Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad
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Jaggedhead gurnard (Gargariscus, Armored searobins or armored gurnards)
Photographer and Fisherman: Roman Fedortsov
The reason they call this group “sea robins” is because the .ore commonly encountered species look more like this one:
The armored ones live deeper, and they also come in weirder shapes!
A diagram of the egg-placing technique of the Idiosepius pygmaeus paradoxus squid from American malacological bulletin v.10 (1993).
Full text available here.
Can’t argue with that.
Graphical abstract of Anglade & Randhawa (2018)
Transcript:
Yo this flat boi got
WORMS
<- look at em all
Anonymous asked:
How do you feel about the gumboot chiton
astraldemise answered:
sometimes an animal can be so shaped
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Anonymous asked:
I thought it would delight you to know that ants do have a sort of funeral mound for their dead
iguanamouth answered:
yes there is a name for this! necrophoresis is a process with social insects where the bodies are taken to a specific location on the outside of ( or within ) the nest - ants tend to keep them all in the same place, and the way an ant is signaled to be “dead” by its other members is through the release of a chemical called oliec acid
theres even been a few experiments where live ants were coated in the same chemical and other ants treated the live ants….exactly as though they were dead and tried dragging them into the pile
That's a crinoid! Also called sealily or hairstar (at least in german) . They are like an evolutionary step between starfish and sea urchin. There are so many different types of these! It's so cool!
Oooh
to look upon this, and know it is Animal. That it is nearer to us, in spite of everything, than a mushroom, or a plant.
ramblebitch asked:
Hello. Are they any animals that look like they've been hit in the head with a hammer?
bunjywunjy answered:
that’s a great question! have a surinam toad.
dont be FUCKING rude
