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Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸
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You know what? Eldritch horrors your Good Omens.
Concept art for a Good Omens horror AU that no one asked for, but I wanted to make. I’ll most likely continue doing this for other characters.
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💎 shiny rocks make brain go brrrr ✦ uv reactive selenite [x]
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How Do You Sleep?
Original writing featuring an incorrect quote by @loganslowdown4 .
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Ball Cockroaches (Perisphaerus spp.), family Blaberidae, Singapore
photograph by Melvin Yeo
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Shellback Crabs: these crabs create their own shields out of clamshells; their semi-membranous bodies can be pressed into the contours of the shell, producing a suction mechanism that holds the shell in place
The members of this genus (Hypoconcha) have a series of unique adaptations that facilitate this kind of camouflage behavior. Many of the Dromiidae crabs (e.g. hermit crabs, sponge crabs, shellback crabs, etc.) are equipped with a specialized pair of legs that enables the crab to hold a shell, sea sponge, and/or ascidian against their body, but shellback crabs also have a flexible, semi-membranous body that can be tucked more firmly into the contours of a bivalve shell, producing a suction mechanism that keeps the shell firmly locked in place.
The body of the shellback crab is also covered in a very fine layer of hair-like structures called setae, and when the crab presses itself against the shell, these membranous "hairs" can take on an almost translucent appearance, particularly around the margins of the crab's body.
I recently posted some photos/info about some of the crabs in the genus Lamarckdromia (which belongs to the same family) and as I was doing the background research for that post, I was just kind of mesmerized by all of these weirdly adorable crabs that seem to exist within the Dromiidae family tree. Each genus has its own unique adaptations that allow the crabs to use specific materials for camouflage -- some of them use living sponges, clamshells, ascidians, etc.
And I could not stop laughing at the little faces on these crabs. They've all got the same bemused/indignant expression...as if some random asshole has just walked up to them, shoved them over, and announced to the entire ocean that there's a crab hiding beneath that disguise; as if that actually happens to them quite a lot, and they're getting really sick of it.
Sources & More Info:
Crustaceana Monographs: Comparison of the Shell-Carrying Behaviors of Desmodromia, Conchoecetes, and Hypoconcha (the relevant info is on page 191)
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources: Shellback Crabs and their Larval Stages (PDF)
South Carolina Public Radio: Shellback Crabs
Again, I don't normally feature crustaceans on my blog...but I really couldn't resist this one.
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apparently one whale years ago was observed doing this for hours and now more and more whales in the area are seen copying it so we think it’s a whole new behavior and it seems to be a response to shrinking food sources.
Instead of expending any energy actively hunting, the whale just holds its mouth open wherever fish are being hunted by birds. To escape the birds, the fish try to hide in the whale’s mouth because it’s a darker area that looks like shelter.
…They’re turning into giant, sea-mammal pitcher plants.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mms.12557?referrer_access_token=bXLTS5BeSw_vlIKHkM0bYIta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC654HjreJ8D19K86UreR5JPsSRb0CuGhiJSV1L1ht-N1Gf_K_1a9MREFzQGU9oJDNctsKDin_HXcYEdsLg3EbcTl
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sea butterflies, Limacina helicina (Gastropoda: Limacinidae)
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Virginia Opossum mask, tail, and handpaws (sleeves not shown). All parts and patterns by myself, except for the claws by @FoxfireFantasy
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Marlène Thiery Opalized Dinosaur Bone - approx 3cm - photographed for @jakes_gemz
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1289281251531987/user/100001005266801
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A 1400-year-old Ginkgo tree found within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan Mountains region of China.
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