#giant oyster

[thatsbelievable]

Source: The New York Tattler, July 18, 1912.

[drhoz]

While confronting head-on the conflicting claims about the calamities that struck down the world's richest oyster grounds, this fresh perspective re-evaluates the roles of three groups that combined to kill off most of the oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. The roles of watermen who fish the oysters, oyster farmers who grow them, and scientists who study them, are illuminated by recent research in science labs, along the bottom of the Bay and deep in long-forgotten historical archives. Directed and produced by Michael W. Fincham, Maryland Sea Grant College. Presented by Maryland Public Television.

[theopalempress]

Life Japan VLOG - Arcade DINER DATE & GIANT OYSTER - The Opal Empress

[draxomoriatic]

Oyster Cookie when in contact with water, she seemed to have been lucky that the curse is affecting her slower than those that came before her, but she’s aware that her time is limited.

Which led her down her own research path which led her to that original pearl as well as a magically locked away egg that became Keshi Pearl Cookie

(Clotted Cream Cookie is kind of like a confidant for a lot of this stuff and is also kind of like a godfather to the little baby)

Oyster Cookie eventually was able to figure where the myths were and where the truth was, and tended to the pearl as she tried to figure a way to return it, hoping that doing so would ease the curse. It caused the pearl to go from dull to lustrous, and unknowingly affecting the mermaid in question.

Eventually, the two are going to cross paths in a more serious way, though that’s gonna be a lot.

Bonus lil dumb thingy:

[drinkingbitterboy]

screenshots that make me go 😩

[snekinnatenk]

Day 2!

Weird bivalves!

[rain-shoshana]

Do you have a favourite mushroom? if so, feel free to tell me about it :)

I had typed up a whole post replying and then closed the app like a dummy and it got vanished forever. So thank you for your patience and for your ask! Here is mushroom 2.0!

I have chosen a top three, because choosing a favorite child is impossible.

My favorite mushroom of all time is Inky Mane aka Shaggy Ink Cap aka Coprinus Comatus. It’s an oozey mushroom! To spread its spores, the cap disintegrates (deliquesces). It’s an edible mushroom, but you have to eat it fast before it melts away! I’ve never eaten one but I would like to. I don’t believe it grows where I live.

It’s just so pretty at all stages of life! So many cool textures and of course, the black gore is very pretty.

Honorable mention mushroom time!

I have been eating so much tamogitake, aka golden oyster mushroom, aka Pleurotus Citrinopileatus. It’s sooooo pretty! Yellow is my favorite color. My favorite shade of yellow is the yellow of this mushroom. It’s a very beautiful mushroom visually, and it’s very very tasty. I included a pic of a stir fry I made with it !

I have to also mention a fungus that is not technically a mushroom but is a FAVE! Bleeding Tooth, aka Devil’s Tooth, aka Hydnellum Peckii is another oozing fungus! I love the colors and textures of this fungus. I have drawn it many times and will definitely draw it again! It oozes spores and has little spines on the underside of its cap, and is overall just very weird and cool. Apparently it won’t hurt you to eat it, but it’s very yucky! Supposedly it grows in my area but I’ve never seen it in real life. I’m including some art I’ve made of this mushroom!

[wikipediadogdotnet]

one of the most underrated pieces of su lore is that some gems are just straight-up buildings. the sand dune castle, the teacup-style gem maze, the gem in the walls of the lighthouse- they dont have Humanoid Forms, theyre BUILDINGS!! LIVING BUILDINGS!!!!

they show up less as gems become more human-adjacent, BUT there are some spectacular very-non-human designs that show up later. just look at these

(from Homeworld Bound in su:f and Together Alone, s5 e27)

what i would give to have a significant character who was a humongous piece of furniture or wall decoration ....

[lockedtowers]

cassie, w a man who's 6'4": tree, giant, mountain, mammoth cassie, w any actual giant: idk he's tall ig

[darksouls2yuri]

oh thats so disappointing i thought the shuckers logo was also their mascot wtf

[leal-hound]

prince of death w/ a shell helm. maybe his giant cursed head opens up and he falls out like a pearl from an oyster. lets go boy you're gonna have fun i promist

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: ' a act a: c c a t … ..? act: ca cg a

Closest match: Crassostrea gigas genome assembly, linkage group: LG7 Common name: Pacific Giant Oyster

(image source)

here's a fun fact for you all: mix pickle juice and sprite

[herpsandbirds]

Planktonic Larvae of Sessile Marine Animals

The ocean is in constant motion, but some of its inhabitants have found a niche by remaining anchored in place. Animals as diverse as corals, sea anemones, oysters, giant clams, and barnacles simply fix themselves in the drive-thru of ocean currents, snapping up tasty food particles and plankton as they flow past. While that’s fine for fast food, you might wonder how animals that can’t move manage to spread across the globe! The answer lies in their ingenious reproductive strategies. Many sessile animals release planktonic larvae into the water—like the sea anemone larvae you see here. In a fleeting moment of freedom before they settle permanently, larvae ride the ocean currents in search of new habitats where they can anchor, grow, and continue the cycle of life.

photographs by by Jialing Cai | Homoplankton

via: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) 

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

AND HERE WE GO, result of yesterdays formation #paleostream. The early Miocene of the Austrian Paratethys, home of my many cool critters, but not Cetotherium, although we first expected it to be present here we discovered that during this time a small whales can't be confidently placed here. Despite that we stuck with this place and time of the Paratethys because it still offers a LOT of cool fauna, marine and terrestrial.

We choose three formations from Northern East Austria. The environment seems to be rather stable during this time.

here my quick and dirty size chart to figure out how the larger animals would relate in size to each other.

And now an earlier sketch of the composition, when we still thought we could have a Cetotherium in here. We afterwards also tried this with a local basking skark but that doesn't really fit this feeding style. Instead I settled eventually on Austromola being cleaned by seabirds.

One of my favorite parts in here was the giant oyster reef. Crassostrea gryphoides could grow up to 60 cm long and the town of Stetten has one of these preserved over several hundred square meter.

[keklordkaotic]

OPTIMUS PRIME AS AN OYSTER PLEASE.

Thanks for the prompt. To be completely honest I had no idea how to approach this one. Sorry if it’s a little rough.

Oystermus Prime. He’s a giant spiny oyster because I wasn’t sure how else I could make him look distinct. I’ll include pictures under the cut.

If anyone else wants to send me art or writing prompts, I’m open to just about anything right now so long as I’m familiar with the subject or can otherwise pull up a reference for whatever it is.