porcelain .crabs (pt. i)

Today is World Ocean Day (June 8th).
It should be World Ocean Day every day. Few things are more important on our planet than our Oceans.

We should be way more protective of it and all the life inhabiting it. Of most of it we don’t even know it’s there yet. It’s weirdly ironic how we know more about the vastly bigger “space” up there than we know about the waters down here.

The beautiful creature in the picture is a porcelain crab. With its antennae-like filters it catches plankton and other tiny organisms from the water as food. It’s absolutely fascinating (and mesmerizing) to see them at work. I could (and have 😁) look(ed) at this process for minutes on end!