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Aquatic Animals - Blog Posts
Hi Serena, what made you think, yes, I want to be an astronaut? And what's your favourite aquatic animal?
Incredible video captures humpback whales swimming underneath the northern lights in Norway.
Fossilas: crinoid stems and stars including a 6 pointed pentacrites and a pyritised ammonte
Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) skin detail
Photos by Pete Oxford
aw hell yeah
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This one, specifically, is waiting for you. Her name is Jennifer. The other arapaima are not waiting for you, they have other stuff they need to be doing today.
^ for the unaware
[Image description: text reading, When the sunfish began looking unwell days after the aquarium closed on Dec. 1 for a six-month renovation, its keepers suspected digestive problems, gave it less food and visited the fish tank to comfort the sunfish when there was construction noise, but to no avail.
Then at a staff meeting, one person suggested that the sunfish might have been affected by the sudden absence of an audience.
"We were skeptical but decided to do anything we could," Miyazawa said. They hung their uniforms and placed human-shaped cutouts with photos of smiling faces outside the tank to cheer on the fish, Miyazawa said.
"I knew [the sunfish] was looking at us when we were placing them, but I never thought it would start eating the next day," Miyazawa said, beaming. The staff now visit more often and wave at the sunfish.
The aquarium keepers say they hope many fans will return to see the sunfish when the aquarium reopens in the summer. End image description.]
An aquarium in Japan was closed for renovations, and their resident sunfish got depressed not seeing visitors. So the staff put some uniforms with printed faces against the tank, and it immediately recovered.
WE HAVE A PEACOCK MANTIS SHRIMP AT WORK NOW AND I AM OBSESSED WITH HER. EVERYONE SAY HI TO SCYLLA!! PLEASE ADMIRE HER BEAUTIFUL COLORS AND SASSY LITTLE GRAVEL KICK. SHES INCREDIBLE
[Description of images: screenshots of text. First image reads: Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor. Second image reads: Most recently, aquanauts on board a vessel from the Schmidt Ocean Institute used an underwater robot to turn over slabs of volcanic crust in the deep, dark Pacific. Third image reads: It's a whole new world we didn't know existed. "On land we have long known of animals living in cavities underground, and in the[..."] Fourth image reads: Scientists found tubeworms particularly fascinating. These deep-sea creatures seem to travel underneath the seafloor through volcanic fluids to colonize new habitats. This could explain why so few of their young are ever seen congregating around deep volcanic fissures. Most may be maturing below the surface. End descriptions of images.]
Wait, beneath the sea floor?
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OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!