Mycena lucentipes are one of six new species of bioluminescent mushrooms found in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.
PHOTOGRAPH BY HENRIQUE DOMINGOS, IPBIO
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Opabinia wondering whether it's worth eating a spiky, particularly small Hallucigenia
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Strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis)
Photo by Paul Caiger @ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
One of my favorite creatures ever!! 🦑・゚✧*:・゚✧
These beautiful elegant creatures are found in the tropical/subtropical waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They live in the Mesopelagic zone which is often also referred to as the “twilight zone.”
Strawberry squid can be found between depths of from 1,000 meters (3300 feet) and the surface, where they go at night to feed
The photophores within the tissues of their skin produce a distinctive bioluminescent flashing glow which attracts prey. That’s why they look bedazzled!
Strawberry squids have asymmetrical eyes that allow them to perceive light in both bright and dark surroundings. One eye is small and blue while the other is large and yellow and both were adapted for their own unique purpose!
I could go on forever bc these creatures are not only so breathtaking but also soooo incredibly interesting
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A Full Plankton Moon: What glows in the night? This night featured a combination of usual and unusual glows. Perhaps the most usual glow was from the Moon, a potentially familiar object. The full Moon's nearly vertical descent results from the observer being near Earth's equator. As the Moon sets, air and aerosols in Earth's atmosphere preferentially scatter out blue light, making the Sun-reflecting satellite appear reddish when near the horizon. Perhaps the most unusual glow was from the bioluminescent plankton, likely less familiar objects. These microscopic creatures glow blue, it is thought, primarily to surprise and deter predators. In this case, the glow was caused primarily by plankton-containing waves crashing onto the beach. The image was taken on Soneva Fushi Island, Maldives just over one year ago.
Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava
Explanation
[Robert Scott Horton]
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“Those roads were echoes and footsteps,
women, men, agonies, resurrections,
days and nights,
half dreams and dreams,
every obscure instant of yesterday
and of the world’s yesterdays,
the firm sword of the Dane and the moon of the Persian,
the deeds of the dead,
shared love, words,
Emerson and snow and so many things.
Now I can forget them. I reach my center,
my algebra and my key,
my mirror.
Soon I will know who I am.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, In praise of shadow
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