The Writer’s Blog of Matthieu Penn

Here’s where I place all of my references for the Libretto and extra texts. Occasionally I’ll make a longer post to address a particular character or possible headcanon.

[unexplained-events]

Franco Banfi

A swiss diver, captured these pictures of one of the six anacondas he saw on his 10 day trip to Mato Grosso in Brazil. This one was about 26-feet long.

“At the first moment it’s scary because you don’t know the animal and everybody says it’s dangerous. ‘But after a while you understand that nothing happens if you respect the snake. ‘I have never been so close to a snake like this before. But I think a small poisonous snake is more scary than a big one. At least you can see the anacondas clearly and know what they’re doing.” - Franco Banfi

[todropscience]

The marine eels and other members of the superorder  Elopomorpha have a leptocephalus larval stage, which are flat and transparent. This group is quite diverse, containing 801 species in 24 orders, 24 families and 156 genera (super diverse). 

Leptocephali have compressed bodies that contain jelly-like substances on the inside, with a thin layer of muscle with visible myomeres on the outside, a simple tube as a gut, dorsal and anal fins, but they lack pelvic fins. They also don’t have any red blood cells (most likely is respiration by passive diffusion), which they only begin produce when the change into the juvenile glass eel stage. Appears to feed on marine snow, tiny free-floating particles in the ocean.

This large size leptocephalus must be a species of Muraenidae (moray eels), and probably the larva of a long thin ribbon eel, which is metamorphosing, and is entering shallow water to finish metamorphosis into a young eel, in Bali, Indonesia.

Video: Filmed by Barry Haythorne and Rob Rutgers, HRF U/W Production

[lucantianlibrettoofficial]

That is horrifying and I love it

[todropscience]

Hatching Shorttail fanskate (Sympterygia brevicaudata) The capsule from where it left is an egg case or egg capsule, colloquially known as a mermaid’s purse or devil’s purse, is a casing that surrounds the fertilized eggs of some sharks, skates, and chimaeras. Has small openings (respiratory slits) where it enters and leaves the water, so the embryo can breathe…

video: Mylene Seguel

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I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that they come out of that case.

[dynamicoceans]

Swimming crabs are characterized by the flattening of the fifth pair of legs into broad paddles, which are used for swimming. This ability, together with their strong, sharp claws, allows many species to be fast and aggressive predators.

Video

[executionerbarbie]

what the fuck 

[creatures-alive]

[thefrogman]

Tando by Hendy MP [500px] [h/t: creatures-alive]

randallascot:

dogjpeg:

in english it’s called a Sunda Flying Lemur

[rhamphotheca]

Two Vampire Crab Species Found, Are Already Popular Pets

Spooky-eyed crustaceans sold as aquarium pets are two previously unknown species from Indonesia, a new study says.

by James Owen

Vampire crabs, so named because of their glowing yellow eyes, have become popular as pets, but the origin of some of these spooky-looking crustaceans has been cloaked in mystery… Until now.

Now researchers have traced the freshwater crabs back to their wild source in Southeast Asia—and report that the two most sought-after species are new to science.

The newly described species, Geosesarma dennerle and Geosesarma hagen, were found in separate river valleys on the Indonesian island of Java (map).

“These crabs are kind of special because they’ve been around in the pet trade for ten years, but no one knew where they come from,” said study co-author and professional aquarist Christian Lukhaup of Waiblingen, Germany…

(read more: National Geographic - Weird and Wild)

photographs by Chris Lukhapu

[wapiti3]

Peacock mantis shrimp with eggs on Flickr.

photo source marinicovcom

[heysatanas]

let’s fund ocean exploration a bit more!

[shinjukugewalt]

leave the sea alone pls

[the-head-vampire]

Get that trashbag with teeth out my face holy fuck.

[zooophagous]

Put it back

[snakerambles]

Ebony - Mexican Black Kingsnake  (Lampropeltis getula nigrita)

Photographing my friend’s snakes again.

[fytmbrlrl]

golden brushtail possum

[thesylverlining]

i just drew in like a ten second long continuous gasp. im so glad we share the planet with this creature i just learned existed 10 seconds (of continuous gasp) ago

[eearth-deactivated20180601]

she climb. she hold

[dimetrodone]

have you ever heard of the glabrous slipper lobster? they're absolutely gorgeous!!!

I haven’t…

…thank goodness I know now

[dimetrodone]

jellies do have a nervous system, albeit a very simple decentralized one (notable for having bidirectional impulse pathways).

Some (box jellies) have eyes too

Sponges however got no nerve tissue (that we know of). Living the good life

[justnoodlefishthings]

cursed image

[sixlegnag]

if it makes you feel better, it has more eyes than that. those are just the big ones.

[end0skeletal]

The curl-crested araçari is a species of toucan endemic to the Amazon River Basin notable for the modified, curled feathers on its crown.

(Photo sources: x x x x x x)

[adventuresinparadise]

Whoa!!!

[wally-jo]

imagine being this extra

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he’s just looking for love

[typhlonectes]

Spider Geckos, Agamura persica, from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

photographs by Dick Bartlett

[science-is-everything]

Dancing in the dark

Three views of one animal look like a magical dancing sprite in the night sea. A relative of the Man-o’-War, the predatory siphonophore Rhizophysa, is four inches high when contracted (middle) but its stinging tentacles stretch to a couple of feet when fishing. 

[sixpenceee]

[exotic-venom]

(Trimeresurus albolabris insularis) white-lipped island pitviper

Typically green or yellow, the white-lipped island pitviper population on komodo island are an exquisite shade of teal/turquoise.

[end0skeletal]

The Tingidae are a family of very small (0.08–0.39 in) insects in the order Hemiptera that are commonly referred to as lace bugs. This group is distributed worldwide with about 2,000 described species. 1. Azalea Lace Bug 2. Sycamore Lace Bug 3. Rhododendron Lace Bug, Hawthorn Lace Bug

[stitchingsanity]

Nature’s lace.