They look like little Loch Ness monsters???
About to have myself a long-awaited, extremely pleasant and serene night of sleep. For no particular reason. (01/24/23)
Have some emotionally expressive art.
This is a weird one. And I don't know if it is "one" at all.
These weird drag marks on the garbage can reminded me a lot of marks left by insects like leaf miners. It seems to be some type of drag in the dirt stuck to the can, so not sure if any bug would spend its time crawling through it or eating the dirt up or something. It just stood out right away and seems weird. Definitely caused by something but am not sure what, or if that "what" is an alive thing.
It crossed my mind that it could be from the garbage men/garbage truck or something but I don't really see how. These marks were pretty small. And they weren't dents or anything, they were just drags in the mud. So, whatever it was was pretty gentle. Gentle and small.
I really don't know but Google was not helpful and I'm still relatively convinced an alive-thing did it. I'm going to go with "insects" for now just because that's what I would suspect. But could easily be super wrong.
This specimen is 12 years of age today.
Also, I made this specimen.
What is making these mud (?) shelters? they were covering all rocks in the area (usually submerged)
Uncle Dallon the centipede.
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A deep-sea gorgonian growing on the nose of the sunken RMS 'Titanic'. Photographed with my participation during the dive 1/240 of the deep-sea manned submersible 'Mir-2' during the 42nd cruise of the research vessel 'Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'. The depth is 3850 m. The photo was previously used in my article (Vinogradov G.M. 2000. Growth rate of the colony of a deep-water gorgonarian Chrysogorgia agassizi: in situ observations // Ophelia, 53 (2): 101−103, fig. 2), the gorgonian was identified by the second, collected, specimen as Ch. agassizi. Later T.N. Molodtsova (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS) reidentifited it as Ch. campanula (Molodtsova T.N., Sanamyan N.P., Keller N.B. 2008. Anthozoa from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone // Marine Biology Research, 4 (1): 112−130, p. 122). Mentioned articles can be found on Research Gate (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233062908_Growth_rate_of_the_colony_of_a_deep-water_Gorgonarian_Chrysogorgia_agassizi_In_situ_observations; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249019633_Anthozoa_from_the_northern_Mid-Atlantic_Ridge_and_Charlie-Gibbs_Fracture_Zone).
Глубоководная горгонария, вырасшая на релинге носа затонувшего «Титаника». Сфотографирована при моём участии во время погружения глубоководного аппарата «Мир-2» № 1/240 в 42 рейсе научно-исследовательского судна «Академик Мстислав Келдыш». Глубина 3850 м. Фотография ранее была использована в моей статье (Vinogradov G.M. 2000. Growth rate of the colony of a deep-water gorgonarian Chrysogorgia agassizi: in situ observations // Ophelia, 53(2): 101−103, fig. 2), горгонария была определена по второму, собранному, экземпляру как Ch. agassizi. Позже Т.Н. Молодцова (Институт океанологии РАН) переопределила её как Ch. сampanula (Molodtsova T.N., Sanamyan N.P., Keller N.B. 2008. Anthozoa from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone // Marine Biology Research, 4(1): 112−130, p. 122). Упомянутые статьи можно найти на Research Gate (см. ссылки выше, в английском тексте).
Not sure what kind of animal this was. Seen in Wilkes Barre. Not sure if it is a ferret or a skunk. Was walking in a slithery-type way. Definitely not a cat. Black body white dot on head and tail.