Thor’s Well
This hole in the ground is found along the Oregon coastline in Siuslaw National Forest. Best viewed from a distance, the process seen in this shot actually makes it quite hazardous. At low tide it shows up as nothing but a hole in the ground, but when the high tide is right or there are storms kicking waves in, the ocean can live up to the anger of its namesake.
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Octopus Eyes Are Crazier Than We Imagined
by Maddie Stone
The latest fascinating cephalopod insights come to us from a father/son team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University, who’ve learned that weirdly-shaped pupils may allow cephalopods to distinguish colors differently from any other animals we know of. The discovery is published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
Boring animals like humans and birds see color using a combination of light-receptive cone cells, each of which contains pigments that are sensitive to a different part of the visual spectrum. It’s only by combining information from different cone cells that colors can be properly distinguished. Hence, when a person lacks a particular type of cone, he’s considered colorblind.
Cephalopods only have a single type of light receptor, which means they should not be able to distinguish color at all. And yet, many octopuses, squids and cuttlefish have color-changing skin that’s used for elaborate camouflage ruses and courtship rituals. Clearly, these colorblind animals have become masters of color manipulation. How? …
(read more: Gizmodo)
photographs: NOAA, Roy Caldwell, and Klaus Stiefel
Jellyfish! My other favorite aquarium thing. I love moon jellies, but the little tiny mushroom guys were my favorite this time. Too tired to Photoshop out that glare on the glass, but maybe I’ll come back to it if I ever want to use these pictures for anything.
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DYSMORPHOPHOBIA … Soon … @jonathanlevinegallery #colorpencil #coloredpencils #moleskine #gaia #lemur #dysmorphophobia
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Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.
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Back in January, our research biologists came across this octopus when pulling up a stone crab trap in Cedar Key. Octopus can get in...
Commission for https://www.deviantart.com/sweet-n-treat
Forgot to mention it on Deviantart - I’ve opened Fur Affinity account!
by Andrey
Back in January, our research biologists came across this octopus when pulling up a stone crab trap in Cedar Key. Octopus can get in...
Commission for https://www.deviantart.com/sweet-n-treat
Forgot to mention it on Deviantart - I’ve opened Fur Affinity account!
by Andrey
