Aug 30, 2025
A Masking crab wearing a Sea anemone like a chef’s hat.
A Sea anemone masquerading as a chef's hat on a Masking crab.
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A Masking crab wearing a Sea anemone like a chef’s hat.
A Sea anemone masquerading as a chef's hat on a Masking crab.
Luna moth By: Jane Burton From: The Mating Game 1976
By far my favorite species of hopper I saw on my recent trip to Costa Rica!
💚 Thorn bug (Umbonia ataliba)
📸 OM tough TG-7
📍Valle Escondido EcoLodge, Monteverde, Costa Rica
Never not a good time to post old watercolor bug doodles
Been playing Silksong, and Shakra gets the honor of being the first character that I've doodled from the game. I just barely began Act 2 and I've logged 30+ hours just exploring, it's so fun but also totally kicking my ass. Anyways.
She is absolutely an ichneumon wasp and nobody can change my mind.
my Reddit feed never fails to satisfy
Shikamaia akasakaensis was a giant bivalve that lived during the mid-Permian (~274-267 million years ago), in the shallow tropical waters of a carbonate platform atop an oceanic seamount in the region of what is now Japan.
It had a long flat shell up to about 1m (3'3") long, with a raised triangular hump at the front and wing-like flanges at the sides — a shape that helped to spread out its weight on the soft seafloor sediment.
Its shell was once thought to have been translucent, allowing it to host symbiotic photosynthetic algae inside its body tissues and providing it with the extra sustenance needed to grow to such a huge size. However, more recent studies suggest its shell was actually opaque to sunlight, so instead it may have hosted chemosynthetic bacteria similar to some modern clams.
…Or, considering that it shared its habitat with some other big invertebrates such as a large species of the marine snail Euconospira and a giant crinoid, Shikamaia could simply have been living in such an incredibly food-rich environment that it was able to attain gigantic sizes purely from normal filter-feeding.
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