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It's my 5 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Hey guys check this out, some really relaxing content!

Tide filling around rocks on the beach #shorts

Explore nature to relax.

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Hi guys I have been off this for a long time now but looking to get started again how is everyone doing?

Bobtail squid

Sepiolida

The bobtail squid averages just 3 cm in length when fully grown.

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Common name: Horseshoe crab

Scientific name: limulidae

Average lifespan: 20-40 years

Diet: Sea worms, small molluscs and crusteacens

Bio: Hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are bled each year to produce a substance called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL). LAL is used to test intravenous drugs and medical equipment for the presence of bacteria and endotoxin, a poison found in many bacteria!

Their blood is blue and on the world market, a quart of horseshoe crab blood has a price tag of an estimated $15,000, leading to overall revenues from the LAL industry estimated at U.S. $50 million per year. But that pales in comparison to its value to the pharmaceutical industry!

Each major estuary along the coast has its own horseshoe crab population, distinguished from one another by size, colour and eye pigment!

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Common name: Walrus

Scientific name: Odobenus rosmarus

Average lifespan: 40 years

Diet: molluscs, crustaceans and invertebrates

Bio: All male walruses, and some female walruses, have a large air sac in their throat which helps keep their head above water and also makes a bell-like sound during mating!

The walrus is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the family Odobenidae and genus Odobenus!

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Group chat

Just created a group chat named Everything animals, anyone interested in discussing nature and making friends welcome to join.

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Group chat

Just created a group chat named Everything animals, anyone interested in discussing nature and making friends welcome to join.

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Bobtail squid

Sepiolida

The bobtail squid averages just 3 cm in length when fully grown.

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Crinoids also known as Feather stars are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea, one of the classes of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes the starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

These creatures come in a great range of colors including some bright yellows and reds perhaps to ward off predators mistaking them to be poisonous. There are approximately 625 different species of feather stars, and are found in almost all the oceans and at all depths.

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Shark identification via fins and gills

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Vaquitas have never been hunted directly, but their population is declining, largely because of animals becoming trapped in illegal gillnets intended for capturing the totoaba, a large critically endangered fish of the drum family!

The vaquita is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California that is on the brink of extinction. Based on beached skulls found in 1950 and 1951, the scientific description of the species was published in 1958. As of March 2018 only about 12 individuals remain!

These guys are on the brink of extinction and aren’t very well known, they will not be around much longer!

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Did you know…

A group of jellyfish is called a ‘smack’!

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The name ghost crab comes from its pale coloring and semitranslucent shell, in addition to its nocturnal habits. The ghost's crabs shell can reach a span of up to three inches, and males are typically larger than females. Its claws are white, and its eyestalks can rotate 360 degrees, Exorcist-style.

You can often spot ghost crabs at night, which is when they feed on other crabs, clams, lizards, insects and detritus. ... Ghost crabs will hibernate in their burrows during the winter, “holding their breath” for up to six weeks by storing oxygen in special sacs near their gills.

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The Christmas Island red crab is a species of land crab that is endemic to Christmas Island and Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Gecarcoidea natalis

During their early growth phases, red crabs will moult several times.

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The flying gurnard, also known as the helmet gurnard, is a bottom-dwelling fish of tropical to warm temperate waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Its wings are actually pectorial fins which it uses to forage the sea floor for crustaceans and small fish to eat.

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Just some turtles!

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Chimaera/Ghost fish

Chimaeriformes

Cute or creepy?

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