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some happy 🌺s !!!!!

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Life’s been so crazy. I found out I’m pregnant and it’s been a whole ass experience so far. 23 weeks down so we’re about half way 😳

I can’t wait to meet my little girl, little Octavia 💗

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all sea slugs are dragons at heart

examples:

like, c’mon. come on. look at the grace! the flowing lines! the wings and horns! gorgeous.

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Clown nudibranch (Triopha catalinae)

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CAN WE PLEASE START TALKING ABOUT SEA SLUGS MORE, THEIR SO COOL OMG

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Alloiodoris

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🤍💕 Dirona albolineata 💕🤍

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Do you have a favorite sea slug :0

This may or may not be predictable, but the Leaf Sheep is SO cool to me. First of all, they just look really cute and that will honestly do it for me. And they're one of the only little creatures to use algae to photosynthesize? Banger creature. Not to mention sheep are just... plain one of my favourite animals anyway. Their cerata (the leaf-looking appendages) are so!! Pretty!! I have such an urge to pet it. But let me also ramble a tiny bit about other sea slugs

The Orange-Peel Doris is so incredibly shaped imo, it lights my brain up like a christmas tree

It's like a soap I'm resisting to bite. I know nothing about this creature, but I want to hold it. It means the world to me

Also I just discovered the Cyerce Nigricans minutes prior to answering this and I think it's a neat little fella

Thank you so much for asking that, I've been biting through a floorboard over sea slugs the past few days

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shaun the sheep nudibranch (costasiella kuroshimae) 🌿 | source

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big boy!!!

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Elysia chlorotica, also called the “Eastern Emerald Elysia” is a bright green sacoglossa found along the Atlantic coast of North America that's earned the title of “solar-powered sea slug” for its ability to produce its own energy with sunlight and the chloroplasts that it sucks off of algae.

This unusual process, which is similar to photosynthesis, is known as kleptoplasty. Except for a select number of creatures like the adorable “leaf sheep” Costasiella kuroshimae nudibranch, very few non-plant organisms are capable of the phenomenon.

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shaun the sheep nudibranch (costasiella kuroshimae) | source

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Why is the thought of being alone so scary yet inviting?

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they are on a date

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Mind Wave Sea Life Fish Sticker Sheet