New cephalopod art! 🦑🐙🐡 I took the base photo this summer of one of the gorgeous little Ruby Octopus @invertebabe.bsky.social was studying and then had a lot of fun this weekend playing with it in photopea. I usually strive to get my prints accurate to life but this was a fun experiment 🔗 in reply
I should be working but instead I'm hyperfixating on this genus of deep sea swimming worm that's scientifically called... Swima www.mbari.org/animal/bombe...
The midnight zone is a world of total darkness where predators lurk in the shadows ready to pounce on prey. The small bomber worm (Swima spp.) swims in the waters a few meters above the seafloor. A wr...
Battle of the cuties: shallow-water nearshore sweetie (Sepioteuthis) or deep-sea open-water adorbs (Histioteuthis)? 1️⃣ Sepioteuthis, aka Reef SquidSepioteuthis, aka Reef SquidHistioteuthis heteropsis, aka Cock-eyed StrawberryHistioteuthis heteropsis, aka Cock-eyed Strawberry📊 Show results
One of my most favorite bug people, @humanbyweight.bsky.social#SciArtwww.owlflyllc.com/publications
Forty-five years ago today, a US Vela nuclear-test-monitoring satellite detected the distinctive double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic Ocean. Although a White House scientific panel later dismissed the possibility, many speculated it was a clandestine Israeli test.
Hakai magazine providing coverage and context to a paper published last month which says #bowhead#whaleshakaimagazine.com/news/whales-...
wake up babe, new magnapinna sighting dropped 🦑🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0b...
YouTube video by Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre
The third #sciArtSeptember prompt for deep sea month is abyssal - the lightless, extreme pressure and low oxygen zone 4 to 6 km below the surface. 🐡🧪🐙 So I made a lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. 🧵
