The Octopus Lady

Our most popular (and controversial!) post from the Naming of Things blog was in celebration of #OrcaActionMonth in 2019 and here it is again: Killer Whale or Orca?
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Meme by @emmaluck22.bsky.social‬
#WhaleTales #NamingOfThings

HAPPY PRIDE Y'ALL

THE OCEAN IS GAY AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

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Spider 🦀 liftoff
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 84 #MarineLife

A small fish sheltering next to a jellyfish. The jellyfish has short tentacles and is somewhat damaged with much of the bell missing. The fish is yellow with darker bars, and has a remarkably long dorsal spine projecting above it from its rear dorsal fin. Its oversized pelvic fins are also noticeable. #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Divesky #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro

Juvenile fish sometimes shelter in and around jellyfish. This one's a juvenile jack of some kind. Pic from Balayan Bay, Anilao

#MarineLife 🐟 #Invertebrate #Blackwater

CSIRO Publishing is seeking Social Media Editor(s) for the journal Marine & Freshwater Research. The engagement is for a term of two years, with potential for renewal.

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#scicomms #job #fish #biology

Pink and green corals and seaweeds made from glass beads on wire. Attached across a vintage porcelain tea set. A small octopus sculpture sits on top of the cup.

😔 I totally borked the resin layers on this piece.

Super sad because the pink corals came out so pretty 🪸🪸🪸 and I love this species a lot.

What should I do with this piece?? 😭

#ArtYear #Art #MixedMedia #Sculpture #Bleh #Help 🐡🦑

The subtle sproing of a sea spider #Invertebrates

CLIFF JUMPING CRABS LETS GOOOOOO

Day31 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Today John (H. sapiens) is cozying up to the echinoid Phymosoma texanum(PRI78781)

#savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🦑⚒️
(We can keep going even if you help us!)

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing red frills, covered in yellow spots. This one is in a beige background, accompanied by the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray.

Today's Oarfish comes from jojovilll on Instagram! This is another ensemble, with the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

If you’re a scientist with even a little bit of experience talking about your science to the public, I’d encourage you to sign up to do one of these. I can help. 🧪🌎🦑

“This Sea-Pen has a round flefhy ftem […] and fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers on each fin”

Beware the Britifh Sea-Pen

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills. This one is drawn slightly front facing against a light purple-ish background.

Today's Oarfish comes from Amphisbaena on Tumblr! This is a blog from a duo of artists, erikasignini and umberto! They challenged each other to draw an animal each day for a year! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

There are hired goons! Threats of broken legs! Smuggling rings that cross entire oceans! And MORE!

YouTube video by The Octopus Lady The Bizarrely Violent World of Clam Smuggling

My newest video is up on YouTube! And has been for an entire week! I'm so bad at social media!

This is part 2 of my series on geoduck clams, and it's all about how these odd looking bivalves kicked off one of the greatest crime sprees in Washington state history!

youtu.be/-gmVnHL1k0M

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a honey bee crawling on my painted model of a sunflower sea star

silly bee, that's not a real sunflower, it's my sunflower star model

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Closeup of the porcelain crab Porcellana platycheles. It has a round body with large claws and long antennae. It's caramel brown all over and is covered in hair-like structures.

Fluffy Crab! :D

#MarineLife #Crustacean #Crab #MacroPhotography

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Thank you! I just posted it!

Actually, can I post this on the Posts section of my channel? I'd love to hear what other members of my audience might come up with! And I'll be sure to link back to your original post, of course!

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@theoctopuslady.bsky.social I created an “octopus lady bingo card” from some recurring themes I noticed in your videos. Thoughts?

Photo of an octopus sculpture painted in a black to blue gradient, with radiant meticulously hand painted stars and shimmering clouds of stardust. The octopus's long arms are flowing beneath and trailing off to the side, as if the octopus is flowing on a current.

Space vibes 🌌 with Halcyon

Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics and pigments 🎨💕

#Sculpture #Handmade #Art #ArtYear #Octopus #Invertebrates #OctopusArt #ArtOriginals #OOAK #Stars #Space 🐡🦑

SOMEONE DREW FAN ART OF ME!!

(And I love those boots, I would totally rock those!)

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Picture from tidepool of many green anemones bunched together on rock wall, and further up a large Constellation of starfish.

Grudge Match:

Seastars vs Anemones

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#PNW #travel #oregoncoast #starfish #photography #seastar #hiking #beach ##smallwonders

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills.

Today's Oarfish comes from AlienTripod on Reddit! They shared this to a subreddit all about deep sea creatures! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

A four-panel comic. First panel has art of an argonaut (octopus in a coiled shell) riding a jellyfish, and the text "THE ARGONAUT is the octopus cowgirl of the sea, riding jellies, salps, and even driftwood. AMAZING!" Second panel zooms out to show two brown octopuses in the foreground, watching the argonaut and jelly in the background. One of the octopuses is eating a crab. The nose of a shark is just poking into view at the right side of the panel. In the third panel, the jelly is drifting out of view, and more of the shark is visible. The octopus who was eating passes its food to its friend and says, "Hold my crab." In the fourth panel, the octopus is riding the shark, waving one arm and yelling "YEEHAW!" while its friend watches. The shark looks deeply unimpressed.

Remember the shark-riding octopus? youtu.be/F9osYO9VRlg?...
I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...)
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Whale Shark illustration in marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore tan paper.

Here's the still photo of the Whale Shark. I really dig the way the background turned out. 🦈

#sciart #fishart #ArtYear #marinelife #nature #animal #shark #art #blueskyartists #ocean