Today Is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today's wet beast is: Sarcastic Fringehead

Olive's Wet Beast Fact: these weirdos are very aggressively territorial. When two of them have beef, they fight by pressing their distended mouths against each other, making it look like they're kissing

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Rockweed gunnel (Apodichthys fucorum)

Photo by Marlin Harms

Chlamydoselachus anguineus or the Frilled Shark

Frilled sharks have been swimming in our oceans for about 80 million years! Despite being a shark, its movements are incredibly eel-like. When hunting prey (their preferred meal is squid), they will open their jaws and swallow them whole. 

Fin-to-fin synchronised swimming, thought likely to be part of courtship, has been seen in groups of basking sharks for the first time in the Hebrides, Scotland. Video cameras were temporarily attached to the sharks and gave scientists an unprecedented view of their hitherto secret underwater world. Photograph: University of Exeter and NatureScot

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the “affirmations” the official shark week instagram posted are really funny. like yeah Mecore tbh

Plerogyra sinuosa or Bubble Coral 

Appropriately named, the bubble coral is covered in bubble-like polyps that are filled with water; these can develop in different colors and shapes. The polyps also contain zooxanthellae, causing the bubbles to expand during the day and retract at night.