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Blood-belly comb jelly my beloved ❤️ 🩸

Meet Lampocteis cruentiventer, the bloodybelly comb jelly. This deep sea ctenophore was first collected in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, in 1979.

Scientists believe the bloody-belly's red belly helps mask bioluminescent light from the prey it consumes. A predator with a glowing gut could easily become prey.

The genus name Lampocteis derives from the Greek roots for “brilliant comb,” referring to the bright iridescence diffracted from the animal’s comb rows.

Love to sea it 🌊

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The Höllengebirge at Ischl, 1834, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Milkmaids of Komintern kolkhoz do a crossword puzzle. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Tambov oblast, 1957).

Lares, 1930, Paul Nash

Don’t mess with Olivia Marie

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This extraordinary deep-sea resident is Avocettina bowersii, also known as a snipe eel. The snipe eels in the family Nemichthyidae have thin, tweezer-like jaws that bend outwards. It was long debated how these fishes eat, but we now know that their tiny, backward-facing teeth, almost like velcro, allow them to capture small crustaceans and bring the prey into their mouths with a series of quick chomps. ⁠⁠ 

Snipe eels can be found at depths between 92 and 641 meters (300 and 2,100 feet) and measure about one to two meters (three to five feet) in length.