Check out this exceptional sea cucumber from Singapore. Real nature can be more bizarre than fiction.
The photograph is by @budak, well worth a follow on both Mastodon and Flickr. They find and photograph amazing animals.
A jewellery, the Necklacestarfish - Fromia monilis -
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A jelly bubbles cake or a Chocolate chip sea star
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This is a cucumber, a sea cucumber (holothurian) an animal in Lombok - Gili
There are echinoderms like starfish or sea urchins
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Blue sea star - Linckia laevigata
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A strange Starfish in Lombok - Gili - Indonesia
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It’s not every day that you see the phrase “Gummy squirrel with parasitic snail attached”, yet, here it is, on #RadioNewZealand.
Turns out a “gummy squirrel” is “a weird sea cucumber with a large sail-like extension” and this one was found on a recent deep sea expedition to the Bounty Trough “one of the world’s least explored deep-ocean ecosystems”.
It’s an interesting article about lots of new discoveries.