The name flashlight fishes usually refer to either the eyelight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratum, or the splitfin flashlight fish, Anomalops katoptron. Both are in the Beryciformes order of carnivorous, ray-finned fishes.
Photoblepharon palpebratum (left), Anomalops katoptron (right)
The most prominent feature of flashlight fishes are the large light organs present under each eye. Each sack contains colonies of bioluminescent bacteria which creates light simultaneously. The flashlight fishes are able to control the amount of light produced by either covering up the sack with a muscular flap, much like an eyelid or using rotational shutter-like mechanisms to rotate the sack inwards, essentially covering the light.
Photoblepharon palpebratum with its light organ open (left) and closed (right). Photo credit: Reef Builders
Commonly found in coral reefs and rocky regions of the eastern Indian and wider Pacific Oceans, it is one of the few shallow water species that can produce light. Predominantly nocturnal, they hide in caves and holes in the reef during the day. At night, they travel in schools far away from the reef surface, foraging for small planktonic prey for food.
It has been theorized that the light produced may help them locate and attract potential prey while allowing to communicate with other members of its species. They can also withdraw the light in the presence of predators to make a quick getaway
I found a company called “Frantic Meerkat” who makes journals whose sole purpose is to call me out
purple smart .. :3
im calling out everyone who says “this cleared my skin and watered my crops” when responding to images they like
i know you dont have crops
and i know you dont have skin
stop lying for a “joke”, this is a serious website for people to make posts on their blogs about their life experiences, not about making a ruckus and acting like fools
Dear spider-man:
comic by me/translate by@ inceptiontrash
so a few months ago a surfer surfed the biggest wave ever surfed
and it was awesome and broke a world record and it was widely ignored for the most outrageous reason:
idk if i posted this yet but this is the video that popped into my head when my friend said she may join a sorority
So about a year ago me and my friend Nathan were walking around the “Pick-a-Part” in Clarksville Tennessee… We were searching for car badges and a spoiler to put on his trashy conversion van. While going through the lot we found what is probably the single greatest car to ever drive on any road in the world.
You are looking at… a Dora the Explorer themed gangster car… I’ve seen spongebob themed cars, Newport themed cars, sports team themed cars, but THIS.
trumps them all.
OH BUT IT GETS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!
You see… there has to be a reason that a car like this…
Would end up in the junkyard… SO me and Nathan did some looking around and tried to figure out why…
I still can’t believe the decals on this…. wait…
HOLD ON ONE FUCKING SECOND!
OH!
OH MY FUCKING GOD!
YES! SOMEONE ACTUALLY GOT SHOT WHILE DRIVING THEIR DORA THE EXPLORER CAR IN CLARKSVILLE TENNESSEE!
And THAT, is the single greatest thing I’ve found in a junkyard to this day.
The other day my mom said something that i found really insulting to the 2d animation movies, she said that they stopped doing those because they were no longer appealing to the audience and that they were supposed to be discontinued, and i just thought how bullshit of an argument that is.
Comparing 2d animation with 3d and saying one is superior is like saying that digital art is better than traditional art, better than the fucking Mona Lisa, The creation of Adam, in fact, is a pretty ignorant comparation to do because one does not suprass the other, but new techniques are getting invented and we invest in those more.
Is just another way of animation, in fact, the shitty move all those studios did by closing their 2d animation studios eas pointless and it´s gonna cost them greatly, because someday people are gonna want to go back to the 2d animation and studios like Disney or Dreamworks will be too scared to do that, that will be the day that other studios will take upon them and give us what we want.
2D animation has the most beautiful animation i´ve ever seen, there´s something in it that i can´t explain that makes a big difference from watching cgi, and what i think would make a great combination is the great amount of details that you see in CGI and 3D movies into 2D techniques so you could expect to see shit like this
Atlantis (2001)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Sinbad (2003)
5 centimeters per second (2007)
The princess and the frog (2009)
Children who lost their Voices (2011)
Beyond the boundary (2015)
Your name (2016)
So whoever dares to say 2d animation is dead is wrong and also a bitch