ACT 2. Batfishes from the genus Platax have mimetic juveniles, with different species mimicking all sorts of different things, from leaves, to crinoids, to poisonous flatworms! Here’s a juvenile Platax pinnatus mimicking a Pseudobiceros worm. Worm in last pic.

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In case you wondered what is: The lastest episode of the explains it really nicely with a fascinating interview with ! To celebrate this, I drew a tribute to this fascinating scientific field! Enjoy the and

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This semester has been hard for all of us. As a token of appreciation and to help build our lab community, I commissioned avatars from .

AND THEY ARE FABULOUS.

Introducing our lab:
Dr. Lori Neuman-Lee
Specializes in and

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''C̷aacri̵no̶laas, I summon you, protect me from my worries and hide me from my responsibilities.''

''Like, I really wanna take a nap, Caacrinolaas''.

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This might be my best dress design idea ever. I want to make it when I finish this book for work. (It'd have petticoats/crinoline underneath it to make sure the image laid right)

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Macrino d ' Alba 1460-1520 Madonna y Niño entronizado con Santos y Ángeles -Part-Ca-1498
Galería Sabauda, Turín

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Aprovechando que la nueva edición de «La Rosa de Versalles» acaba de salir de mano de , rescatamos y ponemos al día esta reseña que hicimos en su momento sobre este gran

https://t.co/ji6KdiCJBH

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In 2014 Durham Cathedral was listed by the Geological Society as one of the best Geosites in Britain for its sandstone & Frosterley marble. Frosterley marble is a black limestone containing 325 million year old fossil corals & crinoids of the Carboniferous Period.

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"Based off of Crinoids, and use their tentacles like flower petals to capture their prey. They us their bodies to latch onto something like an anchor to keep them in place."

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Since it's shout out to Cradily - surprise, surprise, a This fossil poke "lived" in ancient shallow seas like our stalked crinoids - maybe Cradily too is still thriving in pokemon's deep oceans then.
1 flaw: 8 arms, thus failing 5-fold symmetry

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Whoo doggy, what a week it's been. Life comes at you fast, y'all. Finally had a minute to sit down and do some drawing last night, and came up with this little guy while cooling down.

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The volume of skirts during the peak cage crinoline era can’t be beat, yet my favorite detail in this 1862 fashion plate is the delicate double pointed bodice on each gown.

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Crinoid, the fusion of Coprolite and Apatite!

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Crinoids may look like underwater flowers, but they are actually animals. With a holdfast attaching them to the sea floor, a "stem" of columnals protecting them, and branch-like pinnules that snag food from the water, it's easy to see why crinoids are called "sea lillies".

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Hope you all haven't forgotten that despite my latest archosaur-centric works, a pretty high percentage of my is non-Mesozoic taxa including invertebrates & flora

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Mycket glad att berätta att min nya roman Jul i krinolin kommer i oktober. Det blir svenskt 1800-tal, passion och spök. 🥂👻Delighted my new novel A Crinoline Christmas is out in Sweden in October. It's a Victorian romance with spooky shit (obvs).

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Collaboration with artists was an invaluable part of the project. Each piece of 's work was based on scientific research. From the coexisting flora & fauna to the in situ crinoids within the limestone breakdown, made our science visible.

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& may be based on crinoids, relatives of and other echinoderms, which were thought to be extinct, as well as possibly sea anemone.

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