six things tagged “oceans”
Diatoms
They look like priceless brooches and are tremendously important to our planet. Emphases mine: Living diatoms make up a significant portion of the Earth’s biomass: they generate about 20 to 50 percent of the oxygen produced on the planet each year, take in over 6.7 billion metric tons of sili…
An Anglerfish
What a strange, strange creature. Those bumps remind me of rivets on a submarine. But because they are anglerfish, the bumps are even more bizarre than you’d expect: Since anglerfish are deep sea creatures, it took scientists years and years to figure this stuff out. They could never find a m…
Octopus Swims Around and then Enters Stealth Mode
This is indescribably badass.…
The Glass Octopus and Other Deep Sea Aliens by Solvin Zankl
Glass Octopus (Vitreledonella richardi) Longarm Octopus larva (Macrotritopus defilippi) Marine Snail (Atlanta inclinata) Sea Butterfly (Clio chaptali) Eye-flash Squid (Abralia veranyi) Deep sea eel Male copepods Larval Prawn (Plesiopenaeus armatus) Glass Squid (Bathothauma lyromma)…
A Fever of Rays
A group of stingrays is called a fever (my head: “So that’s where that album name came from!”) This is what they look like:…