Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

medieisme:

cosmictuesdays:

trynottodrown:

zooophagous:

bugcthulhu:

filbypott:

rafzombie:

i know its a stingray but it looks like cthulhu popped his head up to say hi

I thought it was a giant squid.

holy shit they get this big?

They do get this big! They also tame relatively easily and are surprisingly docile animals. Its popular to swim with them in many beachy areas. As long as you’re not stupid and mean to them, your odds of being hurt by them are very low.

I had the opportunity to swim with a school of them on a sandbar once and I must say they are very aggreeable animals, though they do have the tendency to mob you if you have food, and they can be quite heavy. Still very pleasant animals.

ha cthulhu

Humans will pet anything. If aliens come, that might be what distinguishes us from the rest of the galaxy.

“we were going to blow them up, but they engaged in an oddly pleasing patting ritual and, well, it was nice.”

(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)

the-chemical-demon:

nubbsgalore:

closely related to sharks but with long, flat bodies and wing-like pectoral fins, mobula rays are ideally suited to swooping through the water - here off the gulf of california - yet seem equally at home in the air, so much so that they have earned the name “flying rays”. mobula rays can reach heights of more than two metres, remaining airborne for several seconds. 

mobula rays are quite elusive and difficult to study, so biologists are not quite sure why they jump out of the water. theories vary from a means of communication, to a mating ritual (though both males and females jump), or as a way to shed themselves of parasites. they could also be jumping as a way of better corralling their pray, as seen with them swimming in a circular formation. 

what is known about mobula rays is that they reach sexual maturity late and their investment in their offspring is more akin to mammals than other fishes, usually producing just a single pup after long pregnancies, all of which makes them extremely vulnerable to commercial fishing, especially as a species that likes to come together in large groups.

flap flaps 

MAJESTIC flap flaps, thank you very much.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)