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🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways? When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lake Louise at dawn. Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #sciphotography #sciphoto #scientificillustration #naturephoto #naturephotography #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #flowers #botany #Echinacea

A crab during a night dive #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #crab #crustaceans

This tiny little Crustacean was hiding in a piece of old coral thinking nobody would spot them. Not sure of the genus - iNat suggested Pilodius #🦐 #🦑

Bluesky GOURD FEED! bsky.app/profile/did:...

So apparently it’s #MolluscMonday so here is one of our local star #Nudibranch in the UAE. Hypselodoris dollfusi is relatively common but no less spectacular. #Invertebrates #MarineLife #SeaSlugs

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Shoal of Caribbean Reef Squid in the sun rays at Newman's Wall in Roatan #scuba #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #roatan

It's the final round of best Canadian album of all time, helpfully, I've quoted the best album worldwide of all time so that you can vote for it

🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways? When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Slithering in the forests of New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park, this species of carnivorous snail is one of the world's most endangered invertebrates.

Last week I spent a morning volunteering with Tees Rivers Trust , helping with their oyster reintroduction project - aside from the oysters, lots of creatures had used the cages as living and hiding places. Here are just a few of them (all safely returned.) 🐡 #nature #marineLife

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Our last paper recently published in Invertebrate systemaics is out! Miocene diversification of the genus Pisidia on the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Read the full article here: www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS24100

So for this shrimp I am leaning towards Dasycaris symbiotes- problem being it isn’t included in iNaturalist. It could also be D. ceratops but I’m not an expert so who knows. From the UAE. #Invertebrates #MarineLife

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So this is one that shows up a few times here in the UAE - was historically referred to as Hypselodoris capensis - but is now more likely to be undescribed. This was found on a wreck down at 21m.

Modeling whole ascidian embryos for #forksningdagene 😉🧪🧬🔬#devbio

Everything comes to an end sometime. I've run out of good hermit photos, so I'm pausing the Daily Hermit posts. Here's a GrainyHand, deciding whether it's safe to come out of the shell. He's halfway there. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

What a cool looking blue bug friend! It’s a hover fly but I’m not used to seeing them in blue. #imvertebrates 🌿 #BugSky

A Tullimonstrum for the #sciartseptember prompt reef. no doubt these things were way weirder looking irl. A boy can dream #paleoart #art #sciart

it's (mantis) shrimp colors!!! ♥🧡💛💚💙💜

Happy #MolluscMonday! Snail shells in traditional Pacific arts: 🐚In the Marianas, Chamorro & Refaluwasch people used akaleha' tree snails to make beaded bags & jewelry 🌏Many Pacific cultures use seashells for islands in stick chart maps, combining art, science, & geography #JoyOfMolluscs

#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift Quick sketch of the Casper octopus, an as yet undescribed species first recorded in deep water off the coast of Hawaiʻi by Schmidt Ocean Institute oceanographers. #sciart #oceanart #octopus

16. Vanishing. Octopus cyanea can change the texture of its skin as well as the colour to disappear into the background #SciArtSeptember #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift Atlantic rock crabs are new arrivals to the Greenland-Scotland ocean ridge. From a photo by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. 🦀 - #sciart #invertebrate #arthropod #crab

Catching up on some prompts for #sciartseptember Day 15, Spawning. Typically 7-10 days after the full moon numerous coral species (particularly around the GBR) will spawn and release thousands of eggs at night

Day 19 #SciArtSeptember 🧪🐡prompt depths: The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), literally the ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with 2 long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal 🧵

19/09/2025 Monquirasaurus + Depths { #paleoart + #sciart + #sciartseptember }

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

#SciArtSeptember Day 21: reef • I embroidered this coral-like piece to teach myself tambour #embroidery in 2016. #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember: Depths An obvious choice but hey, I've never drawn a flapjack octopus before. #Art

#SciArtSeptember Day 21: Reef

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 21: Reef 🐠 An orange shoulder tang. - #tropicalfish #aquarium #sketchbook

For Reef, an older piece of a Sheepshead Pareotfish from a lab get together (because I miss them 🥲) and because I am drowning in chores today #SundayFishSketch #SciArtSeptember

A tale of two pestos: Thai and Genovese 🌱

Fiddler crabs! Emerging from their mud burrows in the marsh.

the Mireking, massive crabs that often get mistaken as islands. they start out very little #intothedeadlands #creature #monster #art

male harvester (Leuronychus) with a heavy mite load, San Bernardino Mtns, soCAL

Tidepooling in Japan 🐚🦀

Day 21 of #SciArtSeptember prompt is reef. 🧪🐡 This is a handprinted linocut of two ocean creatures with a mutualistic symbiotic relationship: anemone and anemonefish. Specifically it's a rose bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor) and a clownfish (in the genus Amphiprion), also known as an

my 1st time seeing a wild slug moth! (I've raised a few) not sure if dying or defensive behavior, but when I caught, it raised its abdoment so high it touched the cup (see the pee stain above). when I tried to release it, it dropped on its side, still curling up, but walked away afterwards.

Cliche/outdated idea of Jurassic plants & insects: a generic cockroach crawling on a fern of some kind A more nuanced, evidence-based & ecologically sound image: Mayfly perched on a horsetail

🦀 & snail from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 727 part 2 #chilemargin #MarineLife

Hey @jopabinia.bsky.social - check out this marvelous wall relief at the entrance gates to the fishing port of A Coruña in northern Spain- culture of the city places quite a lot of importance on sea inverts 🦀 🐟🐙

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Oak Treehopper Mama Update! Here she is with entire brood. They're getting big! So, why is it nice to leave some leaves around? These kids will hibernate over winter as adult females in leaf litter. (Platycotis vittata) PA

Spot the crabby! Waikiki Beach, O’ahu I think this is Ocypoda pallidula, the pallid 👻🦀 In any case, a master of camouflage!