Scientific Shot of a Peacock mantis shrimp eyes which are the most advanced in the animal world. Photo by Daniel Sasse.
the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors.
humans have 3.
we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive.
the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one.
#addOcean
An illustration of a long spine porcupine fish swimming in a colourful coral reef. There are also little fish, a crab and a small snail.
An illustration of a colourful coral reef.
A long spine porcupine fish ventured out to search for food 🐡🪸 #kidlitart #kidlit #SciArt #addOcean
I've written/illustrated an alphabet picture-book for my great-granddaughter which I will share by posting one 2 page spread daily. Today is IJ
🌿 #picturebooks #alphabet #authors #Digitalart #illustration #addOcean #marinelife
I've written/illustrated an alphabet picture-book for my great-granddaughter which I will share by posting one 2 page spread daily. Today is GH
🌿 #picturebooks #alphabet #authors #Digitalart #illustration #addOcean #marinelife
Puzamoiya 🇨🇦 (drink the air)
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I've written/illustrated an alphabet picture-book for my great-granddaughter which I will share by posting one 2 page spread daily. Today is EF
🌿 #picturebooks #alphabet #authors #Digitalart #illustration #addOcean #marinelife
I've written/illustrated an alphabet picture-book for my great-granddaughter which I will share by posting one 2 page spread daily. Today is CD
🌿 #picturebooks #alphabet #authors #Digitalart #illustration #addOcean #marinelife
Would love to contribute this year's minus tide finds to the Marine Life! 🦑 feed! #addOcean
- Lovely pic of a baby sea-turtle for some relief ...
- It's mid summer here in Melb / Naarm - fires still raging after an intense heatwave, (not seen for yrs in the south)
- #addOcean
#addOcean pretty please 🫶
+ a hogfish for your troubles 🐟
#addOcean #addHerper #addBirder I'd like to contribute to these feeds, please 😀
Spawning Purple Urchins. Recent research concludes " leads us to propose that the sea urchin nervous system in its entirety comprises an “all-brain” rather than a “no-brain” . From Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system.
#addOcean
I'm finding these by the hundreds stranded on the beach here. I think they are half dried man o wars. Hard to see on the picture, but the outer part of the 'sail' is definitely pink. Some seem to have tentacles. They are between 4 and 6 cm.
Any opinion for identification? #addOcean #ocean #beachlife
Pacific Giant Octopus named Violet in a reddish coloration at the Seattle Aquarium.
Recently started volunteering at the Seattle Aquarium. This is Violet the Pacific Giant Octopus. #addOcean #seattleaquarium #GPO #volunteering #iphonephotography
Environmental Management
🦑 A new paper from 'Environmental Management' analyses the various types of plastics present in the coastal region of Hawaii and investigates their specific impacts on the local marine ecosystem. bit.ly/3LFUFyd #PlasticSky #ResearchPublishing #addOcean
I put #addOcean in another marine life post I made, and it was never added. I'm making another attempt now.
Bottlenose dolphin illustration by PigBeeCreative in grey-toned copic markers and black ink line art. (Side/left lateral view of dolphin’s full body)
copic marker + ink bottlenose dolphin illustration I made a few years ago
#humanartist #art #sciart #addOcean #marinelife
A couple of Audouin's gulls by the sea shore. There are very small waves and ripples on the dark blue water. The gulls are poised with their feet on the water by knee level. Their head, neck, breast and belly are whites, the wings are grey, the tail is black. The eyes form a black spot on the white head. The bills and legs are dark red. They have a slender build and are more elegant than most gulls.
#AddOcean
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A couple of Audouin's gulls in the mediterranean sea coast.
Larus audouinii
A set of human footprints next to tracks left by a turtle, in the white sand down to the sea with stormclouds in the distance
Counting turtle tracks 🐢 👣 #fieldwork #addocean