Please Unmute This

hey everyone sorry to bother bUT YOU CAN HEAR HUMPBACKS WHALES SINGING TO EACH OTHER LIVE RIGHT NOW ON OUR DEEP SEA HYDROPHONE FEED!  🐋🎶🐳

Reblogging to keep for myself

Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!

Can I have a cursed giant creature fact?

sure! at lengths of over 55 feet and weights of 600 pounds, our friend the Oarfish surely qualifies :)

we don’t know a whole lot about the world’s longest bony fish, aside from that it rarely comes to the surface and inspired most of the Sea Serpent legends floating around. they’re fairly rare and live only in the Abyssopelagic Zone, around 3,300 feet down. but this is old news to everyone who’s seen the info posts about these guys going around, so what’s so cursed about this? well, I’ll tell you! 

have you ever wondered what the Oarfish gets up to, way down there? we didn’t realize this until we started sending ROVs and submarines into the deep sea to observe live ones, but Oarfish are... a little nontraditional as fish go. 

see, they don’t normally swim horizontally all majestic-like like in the pictures up there, it turns out that instead they spend their time just kind of... hanging vertically in the water column. 

motionless, staring at the surface with all 50+ feet of them vanishing into the darkness below.

and I don’t know about you but frankly, I find that a little creepy. 

Just wanted to spread this twitter thread around as much as possible. It frustrates me to no end that Tiger King did all this weird Carole Baskin character assassination trying to make her look like she’s just as bad as Joe and Doc without ever properly explaining what Carole is doing differently and why it matters.

Happy #Nudivember!

Sea slugs aren’t your garden-variety slug. They come in a wide array of bright colors and psychedelic patterns. Many have gills that stick up from their backs like clumps of water balloons, shag carpets, or Mohawk hair-dos.

Nudibranchs live in virtually all the world’s oceans, from the tide pools down into the deep sea. Like many other deep-sea animals, the nudibranchs of the deep are poorly studied. Though scientists have named about 3,000 shallow-water nudibranchs, until recently, only three deep-water species were known in the entire Northeast Pacific. 

Celebrate this Nudivember by learning more about these fascinating animals: https://www.mbari.org/five-new-nudibranchs/

Awww yes, it’s skijoring season in Colorado. I hope I get to go watch this year.

1. Bleeding Tooth Fungus

2. Schizophyllum Commune

3. Rhodotus Palmatus

4. Porcellain Fungus

5. Leratiomyces

6. Cup Fungus

7. Cyathus Striatus

8. Phallus Indusiatus

9. Clathrus Ruber

10. Geastrum Minimum

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Oceanographers Don Walsh and Jaques Piccard visit the mariana trench (1960)

I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid