My current favorite animals are these guys, Sea Angels! They are a type of marine snail that emerged 130 million years ago 👴🏼🐌
They remind me of fairies or hummingbirds
They’re born with shells, which they lose as they mature. They also produce a deterrent to ward off fish that want to eat them, and a crustacean called amphipods will carry them around as a sort of shield.
Look how cool they are when they eat! They eat sea butterflies by pushing tentacles from their heads that have hooks and barbs on them so they can pull the sea butterflies out of their shells.
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Photo credit: Unknown/Mozart Cultures/Scientific American
Sea angels are a type of mollusk that has no shell, giving it the name Gymnosmata (Naked Body in greek) They’re tiny lil sea slugs that only really get up to 7 centimeters in length!! Sea angels are actually born with shells but lose them as they mature into adults. So basically as they age they shed their shell!! They are related to sea butterflies but they don’t act very familial as Sea Angels eat them!!!! Sea angels are carnivores and feed mainly on sea butterfly’s. Sea butterflies don’t lose their shells when they mature so the way Sea Angels feed on them is super freaky. Sea angels have a tentacle like part that’s called a Buccal Cone and they scoop the sea butterfly out of its shell after they capture it. They’re also transparent and you can see their inner workings.
Also Sea angels are hermaphrodites meaning the can switch between sexes. More specifically protandrous hermaphrodites meaning the start out male and then turn female over the course of their lives. During mating two sea angels come together and just stay there for hours fertilizing each other, and after fertilization the sea angel releases eggs out.
Sea angels are speculated to have originated 130 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, meaning they’ve survived mass extinction events and global warming so far. Although global warming accuse ocean acidification and sea angels and sea butterflies shells are built of calcium carbonite, which is eaten away by acid and made brittle and thin, so climate change can cause difficulties forming shells and become a threat.
a gender that is connected to the animal sea angels, a gender with connections to the sea and angels simultaneously, a gender in which you feel a divine connection to the sea, or a gender influenced by kinning sea angels
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As promised, here is a concept painting of my sea angel mermaid. I loved creating the sea angels as they have been really good practice at painting transparent/ translucent objects. As I mentioned in my previous post I was thinking of possibly making this into a print. Let me know if that is something you would be interested in. What unusual mer-creature would you like to see me draw next? #mermay2021 #mermay #mermaid #mermaids #seaangel #seaangelmermaid #ukartist #artist #artistsoninstagram #myart #art #adobephotoshop #photoshop #digitalart #digitalillustration #concept #conceptartist #conceptart #digitalpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CO4703TLsP7/?igshid=1wal2dnq5ztt3
Childhood Healing : The beach was a huge backdrop of my childhood, It’ll take a book to share what amazing, Angelic, scary & otherworldly things I had experienced. One thing for sure, the sea was always there for me, when my parents were fighting, when all the kids in the neighborhood excluded me, I was left with the sea, & it cherished me & I cherished it. The sea was like the parents & friends I’ve never had, & it has shown me things, it has given me things, magical things. I would cry my tears in wading on the sea shore cause I knew how valuable tears are to the sea, they are from the sea, they are the sea’s secret magic & only those whom the world has detested, whose tears are the most potent of investments, can ever be given the secrets of the sea. #SeaMagic #SeaWizard #SeaAngel #TheMagician #Beach #Sea #Ocean #Childhood #ChildhoodHealing #OceanTherapy #MAGIC #love #spirituality #God #Angel #Spirit #Divine #Tarot #Astrology (at Malibu Beach, Malibu California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPPJ2k4hKVe/?utm_medium=tumblr
Redesigned my OC Trevor aka the dude that was in my final project like a year ago whose story I’m totally...not going to use for a fun little comic + the webtoons short story contest thing
Also I streamed this on twitch so if y’all are into streaming you should totally give me a follow on there ;) I’m like...40 away from being able to use custom emotes *sobs*. Twitch.tv/sarcasticbirdd