Day: September 17, 2018

anudibranchaday:

The Bornella anguilla is one of the larger nudibranchs you can find, growing up to 8cm in length. However, what this nudibranch is known for is its odd swimming motion – while most nudibranchs can swim in what looks like a very taxing manner, the Bornella anguilla swims using lateral flexions, and ends up looking similar to an eel (hence the name anguilla, which is a genus containing many eels). It can be found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, and yes, those small black dots in front of its rhinophores are its eyes!

lectorel:

prokopetz:

Concept: a bunch of high school Satanists get drunk in the local graveyard and try to conjure a demon, but they’re using one of those “reconstructionist” ritual books that gets its sources all mixed up, so they end up with a minor Mithraic fertility spirit that hasn’t spoken with humans in like 1700 years instead. By the terms of its binding it’s not allowed to leave until it’s ensured a successful harvest for its summoners, which is a problem, because none of these goobers have ever raised so much as a houseplant; if it wants to go home, it’s going to have to teach them how to garden – whether they want to learn or not!

Addition to Concept: told from spirit’s point of view, with long digressions into the history of agriculture, the domestication of various crops, and the importance of soil management.

Further Addition: spirit learns about those fuckers at Monsanto creating ‘round-up ready’ terminator seeds, proceeds to haunt the shit out of them with assistance from their gaggle of baby satanists.

cool-critters:

Costasiella kuroshimae

Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Costasiellidae.It has the ability to incorporate chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on into its body and use them to do photosynthesis (see kleptoplasty).
The type locality is Kuroshima, Taketomi, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

photo  credits:

alif_abdulrahman

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Rickard Zerpe

blucanaryintheoutlet:

isopodde:

I was reading about Japanese seafood and came across a type of conger eel called Anago (
穴子

).

Literally translated from Japanese into English, the name means “Hole Child”.

I was a little confused until I saw this image.

This is neat because these are Japanese traditional eel traps too! The cunningly effective trap is: these fish like tubes a whole lot. So much, in fact, that if you pull a tube out of the water, the eel will stay in the tube.