Images Dated 14th November 2019

Antarctic toothfish, Dissostichus mawsoni. It's the largest midwater fish in the Southern Ocean, it Date: 14-Nov-19

Cookiecutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis. Ventral view. The name cookiecutter shark refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut out with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine mammals and fishes, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies. It also consumes whole smaller prey such as squid. Cookiecutter sharks have adaptations for hovering in the water column and likely rely on stealth and subterfuge to capture more active prey. Its dark collar seems to mimic the silhouette of a small fish, while the rest of its body blends into the downwelling light via its ventral photophores. When a would-be predator approaches the lure, the shark attaches itself using its suctorial lips and specialized pharynx and neatly excises a chunk of flesh using its bandsaw-like set of lower teeth. Atlantic Ocean Cookiecutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis. Ventral view. The name cookiecutter shark refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut out with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine mammals and fishes, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies. It also consumes whole smaller prey such as squid. Cookiecutter sharks have adaptations for hovering in the water column and likely rely on stealth and subterfuge to capture more active prey. Its dark collar seems to mimic the silhouette of a small fish, while the rest of its body blends into the downwelling light via its ventral photophores. When a would-be predator approaches the lure, the shark attaches itself using its suctorial lips and specialized pharynx and neatly excises a chunk of flesh using its bandsaw-like set of lower teeth. Atlantic Ocean

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Branches of white plum blossom against a full moon

Branches of white plum blossom against a full moon. With calligraphy and seal. Color woodblock mokuhanga from Kaishien Gaden, Japanese edition of Wang Gai's Jieziyuan Huazhaun or Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, Second Collection, Ichimura Bunko, Tokyo, 1812

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Syphilitic chancres on the face

Syphilitic chancres on the face. Indurated chancres to the forehead, eyelids, tongue and lips, and ecthymatous chancre to the chin. Chromolithograph by T. Sinclaire from Freeman J. Bumstead's Atlas of Venereal Diseases, Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia, 1868. First American edition of Auguste Cullerier's Precis iconographique des maladies veneriennes. Chromolithograph by T. Sinclaire from Freeman J. Bumstead's Atlas of Venereal Diseases, Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia, 1868. First American edition of Auguste Cullerier's Precis iconographique des maladies veneriennes

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