Goniatite, detail from a mural I painted for Collecting Oklahoma Exhibition a few years ago.

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Atlantic white-spotted octopus (Callistoctopus macropus). by Jean Baptiste Vérany for Férussac and d'Orbigny's monograph on cephalopods: "Histoire Naturelle" (1835-48). Explore the work in via ➡️ https://t.co/w0YO2zYC5y

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It’s still

These spectacular are from Férussac & D’Orbigny’s ‘Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des cephalopodes’ (1835)

copy was digitised by for last year —> https://t.co/ESbAIsI12V

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here you are with the glorious Jean-Baptiste Verany

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Happy Enjoy this "just-so" story about giant squid from our Head of Mollusks, Tim Pearce! https://t.co/wml3jFCuga

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Another for the nautilus! A perpetual favorite — quite literally, as they’ve been around for a bajillion years. I believe that’s the technical term.

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Aphetoceras, a free-swimming, bottom-dwelling nautiloid from the Ordovician. The 1st artwork I ever shared to social media!

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Another view of the Vampire Squid, with bonus glowing eyes!🧛🏼‍♂️ [Carl Chun, 1910]

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It is
Octopuses are too cool for this planet. I am so lucky to have witnessed their greatness underwater +in tidepools.
Here’s an i illustrated for the March 2019 issue of Cub magazine + an Octo that i used to know in the Atlantic.

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isn't trending yet!? Can we get some help for these beautiful creatures! Thanks Nation! 💙x3

Check out this stunning Hawaiian Day Octopus in a photo called "Lavender Waves"

📸 by: https://t.co/NZbf2ZGEJm

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The Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is a gelatinous whose binomial Latin name literally translates to "Vampire Squid from Hell". Too harsh? Read more on https://t.co/fNCqb9aA9z via .

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「マグメル深海水族館」第10話オウムガイ🐙更新されてます!頭足類週間(#CephalopodWeek)の終わりにオウムガイはいかがですか〜🦑
https://t.co/IvRnJ7khZ6

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Happy It's the perfect time to share this little cartoon I've been working on. I'm a ~sucker~ for etymology

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Jean Baptiste Vérany's "Mollusques méditeranéens: Céphalopodes" (1851) describes specimens fished from the Mediterranean Sea and features chromolithographed plates depicting octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes. In via : https://t.co/LNTMPk4x1c

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Richard Owen's 1st monograph, "Memoir on the pearly nautilus" (1832), described Nautilus pompilius for the 1st time in detail as a comprehensive study in comparative anatomy utilizing both text & illustrations. In via : https://t.co/QWQul09h5C

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Happy Cephalopod Week!

Illustration and animation by Kelly Lance

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In time for looking for methane bubbles near Eel River at 1805m 🐙

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continues with this speedy lil octo-pal! ✨🐙🌊💙

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