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Ink doodle of a birg diving for stalked bivalves on a rocky seabed.

Long, bottle-brushlike filter feeders sway gently behind them, their delicate tentacles protected by needle sharp spines nestled among them.

Pink and black manta rays

Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas

Devonian period (419 to 359 mya): the age of fish! Bony fish, jawless fish, placoderms, sharks, etc.

By Elizabeth Shreeve and illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

Tiny turtle had 104 PIECES of plastic in its intestines when it washed up on a Florida beach and died.

The devastating discovery was reported by the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, according to a Tuesday Facebook post.

‘This turtle, which would fit in the palm of your hand, had eaten 104 pieces of plastic,’ the post says.

Garbage dumped in the ocean can last centuries, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A plastic bag can last 10 to 20 years and plastic straws as long as 200 before they degrade, reports the administration.

A six-ring plastic drink holder can linger around for 400 years and plastic water bottles 450.

The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, a cooperative project of the City of Boca Raton, the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, Florida Atlantic University, and Friends of Gumbo Limbo, monitors over 800 sea turtle nests each year within a five mile span of beaches.

'We rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick and injured sea turtles,’ says the group on its website. 'We release more than 9,000 stranded sea turtle hatchlings each nesting season.’

The group, during what is described as 'washback’ season reported that 'weak, tiny turtles are washing up along the coastline needing our help.’

The one turtle found with the deadly plastic pieces in its belly, wasn’t alone, according to the group.

Ooh look what just came in the mail I’ll be adding them to my shop soon!

This is a juvenile mola mola, or ocean sunfish, the largest species of bony fish. It comes to most people’s surprise that such a large adult animal produces such small and vulnerable offspring (when first hatched they are a mere 2mm), but they also produce around 300 million eggs, their fecundity surpassing all other vertebrates on earth! This particular youngster was spit up by another fish that was caught, and had already passed away. (Credit to @derin.goya.fishing on Instagram)