Fish are friends, not food!

You are currently in shark filled waters! You'll mostly find sharks here obviously, but I post about other sea life too! My fandom blog is skelesharky, fnaf blog is exoticennards, utdr blog is @del-tenna-rune, deltarune oc official is @remtennaofficial Sharky/Aspen|He/Him or They/Them

[sharkyanchors]

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✨welcome to the shark zone motherfuckers <3✨

☀️ I'm Sharky, but you can call me Alex too :) This is my ocean/shark blog! (w/ the occasional meme or two perhaps)

💙 I'm nonbinary, I use they/them and he/him!

☀️ My favorite marine animals are sharks!

💙 I mostly rb as I'm not exactly an expert on marine biology as a whole, however, should I rb anything with blatant misinformation please let me know!

☀️ I'll try my best to trigger tag appropriately, I use "tw thalassophobia", but feel free to ask me to tag anything else!

(may update later)

dni if: pr/ship, n/zi, queerphobe, pedo/m@p or supporter, racist, n/s/f/w or k!nk blog, discourse blog, ant.i xenogenders/neopronouns, or t/erf.

[angel-kiyoss]

𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕩

[typhlonectes]

Thresher shark

[bunjywunjy]

HGHSGHD THE REMORA HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE

[destroysoil]

[animalids]

Photo by Debbie

[teal-deer]

As a reminder: libraries, museums, zoos, etc are NOT brand accounts! As an example, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Tumblr is very cool & they support ocean conservation and education! I believe the National Archives and Smithsonian Libraries are also around here somewhere. Support public institutions!

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[protectoursharks]

Aurelia aurita or Moon Jellyfish 

Moon Jellyfish live approximately for 1 year. However, the polyps can wait around 25 years for the best conditions before continuing through their life cycle

[protectoursharks]

Eurypharynx pelecanoides or the Gulper or Pelican Eel

These eels live up to 3048 m (10,000 ft) below the surface, because of this they're bioluminescent. Because of their large jaws (which are what gave them their name) they can swallow prey up to two times its size!

[thoughtlessarse]

Fin-to-fin synchronised swimming, thought likely to be part of courtship, has been seen in groups of basking sharks for the first time in the Hebrides, Scotland. Video cameras were temporarily attached to the sharks and gave scientists an unprecedented view of their hitherto secret underwater world. Photograph: University of Exeter and NatureScot

click source for more Week in Wildlife photos

[protectoursharks]

Plerogyra sinuosa or Bubble Coral 

Appropriately named, the bubble coral is covered in bubble-like polyps that are filled with water; these can develop in different colors and shapes. The polyps also contain zooxanthellae, causing the bubbles to expand during the day and retract at night. 

[chilirasbora]

Spotted lagoon jelly | Mastigias papua

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[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today's wet beast is: Sarcastic Fringehead

Olive's Wet Beast Fact: these weirdos are very aggressively territorial. When two of them have beef, they fight by pressing their distended mouths against each other, making it look like they're kissing

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[apolonisaphrodisia]

A few weeks ago, a young girl saw this rare Argonaut - often called a Paper Nautilus - washed onto the beach at East Cape Conran. She told locals about it and Myke Mollard went and picked up the little dude then released her back into deeper water. Hopefully survived; such a classic ‘animal’ of nature. Enjoy! Photo and words by Andrew Barnes. 

[bogleech]

Wow there are so many comments claiming this is just “an octopus hiding in a shell” and “not real.” No, this really is an animal called an Argonaut or paper nautilus. It is a type of octopus, but the female, who is MUCH larger than the male, secretes a nautilus-like shell from a papery substance. Why it looks so much like a nautilus shell is a subject of debate, since it is not produced by the same mechanisms at all.

This is a cg model by David Bodenstein, but it’s the clearest depiction around of the two specialized, fan-like tentacles that actually secrete the “paper” and form the shell.

She can leave the shell if she needs to, but those same two tentacles are usually gripping it tightly. Not only does it offer protection, but it serves as her egg case after she finds a mate. Like most octopuses, she dies after her babies hatch, so she does carry the shell around for the remainder of her life.

She typically swims with her mouth and suckers facing outward, the tips of her tentacles folded behind her into the shell so the whole animal looks like a weird ball of cephalopod.

The male has a tiny baby-like (neotenous?) form, but since octopuses deliver sperm through a single specialized arm, his has to be MUCH longer and larger than all his other arms in order to mate, and it’s usually kept in a weird little bag of skin.

All argonauts of any sex have a wild habit of grabbing on to the top of a jellyfish and either dragging it around with them or riding it, depending on how much bigger the jellyfish is. This not only protects the cephalopod with the jelly’s stinging tentacles, but helps it catch more food; there’s evidence that they use their beak to chew a tiny hole through the jelly’s cap and suck out their stomach contents. It’s kind of like being able to shift into a “parasitic” mode as they please, and kind of like using another animal as both a vehicle and eating utencil.

Here’s a little male with a jellyfish of his own!!!

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A massive grouper (toilet on the left for scale) 

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[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

You think you know how big it’s gonna be, and you’re wrong

[teratomarty]

This is gorgeous. I love to think of this big lad, living in his sunken flat.

[elodieunderglass]

It was nice of him to invite us in

[sharkyanchors]

Hi!! I'm so sorry for the spam likes and follow just bc u liked one of my posts but I just got so excited seeing Ur blog bc IM OBSESSED with ocean life and sharks and humpbacks AND u liked my deltarune post?? man we have taste 🥰🥰🥰🥰 🦈🐋🦈🐋

thank you sm!! im happy you like the blog (also banger dr posts are always a win for me so yw! <3)

[sharkyanchors]

ty so much for following me, now i can see pretty sharks/fishes/sea things on my feed

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thank youuuu omgggg!! 😭

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