And the Sea

I'm Ben. I like fish and science and stuff. I also go by @eeeduard0 but both blogs are terrible oh god why are you here??? ask me things

[mat966]

I found this interesting high quality zoomed out version of a iconic thylacine photo

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[amarguerite]

An ancient Roman soothsayer would be frothing at the mouth at this.

[dogposts]

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rosie got a new bandana!!

[mbta-unofficial]

How does the MBTA clear snow off of the tracks?

Jet engine

[mbta-unofficial]

Yall.

I’m disappointed.

I gave you a gizmo. An absolute contraption. A doohickey even. You asked how the MBTA removes snow from its tracks and instead of getting a normal answer like “plow” or “salt” I give you a fucking jet engine bolted to a rail car like I’m looney fucking tunes and you have the gall to give it only 22 notes.

This one has a fucking sneefer

[mbta-unofficial]

Are you happy now????

[mbta-unofficial]

There is also this guy who is named Russel

Look at his smile

[detailedart]

Venus, Callisto (Jupiter’s moon), Neptune

[talonabraxas]

"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts." -Paramahansa Yogananda IC 1805 - The Heart Nebula Talon Abraxas

[eduardo-]

Unfortunately, IC 1805 only *sort of* resembles a heart:

Images from Trevor Jones.

It’s beautiful enough without butchering it with AI.

[snailspng]

Uranium glass animal PNGs

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[eduardo-]

Tasmania’s enigmatic Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) is an outsized predator whose bite strength is amongst the strongest on earth. They also glow sometimes.

I believe this is the first biofluorescence documented in the species in a wild setting, or at the very least would be amongst the clearest imagery. What a surreal experience to have a small group of them hang out for hours.

Sony α7III, SIGMA ART 24mm f/1.4, handheld manual

Credit: Benjamin Alldridge

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

[twolakes]

Heads up everyone! This artist is selling prints of this piece for a fundraiser for incarcerated wildfire fighters working in LA currently and you can get a small one (8x10) for $50CAD or a large (16x20) for $100CAD including shipping. I just ordered a large one!

[herpsandbirds]

Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps), family Elapidae, found in SE Africa

Venomous

photograph by Mike Grosshanten

[ur-daily-inspiration]

The most beautiful mushroom that you will see today

[herpsandbirds]

seeing that pink iguana, it made me think, are there any other pink lizards?

also my phone's autocorrect corrected "pink" to "punk", so, if you'd prefer or anything, now I'm curious, are there any "punk" lizards? 🤔

Thank you so much, you're by far and above one of my favorite blogs, all my well wishes to you 😊 💜

Well, Let's find some crust punk lizards with SICK FUCKING MOHAWKS...

Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes), male, family Agamidae, Sri Lanka

Photograph by Chameera Dinadh

Eastern Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor), male, family Agamidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by Amarendra Ukidwe

Indo-Chineses Forest Lizard aka Blue-crested Lizard (Calotes mystaceus), male, family Agamidae, Hong Kong

photograph by MakoPisces (@makopisces)

[eduardo-]

Nembrotha megalocera.

[strawlessandbraless]

Just some underloved and overlooked deep sea creatures 💙

🌊 First up is this deranged muppet - The Deep Sea Telescopefish

🌊 Hatchetfish - they’re actually really fun at parties

🌊 The Sarcastic Fringehead - cool outfit, horrible personality

🌊Siphonophores - asexual, mostly keep to themselves

🌊 Barreleye fish - lights on but no one’s home

🌊 Vampire Squid - I’m weak for those blue eyes

🌊 The Frilled Shark - excellent hugger

🌊 Giant Isopod - always plotting

🌊 The Umbrella Gulper Eel - bet he’d beat Joey Chestnut in a hot dog eating challenge any day

🌊 The Goblin Shark - sensitive about the size of his nose

🌊 Deep Sea Anglerfish - this is a female, the males are tiny little guys that latch onto the females by biting them, they then meld with the female and basically become a spare set of gonads so the female can reproduce as she pleases. Love that for her

🌊 The ultra black Pacific blackdragon- soul eater

🌊 We’ll end it with the Sea Angel who was captured on film living under the ice of the White Sea in Russia

[titkoks]

[6qubed]

little bro tryin' all the buttons out on his controller

[lumeninfusco]

What do you think most people would pick for you

Fuck

Marry

Kill

Voting ended onDec 10, 2024