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there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted

[seashoreships]

It’s like it’s some sort of fallout

[woodsdyke]

i was tidepooling today and overheard someone say 'chatgpt it so we can figure out what it is' about some sort of creature. loser behavior. you're not in it for the love of the game. i have to do everything around here. let me see the creature. i'll tell you the real answer about what it is and i won't kill the environment. AND i'm literally nice.

[woodsdyke]

it's funny because 5 minutes before that i was IDing something by using the search string "SEA SLUG GREEN STRIPED SMALL SEATTLE" which took me to a very badly designed, hauntingly non mobile optimized website that immediately gave me way more information about my creature than i needed or thought was possible. get good. bitch

[woodsdyke]

hold my hand. come with me to emeralddiving.com's salish sea species index.

[mothcpu]

“Please answer.”

17776 excerpts + photos i took

edit: please read 17776

[idiotwithbackpain]

[fluffyartbl0g]

communal bathroom

[photogdenography]

Love My Baby

Harbor Seal - Point La Jolla, CA

[danotiel]

face the sun ☀️

[salmonwise]

portgas d ace is alive he’s j upstate on a ranch somewhere dw abt it

[teaboot]

Highly unlikely to be of use but I want a card I can carry in my wallet that says “If I Die First In A Traumatic Survival Scenario I Want You To Know I’m Okay With You Cannibalizing Me, It’s Fine, Don’t Be Weird And Guilty About it”. And then on the back there could be like. A list of recipes n shit

[kringelorde]

turn them shits OFFFFFFFFFF

[jetix]

Sea slug photography by ishi_naturestyle

[2birds1pencil]

*insert piping plover emojis here*

[arthur-dentist]

I'm literally working outside of work hours rn (taking a lil break) to enter plover data bc these little buggers are so busy rn I spend all of my time in the field

[isaacsapphire]

I adore that this got in front of someone who was indeed working plovertime.

[matchavtea]

i love them a lot :(

[ltwilliammowett]

This video depicts a moment that is nearly impossible to observe: a sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid clenched between its teeth. These predators hunt at depths exceeding 800 meters, where light does not penetrate, and only biosonar directs the pursuit. Consequently, clear surface images are exceedingly rare.

🎬: @lud_adventure

[strawbeary-moonlight]

This is, factually, the first footage of this that we have ever gotten. This has never been observed by a human being before in recorded history. The only reason we knew these whales ate those squids before was the beaks of the squids found in the stomachs of dead whales, and the battle scars on whales consistent with fighting giant squids.

My favorite thing about this clip is that, in the original uncropped footage, you can see her calf is right beside her, ascending from the depths along with her. Whale calves don't dive until they're taught by their mothers. It is very likely that this footage is of a mother whale teaching her calf to hunt on one of its very first dives.

When I saw this footage for the first time, I cried a little tbh.

[isaacsapphire]

Arising from the inky depths with a delicious giant squid snack… with mama.

[weaselle]

i just want to like, i know that squid doesn't look very "giant" in the whale's mouth, but ... this is how big the lower jaw of a sperm whale gets. The part with the teeth is almost twice as long as most people are tall.

now look at this squid again

[sashayed]

700 ICE agents pulled out of minnesota? morale low on the murder squad due to getting their asses caved in by your grandma in -30 weather every day for weeks on top of being dupes and stooges of the most pathetic order? ohhhh gosh.......ohhhhhhhhh too bad. what a fun time to send $15 to the Stand With Minnesota org of your choice

[huebris808]

[senatortedcruz]

The poor man’s latte and a pastry: a pop tart and a canned La colombe coffee from CVS. If I close my eyes I can imagine I’m in gay Paris…..