#seastars

the noble starfish

Schmidt Ocean dive, Mar Del Plata Canyon, Argentina (timestamped)

L-R, U-D: a wild specimen clung on a rock at low tide, Victoria, BC. A small individual in the process of limb regeneration, Deception pass, WA. A beached specimen displaying color contrast against substrate, Clallam bay, WA. Pictures by me.

A bright red beauty often spotted along sheltered beaches of the American west coast, the blood star, belonging to the complex Henricia, is not one species, but rather a complex of closely related stars found in the Pacific Ocean ranging from Baja California up to northern Alaska.

These slender, bright vivid carmine seastars can range in color from a deep red to a light orange. They feast on a variety of demosponges and bacteria, which it sweeps into its mouth via ciliated tracts. Like all stars, it also has the unique ability to eject its stomach, which it may use to feed on small sponge and bryozoans by melting them with its acid!

These stars can be found up and down much of the west coast of North America, though different subspecies inhabit different regions.

stargazer rocket x captain rocket. call this sea of stars of seastars or smth.

like imagine, stargazer rocket, as a prince of the stars, dating captain rocket, a pirate who’ sailing across the sea of stars, looking for treasure. when stargazer finds captain, he’s curious as to why someone like him is looking across the entire galaxy. then, when captain sees stargazer, he deems his the treasure he’s been looking for. very terrible flirting ensues, but captain manages to get through stargazer’s oblivious mind.

I think I let someone put Subspace x himself once but didn’t add it to the list I’ll check sometimmmeee but they have different names so they technically get to go with the rest of them. Also the bio x bio was different since theres canonically a bunch of them

🐟 ⋆｡˚ Ahoy ocean lovers! ⋆｡𓇼 🐳

🌊 From the mysterious depths of the seven seas, we bring you a treasure trove of knowledge! !.·˚ ༘

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SEAHORSES ARE INTO MPREG?

Its weird, unexpected but partially true. It may come as a surprise to some but the reproduction of seahorses is much different than what we are used to seeing in the animal kingdom!

Seahorses have a very complex and long courtship ritual which ends with the female using her ovipositor to insert her eggs inside the male’s brood pouch. The gestation period varies highly around 1 month long and once the time comes, the male will expel the babies, not a couple, not tens, but hundreds or even a thousand!

Now this is a stay-at-home dad!