By popular demand coelacanth will be available to purchase separately!

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The pixel artist Neorice (https://twitter.com/Neoriceisgood) is making an enormous collection of pixel art marine creatures. I sent him an email asking if I could upload some of his art to my blog and he said I could; so here are a few of my favourites. I might update this post if there are new ones I'm quite fond of.

My second illustration for @fathomszine2023, this time a collab with @noisyghost - he worked on the design and sketch, I did the lines and colours ! Inspired by the barreleye fish, a Gothic novel cover themed illustration !

some new star fox ocs that im going to use to explore sci-fi horror

Sticker sheet!!

Daily fish fact #671

Brownsnout spookfish!

The eyes of this species of barreleye are essentially split into two, the tubular main eyes looking up to the surface and smaller outgrowths on the sides looking down into the depths. The downwards-looking eye halves are interesting in that they lack a lens completely, instead they reflect light into the side retinas via the use of "mirrors" made up of crystals! This makes the brownsnout spookfish one of the only vertebrates ever to use a reflective layer in the eye to focus on an image (the tapetum lucidum of other vertebrates is used to increase the amount of light entering the eye, not to create the image itself).

Here's an image in case what I'm trying to convey isn't quite clear:

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Barreleye Fish

Olive’s wet beast fact: these little angels (also called spookfish) have a pair of fake eyes to protect the real ones in their transparent head. Nice.

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

FISHSONA!!

Their name is Winter, and they are very soft and cute and I love them.

Waves of the Starless Sea

Fishuary day 11. Deep sea fish, choosing the barreleye fish (or spook fish if you're awesome)

Idle animation for Laser Alligazer. I want to make short animations for each of my reploid-inspired designs. He's a favorite so he goes first!

2024 Risograph Calendars are here! Would you like a new fun fact about a deep sea creature every month in 2024 (and also January 2025?) You can buy one here!

I drew anglow as my favorite image

Round 4 Match 6

Volcano Snail: "they live by hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Indian Ocean and they have shells with an outer layer of IRON and they have IRON SCALES on their foot :00000"

Barreleye Fish: "they're those fish with the transparent heads"

Daily fish fact #278

Barreleyes!

They have barrel-shaped tubular eyes, which are enclosed inside their head under a layer of transparent soft tissue! They use their peculiar eyes to look for prey that might be floating directly above them; they live deep underwater just at the edge of where light penetration ends, but thanks to their eyes with a large number of rods (a type of photoreceptor) they can see very well into the waters above.