Hyperlexia

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betsycrocker:

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tentaclesandteacups:

Octopus have no real bones in their body, except for a tough beak made from chitin, so they can squeeze into small places when fleeing predators. They’re highly intelligent creatures and have shown to demonstrate observational learning, they’re known for escaping from their aquarium enclosures and occasionally breaking into others for a snack.

Also, captive octopi occasionally show affection to their caretakers after an extended absence.

They’re boneless puppies! <3_<3

WHAT THE FUUUUUUCKKK

I remember hearing a while ago that if its beak can fit through its entire body can

another fun fact, if octopi in captivity get too bored they just stop eating untill they die, thats why you always see them with childrens toys in their aquariums or boxes they have to open

thats also why they try to break out to go somewhere else more interesting

And this is why they are my favorite creatures in the sea.

first, they stick a tentacle through an opening to gauge its size. If an opening is too small for their beak (which they seem to know without ever having seen their own beak), they don’t even try to get out.

Cephalopods are intelligent to a degree that we can’t quite get a handle on (perhaps we can’t bring ourselves to get a handle on it) because invertebrates???  It is endlessly fascinating.

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the-fake-commander-shepard:

dnotive:

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT THE GOD DAMN HELL IS THAT FUCKING THING

Real life Thresher Maw

The Ocean: proving Lovecraft right, one deep-sea lifeform at a time.

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Pycnopodia helianthoides.  AKA the Sunflower Star.

When I was in fifth grade, the highlight of my year was a three-day science trip to Mendocino Headlands State Park on the north coast of California.  Our focus was marine biology, and we spent a morning (starting at 6 am, because that was when the tide was at its lowest point while the sun was up) slogging through ice-cold water and cataloguing the life forms in one of the most incredibly diverse tidepool fields I’ve ever had the pleasure of visiting.  Much like in this photograph, these guys were all over it, and I ended up getting extra-credit points for both knowing their formal Latin name and being able to correctly spell it.  I also spent the next year and a half being teased for it, but I have never forgotten that trip…or that name.

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As I understand it this thing was so bizarre that they’re still not 100% sure how exactly the skeletal remnants (of which the jaw is most of what remains; sharks are cartilaginous and don’t fossilize well) are meant to go together.

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drtanner:

psshaw:

beveledaubergine:

tsushort:

luluau:

HOW TERRIFYING OMG

oh hey koji look

Fun fact! While usually the deeper you go, the smaller the creatures are to conserve energy and resources where light cannot go, at the abyssal range and below, a lot of species are effected by a fun little thing called Abyssal Gigantism. Cephalopod species such as the giant squid, and the collossal squid, both suffer from this growth defect, causing them to grow much larger than they would at higher altitudes.

I’m gonna cry.

Every time I read about the ocean I pull my feet up onto my chair until I stop feeling like I’m about to lose them.

Reblogging for Abyssal Gigantism, holy penis. I never knew that.

The Ocean: Proving Lovecraft Right, One Deep-Sea Lifeform at a Time.

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house-of-gnar:

fossil by Caroline Collett on Flickr.

Crinoids!  These dudes still exist, too, and pretty much in exactly the same form.

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This is a closeup of the tentacles of Portuguese Man O’War (Physalia physalis)
Photo by Simon de Glanville 

The coolest thing about Physalia?  It’s not a jellyfish.  It’s actually a composite organism called a siphonophore, made up of four separate organisms merged together in a colony.  Each different shape of tentacle is literally a different creature, and they work together to feed the whole.

Nature is goddamn amazing.

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oh god its enormous woobly eyes I can’t

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fyeah-seacreatures:

Squat Lobster. By: alastair.pollock

/throws pokeball at it

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deepsea:

Spider Crabs vs. Eagle ray (by peykarirani)

This has been your daily Moment of Zen.

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oceanographic:

SF Academy of Science-026.jpg (by Ernest88)

So apparently, nautilii look positively Lovecraftian when viewed face-on.  

Learn something new every day.

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NO

NO NO NO

THIS IS NOT CUTE

THIS WOMAN IS A DUMBASS WHO DOES NOT REALIZE WHAT SHE IS HOLDING

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canniballistics:

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baconshouldgrowontrees:

You are fucking kidding me

aww its a cute gif of a shark trying to bite but his mouth’s too smAHHHHWHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT OH MY GOD STOP NO STOP STOP STOP

I just keep watching it with this awful horrified look on my face

I love you too, Mr Fish.

oh my god it’s fUCKING ALIEN

Factsphere Sez: Goblin sharks were part of the inspiration for the Xenomorph’s design, and in fact they were used as the specific inspiration for the proto-xenomorph in Prometheus.

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dduane:

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darksideoftheshroom:

“The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world. The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long.”

I think I 

Yeah

I never want to see one of those

ever

thanks

Whooooa! I’d love seeing one of those.

ETA: Photoshopped. Yet another fake.

(…Pity.)

WARNING: EXPO IS AN INSUFFERABLE PEDANT ALERT!

Also this is not a Lion’s Mane jellyfish at all.  Those look like this:

They can get to be pretty big, about the size of a large dinner plate or serving tray, and they do have the longest tentacles of any common jellyfish species.

The jellyfish in the OP’s (shopped) photo is a Nomura’s Jellyfish.  They’re common in the waters off of Japan and China—SO common, in fact, that they’re a menace.  

And make no mistake: they can get HUGE

…just, y’know.  Not so huge that they literally dwarf a human being.

Meet Deepstaria enigmatica, a particularly bizarre species of deep sea jellyfish.

They come from Antarctica, which should surprise absolutely no one.

Once again: The Ocean: Proving Lovecraft Right, one Deep-Sea Lifeform at a Time.