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zegalba · 2 days

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Sabrina Brewer: Capricorn (2004)

#Sabrina Brewer #Capricorn #art #sculpture #animals #goat #fish #weirdcore #2004

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critter-creature-or-beast · 2 days

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By Rein Ketelaars - Flickr: DSCN1938.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0

#red-lipped batfish #galápagos batfish #batfish #fish #you know you've got something good when even wikipedia's neutral language describes it as having “unusual morphology”#wet [critter creature or beast] wednesday

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biggiebohiggie · 2 days

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one shrimp two shrimp red shrimp blue shrimp

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daily-deliciousness · 1 day

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Grilled salmon tacos with strawberry avocado salsa

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traystreeter · 1 day

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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Will Graham surrounded by fish but he's the real catch fr fr.

Corel Painter + Photoshop

(p.s. I just restocked my print shop!!)

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fruitiermetrostation · 1 day

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aquarium lamp 🪼🩵✨

#aquarium #art #decor #design #fish #frutiger aero #helvetica aqua aero #photography

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eliasericson · 9 hours

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three painted pots i will be selling at fijuk marknad in gothenburg saturday 26 april!

#traditional art #poscas #posca pen #posca #cat #mouse #fish #traditional media #pots #Gothenburg #Sweden #Swedish #fijuk marknad #Longest night #Göteborg #Sverige

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junesejar · 9 hours

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red&white baron 🍷

#monster #humanoid #art #my art #fish #adopt #anthro #kinda mix of betta fish snake and sea bun iloovmishmashin

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headlessandhellbent · 2 days

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Pleez share if u luv ferg

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uncharismatic-fauna · 7 hours

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The Can-do Pelican Eel

The pelican eel, also known as the gulper eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides), are the only known species of eel in the family Eurypharyngidae. They are found exclusively in the deeper parts of the water column, from depths of 500 up to to 3,000 m (1,600 to 9,800 ft), but are distributed throughout all the world's oceans.

The gulper eel is perhaps most famous for its unique body shape. Like many deep-sea fish, this species is highly adapted to its environment; maximum energy efficiency is the highest priority. To that end, the pelican eel has a large head, and a jaw estimated to be quarter of the total length of its body. The jaw is loosely hinged, meaning that gulper eels can open their mouths extremely wide. The rest of the eel, in contrast, is quite slender and long, about 0.75 m (2.5 ft) in length on average. Most individuals are black--so black, in fact, that they only reflect 0.5% of light; perfect for hiding from potential predators.

Although they look skinny, E. pelecanoides can expand their stomachs to hold prey much larger than themselves. Their primary prey consists of crustaceans and cephalopods, though they may feed opportunistically on other fish. Because it is so well camouflaged, it uses bioluminescent organs on the tip of its tail to attract prey. Gulper eels themselves are preyed upon by lancetfish and other larger deep-sea fish. To deter predators, they will gulp down a large amount of water; this stretches the loose skin around their head and throat, and inflates them to several times their usual size.

Because of their remote location, the breeding habits of gulper eels are relatively unknown. However, it is believed that smell plays a large part in attracting a mate, as pelican eels have highly developed olfactory organs. Like other eels, they're born as tiny, transparent larvae in a state known as the leptocephalus stage. At this stage, they do not have any red blood cells. Researchers aren't sure how long it takes gulper eels to become fully mature, or how long they live, but many believe that adults die shortly after mating.

Conservation status: The population size of E. pelecanoides has not been assessed, and thus the IUCN has not made a determination on its status. The greatest threat for this species is deep-sea trawling, which frequently brings up gulper eels as by-catch.

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Paul Caiger

Schmidt Ocean Institute

EV Nautilus Team (I highly recommend checking out their 2023 highlights reel!)

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zegalba · 8 hours

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Hans Kemp: Vietnam (2005)

#Hans Kemp #Vietnam #photography #fish #goldfish #fish market #2005

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feelingautistic · 2 days

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While most fish cannot regulate their body temperature (known as being ectothermic), basking sharks were recently discovered to be able to (known as being endothermic) which was previously thought to be exclusive to apex predators such as the basking shark's relatives: the mako and great white shark.

#marine animals #marine biology #shark #sharks #fish facts #shark facts #sharkblr #fish #fun facts #science #basking shark

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cheezitofthevalley · 2 days

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MORE ocean/fish graphics

because why not.