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here is a snail i found the other day i hope you feel better soon :]

Thank you I'm thinking about becoming a snail

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sold sea slug dragon designs

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Of course I love every animal in my house but right now I am obsessed with my Huge Orange Slug

SLUGGO MY BELOVED 🧡

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arge octopus floor mosaic at Gumalimba Park, Roatan, Honduras

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My boyfriend told me recently that barnacles have like, teeth??? They have tentacle teeth that eat fish & thats why they’re dangerous. What the fuck!?

I wish there were badass fish eating barnacles but no they really only have a little round hole for a mouth, deep inside the shell, and the hairy "tentacles" that pop out are the legs, which catch plankton from the water. A lot of plankton consists of tiny animals so they do end up eating meat of course, in fact some of the most common of all plankton in the sea are barnacle larvae, so they're always idly eating each other's babies.

There is a barnacle that grows as a parasite on small deep sea sharks though. Barnacles on other vertebrates, like whales or turtles, aren't parasitic at all and just riding around. But this one feeds on the shark and even castrates it, which is something many parasites do just so their host doesn't divert too many nutrients into having babies. I think this is the only case on which any parasite does this to something with a spinal cord.

image D here shows a non-parasitic barnacle in the same family for comparison, the parasitic one even lost its normal filter feeding system and draws sustenance through "roots!" Sometimes a crustacean wants to be a tree.

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hi my pet snail also likes being on the ceiling her name is bingbong

SQUISHY FACE ALERT!!!! What a beautiful ceiling-dweller!

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Looooooook at them

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I've had 5 of these for less than a day and I'm already in love. Their stupid little faces and awkward hobble are making me melt

Also occasionally I hear them tumble down to the bottom and it's hilarious

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One of these menaces' favorite pastime is digging up bacopas at night and uprooting the monte carlo

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This is Meredith she’s our biggest sloppiest moon snail and she has 3 antennae

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A snail's dream

Bed of Lettuce by Paul Octavious

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A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!

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Shedd's giant pacific octopus was in fine form tonight!

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Enjoy a few more seconds of GPO goodness. I love how slowly and deliberately he moves!

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I love this caption in the Wikipedia entry for the ram's horn squid, Spirula, calling this illustration "dated" because the light is pointing up. They do not mean that the light is on the wrong part of the body, the anatomy here is still reasonable. They just mean these squids always swim with their tentacles pointing up and their lights pointing down.

There you go, wiki editor, I fixed it. And now YOU'RE the one upside-down!! Haha!!! NOW WHO'S DATED!!!!