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latamsci:

The first live specimens of a hermit crab have been found in the Caribbean. Pylopagurus discoidalis had previously only been known through dry specimens collected more than a century ago. They were found off the coast of Curacao.

More at http://latinamericanscience.org

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elfgrove:

zilliah:

rynnay:

aunty-fascist:

The Oatmeal

psure it’s my favorite animal now too.

So freakin’ BADASS

Noooooo… Turn away from the dark side Lisa Frank Shrimp!

I already knew about the mantis shrimp and its “murder sticks.” I did not know about seeing so far beyond the spectrum of normal light. So much fun!

hotrodngold:

thewerebunny:

pandabloodseals:

[image: an underwater shot of two sharks that appear to be eyeing a lionfish.]

bradleyjeems:

indifferentchild:

ugggghhhhhhh:

indifferentchild:

To eat, or not to eat, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the stomach to suffer the slings and arrows of hunger, or to take mouths and by digesting end them.

To bloat, to eat, no more, and by eating we say we end the stomach ache and the thousand natural pangs that digestive systems are ere to. Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. 

To bloat, to eat, to eat. Perchance to fulfill? Ay, there’s the rub. For in that meal of nourishment what fulfillment may come must give us pause. There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long bulimia.

For who would bear the hunger and malnutrition of time? The food corporation’s wickedness, the proud anorexic’s contumely, the pangs of despis’d hunger, the law’s delay, and the spurns that a good appetite by the unworthy takes when you yourself your acquaintance could make with a perfectly good stingray.

Who would fardels bear to suffer under the veil of famine, but that the dread of something after the meal, the undiscovered course from whose satiation no feeder returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather eat those fish we have, than swim to others that might not taste as good.

Thus conscience doth make dolphins of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution to feed is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. And meals of great pith and moment with this regard, their ocean currents turn awry and lose the name of action.

Thus conscience doth make dolphins of us all

Sharkspeare

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fyeah-seacreatures:

This image provided by the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium shows a female Argonaut, or paper nautilus, a species of cephalopod that was recently scooped out of the ocean off the California coast. This strange octopus is rare in California, because it only lives in tropical and subtropical waters. (AP Photo/Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Gary Florin).

rhamphotheca:

Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) leap out of the water and take flight in the northwest Pacific Ocean, 600 km east of Tokyo. The mollusc propels itself out of the ocean by shooting a jet of water at high pressure, before opening its fins to glide at up to 11.2 metres per second, and then fly more than 30 m (100 feet)…

(read more: Telegraph UK)

Picture: AFP PHOTO / HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY / KOUTA MURAMATSU

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allcreatures:

Yu, a 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle, swims after receiving her 27th pair of artificial front legs at the Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Japan. Yu lost her front legs during a shark attack.

Picture: TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images (via Pictures of the day: 12 February 2013 - Telegraph)

allcreatures:

Oceanic squid fly in the air in the northwest Pacific Ocean, 600 km east of Tokyo. The mollusc propels itself out of the ocean by shooting a jet of water at high pressure, before opening its fins to glide at up to 11.2 metres per second.

Picture: AFP PHOTO / HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY / KOUTA MURAMATSU (via Pictures of the day: 8 February 2013 - Telegraph)

Flying squid!

stargh0st:

armenianweezy:

captainatlantic:

The Deep Sea Alien Worm, Tomopteris

nope

yep

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