lifeofafuturemarinebiologist:

nature-gifs:

Ted talks

Sea urchin! * A *

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enemyx:

gayjimjamesmoriartyfromit:

hobbit-boffychloro-of-221b:

wearejohnlocked:

weliveandbreathewords:

heartofaherondale:

dauntlessshadowhuntress:

raziel-has-given-me-wings:

ilikeboyswithfangs:

katniss-petrova-mellark:

i-heart-prince:

findvictory:

jaba-the-slut:

Moonwalk in your pants. ;)

The Essence of Happiness in your pants…that’s soooo wrong (Dalai Lama book rofl)

The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killer — in your pants….. WAT?   

The Hunger Games in your pants.

Beautiful Darkness in your pants. LMAO

‘Delirium in my pants’
Well then….

“Reached in your pants ” by Ally Condie lol

I am reading The Mocking Jay (in your pants) right now but I feel like City of Bones in your pants has to be on this list!

Method Guide in your pants LOL

So long, and thanks for all the fish in your pants.

Sherlock Holmes in your pants… Yes please!

Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy in your pants….. ok then

Good Omens in your pants…pppft.

Invertebrates Zoology in your pants…er…

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unperished:

fearlings:

lindsayolohan:

That’s scary

this is so terrifying. like this is my worst fear ever, sinking into the darkness and being surrounded by the unknown. 

idk i just love this

I actually would love to die like this…

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oceanportal:

Amy Eisenfeld Genser crafted these (and many more) coral reef landscapes using rolled up pieces of paper and acrylic paint. Where does she get her inspiration? According to her website:

The sources of my work are textures, patterns, and grids. I look for forms that can be repeated to create a pattern when they are joined. My work tries to capture the essence of an experience or an image I have seen. I often look to the natural world for inspiration. I am fascinated by the flow of water, the organization of beehives, and the organic irregularity of plants, flowers, rock formations, barnacles, moss, and seaweed. Aerial views of our landscape can also be compelling; it is interesting how the organization of our landscape becomes quilt-like when viewed from above.

See more from the series and learn more about her process at all things paper.

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rhamphotheca:

A cool new way climate change is killing bivalves

By Susie Cagle

We already know that carbon-dioxide-filled, acidic ocean water is no-good, very-bad news for mussels and other underwater shelled creatures, causing their shells to dissolve. But, as these things so often go, it turns out that climate change is even worse for bivalves than we thought: It’s unleashing an awkward kind of anti-puberty on them. They’re growing smaller and weaker, and now we find out that they’re basically losing their hair.

New research published in the journal Nature shows that mussels’ proteinaceuous byssal threads — the little stringy bits that allow them to stick their bodies on stuff — are particularly susceptible to ocean acidification. The researchers found mussels’ little stringy bits were 40 percent weaker when exposed to elevated CO2 levels, even when their shell strength and tissue growth weren’t affected…

(read more: Grist.org)                       (photo: Sapphire/Flutterby)

wnycradiolab:

More great illustrations from Die Cephalopoden by Carl Chun 

You can read the whole thing on archive.org (and if you don’t read German, you have our permission to skip to the pictures).

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rhamphotheca:

Giant Sea Cucumber Eats With Its Anus

by Carrie Arnold

Most kindergarteners can tell you that an animal eats with its mouth, not its butt.

One species of sea cucumber, however, didn’t appear to get the memo: Scientists have discovered that the giant California sea cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) actually uses its anus as a second mouth.

Scientists already knew that the marine invertebrate, which lives in the shallow ocean waters off the Pacific coast of North America, breathes with its butt. Because they don’t have lungs, sea cucumbers rely on respiratory trees, a set of long tubes running down either side of the body with a lot of different branches. P. californicus is shaped like a hollow tube, with a mouth at one end and its anus at the other.

The respiratory trees receive oxygen when water is pumped through their anus using the muscles of their cloaca, an opening at the end of the intestinal tract.The 20 in. long  (50-cm-long) animal is no slouch: It can pump 3.5 to 4 cups of water per hour through its anus, transferring the oxygen from the water into its respiratory trees, which then oxygenates its cells…

(read more: National Geographic) 

(photos: T - Gary Hughes, Your Shot; BL - Lois Booth, My Shot; BR - Gerald and Buff Corsi, Visuals Unlimited/Getty Images)

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