Jan 26
some deep sea mermaids
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from Colombia
seen from Colombia
seen from United States
seen from Yemen
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Ireland
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
some deep sea mermaids
Mermay days 28-30
Mind Consumer - Silent horrors of the deep. By the time you notice one, it had already started eating at your mind and memories from a far. If threatened, they create a mirror image of themselves to mislead their attackers away from themselves.
SeaSuccubus - The most alluring creature to a vast number of mermaids. It is a shame then for them, that it uses its beauty to hypnotize and hunt other mermaids.
Stewards of the Abyss - They are the mermaids of the deepest depths in the world. Alone and unbothered. but driven mad by the preassure and darkness. They worship a great monster, hoping to release it and conquer the sea above for them.
Coolest Sea Creature Poll Round 1
Phantom jellyfish
Pufferfish
sea creatures
Tourists recently spotted the 30-foot-long invertebrate in shallow waters off Antarctica.
Extremely rare phantom jellyfish caught on camera
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK NIESINK
bleached a phantom jelly onto my jumper a while back!
Okay so the Viktor Animality post ended in a tie between Phantom Jellyfish and Moths and I came up with a third one that is ENENRA SPECIFIC which is an olm (specifically chosen because viktor is Bosnian at heart and there is an olm displayed in the natural history museum in Sarajevo)
SECOND ROUND TIME
phantom jellyfish
moths
olm
Meet the giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea).
The bell of this deep-sea denizen is more than one meter (3.3 feet) across and trails four ribbon-like oral (or mouth) arms that can grow more than 10 meters (33 feet) in length.
MBARI’s ROVs have logged thousands of dives, yet we have only seen this spectacular species nine times.
The giant phantom jelly was first collected in 1899. Since then, scientists have only encountered this animal about 100 times.
It appears to have a worldwide distribution and has been recorded in all ocean basins except for the Arctic.
The challenges of accessing its deep-water habitat contribute to the relative scarcity of sightings for such a large and broadly distributed species.