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sand dollars doin their thing

they’re basically sea roombas

I mean, I knew on some fundamental level that they’re related to sea urchins. I knew that the parts that I find on the beach are their skeletons.

WHY DID THIS VIDEO SURPRISE ME??

platycryptus

They aren’t just related to sea urchins, they are sea urchins.

They’re just a group of really flat sea urchins with really short spines

who eat sand

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This is the first time I’ve seen a living sand dollar. I’m 42.

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fancy--tuna

New Goblin and Worgen models!

goophtroop

If i see square waves I’m going out there cause that’s mine craft

asakano

Okay, but really. This phenomenon is known as “cross waves” or “cross sea” and is the result of different wave systems interacting. The currents underneath these waves are arguably stronger than a riptide, and swimming parallel to the shore is unlikely to free you from its pull. Cross waves are also bad for boaters and have been blamed for many a wreck over time. They’re fun to look at, but stay safe people.

rashemibabe

Learn something new everyday

eraemx

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

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wow.

robotsandfrippary

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

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guys listen

mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean

water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea

what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic

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I love this tea

asundergrowth

Fat isn’t a defense against water pressure, it’s an insulator. So the colder the water, the fatter the mermaid.

Scandinavian merfolk would be tubby, evolving more for persistence hunting in the freezing coastal waters, possibly relying more on siren-song to lull prey into effective range. The less moving the better! Gotta keep the chub on to survive the winter.

Whereas Mediterranean/Polynesian merfolk would spend their time among the fertile reefs in warmer waters, competing with other predators. They would be built for speed and agility, buff like sprinters. Darker skin would be harder to spot under the surf, and more resistant to the glaring sun.

Also: it’s not hair, it’s scillia that they use to filter plankton out of the water, and it stings like a jellyfish if you touch it.

I would imagine that merfolk come in many different colors, maybe they even have the ability to shift their skin tone to assist in hunting? I guess that depends on how intelligent your mermaids are.

Tldr; cold water mermaids would probably be chubby, warm water mermaids would look like Serna Williams.

theofficialvincenzo

Another thing to take into account is Deep-Sea-Gigantism. It’s not fully understood why many animal species such as the colossal squid and whales typically grow to unimaginable sizes in high-water-pressure areas, but it’s assumed that it develops as some sort of defense mechanism. This would imply that deep-sea merfolk would be a sort of Leviathan-class eldritch horror.

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Hell yeah hell yeah

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Silver Bay, Minnesota [1600x1048] - nbnw64

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Subnautica

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With all this colorful life, why would the mermaid be so interested in an old, cold, dead statue?

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magicalgirlmindcrank

SubNautica is free on epic games right now

magicalgirlmindcrank

hotvampireadjacent

PLEASE PLAY SUBNAUTIA ITS LITERALLY ON MY TOP TEN LIST OF FAVE GAMES

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M e r m a i d i n n e t w o r k s by Shirø Igarashi

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ferris-fields

This makes me so happy and I don’t even know why.

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i wish this really existed (though in one anime the whale in the fog meant that people get slaughtered left and right next)

hell0-there-lady

others: “so, how ~southern~ are you?”

me: “The entrance of my hometown has a shrimp boat sitting in the main street. At Christmas theres a shrimper Santa and alligators pulling him instead of reindeer.”

others: “what?!”

me:

dexflexington

Cajun Santa, bring me the gumbo and buckets of mud bugs

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Fucking yes!!

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I adore this.

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Thermohalia

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*BOOKMARKS*

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Art by @projectprotea

snowysauropteryx

Antarctic sponges live on a time scale we can barely comprehend.

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UPDATE: WHAT THE FUCK

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old boys

birdghost

it took me 3 times reading this post to realized that (wild) meant living in the wild and wasn’t just a casual remark on the longevity of these organisms