Sea Beasties [Who are Not Cephalopodes]!

Crabbies and shrimpies need not fear multi-armed predation here!

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Sarcastic Fringeheads!

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That’s sure a weird-lookin’ fish, but…

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nudibranch (Acanthadoris lutea). Moss Beach CA, Nov. 2011

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oooh! a sea bun! cute!
nudibranchs are so colorful. beautiful sea slugs:

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Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901) - St. Anthony Preaching to the Fish (1892)

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“Great. I’m getting proselytization instead of oxygen.”

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"dude, what’s this ‘loaves and fish’ shit? i’m a shark. why don’t you come down here for a swim? we’ll see just how many fish can be fed with one loafing friar.

really like the angry stonefish under the exasperated shark. and don’t get me started on the fish head soup behind them.

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Deep sea beasties!

Lantern fish:

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Telescope fish:
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My favorite – the angler fish:

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ok…
who fed telescope fish after midnight?
toothsome little feller, ain’t he?

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Skeleton panda sea squirt, Clavelina ossipanda

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Panda Slinky Sea Beast!

Panda Slinky Sea Beast!

Panda Slinky Sea Beast!

Sorry; got all Zippy’d-out with that one.

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https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/barreleye

The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s tumblr is a riot: terrible puns, beautiful images, bad jokes…what’s not to love?!

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We were there maybe in 1996? They had a jellyfish exhibit that was awesome.

My wife got a jellyfish sweatshirt there like this:

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Too cool!

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Yeep!

All I could think was

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Yeah, well, I bet whoever designed that face and mouth saw the same nature show I did, a hundred years ago, which featured sarcastic fringeheads!

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I think one of those almost killed me when I ventured too deep in Subnautica.

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