I've always loved marine biology, and the weirder ocean life is, the cooler it is, in my opinion. Deep-sea fish have some amazing adaptations for their environment that make them look like some of the most alien things on the planet, and I'm not sure science fiction could ever have come up with a concept as strange and wonderful as the barreleye fish (which you may be familiar with if you play Animal Crossing).
One of my goals with my Redbubble store is to give more love and merch to species both extinct and extant that aren't as well-represented in general culture, but are beloved by science nerds. If you search "dinosaurs" on Redbubble, you'll probably get about a million designs featuring T. rex or Velociraptor or Stegosaurus. But what about people who love Scutellosaurus? What about people like my friend Maggie Jo Widdicombe who are over the moon for Pachyrhinosaurus? Nature is so varied and amazing in all its facets--I think we should be celebrating all of it, not just the species that have made their way into the common vernacular.
So I'm spreading the love for the barreleye, the most optimistic creature in the sea!
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