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Imagine this waking up next to your lover seeing the sunset over the ocean, having a double shot coffee and the going for a surf naked, it doesn’t matter because there is no one around. you work during the day at your favourite store and come home swimming like a mermaid till your hands are crippled and your legs feel like they are about to fall off. Love at night, swim in the day. Not having a care in the world. This photo is one of my favourites ever, i want this.
Black Sea Nettle (Chrysaora achlyos)
Also known as the black jellyfish, the black sea nettle is a species of true jellyfish found throughout the Western seaboard of the Pacific Ocean. Like other scyphozoan jellies the black sea nettle is carnivorous and will feed on any plankton that swim into its stinging tentacles. Its sting is powerful enough to kill or stun small animals but will only cause a painful sting that will last for about forty minutes in humans.
Phylogeny
Animalia-Cnidaria-Scyphozoa-Semaeostomaeae-Pelagiidae-Chrysaora-achlyos
This is maybe one of the greatest wild life phenomenon on the planet ever captured on lens!
In the sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, a massive congregation of Munkiana Devil Rays, relative of manta rays, was captured by a German photographer Florian Schulz, displaying unusual event which he dubbed as the Flight of the Rays.
But as this wonderful perspective shows, for all the individuals leaping out that are visible at sea level, there are many more below the surface. The jaw-dropping image below shows only a quarter of the whole scene.
No one knows why the rays gather like this, whether to mate, herd prey or migrate or just for the sheer joy of being together.
Understanding the Elusive Giant Octopus
Typewriter Series #87 by Tyler Knott Gregson
Mason Barnes
