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A giant oarfish spelling out "Joy" with its body as cursive lettering

Deep-Sea-cember: Can you fathom how much joy seeing an oarfish brings?

#deepseadecember #deepseacember #deepsea #oarfish #longfish #festive #art

A colossal squid with a glowing eye holds a sprig of mistletoe over its head

Deep-Sea-cember: Did you know that colossal squid eyes glow? 🦑🌟
#deepseadecember #deepseacember #deepsea #colossalsquid #squid #cephalopod #art

An Atlantic footballfish with a large bright star for a lure

Deep-Sea-cember: Starry night in the abyss

#deepseadecember #deepseacember #deepsea #atlanticfootballfish #anglerfish #star #art

Two shrimp holding claws inside a Venus's flower basket (a white glass sponge)

Deep-Sea-cember: The reason for the season is to be cozy at home 🦐🧽
#deepseadecember #deepseacember #deepsea #glasssponge #shrimp #venusflowerbasket #art #cozy

A white yeti crab wearing green striped mittens

Deep-Sea-cember: It's not particularly chilly near the geothermal vents, but yeti crab likes to be cozy 🦀🧤
#deepsea #deepseacember #deepseadecember #yeticrab #crab #mittens #art

A group of five firefly squid glittering in the dark with blue photophores

Deep-Sea-cember: It's quite a sight to see firefly squid at night 🦑

(Inspired by "glitter" from @montereybayaquarium.org's Deep Sea December prompts)

#deepseacember #deepseadecember #deepsea #fireflysquid #bioluminescent #art

A giant red jellyfish with a little red knit beanie on the top of its bell

Deep-Sea-cember: Big red jellyfish with a little red beanie
#deepsea #deepseadecember #deepseacember #bigredjellyfish #tiburoniagranrojo #art

Thank you for the prompts! I enjoyed drawing them 😀

A siphonophore with glowing zooids like a string of Christmas lights

Deep-Sea-cember: Festive siphonophore
#deepsea #deepseacember #siphonophore #christmaslights #art

A gray nudibranch with black rhinophores, black gills, and black spots on its mantle

#Nudivember concludes with Hallaxa fuscescens, a little black bunny.
Nudibranchs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! Let them be a reminder that no creature design is too weird to exist.

#nudibranch #polkadots #blackrabbit #art #SciArt

A white nudibranch covered in orange-tipped papillae and sporting black gills and rhinophores

#Nudivember day 29: Halgerda brycei, the forbidden pineberry
#nudibranch #seaslug #bumpy #art #SciArt

A white nudibranch with black horn-like rhinophores and black-tipped orange cerata covering its back

#Nudivember day 28: Favorinus tsuruganus, the goat with the golden fleece (check out those rhinophores!)

#nudibranch #seaslug #art #chrysomallos

A bumpy yellow nudibranch with a black pattern resembling cracks

#Nudivember day 27: Notodoris minor, if a witch turned an Electabuzz into a slug
#nudibranch #seaslug #reallifepokemon #art

A bumpy orange nudibranch with a white gill poof

#Nudivember day 26: Acanthodoris lutea, the forbidden Seville orange or a bunny-shaped dish scrubber (someone make nudibranch dish scrubbers please I will buy so many)

#nudibranch #seaslug #bunny #art

A pale nudibranch with white spots blending into the background

#Nudivember day 25: Hallaxa cryptica, the forbidden rice pudding
#nudibranch #seaslug #camouflage #art

A purple nudibranch sprinkled with darker purple papillae and orange streaks on the edge of its mantle

#Nudivember day 24: Mexichromis macropus, the forbidden grape jelly (with orange sprinkles)
#nudibranch #seaslug #purple #art

A white nudibranch with speckly orange spots and fringed with orange-tipped appendages

#Nudivember day 23: Okenia mediterranea, what you'd get if a sea witch turned Scorbunny into a slug
#nudibranch #seaslug #art #reallifepokemon

A bumpy yellow nudibranch resting on a yellow sponge

#Nudivember day 22: Aegires citrinus, the forbidden Buddha's hand citron
#nudibranch #seaslug #citrus #art

A white nudibranch covered in orange spots

#Nudivember day 21: Gymnodoris rubropapulosa, the forbidden orange tapioca pudding
#nudibranch #seaslug #polkadots #art

A pale blue nudibranch with a blue edge and black stripes on its back

#Nudivember day 20: Phyllidiopsis sphingis, a living Rorschach inkblot
#nudibranch #seaslug #aesthetic #stripey #art

A white nudibranch with orange, blue, and black striped cerata

#Nudivember day 19: Trinchesia caerulea, the Nerf Elite dart holder of the sea slug world
#nudibranch #seaslug #nerf #art

A black nudibranch with green spots and green gills

#Nudivember day 18: Nembrotha cristata, the forbidden pickle
#nudibranch #seaslug #polkadots #art

A brown weevil and a white moth posing next to the words "Insects A to Z Holiday Shop open now!"

The Backerkit Holiday Market is now open, which means you can pick up the Insects A to Z book, poster, or stickers!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
#insects #selfpublishing #alphabet #shopsmall

A cream-colored nudibranch covered in brown and white streaks

#Nudivember day 17: Jorunna rubescens, the forbidden stracciatella gelato
(When they lay their eggs, the resulting mass looks like frilly pink ribbons!)
#nudibranch #seaslug #art #stripey #icecream

A white nudibranch with black, yellow, and white striped protrusions on its face and back

#Nudivember day 16: Polycera tricolor, the forbidden candy corn (seriously, it secretes noxious chemicals from the candy corn on its back)
#nudibranch #seaslug #candycorn #art

A purple nudibranch with feathery white-tipped red-orange branches sprouting from its back

#Nudivember day 15: Paraflabellina ischitana, the forbidden bird's-eye chili peppers

#nudibranch #seaslug #art #spicywings

A nudibranch with a white foot and a yellow mantle covered in pink-tipped white bumps

#Nudivember day 14: Cadlinella ornatissima, the forbidden lemon meringue pie, but someone didn't make enough meringue to cover the whole thing
#nudibranch #bumpy #seaslug #art

A white nudibranch with brown and orange edges on its mantle and stacks of disk-shaped structures on its back

#Nudivember day 13: Doto greenamyeri, the forbidden silver dollar s'mores pancake platter (Just when I thought nudibranchs couldn't get weirder, I find this magnificent weirdo 🤍🧡🖤)
#nudibranch #seaslug #pancakes #art

Aww a marshmallow stick variant :)

A brownish-yellow nudibranch with frilly appendages sticking out of its back and covered in bumps

#Nudivember day 12: Melibe pilosa, the forbidden pickled mustard greens
#nudibranch #seaslug #pickle #art