than 400 million years chitons – marauding marine molluscs – have roamed the seas, munching on algae-encrusted rocks with their glittering black, metallic teeth. Chitons roam courtesy of a single, broad muscular foot. They have a shell, made of eight plates, and some species live up to 20 years.
But it’s the teeth we’re interested in. The teeth are the chiton’s answer to Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton. But these are no fiction. They are the real thing, made out of magnetite, the hardest material made by a living organism.
Lyle Gordon, a bioengineer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has come a step closer in understanding just how the humble mollusc grows them…
(read more: New Scientist)
image: Lyle Gordon/Northwestern University
My first fully grown black beauty stick insect!
Photos of Alitta virens by Alexander Semenov. Don’t let the pretty colors fool you, these sandworms are plenty scary. They can get quite big (sometimes exceeding four feet) and they occasionally bite humans. They just might be the nastiest thing in pastel since James Spader in an 80’s movie.
Gymnosomata, commonly known as Sea Angels. An apt name- the sea angels are the ethereal, translucent, fluttering angels of the sea.
In hard scientific terms, they’re small swimming sea slugs, but we’ll pass over that for now and just admire how delicately beautiful these wonderful creatures are.
Rare footage of an Oarfish in the Wild Video — Via DeepSeaNews
Of all bony fish, the oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest. It is suggested that oarfish can reach up to 15 meters (49 feet) in length but actual recorded lengths put them at still impressive 8 meters (26 feet). Oarfish will often was ashore or caught by fishermen. Yet, much like the giant squid, observations of oarfish alive in the wild are rare and video of them alive in the wild are even rarer. Until now.
A reason to Fear the Ocean, or Love it?
A Prince Axel’s Wonderfish (Thaumatichthys axeli) blinking its lure.
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Inca Tern: The Magnificently Mustached Bird - My Modern Metropolis
Slippery Dick (Halichoeres bivittatus)
The slippery dick is a species of ocean dwelling fish belonging to the wrasse family. There is a wide colour variation within the species, with colours ranging from purple to green.
Kevin Bryant on Flickr
Flashlight Fish. The spots under the eyes contain bioluminescent bacteria.
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Shark silhouettes. From Shadows in the sea, Chilton Books (1963), Philadelphia. Found here.
Yeah, we are really, really small.
