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༄ the silly little sea creature for today is lyngbya (lyngbya wollei) a species of cyanobacteria 🦠 ༄ fun fact: this blue-green algae can form dense “mats” on the surface of bodies of water, known as lyngbya blooms, that can actually harm humans and local organisms

༄ the silly little sea creature for this week is the ringed seal (pusa hispida), the smallest and most common arctic seal 🦭 ༄ fun fact: these seals have claws 2.5+ cm thick that they use to claw out breathing holes within the ice sheets in the arctic ecosystem

༄ the silly little sea creature for this week is the persian carpet flatworm (pseudobiceros bedfordi) 🪱 ༄ fun fact: this species is unique due to its hermaphroditic nature and unique mating behavior called “penis fencing”

— the silly little sea creature for this week is the charnia, an extinct organism from the ediacaran biota !! — fun fact: these frond-like fern-resembling beings are considered some of the earliest known multicellular organisms !!

— today’s silly little sea creature is lophelia pertusa, a species of deep-sea coral !! — fun fact: despite previous beliefs that all coral require sunlight to live, this species provides structure and habitation for other marine life on the cold and dark ocean floor

— the silly little sea creature for this week is the leopard chimaera (chimaera panthera) !! — fun fact: this rare cartilaginous deep-sea fish is only endemic to the open oceans around new zealand !!

— the silly little sea creature for this week is the blue-kneed sea spider (anoplodactylus evansi) !! 🕷️ — fun fact: these tiny marine arthropods can swallow prey up to six times their own size !!!

— the silly little sea creature for this week is baird’s beaked whale (berardius bairdii) !! 🐋 — fun fact: this species is the largest of all the beaked whales, and are typically difficult to study due to their propensity for deeper areas of the ocean !!

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— the silly little sea creature for this week is the peach blossom jellyfish (craspedacusta sowerbii) !! 🪼 — fun fact: these harmless freshwater jellyfish are incredible indicators of the water quality, nutrient availability, and the health of food webs of an area !!

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