#mollusks

[dougielombax]

I wonder what the largest shellfish is?

Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?

Edit: Fucking hell.

This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!

What have I DONE????!!!!!

I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!

I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.

Probably….

Idk.

Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.

Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.

Anyway.

AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)

Edit: 8,000 notes! Holy shit!

Edit: 9,000 notes!!!

Edit: 10,000 notes!!!!!!!!!

Edit: 15,000 notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: 20,000 Notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!

Okay never mind it’s back. For now at least.

Anyway.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #shellfish #sea life #wildlife #maritime shit #fucking hell #molluscs #mollusks #fish #speculation #holy shit #what is happening #viralpost #sort of #kind of #maybe #5k #viral #idk #8k #9k #10k #15k #20k

[onenicebugperday]

Yellow leatherleaf slug, Vaginulus taunaisii, Veronicellidae

Photographed in Brazil by rogerriodias

#animals #curators on tumblr #bugs #gastropods #mollusks #slug #leatherleaf slug #yellow leatherleaf slug #one nice bug #can u believe this

[dozydawn]

Fenton Vaseline Glass Snail, Vintage Yellow Opalescent Uranium Glass

#uranium glass #vaseline glass #snail #the dime for scale is much appreciated dear seller #paperweight #i guess? #uranium glass menagerie let’s go #gastropods #molluscs #mollusks #fenton #i knew this would do numbers yall are too easy #1k #as long as you’re here. remember when the lich fucked up the sweet waving snail from adventure time? #also so many of you think uranium glass is way more dangerous than it is. chill #it doesn’t need the hype it’s already sick af

[snailspng]

Sea slug PNGs

(source: seaslug.world)

#first one is a leaf sheep sea slug #one of the only animals that can photosynthesize!! #also just LOOK at it #my heart #png #pngs #transparent #stickers #moodboard #artboard #imageboard #sea slugs #mollusks #sea snails #nudibranch #polyvore #leaf sheep sea slug

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#scallops #disco lights & scallops #deep sea fishing #mollusks #shellfish #other stuff

[samimarkart]

more snail friends i drew during lecture

#snail #snails #mollusks #drawing #art #digital art #my art

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Y'all know I'm a sucker for endangered species reintroduction stories, right? Especially when it's not a charismatic megafauna being highlighted. So of course I was excited when this headline crossed my dash.

The magnificent ramshorn (what a great name!), also known as Planorbella magnifica, is a tiny snail endemic to ponds and other quiet waterways in North Carolina's lower Cape Fear River basin. In fact, they were only known from four sites in the region. Due to plummeting numbers in its limited habitat, some of the last of these snails were removed from the wild to create an intensive captive breeding program. (It really doesn't take much to keep a snail happy in captivity once you figure out what conditions it needs.) The last wild individual was observed twenty years ago, and it is considered to be extinct in the wild.

That is, until now. Two thousand of these little reddish snails were released into a safe pond in Brunswick County. Researchers are using this as a way to observe how well these captive-bred snails adapt to their historic habitat, including successful reproduction. If all goes well, we can hope to see more reintroductions of these native mollusks back into their original range.

We nature nerds are biased, because we think everything in nature is awesome (yes, I'm even an apologist for mosquitoes!) So of course we get excited when a bunch of rare little snails get a second chance, because we understand how crucial each species is to its ecosystem. It can be tougher sometimes to sell the importance of this to the general public, who may question why it would be such a big deal for one snail species to go extinct. That's why I think it's so important for us to keep sharing our knowledge and--perhaps even more importantly--our enthusiasm for all these amazing beings. Keep being cheerleaders for critters like these snails, and your enthusiasm may end up being contagious!

#snails #ramshorn snails #magnificent ramshorn #molluscs #mollusks #gastropods #wildlife #animals #endangered species #habitat restoration #extinction #environment #conservation #nature #ecology #science #scicomm #North America

[bogleech]

Updated my site's Cephalopod page for the first time in about a decade, adding some of the things I've learned about since then or even brand new scientific discoveries. Which things are new?!? It doesn't matter if most of you have never seen this article anyway! I don't like to timestamp my pages or their updates! I like them in a timeless void!!!!

Look at this thing, do you even know what this is?! If you don't then you will if you click the link.

#biology #cephalopods #mollusks #marine biology #animals #nature

[strawlessandbraless]

Behold, for there are Sea Butterfly’s afoot 🌊 🦋 🐌

📷 source: X

#ocean #marine biology #sea life #marine science #biology #ocean life #there are many benefits to being a marine biologist #sea animals #marine life #marine creatures #fish #oceanposting #fishposting #underwater #aquatic life #ocean animals #sea creatures #sea critters #gastropods #mollusks #sea butterfly #gastropoda #molluscs #mollusca #ocean creatures #deep sea #oceanography #love to sea it #supernatural #scifi

[theclod3215]

My addition (for now) to the hermitcraft s10 nonsense

#art #fanart #my art #illustration #traditional media #hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitcraft 10 #snails #grian #grian fanart #hermitcraft grian #geminitay #geminitay fanart #geminitay hermitcraft #sketchbook #mollusks #snail

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Not all eyes are created equal-- in the case of the cock-eyed squid, they couldn't be more different! Members of the genus Histioteuthis are born with two eyes of the same size, but as they get older the left eye grows much faster than the right; by the time they're adults, the left eye can be twice as large as the right! The larger eye faces up towards the surface and detects prey swimming overhead, while the smaller eye can detect bioluminescence from below.

(Image: A cock-eyed squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis) by MBARI)

#cock-eyed squid #Oegopsida #Histioteuthidae #squid #cephalopods #mollusks #invertebrates #uncharismatic facts

[onenicebugperday]

Black bark snail, Pachnodus niger, Cerastidae

Found in the Seychelles

Photo 1 by juanjo37, 2 by mazzeip, and 3-4 by arkantor

#animals #curators on tumblr #bugs #gastropods #mollusks #snail #bark snail #black bark snail #one nice bug #goth friend...

[rattyexplores]

Caribbean Leatherleaf Slug.

30/07/23 - Gastropoda: Sarasinula plebeia

QLD:WET - El Arish, remnant vegetation on farmland

#invertblr #invertebrates #Sarasinula plebeia #Caribbean Leatherleaf Slug #Veronicellidae #Leatherleaf Slugs #Heterobranchs #Heterobranchia #Gastropoda #Gastropods #Mollusca #molluscs #mollusks #slugs #slugblr

[ancientorigins]

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery at a southern African archaeological site dating back 225,000 years. It turns out that giant snails found at the site were actually leftovers from meals! Who knew our ancestors were snacking on these colossal mollusks so long ago?

#snail #South Africa #cave #diet #food #shells #mollusks #ancient #history #ancient origins

[samimarkart]

thankful for the gift of a new sewing machine that allows me to do more than a simple straight stitch… feeling like i’m back at SAIC with the ability to learn a new machine. my first time free motion quilting + doing a satin stitch edge! the bleach painting is of magnified coral sand filled with foraminifera, bits of calcium shells from mollusks, and coral skeletons

Precipitation Constellation

Decolorant print on denim, walnut dyed backing, cotton batting and cotton thread

#my art #queer artist #quilt #fiber art #quilting #foraminifera #star sand #fossils #coral #sand #mollusks

[antiqueanimals]

Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book. Written by Sanborn Tenney. 1875.

Internet Archive

#marine life #mollusks #cephalopods #octopuses #argonauts #ram's horn squids #common octopuses #neon flying squids