A Natural History of Limpets, Part 2: a Diagram of Forces In which a palaeontologist maps everything that could have been, and the simplest-looking mollusc excels at solving engineering problems.

The sea is often calm, but rocky shores are shaped by the moments when it isn’t.

When a storm wave breaks on a limpet, the force briefly exceeds what any land animal ever has to resist. That’s what the shell is built for.

Episode 2 of A Natural History of Limpets is out !
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At special request, Nonbinary Horseshoe Friend
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Ghost sighting: First Southeast Asian record of the ghost spider family Anyphaenidae, describing a new Rathalos species from Java, Indonesia A new species of bamboo-associated ghost spider, Rathalos inagami Dhiya’ulhaq & Dwikelana sp. nov., is described from Java, Indonesia, based on male a…

"A new species of bamboo-associated ghost spider, Rathalos inagami Dhiya’ulhaq & Dwikelana sp. nov., is described from Java, Indonesia, based on male and female specimens."

lmao another peak name by @kalakemangga.bsky.social

Meet an animal that makes even me shudder: Cone Snails. #LetsChangeThat

They may not be real shrimp, but Skeleton Shrimp are still cool! #LetsChangeThat

How do you get access to papers behind paywalls? #LetsChangeThat (Also side note, not all journals charge authors!)

Meet the Mangrove Rivulus! #LetsChangeThat

Get to know the Lemon Shark. #LetsChangeThat

Get to know the Chambered Nautilus! #LetsChangeThat

Meet the Panther Grouper! #LetsChangeThat

We need to have a chat about Anguilliformes. #LetsChangeThat

There are imposter eels among us. Get to know Gymnotiformes! #LetsChangeThat

Would you want to be trapped with your partner in the same house... for the rest of your lives? #LetsChangeThat

The internet doesn't know what to make of these: Salps! #LetsChangeThat

Who is the smallest octopus out there? #LetsChangeThat

What exactly is a cuttlebone? #LetsChangeThat

First impressions aren't everything. Meet the Blobfish! #LetsChangeThat

Sea Spiderssss #LetsChangeThat

Meet this little traveler: The Violet Snail. #LetsChangeThat

This one may be a little ugly, but we still love it: Asian Sheepshead Wrasse! #LetsChangeThat

HIGHLY Requested: Thresher Sharks! #LetsChangeThat

Flamboyant Cuttlefish need you to know their true story. #LetsChangeThat

Cuttlefish
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Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

A close up of Octopoteuthis deletron swimming in a strange pose. It facing away from the camera, with its arms are raised up and back over its mantle, making a sideways U shape. Its fins are are wrapped around its mantle. You can clear see the zigzag row of little white hooks on its arms and the white photophores on the tips of its arms. The photophores have been curved. The squid is orange.

A Schoolmaster Armhook Squid (Berryteuthis magister) swimming above the sea floor with its limbs swung back. There is some ink in the water as the squid recently inked. All eight arms and its two tentacles are swung back. Its arms have two rows of hooks that are visible, with the two tentacle having no hooks. The squid's beak if clearly visible as none of its limbs are blocking it. It has a large mantle with two large fins on the end half of the mantle. The squid has an orange colour with white on the underside. The sea floor is rocky with lots of round rocks, and it is about 65 m below the surface.

A close up of a warty squid's (Onykia robsoni) hooks. The image covers about 3.5 cm. Its a bunch of hooks coming out of a squid's limb. They seem to have a fleshy sheath. The arm is white and orange.

The hooks on the tentacle club of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). There are several hooks in two rows poking out of fleshy sheaths. These hooks can rotate and each row flanked by a row of tiny, marginal suckers. The arm is a mix of off white and desaturated slightly purplish red

Many squid species have hooks on their arms, tentacles or both. These hooks are used to help grab and hold onto their prey. I definitely wouldn't want to be on the business end of one of these squid!

What's even more amazing is this adaptation shows up in several different squid families!

I'm Cosme "Aeflus" Lucero, a Concept Artist, Illustrator and Environment artist.

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Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

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