#deep sea shark

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🦈Daily Shark Fact: 🦈

The Pocket Shark is a species of kitefin shark Both species are distinguished from other sharks by two pockets next to the front fins. The pockets are large, measuring about 4% of the shark's body length. Some researchers hypothesize that the pockets may excrete some kind of glowing fluid or pheromones.

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Daily fish fact #549

Ninja lanternshark!

It can faintly glow blue, blending into the small amount of light available at the depths they live in! This makes them unnoticeable to their prey, shrimp and small fish. Their scientific name, Etmopterus benchleyi, has a reference to Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel Jaws!

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[ID: A photo of a Goblin Shark (A grey shark with an elongated snout and a generally bewildered expression) swimming perpendicular to the camera. END ID]

I love Goblin Sharks as much as the next nerd, and I've noticed that they have attracted attention mostly for their fabulous nose. But that's not even the weirdest thing about this guy! Below are a bunch of facts, but only one of them is false.

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[olive-ridley]

Pictured: pelagic thresher shark, orca, porbeagle shark, blue shark, snailfish, Greenland shark, rockfish, bigfin squid, mako shark, and basket star

[xmaveria]

I was part of the @swimonzine Volume 10 a shark charity zine. You may still purchase it here which I highly recommend it to shark fans and enthusiasts. I'm always excited to be part of zines like these and this was no different! I picked two Deep Ocean Sharks, The greater green lantern shark, and the lesser known Megamouth cousin of the Whale shark and Basking Shark

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horror sub-genres: aquatic

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him: you better not be fucked up images of lantern sharks when I get there

my bathypelagic ass:

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🦈 Daily Shark Fact: 🦈

Angular Roughsharks are found throughout the eastern Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Norway to South Africa throughout the Mediterranean Sea. The depth at which they are found ranges from 160 to 2,170 ft, but they mostly stay below 330 ft.

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Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Pipefish

Olive’s wet beast fact: You’re probably thinking that these worm-on-a-string lookin ass creatures look like straightened seahorses. That’s bc they are part of the Syngnathidae family with Seahorses and Sea Dragons. Funky!

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

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YIPPE