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no thoughts, only the mussel border around bishop ambrose in the hours of catherine of cleves (ny, morgan library ms 917/945)

#art #mussels #mollusk #crab #crustacean

worldsandemanations

Bowl with Fish design , Iran, probably Kashan, late 13th–mid-14th century, stonepaste; black decoration under a transparent turquoise glaze

#art

amnhnyc

Did you ever wish you had a built-in blanket? Well, this cephalopod doesn’t need to wish… Meet the Indo-Pacific violet blanket octopus (Tremoctopus gracilis)! While males are tiny, rarely growing more than a few centimeters long, females are more than 10,000 times that size—reaching lengths of up to 6 ft (2 m)! Females also sport massive “blankets,” which are actually webs of skin connecting their dorsal arms. When threatened, they can drop these appendages, distracting predators as they make their escape.

Photo: mbartick, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

#blanket octopus #cephalopod #mollusk

whompthatsucker1981

let's all visit blennywatcher.com and take blenny bootcamp together

#blenny

definitely-not-several-bugs

The spell master: God damn it, where on earth is my magic crystal ball????

The suspiciously hungry and round bug:

the-true-tusk

What is this thing

brappypatty

shoutout to my fellow Ornate Amphipod enjoyers

#ornate amphipod #amphipod #ladybug amphipod #crustacean

edibleteef

older art of Mary, Jesus and God.

Mary is the fish, Jesus is the baby in the egg yolk and God is the hands.

i wanna remake this someday

#art

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears