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Please appreciate this pic of me loosing my mind over this fish I caught.
Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.
I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.
My piece for @swimonzine - you can still get the zine and support the shark conservation here!
did you hear about the new hammerhead shark species? :o
Only after I got this ask!!!!!
Sphyrna alleni, what a shark!!!! According to the articles it can be distinguished morphologically from the bonnethead thanks to the shape of its cephalofoil and its bigger number of vertebrae. The second article proposes that this species could be called a shovelbill shark as its common name!
This is one magnificent find, no doubt only made possible with a dedicated team of scientists and Belizean fishers! Wonder what other species there are hiding in plain sight that we just haven't been able to find, because they're so similar to other well-known species....
I love butterfly rays because half of the images of them online come in two varieties and it’s
a) a baybey!
b) I know what you are.
Note really feeling up to snuff for much still so have another stardew messy sketch. Fish <3
