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only found out about the Okinawan blueberry hermit crab today and I’m already in love. his soulful little eyes. his purpleness.

#what a beautiful crab!!! #Okinawan blueberry hermit crab #crabs

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There is,,, a lobster. On the way

#the world needs more tales of lobster adventures~ #lobsters #crustaceans

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Bristlenose catfish (Ancistus sp.) make a snack of the unfortunate (unidentifiable) remains of a fellow tank member at the Coburg Aquarium~🐟

#bristlenose catfish #catfish #aquarium fish #coburg aquarium #videos #🦈.post

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Australian Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) out at Seal Rocks, Phillip Island~🦭

#australian fur seal #fur seal #seals #phillip island #video #🦈.post #(tag for my own content)

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whag if i want to (macquarie harbour july 23)

#can I kiss him if I want to though? #maugean skate #fish

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The eastern emerald elysia (Elysia chlorotica) is a sea slug that steals and absorbs chloroplasts from the algae it eats, a behavior called kleptoplasty.

photograph by Patrick J. Krug

(via: TheScientist)

#that little man is green!! #eastern emerald elysia #sea slugs #(they're not nudibranchs - just similar looking but a different clade - I googled to check before tagging!!)

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Baby lumpsuckers/lumpfish

#very beautiful #very powerful #lumpfish #fish

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A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) emerges from the kelp on Bird Island, South Georgia

by Derren Fox

#leopard seal #seals

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the ribbon seals most defining feature, their stripes, take 4 years to develop!

here is a short timeline of their development 🦭

adorable white coat ribbon seal pups. this baby fur is called lanugo.

after around 1 month pups will start shedding their baby fur to reveal a grey and silver coat

young seals with their grey and silver coat

then, the juvenile seals with start to develop their stripes over the next 3 years. they grow stronger with each moult, females can reach sexual maturity before they have fully developed stripes. this mothers stripes aren’t fully there yet.

once they’re 4 years old a ribbon seals stripes will have fully developed.

male and female are easy to tell apart by their coat colour, the males will have bold black and white stripes

whereas the females have more brown/beige/silver stripes

#ribbon seal #seals

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#how nice of them to introduce themselves 🥰 #baikal seal #seals #video

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A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) emerges from the kelp on Bird Island, South Georgia

by Derren Fox

#leopard seal #seals

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#They're friends!!!! 🥹🥹🥹 #Asian sheepshead wrasse #fish #video #article

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aw hell yeah

goth manta goth manta goth manta goth manta goth manta

Link.

#woah!!! #what a beautiful creature 😍 #manta ray #rays

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Geosesarma dennerle, or the purple vampire crab, is a species of small land-living crab which is found on Java, Indonesia. Described by scientists in 2015, it is already popular in the aquarium trade, in which all species of Geosesarma crabs are often called vampire crabs. (x x x x x)

Special thanks to @roksyk for showing me this species!

#purple vampire crab #crabs #crustaceans

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Various patterns and colors of Trout skin

#so beautiful!!! #trout #fish

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i think one of my fave shark facts is this thing that some species of sharks do where they sorta peek their heads out of the water to see whats above the surface…..its called spyhopping and great white sharks do it all the time

#great white shark #sharks #behaviour #this is fascinating!!!

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#moon jellyfish #(I'm pretty sure!!) #jellyfish #gif