“A sugar compound found in sea cucumbers could hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer. (…) Yet, these animals have been continually harvested for culinary use, suffering great losses as overharvesting began to explode in the latter half of the 20th century.”
#SeaCucumber #Cancer
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/sea-cucumbers-could-be-the-key-to-stopping-cancer-growth-with-a-rare-sugar

Holothuroid Dendrochirotida, a sea cucumber, the body is underground
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #ocean #sealife #marinelife #seacucumber #reef #echinoderms

A monster, no a sea cucumber
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #ocean #sealife #marinelife #seacucumber #holoturie

Holothuroidea - Sea cucumbers
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #dive&stay #giliair #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #seacucumber #Holothuroidea

#SeaCucumber

#okeanos #noaa #hawaii

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.

https://flic.kr/p/2qTe1uR

#marine #photography #SeaCucumber #Echinoderm

#NewSpecies
New sea cucumber from west #pacific just surfaced:

Bathyplotes varicolumna

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FAE422C6-6426-522C-B71E-AE9315D6ACD9
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1231.142729
#ZooKeys #BathyplotesVaricolumna

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #echinodermata #seacucumber #deepsea

Skin of a leopard sea cucumber
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #trawangan #holidays #sealife #marinelife #ocean #seacucumber #echinoderms

If you look really closely you'll see that I painted the normal human head before painting a basking shark over her. #seaCucumber #sharks

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, hadal - which refers to the deepest ocean trenches 6 km or more, it’s the headless chicken monster!

This is a lino block print of a strange-looking sea cucumber called Enypniastes eximia, the swimming sea cucumber, the pink see-through fantasia or the headless chicken monster!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axS98HDkLg

#noaa #seacucumber

This is a cucumber, a sea cucumber (holothurian) an animal in Lombok - Gili
There are echinoderms like starfish or sea urchins
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #pets #trawangan #ocean #sealife #marinelife #echinoderm #seacucumber #cucumber #holothurian

A Sea Cucumber (Holothuria sp.) that's been left high and dry in the wake of Storm Ashley.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #seacucumber #stormashley #Ireland

⭕️കൊച്ചിയിൽ കടൽ വെള്ളരി വിൽപ്പന: നാലുപേർ അറസ്റ്റിൽ, 106 കിലോ പിടിച്ചെടുത്തു
Read full story: https://nivadaily.com/four-arrested-kochi-sea-cucumber-smuggling-106-kg-seized/
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#Kochi #Lakshadweep #SeaCucumber #WildlifeCrime

For the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, hadal - which refers to the deepest ocean trenches 6 km or more, it’s the headless chicken monster!

This is a lino block print of a strange-looking sea cucumber called Enypniastes eximia, the swimming sea cucumber, the pink see-through fantasia or the headless chicken monster! It is printed by hand on delicate 8" x 8" Japanese mulberry paper. 🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #MastoArt

@alanb @jezebelkat

I just realized that asking chatGPT to make stupid LinkedIn posts is more fun than reading serious LinkedIn posts people make with AI :fingerguns:

#linkedin #businessInsights #seaCucumber

Marine Life at the Shikoku Aquarium (Summer 2024)

https://www.liminalweb.site/marine-life-at-the-shikoku-aquarium-summer-2024/

Yesterday was our annual (?) visit to the Shikoku Aquarium.
First of all, if you’re not familiar with zoos, aquariums, and other places displaying animals in Japan, be warned. Those are not for the faint of heart. Very unfortunately, in Japan, such places are still designed around the visitors’ entertainment and not for the animals’ […]

#aquarium #crab #fish #Japan #jellyfish #morayEel #seaCucumber #shark

This Triangle Sea Cucumber is the 20th Sea Creature and it brings awesome news!! 🤩
The BE THE SEA Kickstarter reached its first stretch goal: 4 Sea Creature postcards are a fact! 🥳
Feel free to leave me a comment saying which of them so far you think should become a postcard—I’ll be keeping track of every vote I’ve gotten in different places.
✨
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/bethesea
😎
#bethesea #seacreatureoftheday #seacucumber #echinoderm #illustration

New #DeepSea Cucumber Has 100 Feet
https://deepseanews.com/2024/04/new-deep-sea-cucumber-has-100-feet/

"A #NewSpecies of #SeaCucumber has over 100 feet in alternating two or three rows... discovered at depth up to 3.8 kilometers deep... nearly 30 centimeters long and 10 wide"

I made a felt and embroidery floss floss sea cucumber armature! Hopefully soon I can get an animation test going for this.

#MastoArt #seacucumber #ocean #FiberArt #stopmotion