It’s been a crazy family health crisis kind of month, but I finally made it back into the studio to finish up this 24x36” acrylic on canvas painting titled ‘Huggies and Snackies’. A beautiful stalked carnivorous sponge is joined by pink brittle stars and a golden crinoid. Cuties 😍 #deepsea 🐡🦑 #art

This Giant Spotted Hermit Crab was inhabiting a Conch shell while dining on a starfish on the ocean floor. My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #hermitcrab #starfish #crab #scuba #photography

You know what this timeline needs tonight? A weird-ass invertebrate sea creature! Here's an undescribed (at time of photo, not sure about now) endemic Hawaiian Spiky sea cucumber, Stichopus sp. Actually an Earth life form. 📷🦑🐙 #invertebrates

Weekend goals: be as chilled out as this seal mum while handling breakfast time with the kids ☕ Marine scientists Katie Wells and Rhi Nichol took a moment to capture this serene scene while monitoring elephant seals in South Georgia, near Antarctica. #WeekendMood

The sun sets too early in the evenings now. Like before 5pm!

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

This video is awesome, and this species is the samurai crab, legendary in Japan 🦀🦑 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We found oyster spiders today during my oyster lab field trip for my Invertebrate Zoology class! These are marine spiders! They have special setae (hairs) that trap air and let them live underwater. #invertebrates #spider

most of my work this year has been NDA but nobody can stop me from uploading this lowres render of the background props: the gay shells #Art #SciArt

New from Nature: Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in my birth nation of Jamaica. Reported: "The University of Miami with the US NOAA measured wind speeds from start to finish across Jamaica with the weather aircraft named Kermit. The maximum wind gust speeds were 252mph and maximum sustained winds were 185 mph..."

Trilobites! Marine: check. Variety: check. Incredibly cool: check, check. 😎 “Adventaspis” 😜

4 years of #invertober #SciArt goobers you know what, from going through 3-4 months of one of my worst art blocks ever to an outpouring of art 2025 was overall a good art year #HumanMade #noAI #invertebrates

Clusia major (Trinidad & Lesser Antilles) has dangling aerial roots that eventually touch the earth—not surprising for a hemiepiphyte that starts life in a tree (or, as here, on a cliff). What is surprising is that sometimes shoots grow from the roots. #Clusiaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Imagine a drop of ancient resin. Inside is an insect, trapped for 53 million years, so well preserved it looks like it might twitch back into life. These amber fossils offer us a breath-taking glimpse into long vanished ecosystems. But there’s a catch

The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too! #🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

A drawing for #worldjellyfishday

The Banda Sea brought the goods on the very first dive! Flamboyant and reef cuttlefish and morays in new(to me) colors. Wow. 🦑🐙🤿

🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems. youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...

🦀 Sally lightfoot crab

Gar wallpapers! #GarWeek

Gar Wallpapers! #GarWeek

for unknown and unfair reasons this was discontinued about a year after I moved to Cambridge, but this from local chain Tatte: Bread: Housemade Sunflower Wheat Sourdough Fillings: Sliced Beets, Shaved Carrot, Sliced Granny Smith, Arugula, Herbed goat Cheese, Crumbled Halloumi

‼️CALLING ALL BUG NERDS‼️ You'll never believe it, but my next enamel pin crowdfunding campaign is once again based on bugs... HOWEVER... it's *prehistoric bugs* All creatures weird and cute during the Mesozoic and Paleozoic will get their spotlight for my next campaign launching in JANUARY 🧵👇

2025-11-03 is #WorldJellyfishDay #JellyfishDay #WordCloud #WordCloudArt #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #Minimalism #Abstract #NegativeSpace

Today is #WorldJellyfishDay! A great day to introduce young readers to Maude Delap, a pioneering scientist from rural Ireland who was the first person to raise them in captivity through their full life cycle. She did this back in 1899! #kidslovenonfiction #STEAM #JellyfishScientist #SteamTeamBooks

It's #WorldJellyfishDay ?! How about the crown jelly, Cephea cephea, from @montereybayaquarium.org?

For #WorldJellyfishDay it’s a smack of jellyfish! 🐡🧪 The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a “smack”. This amuses me, because I imagine them smacking their tentacles together in some sort of deepsea high five. To be honest, marine biologists speak of ‘blooms’ and we do tend to lump

I think a black ghost knife fish is sufficiently spooky for this week’s #SundayFishSketch prompt! But also a good wiggly little guy

A little bit of lobster action, anyone?

Capybaras start their day.

Cookiecutter Shark (Isistius brasiliensis) for #SundayFishSketch 🐡 #Fishytheme SPOOKY Cuties with nasty behaviour. They like to nibble on whales, seals, humans, submarines... whatever 😬 #sciart #watercolor #coloredpencildrawing #mixedmedia #FineArt #animalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

Haha I was so amused and forgiving when this thread first came around. O summer child. The more people seem to internalize it, the more I need to point out that it's based on a misconception 🦀 www.scientificamerican.com/article/crab...

TARDIGRADE ON A BUILDING

Slowly the harvesting continues. Still have 10-12 peppers to ripen through the method of moving the plant indoors/outdoors daily 🌱 Chives, cilantro, thyme, mint, and all my greens are enduring outdoors for now...

Shrimpostor'd! Because it's the MONSTER LARVA Cerataspis monstrosa 🧟‍♀️🦐 The larva is awesome but the adult is a normal red colored shrimp. So we didn't even know they were the same species until DNA. 11/ongoing list of Halloween crabs (and other decapods) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What a Halloween thread needs is DEAD crabs! Although beautifully reconstructed, these are all fossils, and they perished in watery graves, now back to haunt us with cuteness 🦀 10/ongoing list of Halloween crabs

We could include Carpilius corallinus since its common name is the batwing coral crab 🦇🦀 9/ongoing list of Halloween crabs

I learned that Homolid crabs are sometimes called "witch crab" (or at least in this article) because they hold "brooms" (usually coral or sponges) in their back legs 🦀🧹 These 2 are smaller examples, with the left doing the thing! 8/ongoing Halloween crab list m.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

Damn I keep thinking of more crabs that fit the holiday. Because there's also CANDY crabs, Hoplophrys oatesi: 🍬🦀 7/maybe done

Whoops, forgot that spider crabs can be Halloween themed! So the biggest and baddest of them all, Reginald, the Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) 🦀 6/6

And the special Halloween vampire crab (might be Geosesarma bicolor, G. hagen, or another species?) 🦀🎃🦀🎃🦀🎃 5/5

Regular vampire crab (Geosesarma dennerle) 🧛‍♂️🦀 4/

Next is my favorite among the many species of ghost crabs (genus Ocypode, with this one being O. macrocera) 👻🦀 3/

Then we have Ciliopagurus species, the Halloween HERMIT crabs (that are not true crabs) 🦀 2/

Quick thread of the many crabs named for Halloween related topics. This one is Gecarcinus quadratus, aka THE Halloween crab 🦀 1/

While technically not a Halloween crab, how about the crabs with the faces of dead samurai? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani

For those who were asking...