Squid and all other cephalopods lack teeth, and therefore miss out on visits from the tooth fairy. But vampire squid--unique among cephalopods!--grow a second pair of fins and lose their first. There ought to be a fairy for that. 🧚🦑

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So...I heard is into cephalopods...?

Let's just say that octopus didn't start off sticky.

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Until the end of the 19th century, scientists believed life couldn't exist below 300 fathoms. Then one pioneering expedition found strange and wondrous creatures in the deep. Here they are illustrated, the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods https://t.co/TDXn0DSzIO

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Think that's sufficient cephalopod.

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"Somewhere along the line I realized how interested I was in biology because it was the subject of all my paintings."

tells about her (mostly)

https://t.co/OwbGhrkMIr

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Hey cephalopod squad!! I'm SO excited to finally share the fancomic that i've been working on!! I'm going to be posting the entirety of chapter one throughout this week, and will start regular updates Chapter Two onwards! Check it out on tumblr! https://t.co/x8TynovDkD

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Another quarantined weekend meant time painting plates for the field guide to of southern Europe. Ground beetles of the subgenus Platycarabus, which occur in the and in some cases beyond. The subgenus contains extremes of cephalic development. Species in comment

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Epinephelus amblycephalus. Inhabits deeper offshore reefs; distinguished by 5 dark bars on body; NW Australia & throughout SE Asia; mainly Indo-Australian Archipelago; to 45 cm.

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These Cephalopods Are Lesbians And There’s Nothing You Can Do About It

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There! She! Is!
Culex Tarsalis, the Western Encephalitis Mosquito!
This is a lineless redraw of a pinup I drew about a year ago ~❤

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As we round out the first half-century of stunning century-and-a-half-old illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods, which upended the belief that life didn't exist in the oceanic depths of this mostly-ocean Earth https://t.co/TDXn0DSzIO

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As we round out the first half-century of stunning century-and-a-half-old illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods, which upended the belief that life didn't exist in the oceanic depths of this mostly-ocean Earth https://t.co/QuPtIrwfSP

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If you're luck you may see the Cynocephales of Nacumera Island.

BL, Harley 3954; Sir John Mandeville, Travels; England, E. (East Anglia); 15th century; ff.40v, 41r

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Day 28: Draw what a descendant of a dinosaur might look like today.

I present a titanosaur adapted for grazing, a cursorial hadrosaur, a derived pachycephalosaur descendant, a giant apex predator dromaeosaur, and an ant-eating alvarezsaur.

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Want to learn why this comic is called "Encephalon"? Check out today's update at https://t.co/YXshJkWt59!

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Octopus vulgaris. The anatomy portion of this is highly simplistic, and somewhat speculative, I dint know a tremendous amount about the internal anatomy of cephalopods. But anyway, let me know what you guys think!

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