Daily Fish Fact #276

“the horrifying creatures of the deep ocean” to YOU. I’m holding their fins. I’m petting them on the head. we’re making seaweed crowns and watching the marine snow go by

Greetings, chordate comrades.

I’m attempting to export yet another culture we’ve had for the past few years on the dying birdsite. Basically three times a year we’d use the hashtag #InverteFest to post unsolicited bug and slug pics and YELL ABOUT HOW MUCH WE LOVE THEM.

It could be pics from your garden, OCs, doodles, shitposts, crab memes, whatever. Just remember this is strictly a NO BONE ZONE.

But if you’re going out and feeling like contributing to community science, we have a project on iNaturalist for you to join.

See you in late December.

Loligo pealeii

go mentally deranged yeh. go brainless yeh. go wacky. go positively bonkers yeh. go mad bruv. lose ya marbles yeh. go foolish

Knuckle Puck

Idk about y’all but valentines memes have been my favorite part of the holiday since I was an inappropriately young child on the internet

So I made some cephalopod themed ones for your enjoyment <3

These puns are ones that did not make the cut for our actual Valentine’s Day cards shown in the last image

Purchase them at squidfacts.bigcartel.com <3

King Shelter

Photo by Meg Mindlin

Deep Sea Threadfin Snailfish 🖤

These beauties live in depths of 1,080 - 2,365 m or 3,543 - 7,759 ft, although there have been some viewings of them above and below these parameters.

They are found in the Arctic, northeastern Atlantic, and northern Pacific oceans and grow to be about 31 cm or 12 in!

Welcome back folks :-)

Skeleton of Mola Mola as Mola rotunda - the Ocean sunfish

Spolia Atlantica. Bidrag til Kundskab om Klump- eller Maanefiskene (Molidae). Japetus Steenstrup and Chr Lutken Published 1898

just listed some more prints of these "2heads" (I edition) "6 wings" (II edition) and "6 legs" (I edition) linocuts to my online store SHOP HERE