6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.
#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request
Reading a paper on aerodynamics of insects. One author is from the "Institute of Unmanned System". Might be a usual term in aeronautic or a rough translation from Mandarin, but it's cute to consider an insect to be an "Unmanned System".
It surely isn't manned hehe
#insects #InvertebrateShitposting
A small shrimp (somewhat crosseyed) with pink and white colours i standing on a stone. Over it the text "You're shrimply the best"
#ThrowbackThursday to some old punny posts - we once upon a time* made #InvertebrateValentines. Have shrimp, in these trying times! 🦐
(I think species is Hippolyte varians - feel free to correct!)
(*before #Invertebrateshitposting was even a ting)
an image in 4 quadrants, each one containing a literal image of the animal and text top left: crab spider - not a crab - a spider top right: spider spider - a spider - a spider bottom left: crab crab - a crab - a crab bottom right: spider crab - not a spider - a crab - or is it, really? - are you sure?
the follow up #InvertebrateShitposting because people were bamboozled by the concept of false crabs
(spoiler: it is crab)
an image in 4 quadrants, each one containing a literal image of the animal and text top left: goose barnacle - not a goose - a barnacle top right: barnacle barnacle - a barnacle - a barnacle bottom left: goose goose - a goose - a goose bottom right: barnacle goose - not a barnacle - a goose but also a barnacle if you ask a 12th-18th century english and so it also counts as a fish
bringing back some #InvertebrateShitposting from the archives
Have you ever wondered how snails inspired medieval margin artists? Well, now you do. #InvertebrateShitposting
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2852357
