Did you know that 4000 metres bellow the ocean there are chemosynthetic bacteria that are specifically evolved to digest the wood of trees that have grown on land?
The wood on the sea floor can come from trees that fall into lakes and end up in the ocean, or wooden ships that have sunken. (Called 'Wood-falls')
The reason why deep marine organisms are able to digest wood despite never seeing the light of day, let alone a plant - since plants are unable to grow in the deep ocean because of a lack of sunlight - is because the ocean is so isolated and scarce of food that when a new food source is suddenly available, organisms rapidly evolve to be able to eat it.
This is called 'Adaptive Radiation', and can also occur on isolated islands.
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Living in the sea
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insta - zevvxn
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Hii guys over on toyhouse I’ve opened commissions + I’ve got some adopts up!! First official time posting both!!
Feel free to message me here or on toyhouse if you’re interested in anything :3
Adopts here:
>>> https://toyhou.se/26387856.ocean-inspired-adopts <<<
Commissions here:
>>> https://toyhou.se/26227914.commissions-open <<<
And some screenshots from my commissions page in case you don’t want to switch browsers, but the links have much better quality pics:
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Purchase, customize and print the most unique wedding invitation on the market.
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Floating Hamlet by 03-3
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bellupteryx deep sea alt,,,,,
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not really an oc i designed this thing for a contest
(scrapped bonus submission below)
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You have a really cool name!! Anyways sharks are awesome can you tell me your three favorite sharks and where I can learn literally everything on them
OFC OFC 💗💗
i really like the shark trust for weight, length, diet (etc.) stuff like that bc they condense it really well and it’s not all in one paragraph (if u get me)
the yt channel deep marine scenes is super good for like podcast type fact files (even though their audio quality really bugs me 😭)
thresher shark
shark trust link + deep marine scenes link
2. epaulette shark
shark trust link + deep marine scenes link
3. pyjama shark
no shark trust link for pyjama :(
deep marine scenes link for pyjama
(p.s. have not tested the links cba so lmk if they’re a bit dodge
p.p.s idk if ur talking abt my actual name (xanthe) or my username but either way AAAH THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT MEANS SO MUCHH)
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🌊 𓂃 OCEANiC SYSTEM FLAG 〰️
— OCEANiC SYSTEM FLAG : a flag for systems who feel a connection to, feel represented by, and/or just like the ocean
created by us ♡ requested by no one ♡ not an orientation/gender/origin
[PT: oceanic system flag~ oceanic system flag: a flag for systems who feel a connection to, feel represented by, and/or just like the ocean. created by us. requested by no one. not an orientation/gender/origin. /END PT]
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@itszahraig
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I don't typically draw fan art but there was that one time in 2019 when I was stuck on a plane and couldn't stop thinking about nautical spidersona designs
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Baby octopuses still in their eggs.
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