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February 22, 2018 237 notes noorshirazie Source

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via noorshirazie)

February 22, 2018 148 notes islamic-art-and-quotes

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اللَّهُ وَلِيُّ الْمُتَّقِينَ

Allah is the Guardian of the righteous.

Source: khattat.deviantart.com, via IslamicArtDB

February 22, 2018 23,009 notes ikeracity Source

todropscience

The marine eels and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha have a leptocephalus larval stage, which are flat and transparent. This group is quite diverse, containing 801 species in 24 orders, 24 families and 156 genera (super diverse).

Leptocephali have compressed bodies that contain jelly-like substances on the inside, with a thin layer of muscle with visible myomeres on the outside, a simple tube as a gut, dorsal and anal fins, but they lack pelvic fins. They also don’t have any red blood cells (most likely is respiration by passive diffusion), which they only begin produce when the change into the juvenile glass eel stage. Appears to feed on marine snow, tiny free-floating particles in the ocean.

This large size leptocephalus must be a species of Muraenidae (moray eels), and probably the larva of a long thin ribbon eel, which is metamorphosing, and is entering shallow water to finish metamorphosis into a young eel, in Bali, Indonesia.

Video: Filmed by Barry Haythorne and Rob Rutgers, HRF U/W Production

bogleech

Oh yeah it bears mentioning that one of these moray larvae are just about a foot long, growing many times that as adults.

But in the deep sea abyss,

There are some eel larvae six feet in length

…….And we don’t know what kind of eels they turn into

bogleech

Lots of people surprised that eels have larvae at all but actually many fish have larvae!

This is the larva of a giant sunfish:

This is the larva of a colorful little reef fish called a basslet and the thing on its back is a chain of flotation devices:

This larval ribbonfish (I think) has its intestines in a bag outside its body for reasons we aren’t certain:

And my favorite thing ever, the larval viperfish and dragonfishes are skinny wormy things with duck bills and eye stalks:

As they mature into terrifying beautiful sea demons, the eye stalks are “wound up” by the skull and you can still find them coiled inside the sockets of the adults!