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Monday morning moment of squeeeee 🥰🤗⁠

⁠ Also known as the tadpole snailfish, the scientific name for this species, Nectoliparis comes from the Greek words nekton (meaning swimmer) and liparos (meaning fat). This tiny snailfish was captured on camera by the ROV Doc Ricketts at 575 meters (nearly 1,890 feet) deep. Adults of this species only grow to a length of up to 6.5 centimeters (just about three inches) and have been observed as deep as 3,383 meters (nearly 11,100 feet).

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Winners of the 2020 Siena International Photography Awards

Seals surround an iceberg

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I CANNOT stop thinking about how absurd of an animal the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin is like

Why so much hump???? It is gratuitous. It literally looks like there is another, smaller dolphin just smushed on top like two gummy bears that melted together in the sun

Thank you @seolhe for alerting me to the existence of humpback dolphins, because I literally think about this thick bitch daily

You're welcome! 😀

“It would only be a matter of time before the ship returned to its lighthouse again.”

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#rorqual whale #bryde‘s whale #probably thanks hydria

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Check out this orca off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. If I didn’t know any better, I’d wager it’s a type D, but there’s no records of them in Australia…

Photo by Esther McDonald.

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Ningaloo Reef is quite near Exmouth, which is where a lot of Type A orcas frequent. Though it is quite warm up that way so it’s kind of interesting that a Type D would have ventured that far north. Australia is in a strange position for orca at the moment as for a long while we had virtually no orca as all of their food source (usually humpback calves) were obliterated by whaling. But now as the humpback population is starting to soar again, the orca are returning. So we really don’t know fully what kind of population we have! As for the Type D being around Australia, Sea Shepherd filmed a pod of Type D further south in the Indian Ocean near Crozet, so that places them between roughly there and New Zealand in the Indian and Pacific oceans. So it’s plausible but certainly not common!

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