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🐙🦑🐌🐚For check out these cool illustrations. —Download them + many more illustrations of octopi, squid + cuttlefish species (+ other plants + animal illustrations!) here: https://t.co/D6jWPB8hgo via

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2021-10-26

it's !!!!!!!!! Celebrate... with mollusks :)

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2021-03-02

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Argonauta argo (Linnaeus, 1758)

vern. Paper nautilus, Argonauta
pics 1, 2, 3 via sciencefriday, 4 via otchegopomogaet

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2021-01-18

Ladies & gentlemen...🥁🥁🥁the terrifying “Dentatus septempod”!🐙#illustration

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2020-06-30

English naturalist William Turton's passion was conchology. He published several illustrated books, including "A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands" (1819). The work is free online thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/DHC4PvADww

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2020-03-23

🐙Happy —Download these cool illustrations and many more illustrations of octopi, squid, and cuttlefish species (and other plants and animals) via . —https://t.co/D6jWPB8hgo 🦑🐙

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2020-02-04

A multitude of mollusks collected during the voyage of the H.M.S. Samarang, which surveyed the coasts of Southeast Asia & southern China from 1843 to 1846. View more in "Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang" (1850) via ➡️ https://t.co/9iKOaiKfWE

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2019-12-17

Three generations of Sowerbys contributed to "Thesaurus conchyliorum" (1847-87), one of the rarest of all conchology books. It includes over 500 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Find it in via ➡️ https://t.co/0j9WH3CQff 🐚

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2019-11-05

Estimated at ~6m long, giant orthocone cephs in the Cameroceras genus were some of the largest in the late Ordovician/early Silurian!

Cameroceras ?sp

*Dates, colors, and exact morphology unknown

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2019-10-29

Beautiful from "D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer" for This 1705 work by Rumpf details the marine life of Amboina (Ambon) in what is now eastern Indonesia & features by Maria Sybilla Merian. In via : https://t.co/iB5ie7ZIIv

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2019-10-07

Ram's horn squid comin' in hot this This cute little weirdo has a coiled internal shell (like a ram's horn) that is used to control buoyancy AND has a photophore between its fins.

Spirula spirula



Redbubble: https://t.co/um3WC3tBJ6

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2019-08-20

The Dana octopus squid is an 8-armed squid whose tentacles are reduced or disappear by the time they reach adulthood. Also, those lidded photophores are the largest known light-producing organs found in any animal.

Taningia danae

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2019-08-06

This thread is awesome! I'm starting my PhD in the fall but I started using art for SciComm about a year ago by making a new drawing every week for I also tap dance here and there and occasionally make a crazy cake.

(Butterfly is WIP)

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2019-07-24

In the 18th & 19th centuries, shell collecting was a popular pastime. Many beautifully-illustrated conchology publications were produced, such as "A Conchological Manual" (1839). Explore a 1st edition in via ➡️ https://t.co/DcdeFPzmQT 🐚🐚

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2019-07-16

Happy Shell-ebrate with beautiful shell from the 1872 and 1880 volumes of the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London". Explore this title in thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/7GPigU17e1 🐚🐚🐚

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2019-07-02

The Bigfin squids are an elusive group of cephs that are rarely seen, especially as adults. It's easy to identify them when we do find them because their fins can be up to 90% of the mantle length!

family Magnapinna

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2019-06-11

This past Monday marked the 10th drawing I've done since starting this habit. Thanks to all for your support and encouragement—so far it's been a blast and I'm excited to see what happens with the next ten!

https://t.co/RRcG7MDqWP

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2019-05-16