
Burrowing shore crab, Leptograpsodes octodentatus.
#nature #crab #burrowingshorecrab #crustacean #auswildlife
A Guard Crab guarding a coral an Oahu reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
#Saturday #crab #red #crustacean
#Oahu #sea #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wild #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #water #climatechange #reef #photo #photography #pictureoftheday #picture #scuba #snorkeling #travel
#FishFriday
Kaligat painting of a #fish & #crustacean (cataloged as “A Lobster and a Fish”) by an unknown Indian artist, 19th c.?
gouache on paper, H 28 x W 45 cm
Wellcome Collection 583056i, via Art UK
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-lobster-and-a-fish-242947
#IndianArt
“Kalighat painting, named after the celebrated Hindu goddess Kali, originated from the folk art tradition of rural Bengal.”
#NewSpecies of ocean predator in the Atacama Trench
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ocean-predator-atacama-trench.html #DeepSea
A new large predator (#Amphipoda) hidden at hadal depths of the #AtacamaTrench: Johanna Weston et al. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772000.2024.2416430
"Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's #HadalZone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home... A new study highlights one of those species... This #crustacean is the first large, active predatory #amphipod from these extreme depths"
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Next up for #InsertAnInvert2024 is stygofauna: aquatic animals who live underground. This is a hard-carved and hand-printed linocut print of a little semi-transparent, white amphipod crustacean in the Neoniphargidae group from the Pilbara. This is a large, dry, sparsely populated region in northern part of Western Australia which is a global biodiversity hotspot for subterranean fauna
Here’s a crustacean with crab in its name for #InsertAnInvert2024. Is it a crab? No, not a crab! This is a handprinted lino block print of the Yeti crab (Kiwa hirsuta), a crustacean with silky blond setae (resembling fur, which reminded scientists of the Abomnible Snowman) found on the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. The Yeti crab was found during the 2005 Census of Marine Life, near hydrothermal vents along the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge,
May is crab month for #InsertAnInvert2024
#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #MastoArt #wildlifeArt
Small #crustacean can fragment #microplastics in four days, study finds | #Environment | The Guardian
This is an interesting finding but it doesn’t absolve us from reducing #pollution.