Fishes In Colour: Marine And Freshwater. Written By Gwynne Vevers. Illustrated By Henning Anthon. 1978.

Colorata Goblin Shark

So, in a previous tag response on the diver resisting the urge to pet the sixgill shark, I pointed out that we don’t know how a bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Bonaterre, 1788), would respond to human touch outside of duress. Well… as of today, that’s no longer the case. Here’s a video from John Sanders’ channel; just uploaded. We can see the shark settled to the floor, as it did in the GIF. It may even be the same shark. She appears unbothered by the touch, and isn’t fighting and isn’t trying to get away. In this video, we have two perspectives of the same event. So, it appears that this specific H. griseus doesn’t mind attention from humans. Reminder that every shark has a different personality, and we need more evidence before we can say that H. griseus is okay with touch and attention like this.

Noguchi Yukoku (1825 - 1898)

by Barbara am Ende

I sculptured a goldfish last light, this is a copy of my new goldfish Fubby.

A juvenile Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) in Flinders Rangers, South Australia

by Julian Robinson

I attempted that mystery color palette challenge, and I must say I do enjoy the lad

Bud Flood: sir can I interest you-

Drake: absolutely fucking not

You know, Bud was probably a door to door sales person before he was the CEO of his water bottle company. Because after getting bombarded by one today, it takes a mix of charisma and manipulation to get into people’s houses and take up 2 hours of their time just to talk about their product. Like, I can imagine Bud doing that so easily. Maybe not about water– maybe he sold washing machines. But imagine him swooping in on more timid people and walking away with a bunch of money for a product he knows will break just a little after warrenty runs out.

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