May 24, 2025
You always find the nicest pictures of creatures and plants and I love you 4 that
String identified: aa t ct ct cat a at a tat
Closest match: Hippocampus hippocampus genome assembly, chromosome: 21 Common name: Short-Snouted Seahorse
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#tumblr genetics#genetics#biology#science#asks#pyros-random-thoughts#ocean#seahorses#short-snouted seahorse#aw thank you! im glad you noticed!#i always try to find the best quality image that shows the whole live organism in its natural habitat!#some organisms are very obscure however so i cant always do that#so occasionally i'll switch over to another member of the same genus to show off what the organism generally looks like!#first impressions are important and most of the organisms we get here are things most people have never seen before#so i like to get the best pictures i can :)#for the seahorse: this little guy is an ambush predator that is known to eat 30-50 tiny shrimp a day by sucking them into its snout!#since seahorses lack stomachs the prey moves directly through the digestive tract very quickly!#they also spend very little energy moving if they can avoid it and spend most of their time attached to marine plants by their tails#as you can see in the photo!