The Sea Creature of the Day is the Coelacanth!!!!!

a classic 🥰 i had a fascination with these guys when i was younger they're so fucking cool 💜 a little peek into the course of evolution in the coolest way! lil ancient guys 🥰🥰🥰🥰

a little fun fact, though the modern ones are nowhere near this large, there's an extinct genus (mawsonia) that grew to be potentially 5.3 meters long!! 🥰

HAPPY APRIL FIRST ON TUMBLR

all your dragons are so cute !! may I suggest an oarfish dragon? :0

#90 - 皇帶魚 (huáng dàiyú / giant oarfish) - A real life sea serpent! 🐟💙❣️

The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a comb jelly in the family Cestidae. The colorless species are transparent when suspended in water, except for their iridescent rows of comb plates. In other words, they majestic as fuck. Love to sea it 🌊

first 6 of the sea creature graphics for the fathoms anthology 🤲!

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

us in the benthic zone <3 @beastwife

Meet the Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus)! This reef-inhabiting cephalopod lives in warm shallow waters, spanning southern Florida to the Caribbean, through to South America’s northern coast. It’s distinguished by its eye-catching blue coloring, but this master of disguise can change its looks in an instant. Like other octopuses, it uses pigmented cells in its skin, called chromatophores, to alter its appearance. When confronted by a foe, such as a shark, it may emit a cloud of unpleasant-tasting ink to deter its enemy from further pursuit.

Photo: francoislibert, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

Daily Cephalopod #64

Artfight in 4 days so I'm finishing up my last few refs (I've got 1-2 after this?) Anyways, self-indulgence time. I've been meaning to make an artist sona type thing for ages (and started thinking about it again when drawing my spidersona thing). But having my favorite creature as a siphonophore made workshopping a design a bit of a struggle. Thankfully the worms in my brain give me many good ideas.

The Sea Creature of the Day is the Frilled Shark!!!!!

man i know i say this about so many sea creatures but like... man these might be my favorite sharks. i love rhem so much. kinda like Coelacanths, frilled sharks are considered living fossils because of their anatomy which more so resembles certain ancient sharks rather than more modern sharks :3

vaguely creepy looking, but simultaneously adorable and so fucking cool 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday THANKSGIVING!

Today’s wet beast is: Turkeyfish

Olive’s Wet Beast Fact: Also known as the Lionfish, this invasive and venomous fish was originally from the Indian Ocean, but is now a highly invasive species destroying Caribbean reefs. What a good metaphor for the holidays.

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

Prompt 278

You know what I’ve gotten obsessed with and inspired by? Dredge. 

You know what is also fun? Merfolk. What’s even better? Lovecraftian corrupted merfolk. Especially if say, one goes with the Lazarus Waters being a form of ectoplasm. So, in this? Lazarus waters are like lakes, while Amity Park, thanks to the Portal, and the barriers? It is an entire sea. 

There are islands, small areas that were once the tips of buildings that have gathered more landmass around them. There are mangroves, trees not like anything on earth or anywhere else stretching up in canopies dark enough to block out the sun, yet lit by the green waters. 

It goes deep. Mariana Trench deep, despite it being impossible. The GIW have explored for caves or tunnels, they’ve tried to find some sort of explanation, but there isn’t one. 

Now all that ecto? That has an effect on people. They mutate, they change, they adapt. Anywhere else would have been a slow death- something the GIW might have even been counting on. But Amity Park? It was founded by witches, it was the hotspot for the supernatural, even before the Fentonwork Portal. They’ve been dealing with this sort of energy in microdoses from the moment they first began to live in the city in any generation. 

But they begin to adapt. Shift into something… other. Some stay contaminated, clinging to human forms as they form homes on the tiny islands, fishing and farming what they can. Others become Liminal, almost seeming to meld with fish, some similar to ones of the Living and others something just to the left. Similar yes, but not quite… right. And then there are those that have truly melded with the energy of the dead, forms torn asunder by it, ripped apart and made anew by it. 

The first sign back when the barrier was activated, when they could no longer leave and were trapped were the fish in the lake. And now they are the same, with gazes of something Else, with gnashing teeth and a hunger gnawing at where hearts once were. 

But they aren’t monsters. They’re still themselves. Just a little… Other now. 

In honor of National Crab Day, behold the Pom Pom Crab!! 🦀

The Pom Pom Crab, Lybia tessellata, is the crustacean sensation that’s sweeping the nation. It’s debated whether the anemones they hold are for defense, camouflage, or mating. But it’s clear they know how to accessorize & they know it 💅

Hyperfixation dreams ~ 2024 by yours truly

THEY'RE IN MY HEAD!!!! AGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! OUGHHHH!!!

Alternatively, I also have Deep Sea creatures on my mind :] Giant Ostracods are fascinating. The world is so beautiful.