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[you-got-shrimped]

Hello.

I am the shrimping blog. Tag me in posts that need notes and I WILL shrimp them in the replies 🦐🦐🦐

Common tags!:

#shrimp posting - for posts about shrimp

#crustacean posting - for posts about other crustaceans such as lobsters and crabs

#important - for posts regarding important information on nature, primarily

#not shrimp - for posts not about shrimp

#shrimp art - any art containing shrimp!

#shrimp asks - any asks I have recieved!

I am currently going through all of my posts and fixing/adding the appropriate tags, please bear with me 😅

Get Shrimped!!

[bogleech]

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

[bogleech]

Oh some of you don't know about the squids. I talked about them in another thread that went kinda viral somewhere or other but one of the reasons you should not swim in the open ocean at night in many parts of the world is that the water starts teeming with these:

And as you can see it is not like instant death, they too are just animals and they are often just gently curious about the presence of humans! But people who study and dive with sharks will tell you you're safe as long as you stay calm and know what you're doing. The world's leading professional night divers and experts on these squids, specifically??? Stress in every interview and article and paper they write in that you simply do not fuck around with these squids. They know what they're doing and they still all have at least one story of being attacked, in some cases having to be hospitalized. Considering just how rarely anybody puts themselves in the pitch dark nighttime ocean on purpose, let alone during a squid feeding frenzy, it sounds like they're quite a bit more likely to consider you potential food than other marine predators. We also don't know how many fatal attacks might have ever happened, because what humboldt squid like to do with large prey is just drag it away into the darkness forever. The two worst attacks ever proven involved two or three squid at a time latching on to a diver (in BOTH cases they were professionals and knew the risk!) and jetting straight downward with enough force that both divers suffered injury from the sudden pressure change alone, including burst eardrums, nearly passed out and they probably would have died if they hadn't broken free. In general, people who die drowning in the dark open ocean are either never found, or they're found in pieces picked over by enough scavengers that the precise cause of death can only be narrowed down to "the sea." But now you know ONE of "the sea's" possible murder weapons :)

There's a short section on Humboldt squid in Wikipedia's entry for Cephalopod attacks on humans:

Cephalopod attack - Wikipedia

And if you can get past some of Animal Planet's hokey presentation style, this video includes a bit of interview with one of those professional experts who still got nearly squidded from existence:

There is of course some debate about all this, with some arguing that all proven documented attacks occurred on people with reflective diving equipment, which they say the squid must have mistaken for the shine of fish. However, there are lots and lots of people who have to fish around these squids to survive, who do not have access to that kind of equipment, and also have a consensus that if you fall in the water when big squids are out hunting you might disappear without a trace or perhaps just get your head bitten open. With many modern science guys agreeing with this sentiment, this is one case where the "they're just misunderstood sea friends" crowd is kind of outnumbered. The sea at night is theirs and not ours is all. It's not ours during the day either but since we are neither marine nor nocturnal animals we are double fools in the eyes of the squids, which by the way are these eyes:

No for real:

[my-ants-are-anxious]

Absolutely! Also, the Humboldt squid will hunt in packs, sometimes with one flashing brightly to draw attention while the others approach in near unseeable camoflage!

[bogleech]

Beautiful footage of the nefarious sea demons also :)

Also because I can't reblog every addition together:

Okay where's the other 1199

[spiralshellsreblogs]

I absolutely adore Humboldt squid. I saw a doc once where a scientist was cage diving to study them, and one of the squid squeezed it's entire massive body through the cage bars, bit the guy and squeezed right back out.

[bogleech]

Why isnt this an animal that's already long gone viral like honey badgers once did. This is the animal that actually gives no fucks. People really are just that obsessed with bigger squids I guess? But the bigger ones frankly come across as big softies in comparison. One big sea monster can never be as intimidating as a thousand coordinated man sized sea monsters.

This is why I thought that if mermaids had a cultural equivalent to lycanthropy it'd be weresquids. Fun fact nocturnal marine life increases activity on the brightest nights ie the full moon.

[lasrina]

This is all fascinating but I'm reblogging it exclusively for the phrase "got nearly squidded from existence."

[infestedguest]

I think that colloquially speaking it's acceptable to call any arthropod a bug. Unfortunately this does mean that barnacles is bugs.

[ratbugs]

shrimp, like one or two maybe

[kaxen]

"Monday" Shrimp Tower

I forgot to upload yesterday.

It's spirulina

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Museum of the Earth faces extinction under “imminent” threat of foreclosure - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure

If you have ever been tempted by a Paleozoic Pal, like a a stuffed trilobite or a full size eurypterid body pillow, now's the time to buy one, before they and a really lovely little museum are gone for good 😭😭😭

Plush

Paleozoic Pals™ Paleozoic Pals™ are the Paleontological Research Institution’s line of plush fossils. The Paleozoic is the era before dinosa

[chilirasbora]

This was the museum I went to often in my childhood. I'm no longer able to visit unless I visit family, but this place holds a special place in my heart.

As stated in the article, they hold around 7 million artifacts- many of which are orphaned fossils, with the museum taking in collections that otherwise would have been trashed.

Please consider buying a Paleozoic Pal, but I'll also leave a direct donation link as well.

Donate — Paleontological Research Institution

[bunjywunjy]

THE GIANT EURYPTERID BODY PILLOW IS BACK IN STOCK

[indelibleform]

I JUST WENT INTO A FUGUE STATE AND BOUGHT ME A 16 INCH CUDDLE BUDDY WITH PLATED TEETH!! DUNKIE, MY BELOVED!!

Screeching aside, anyone who can afford to, go look through their shop! They got clothes, and cute gifts, and books and all kinds of other awesome stuff! Ye, the shipping sucks, but we need to keep our museums alive! (the good ones, not the British Museum of Thievery XP)

[indelibleform]

HE’S HERE! MY BIG BOY IS HERE!! (And yes he is my BIG boy despite only being 16 inches, you shush!)

He took nearly a month to get here, but that’s because of ALL THE ORDERS THEY’VE BEEN GETTING! OVER 1800 ORDERS! This is why I love the online community!!

Now if you don’t mind I’m going to tuck Duncan into my sweater and go work on the piles of stuff I still have to do 😅

[agbpaints]

For anyone curious what's happening with the PRI they're digging themselves out! An anonymous donor gave them $1 mn which they used to secure a stay on the forclosure for the rest of the year and they're approximately a third of the way to buying their way out of the mortgage.

Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertain - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural his

[bookwyrmbran]

the current state of things: they're holding in there! but they do have a significant chunk still to raise in order to deal with that mortgage; right now they're running an up to 1M matching campaign for that, and will need to raise over 500k for operating expenses during this (2025-2026) fiscal year

An update on PRI’s current position and financial challenges - August 2025 — Paleontological Research Institution

An update on PRI’s current position and financial challenges August 15, 2025 | Also posted to Mortgage Campaign Landing Page

[omnicshrimp]

[elvis-shrimpley]

Woah mama I'm a shrimp

[shrimpin-aint-easy]

Can you please just have an ounce of shrimpathy?

[hoursofreading]

Shrimp Welfare Project

[ho-ho-homosxual]

gimmick accounts are so fundamental to The Tumblr Experience

when i first got on i was like "why r there so many gimmink reblogs?? they're so random and annoying"

but now i see the light of day and theres a fishgiver! and a girl detector! and an alphabet counter! and a you-did-your-best-er! and Elvis Presly in a bunch of different flavors!

amd you're all goofing and gaffing and i want you to know that every time i see you my Whimsy O' Meter refills like a video game health bar

i larb you gimmick blogs <3

[argentium-47]

Gimmick blogs are silver

[slurps-soup]

*slurps soup*

[randomalienencounter]

ᓵᔑリ ╎ ⍑ᔑ⍊ᒷ ᓭ𝙹ᒲᒷ?

[eggblackoutpoetry]

“egg [x5]”

[i-give-you-a-fish]

You get a Whitetip Reef Shark

Triaenodon obesus

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Whimsy meter refill! Glad to be here!🎵

[you-got-shrimped]

Get shrimped!

🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐

[menaceanon]

I just dove a shipwreck and ten gajillion sharks were there 🥰

[menaceanon]

And tonight I get certified to night dive!!!!

[menaceanon]

On the wreck dive there was a five foot long barracuda hanging out under the dive boat. Just vibing.

[menaceanon]

UPDATE: I SAW NOT ONE BUT TWO OCTOPUSES ON THE NIGHT DIVE

[menaceanon]

Wait I’m not done talking about this night dive. At the end, in order to complete the certification, we had to turn off our lights.

And I realized I wasn’t nervous? Which is absurd. We were only in about 15 feet of water, though, and the moon was almost full, so we knelt in the sand and the whole world was the softest glowing blue. Even in the dark you could see streams of fish glinting past overhead.

And then! And then we started flapping our hands around and the water sparkled green!!! We spent five minutes kneeling there, flapping and giggling like little kids.

I’ve been so sad, but the world is so big. Somewhere out there is an octopus.

[menaceanon]

(On a night dive you will notice tons of beady little red eyes shining back at you from the coral.

They’re shrimp.)

[menaceanon]

You do not have to twist my arm to hear more about my underwater adventures! I can’t believe I didn’t already mention about the wreck dive with the sharks, see, when they come close you’re supposed to maintain eye contact. And there were a bunch of juveniles there (all reef sharks), and the juveniles can be a little dumb, so they do in fact get really damn close.

I’m not sure how to describe making eye contact with a shark.

Their pupils are slit.

Your stomach does the swoopy rollercoaster thing and a little voice in your head is going holy shit.

They are very much watching you right back.

[menaceanon]

Did you know! Lobsters can be colossal.

[menaceanon]

I have drawn my (first) octopus friend

[menaceanon]

Barracudas are like nosy old men. No, they won’t hurt you. Yes, they want to know everything about what you’re doing. No, you should not wear shiny jewelry around them. Yes, they are going to get much closer than you would prefer, yes, even if you’re not wearing jewelry.

I love the annoying fuckers but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel some kind of way about turning around and finding a six foot fish grinning in my face.

“Got any games on your phone” ass fish.

[corrodedparadox]

What the hell is that thing and how is he driving

[shrimp-account]

Cucumber time lapse!

[glassshine]

illustrated all the named shrimp in my tank enjoy

[corrodedparadox]

[sparrrorow-art]

the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.

[fleshengine]

Reblog this loby when they least expect it.

[mossworm]

The Republicans have decided we no longer need bees and are defunding the USGS Bee Lab. Please tell your friends, your representatives, local beekeepers, crafting clubs, your classmates, and everyone who has ever seen a bee that this is happening and that the Republicans are behind it. Scream about this. We in the professional bug world make fun of the bee people for having some of the only consistent funding and support in the whole field, but now even that is going away. Write it on your car. Tell someone at the store. Email your professor. Make a tiktok. Draw it on the sidewalk. Do NOT let them sneak this by.

Thousands of layoffs to hit Interior, National Parks imminently

Employees fear diminished capacity after RIFs are tacked on to existing mass exodus.

[mossworm]

Basically the president proposed the budget for 2026, and the group which funds the Bee Lab (Ecosystem Mission Area or EMA) will not be recieving any funds. Project 2025 suggested eliminating this group entirely, so they may be planning to do that or trying to do that now.