Coffee & Tentacles

Brilliant and seemingly glowing, the bloodybelly comb jelly comes in different shades of red but always has a blood-red stomach. The sparkling display on the outside comes from light diffracting from tiny transparent, hair-like cilia. These beat continuously, propelling the jelly through the water. [X]

Giant Squid, Elusive Creature of the Deep, Gets a Vivid Close-Up

This little guy is giving Harry Houdini a run for his money.

Amanda Rodriguez

Blue-ringed octopuses are among the deadliest animals in the sea. Although they are about the size of a golf ball, they can pose a deadly threat to humans. When the octopus is agitated, the brown patches darken dramatically, and iridescent blue rings appear and pulsate. In a bite or even skin to skin contacts, this octopus passes on a deadly venom. Within five to ten minutes, the victim begins to experience numbness, progressive muscular weakness and difficulty breathing and swallowing. Death may result because of cerebral anoxia. (Source)

Colossal squid tries to steal some Russians’ lunch money, gets poked with a stick, goes home.

Teacup Octopus by Fairchildart

This jelly harbored a few fish and a brittlestar by Klaus Stiefel

Medusa by MerMate

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The shape is similar either by convergence, which is likely, or according to some hypotheses, because these animals may have once borrowed the shells of nautiloids back when such animals dominated the oceans. The paper could have begun as a lining for the borrowed home and continued to be useful even after most of the shelled cephalopods died out.

Lybia tessellata is a species of small crab that is found in shallow parts of the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the pom-pom crab or boxer crab because of its habit of carrying a sea anemone around in each of its claws, these resembling pom-poms or boxing gloves. They carry it around for defense. 

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Blue-ringed octopuses are among the deadliest animals in the sea. Although they are about the size of a golf ball, they can pose a deadly threat to humans. When the octopus is agitated, the brown patches darken dramatically, and iridescent blue rings appear and pulsate. In a bite or even skin to skin contacts, this octopus passes on a deadly venom. Within five to ten minutes, the victim begins to experience numbness, progressive muscular weakness and difficulty breathing and swallowing. Death may result because of cerebral anoxia. (Source)

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Although it does look like a strange, alien sea creature basket stars are a classified species. They have 5 arms which branch of to catch prey. They use these arms to move along and climb coral. They spread around their “branchlets” to create a large net and capture smaller sea creatures. (Article)