Leech Drawing I Did For Fun

you KNOW we scavenging the sea floor for nutrients

Stingrays 🖤

I swam with some when I was 11 in the Cayman Islands 🤙

why is no one ever talking about the Graveyard seamount complex??

these underwater volcanoes have the best names ever are u kidding me?? tag urself i’m ghoul

Fata Morgna

A Superior Mirage that comes from the Italian term named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths. It’s also believed that this illusion caused the myth of The Flying Dutchman to emerge.

Hey I heard you’re giving out anxiety, can I have 1 anxiety please?

yes, here is a baby oarfish 

lunch at the beach

We are going to steal…..

THE 

Gyarados from the HeartGold & SoulSilver expansion set.

Illustration by Mitsuhiro Arita (2010)

What is, respectively,the best horrible animal design

every living thing on earth is in a neverending game of Chicken with natural selection, staying juuuuust enough ahead of the curve to avoid extinction. this minimum-effort strategy breeds a LOT of weird-but-fairly-effective designs, but the Pipefish is objectively just pretty terrible.

they’re basically just straightened-out seahorses that get the worst of both worlds, lacking the seahorse’s strong grabbing ability while also being such a weak swimmer that they can’t deal with any kind of current at all! 

they SUCK, is what I’m getting at here.

but you know what? they’re also POSTIVELY DELIGHTFUL.

pipefish come in a frankly astonishing array of colors, shapes, and sizes, and I frankly would not want to live in a world without them.