bogleech:

babyanimalgifs:

This is not CGI. This is a real-life creature known as a sea angel (Clione sp.) hovering under ice in the White Sea, Russia. Credit: Alexander Semenov 

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I know almost everybody following me knows this but I can’t let this beautiful video go by without adding that the sea angel is a predator of another swimming mollusk, the “sea butterfly,” and pulls sea butterflies out of their shells with a set of retractable tentacles, covered in tiny barbs:

I love that they actually animate this in Animal Crossing: New Horizons now