Amazing, this is a crinoid swimming (edited after comments)
Never seen one of these before? You have, but they normally look like this:
Crinoids are a type of echninoderm (also in that taxa: sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers). They were super popular in the Paleozoic and aren’t nearly as common anymore.
For at least one part of their life cycle, they’re anchored to the seafloor and we normally see them looking like the image above - but most eventually become free swimming as an adult.
Like the more well-known types of echnioderms, a crinoid is basically a mouth surrounded by feeding arms. It’s actually swimming using the movement of those feeding arms! This is actually a pretty efficient adaptation, since the feeding arms catch small particles of food and move them towards the mouth - it’s most likely they can swim and snag food at the same time.
FEEDING! The chambered Nautilus is a mollusk, related to the octopus, squid, clam and snail. A nautilus, along with the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus, are all cephalopods, meaning “head-foot,” so named because the feet (tentacles) are attached to the head.
The nautilus is the only cephalopod that has a fully developed shell for protection. The nautilus has more than 90 suckerless tentacles. Grooves and ridges on the tentacles are used to grip prey and deliver food to a crushing, parrot-like beak. Most of the time the Nautilus is in stock in the #Heevis Store in Eindhoven.
this is called “Amaama to Inazuma” or “Sweetness and Lightning”
it is about a dad who is a school teacher and is trying to raise his daughter after his wife dies. one of the main things is he usually just buys her already made meals, but one of his students show’s him her mom’s restaurant and encourages him to learn how to cook
Omfg this looks SO CUTE
Apparently the daughter, Tsumugi’s, voice actress is only 11 and it’s just such a pure anime.
Happy Halloween! Lemurs, like cats, have a tapetum lucidum, or a layer
of tissue in the eye that reflects light back through the retina,
creating eyeshine. All of this means lemurs can look pretty scary at
night.
Today the Department of Awesome Camouflage is wondering if there’s any creature more impressive than the Lichen Katydid(Markia hystrix), an insect that looks like it’s actually made out of delicate lichen. It looks more like something out of a fairytale than a real-life insect, but that’s simply because the natural world is so freaking awesome!
Lichen Katydids are native to Central and South America. Wildlife photographer David Weller captured this mesmerizing footage of a Lichen Katydid somewhere in the Cartago Province of Costa Rica carefully making its way across some vegetation that looks like it might’ve grown from its own body :
