anomalocaris

OMGGGGGG CUTIES

I FORGOT HIS PEIRCING

putting him in the snowglobe soon

and the audience of 3-5 people goes wilddd

i should do trades while i dont have any comms 🤔

ocs is all i drawwww

new character concept + claudio

if you make it get a lee's mango custard donut for me ..............

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Misunderstandings of carcinization (and therefore what meaning we extract from evolution) are everywhere right now.

Those ideas need to die because there is no ultimate form. Not crabs, not anyone.

With eugenics on the rise (understatement), it bears repeating!

I thought they might be but I didn't take clear pictures of them (didn't notice them when I was there)!!

theyre so delightful!! i didn't know they carry their babies too... so cute

and some dnd doodles

pile worm Nereis vexillosa

scaleworm, Polynoidae

limpet on .... something

high cockscomb Anoplarchus purpurescens

big day for worms honestly. and no one tell the cockscomb he's not an invert he wants to feel included

yes!! omg ive only seen them in aquariums theyre so cute though

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he looks like he has little vampire fangs even... vampire crab wannabe

rockweed isopod Pentidotea wosnesenskii

ribbonworm Emplectonema viride

mottled star Evasterias troschelii

purple shore crab Hemigrapsus nudus (with a smiley face on his back!)

#invertefest some finds from my last tidepools visit

A close view of a Hairy hermit's antennules, the small pair of antennae between the hermit's eyes. Where the antennae are a simple dotted line, the antennules are a complex organ. Seen here, the stalk has two sections, the first olive green ending in a white ring, the second green and brown with a thin yellowish line at the joint. Then comes the working apparatus; a conical projection, ringed, blue-green fading to olive green, ending in a hairy spike. Below that, the "flag" a clump of fine, sensitive hairs; these vary in colour with the light, often looking like a candle flame. And below that, again, another dotted-line spike. What information the hermit receives from all this, we're only beginning to discover. On either side of the antennules are the eyes, these (the light changes the apparent colour) on green stalks with touches of blue; the eyes have two dark stripes; here the main colour looks yellow. This is an older hermit, and it's a long time since the last molt; the cephalothorax is cluttered wtih diatom fuzz and bits of sand.

Nose, taste buds, ears, immune system, map: the antennule. It detects smell, taste, and vibrations (like sound), recognizes pathogens and produces meds. Like the eyes, each antennule moves independently. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

#misu goofy ass

small watercolor on a pink background of opabinia proffering a bunch of corals as a bouquet in it's mouth claw

o-oh.. opabinia!! Are those for me? you shouldn't have!

a courting pair of female Terminonatator bond by cooperating in processing their latest kill. they rip into the juvenile mosasaur with their large teeth, ripping it apart by holding on to either end and pulling away with their muscular necks and flippers. the dappled light of the surface can be seen behind them Terminonatator is an extremely pin headed elasmosaur, long necked marine reptiles with four powerful flippers that they used to propel themselves through the water. Terminonatator had a very long neck and was most likely macropredatory based on the size of its teeth

a mated pair of female Coelurus travel through an area of open scrubland, one of the females has found a particularly interesting stick that she shows to her mate. Coelurus is a small theropod dinosaur that has had a complicated history of study with many species being described and then split from the genus, it had a long neck and tail and most likely hunted small mammals and reptiles, maybe birds and amphibians

a mated pair of male Apatosaurus greet each other with a nuzzle Apatosaurus is a kind of sauropod (typically long necked and usually large quadrupedal reptiles) and specifically an apatosaurine (a group of sauropods that were very robust with shorter necks than other sauropods). Apatosaurus had the thickest neck of the group and it's speculated that they would've used them to fight somewhat like the way giraffes do

a pair of female Camptorhynchus labradorius (labrador ducks) mate in open water Labrador ducks are an extinct genus of duck closely related to the still living Steller's eider, they were presumed extinct in 1878. Their bills are large and robust as they fed on small hard-shelled animals living in the sediment. they most likely used their soft beaks to probe the bottom of coastal waters for molluscs and crustaceans, it was noted by fishermen that labrador ducks were sometimes caught on fishing lines baited with mussels

happy #PrideMonth btw

#gayleoart #paleoart #sciart

theres tons and tons of l. sclopetarius, a. diadematus, p. phalangioides, s. scenicus, the usual suspects. interestingly havent seen any cheriacantium yet? or s. triangulosa which i had tons of in my old place. we shall see

rly obsessed w the eye reflection on 1 & 4...
in order (i believe) p. tepidariorum; p. dispar; c. conica; clubiona sp.

here is some spiders ive found also 🥰🥰 #myspiders

#misu now see her shapes

tall coin..

tall coin..

more of her #misu

Ink drawing of a mermaid sitting atop a perpendicular, tree trunk-like rock in the water. Her long hair trails right down to her seat and obscures her face entirely. Her head is bowed, and there is a strong suggestion that she may be weeping.

An older piece but a perennial favourite.

'La même histoire'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, approximately 127 × 208 mm, 2018.

#MerMay

vancitys about an hour and a bit away from where im living now (w my parents) lol