Hyaloteuthis!! From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 902 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife

An Octopus cyanea harrassed by territorial damselfish. The octopus is a male who has his eye on a female off screen. He is unwilling to back away but a little hesitant to approach (partially due to looming humans nearby). The damselfish are not happy with an octopus being indecisive on their rock

おはようみうし

Dam him up!

green worm with overlapping scales

Leipidonotus squamatus- stunning scaleworm shot by Alexander Semenov! #worldpolychaeteday!

The king rag worm. The body is twisted and coiled and the skin is rainbow sheen green and pinks.

The worm rearing up showing the face and parapods (legs) which are tinged pink.

The long & limbed King Rag, or Alitta virens. Isn't he beautiful?

But they have two large pincer teeth that can deliver a severe bite.

#InsertAnInvert2024

📸 Both Alexander Semenov

Giant Pacific Octopus transits through a narrow tidal pool in Oregon.

Painting of two wood pigeons nestling into each other, eyes shut. Dark background.

I painted this loving pair from a photo with kind permission from the photographer, Ernesto Orellana. I now have another commission to paint two wood pigeons in different pose. If any of the brilliant photographers I follow have a photo of a Woody I could use, ideally two, I'd really appreciate it 😊

うににうにょうにょされるだけ

A printed black and white picture of an algae octopus colored with marker. By SSJulian

It’s my birthday! I decided to relax by coloring one of the pages of my own octopus coloring book. Can you see the algae octopus?

This seafloor community, 1,073 meters (3,520 feet) beneath the Ocean surface, was filmed during the #ArgentinianDeepSeeps expedition. Scientists were searching for cold seeps. While exploring, they observed beautiful scenes like this and stunning biodiversity along the country’s continental shelf.

Thread. Animals from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 358 South Flinders Reef Queensland Plateau, Australia. Idiacanthus
#Visioningcoralsea #MarineLife

When I post a crab photo, people with crab icons like it.
When I post squid, the squid people show up.
And for sea slugs… the sea slug people.

…am I underwater or something?

This swimming crab is called “Menaga Gazami” in Japanese… which literally just means “long eyed swimming crab.”⁡

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Not sure about the ID for this squid. When I get it I'll share. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 364 #visioningcoralsea #MarineLife

A California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) squishing itself down in a reef. Because of how it is squishing itself down, it almost looks flat, whit its head especially not protruding like how an octopus's head normally does. The octopus is mostly beige with some thin black lines that look like cracks in stone. It has orange on its suckers, around its eyes and in some spots. It has some black on the bottom of its arm. One of it's eyes spots is visible, a large black circle with a blue ring. It is surrounded by sea urchins and a sea anemone.

Aw, man... my octopus deflated!

🐙📷hsug1747 (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Indo-Pacific Blanket Octopus (Tremoctopus gracilis) with its webbing tucked away. It has wide, rotund mantle, thick arms and round black eyes. The iris of the eye is orangish brown. The rest of its body ranges from blue, to lavender, to purple to darkish beige.

A female Indo-Pacific Blanket Octopus (Tremoctopus gracilis) swimming in black water. Its arms are spread out, showing off its webbing that iridescent blue, green and orange. The arms are pinking and have long suckers. Its eye have yellow irises. The mantle is silvery in on part, and purple outside of that area.

POV: You see this tasty looking creature swimming in the ocean, but then it suddenly does this and it looks really big and scary now. wdyd?

The protagonist, Mae, is looking up at a war memorial statue. She's saying, "War is some bullshit."

Night in the Woods (Multiplatform, 2017)

All ink, no stink!

Squid ink is a natural, dark-viscous fluid primarily composed of melanin pigment, mucus & water — like a deep-sea smoke screen for a hasty getaway. These ink-blob shapes are called pseudomorphs. Filmed during #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/@schmidtsciences.bsky.social.

Bonked by Grimalditeuthis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 570 part 5 #GalapagosVents #MarineLife

Cirrothauma being fancy. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 564 part 2 #GalapagosVents #MarineLife

It’s almost the season for the firefly squid beaching in Toyama, Japan!

I want to go to Toyama 🦑
#invertebrates

two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

Tiny crabs we found at the sea 🦀

A glimpse of the amazing diversity of crabs living in the shallow waters of Japan 𓈒𓏸︎︎︎︎

Blue sea slugs found in the coastal waters of Japan!

These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*

🐙⑉❤︎

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Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh!!!
The overturned Calappa hurriedly buries itself back into the sand.

In Japan, when we feel embarrassed,
we say, “I wish the earth would swallow me up.”
Luckily for a Calappa, it can dive into the sand even when there’s no hole to hide in 🦀,,

Diezel McRingtail FuzzButt You leftist furs amaze me. Like seriously calling anyone that disagrees with you a Nazi or racist. like seriously do you know you could actually be a productive citizen instead of wasting your time being a keyboard warrior? Star Raccoon! A coup was attempted to over throw the government and install a dictator as the leader of this country. Diezel McRingtail FuzzButt @DiezelRaccoon Replying to @StarTheRaccoon I like you deeply as a friend and I'm going to choose not to even respond to that. *inflates you making you big and round* 11:05 PM 1/12/21 Twitter for iPhone

Been seeing multiple people today in the replies of things asking "What do you mean right-wing furries exist?" genuinely shocked, meaning that a lot of you have never seen one of the funniest moments on Twitter ever