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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One of my all-time favorite cephs is the with their bioluminescent bacteria friends that make them glow in the moonlight! 🦑✨

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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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love me some cephalopod ladies 💖🦑💚🐙

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Some more basket star love! Gorgonocephalidae.. Gorgonocephalus sp.... the name mean's Gorgon's Head!

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Otto is another monster in our series!!! His species is called ocucephalus

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some cephalo doodles 🦑🐙

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day 18 -
The Vampire Squid is a small cephalopod that lives in the deep sea. It lacks certain characteristics to classify as a true squid or otcopus, sitting between the families. It has big bright blue eyes and a velvety cloak-like webbing that lends to its name.

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day13 -
The Chambered Nautilus is a kind of cephalopod, realted to octopui, squid and cuttlefish. They have over 90 suckerless tentacles and is often called "a living fossil" having changed very little in 400 million years.

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Tomorrow’s drawing- Ulrich, the man with umpteen faces

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I made a lil axolotl triton for the Ethereal Mermaid dice

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My 2016 image depicted that although people with can appear well, under the skin the ME is affecting the muscles. Last years image depicted how ME takes a hold of your body and is always there whether you can see it or not.

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For here's some of the British wukongopterid Cuspicephalus boldly facing a blustery day. Note that 'boldly' meant 'cowering behind quillworts' in the Jurassic.

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