#cnideria

[wonder-rooms]

Oaten Pipes Hydroid, Tubularia indivisa (1884) - Eduard Oscar Schmidt

[tunashei]

Found my man o war question

Humans have four layers of life and three major evolutionary transitions. Genes to genomes, simple cells to complex cells, complex cells to mutli-celled. The layers are viroids, organelles, cells, and the whole body. Man o wars are a siphonophorea colony of zooids. Zooids are multicellular animals. So does this mean a man o war has five layers of life, and four major evolutionary transitions?

[great-and-small]

One of my more macabre seaside activities is making little graveyards for all the dead coral I find. I don’t even have to look, the shore is just littered with them. The IUCN declared Caribbean reefs mostly dead in 2012, and other reef ecosystems are heading down the same path. Coral cover in St. Kitts is less than 5%, and finding the beautiful skeletons of these little animals breaks my heart. We have to save our coral reefs, climate change is killing them scary fast!

“To live on the land, we must learn from the sea“

-John Denver, Calypso

[dancingwiththephantoms]

Hey Phans,

Welcome to my blog 🖤🖤.

My name is Stygiomedusa gigantea but I go by ✨Abyssia✨. I come from the phylum Cnideria. You can find us in almost any aquatic environment, including the midnight zone where I live, which is also known as the bathypelagic zone (3,300-13,100 feet deep).

On this blog, we'll be talking about things like my lifestyle and diet 🍽️.

For starters, my diet is very simple.

In order to keep my physique I only eat small fish and plankton, using my four mouth-arms to engulf my meals 🐟😋.

That's all for now, but stay tuned for my posts👀

**Fun fact!! - We have stinging cells called cnidocytes, so haters, watch out💪😤.

[quixoticaxolot1]

Portuguese man of war, aka Physalia physalis, aka not technically a jellyfish, aka little blue dumpling of death (2016)

[cody-floaty-blog]

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Bio lab fun. #zoology #cnideria #marine #Life #biology

[deoxify]

Jellyfish (luc.viatour)