#pigbutt worm

[girlboysollux]

i am forever bonded to the animals i did shitty research projects on in elementary school

#japanese spider crabs and pigbutt worms i love you so much #personal tag

[mbari-blog]

This curious critter is a worm like no other: The pigbutt worm

Bobbing along in ocean currents a half mile below the surface is a worm like no other. Our team first spotted the unusual pigbutt worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus) in 2001 and had a tough time determining how to categorize such a curious critter. Working closely with our collaborators, DNA analysis eventually confirmed we had encountered a new species of bristle worm that drifts through the midwater instead of living on the seafloor.

Over the last two decades, these worms have only been observed in Monterey Bay and a few near the Channel Islands off the southern California coast. This little worm is about the size of a hazelnut, and even using our high-resolution cameras, it took the eagle eyes of our expert biologists to spot these miniature orbs in the massive ocean. Our skilled submersible pilots were able to gently sample them and transport them back to the ship alive for detailed examination.

Chaetopterus pugaporcinus casts out a web of snot to capture bits of organic material called marine snow to eat. Mucus is a useful substance for snaring food in the deep sea where it may be sparse. Numerous other animals get their nutrition this way too. Animals of all shapes and sizes in the ocean perform an essential climate service by taking up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transporting it deep in the ocean. These assorted midwater mucous-feeders help repackage carbon to sink more rapidly to hungry seafloor communities.

#mbari #ocean #sealife #deepsea #marine biology #youtube #Youtube

[linseedling]

Hello my friends, it is my delight to announce my debut children’s book: The Deep!

It has been long been my dream to create a children’s book specifically about deep sea creatures, which have been one of my deepest (pun intended) fascinations since my own childhood. The book is chock full of facts, comics, puns, and ridiculous jokes all about the denizens of the darkest reaches of the ocean and I hope it will inspire young readers to appreciate our incredibly wild and wondrous world. 

So if you love weird sea critters yourself or have a kid in your life who would love to learn about pigbutt worms and swimming sea cucumbers, consider preordering a copy at this link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709331/the-deep-by-lindsey-leigh-illustrated-by-lindsey-leigh/

 The book releases June 27th, 2023!

#I have been working on this since 2020 #ahhhh #i hope you all will like it ahhhh #The Deep! #deep sea creatures #marine biology #deep sea

[yan-wo]

The Pigbutt worm or flying buttocks, (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus), is a newly discovered species of worm found by scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The worm is round in shape, approximately the size of a hazelnut, and bears a strong resemblance to a disembodied pair of buttocks.

[mintytrifecta]

top three ocean creatures that you think are cute go!!

top 3 ocean creatures you think are TERRIFYING go!!

top 3 ocean creatures you wish the general populous knew about in vast detail go!!

p.s. yes this is a chance for me to use your vast knowledge to expand my own, also creechers,,, >:]]]]

Cute ones: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid

Look at it. It’s shiny. How can you not love it. These guys are so tiny and bioluminescent and amazing and- Chimaera

I am Aware this one looks like Zero but god they all have such big eyes and their lateral lines are so cool  Paper Nautilus 

I had a hard time choosing the cute and terrifying ones because I literally love all of the creatures and am not scared of a single one so I went with paper nautilus because yes Terrifying ones: Irukandji jellyfish

These guys. These Guys are So Deadly and So Tiny and I Never want to go into an ocean with them around. fuck no. absolutely not. Feather star

Okay not technically terrifying BUT the way they move weirds and fascinates me so. In they go jkvjv Pigbutt worm

,,,,,, yeah I’m not gonna explain this one Fish I wish people knew more about: Mariana snailfish

The deepest dwelling fish we know of!!! It lives in the mariana trench and is like one of the first fish to have it’s entire DNA sequenced Comb jelly

Reaaally reaaaaaaaally old jellies. This one specifically is a bloodybelly comb jelly and comb jellies have lips so I chose this picture kjhvkgv. They’re actually not related to jellyfish!!! Vaquita porpoise

These guys are highly highly endangered and close to extinction so any new person who knows about them the better chance they have to be saved.

[ricmlm]

This curious critter is a worm like no other: The pigbutt worm

#youtube

[bioluminescentoceangoddess]

Pigbutt worm

Chaetopterus pugaporcinus

The Pigbutt worm or the flying buttocks of the sea is spotted floating between 965 m to 1300 m in the deep ocean. It is actually a polychaete (polly-keet) worm species that burrows in the ground as an adult, and floats around the ocean as a baby. The worm feeds itself : by creating a balloon of mucus; collecting particles on the mucus; and then consuming the particles. It is the rarest and thickest worm in the deep ocean, for only ten have been spotted.  

Photocredit: https://roaring.earth/pigbutt-worm/

#pigbutt worm #butts #thick #thicc #polychaete #invertebrates #invertebrate #worm #biology #deep ocean #nature #marine biology #ocean life #planet earth #marine life #sealife #mesopelagic zone #ocean ecosystem #aestheitcs #not mine #knowledge #ocean #ocean lover #science #marine science #education #the blue planet #knowledge is power #sea #animal

[gronjon44]

@dungeons-and-demodogs

#funny #memes #nemo #pigbutt worm #ocean #sea animals #fish #under the sea #finding nemo #disney #disnerd #june 2020

[montereybayaquarium]

Worms in the deep sea? When pigs fly! A favorite from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), behold the pigbutt worm — Chaetopterus pugaporcinus!

If you'd like more wormy content, check out this montage of wonderful worms from the deep!

#monterey bay aquarium #pigbutt worm #Chaetopterus pugaporcinus #MBARI #Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute #Deep Sea #deep sea worm

[zoonomatology]

FLYING BUTTOCKS (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus)

Osborn, K. 2006.  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Yeah. I don’t really know what to say either.

The flying buttocks is a species of bristle worm (Polychaeta) so called because, well, it looks like a bum. Floating around. It’s also known by the equally descriptive vernacular ‘pigbutt worm’ and you’ll know why if you’ve ever seen the rear end of one. Even the binomen Chaetopterus pugaporcinus can be roughly translated to ‘(chaetopterid worm) that looks like a pig’s rear’. I give up.

#pigbutt worm #flying buttocks #worms #annelid worms #biology #zoology #invertebrates #animals #nature

[typhlonectes]

The... Pig Butt Worm?

What lives 3,000 feet below the ocean surface, is about the size of a marble, and looks like the back side of a pig?”

In 2007, Karen Osborn and her colleagues came up with an answer to this riddle by combining modern DNA analysis with traditional methods of scientific observation. What they discovered was a new species of deep-sea worm, but a worm like no other.

They gave this little creature a Latin name: Chaetopterus pugaporcinus.

This photograph shows its mouth, which typically faces downward as the animal drifts about 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) below the ocean surface.

Photograph: Karen Osborn. Learn more about this strange worm: http://ow.ly/l2Du30ceS1u

via: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

#polychaete #annelid #worm #pigbutt worm #animals #nature #science #genetics #DNA #ocean #deep sea

[aviculor]

I feel like playing Xenoverse and immersing myself in someone else’s world for a while has given me fresh inspiration for my own designs. A problem with many of my old fakemon is that they are bad. They lack depth of concept.

Look at these. I mean, yeah they’re cute, but what is the point? They’re just the two sea creatures that they are (a pigbutt worm and a sea pig), which have been made superficially pig-like because said animals are named after pigs. I can do better than that. That’s why I have new concepts/designs for this line that are vastly more fleshed-out and interesting, with new names to match. I also have plans to revamp my black widow line which have a great foundation but lack that necessary level of oomph.

In terms of new ideas that are upcoming, I have

Flowerm and Jesteworm- a feather duster worm and Eunicid worm because I run a monopoly on Annelid-based fakemon.

Bogchamp- an arapaima that is a split evo for Chumbas the bass. There is a very rich web of lore around Chumbas, and the idea of a freshwater evolution is something very organic which I even thought about when I first made the family last year.

Pinonkey, Donkeyata, Donkentaur-  fire starter donkeys that fill the “horse” for the Chinese zodiac.

I’ve thrown around a lot of other names and concepts, but at some point I need to come to terms with the fact that some of my ideas are half-baked and not getting off the ground. I need to focus on what’s actually viable.

#fakemon #fakemon ideas

[sebastianshaw]

“There. Look at this. See? See? I’m right again.” ( from kate! )

"Alright, alright, fine, you've made your point, no need to gloat about it," Shaw pouted, though he absolutely would have been doing the same thing had HIS claim been validated instead. "But can you blame me for thinking something so ignomiously dubbed as "the pigbutt worm" MUST be a juvenile hoax?!"

@allinflesh

#allinflesh #yes it's real

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

GUESS WHAT

PIGBUTT worm

[pennycat83]

QUESTION: @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses HAVE YOU SEEN THE IRAWADDY DOLPHIN BEFORE?! 

BECAUSE IF NOT THEN DUDE THERE ARE SO MANY MORE WEIRD ASS CREATURES I’VE FOUND 

like the pigbutt worm 

or the red lipped batfish 

 Sarcastic Fringehead 

 Sunda Colugo 

wunderpus photogenicus 

thank you 

[ricmlm]

This curious critter is a worm like no other: The pigbutt worm

#youtube