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"The magic of the mobula ray migration." ©Aidan Bedford

#mobula ray #ocean #sea of cortez #underwater #chondrichthyes #batoidea #myliobatiformes

MANTA RAYS HAVE FRIENDS YOU GUYS!!

#animals #cute #batoidea #manta rays #marine biology

Finally made some decent progress on my Shiny Mantine in a Terrarium Pokéball. Huge thaks to @thexstitchpokedexproject for making these patterns!

Unfortunately I can’t ever do things minimally and after deciding I liked having Luvdisc in the background but wanting something other than Luvdisc, I added Chinchou, Omanyte, and East-Sea Shellos:

The terrarium Pokéball I’m using:

https://www.tumblr.com/thexstitchpokedexproject/801206810882293760/terrarium-unlocked-deepsea-current-puffychi

Shiny Mantine:

💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 7 · #226. Mantine (Shiny) · This calm and gentle Pokémon swims gracefully through the sea. After building speed, it can leap ou

Chinchou, Omanyte, and Shellos are also from @thexstitchpokedexproject. I just fear breaking the post by adding to many links.

#cross stitch #Pokémon #mantine #batoidea #yes this is getting tagged with my first Ribbon Master cuz why else would I be doing a Shiny Mantine?#its always in honor of Batoidea #also I should post some of my other cross stitches lol #and find a tag for my cross stitches since i use ‘cross stitch’ generally for patterns too

Spectember/Spectober 2024 #06: Death Ray

Yeah, I'm keeping this stuff going again for another round of Spectober!

An anonymous request asked for a "big macropredatory ray":

Speirobatis thanasima is a large ray found in open oceanic waters, reaching sizes comparable to the modern giant manta ray at around 3m in length (~10') with a wingspan of over 5m (~16'5").

But despite its body shape closely resembling that of mobulids or myliobatids, its closest present-day relative is actually the pelagic stingray. Already being active hunters with mouths full of sharp pointed teeth, these ancestral rays gradually evolved bigger body sizes and began occupying an apex predator niche similar to that of large sharks and toothed whales.

Speirobatis is a strong swimmer, using flapping motions of its triangular wing-like pectoral fins to travel at high speed and make acrobatic jumps out of the water. Highly intelligent and social, it lives in family groups that hunt cooperatively – encircling and herding schools of fish tightly into bait balls, taking turns stunning prey with slaps of their fins, and then grabbing incapacitated individuals with snaps of their protrusible jaws.

Groups will also tackle larger prey such as marine mammals and sharks, harassing and chasing targets to exhaustion while taking quick opportunistic bites out of them.