Creatures of the deep

BIOLUMINESCENT NATURE, GLOWING CREATURES

Illustration for Gwent

Diamond squid at a depth of 180 meters in the Philippines by photographer Diamond Stars.

Dwelling in the dark cold depths of our oceans. The Kraken! Akin to squids, the gigantic masters of the sea are highly destructive and competent at carrying out their evil deeds! Capable of crushing the hull of a Galleons, wipe out entire islands and coasts, and cast old magic!

Beneath the ocean's twilight zone, where sunlight surrenders to eternal darkness, the goblin shark reigns as one of nature’s most enigmatic creations. Rarely glimpsed and steeped in mystery, this deep-sea predator seems less a creature of this world and more an emissary from some primordial era. With its elongated, blade-like snout and jaws that extend

CENTipede = ONE HUNDRED legs. Gross.

The Pacific Ocean teems with incredible marine life, from tiny plankton to massive whales. Scientists keep finding new species that change what we know about

Set against the stark backdrops attainable only during blackwater dives, larval fish become strange, otherworldly specimens with glasslike bodies and translucent fins that billow outward. Their delicate, still-developing anatomies are the subjects of Steven Kovacs’s underwater photos, which frame the young creatures at such precarious stages of life. Living in Palm Beach, Kovacs (previously) frequentsContinue reading "Underwater Photos by Steven Kovacs Frame the Shimmering Unearthly Bodies…