[dokelsss]

blessed jimothy

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[gremlininho]

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[herpsandbirds]

Darwin Snake-necked Turtle (Chelodina kurrichalpongo), family Chelidae, Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, NT, Australia

Endemic to the Northern Territory.

photographs by Will Hunt

[life-on-our-planet]

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

[packpack-killkill]

Southern Black-backed Jackal | Eugene Tulleken

[energyprison]

[cecilias-cool-stuff]

Never stop hating

[pansylair]

scanned in some silver dollar and pipefish derived fishies from the sketchbook and added some colour, I figured these would make fun stickers with a holo effect if people were interested! 🐟

[mismedleym]

toward the sun, from the sun

[grimsneverendingfuneral]

[kaleidoscopi-a]

[samurai-ghostninja]

[yonkou]

[almodovars]

Different views of Picadilly Circus by George Hyde-Pownall

[midwestemogirlfriend]