The second #insertAnInvert2024 prompt for deep-sea month is bathyal: the midnight zone between 1 and 4 km depth. This is the zone where I have done the most research studying the sea floor on continental slopes and margins. Sometimes we use ROVs and get to see cephalopods… but I selected unusual one I have not had the opportunity to see. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #invertebrate #cephalopod #VampireSquid #oceanLife #Vampyroteuthis #squidtember #MastoArt
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt: illuminated and a bonus mesopelagic #invertebrate for #InsertAnInvert2024 it’s my #linocut of the #bioluminescent firefly squid! The firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans), also called sparkling enope squid or hotaru-ika in Japan, live at depth (200 to 400 m) and are bioluminescent and emit blue light from photophores. 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #invertebrates #squid #fireflySquid #WaraseniaScintillans #enope #Squidtember #MastoArt
Time for the #Squidtember art prompts! This week we’re celebrating the strawberry squid. Strawberry squid are a deep sea squid that are cool for so many reasons. They are covered in tiny light-producing photophores that look like strawberry seeds. One of the coolest things about them is their mismatched eyes 👀
Thank you to OceanX (who is not on mastodon) for organizing art prompts!
I drew this in black and white in my sketchbook then colored in procreate 🎨
Flying spaghetti monsters
Bathyphysa conifera - Wikipedia
Every Tuesday throughout #Squidtember, I'll be dropping a brand new squid coloring page!
This week's squid is Bathyteuthis!
All the pages are in the Squid Zine, which you can check out here: https://givebutter.com/aNWslJ
If you color them in, I wanna see 👀
@oceanx
It’s deep sea month for #InsertAnInvert2024 starting with the mesopelagic twilight zone in the upper 200 to 1000 m water depth and going deeper. So I’m sharing this adorable Bobtail squid (actually, not a squid, but a cephalopod of order Sepiolida, closer to cuttlefish) is printed by hand onto black Japanese washi paper with a deckle edge. 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mesopelagic #bobtailSquid #cephalopod
#Squidtember #MastoArt
Looking up critters for #InsertAnInvert2024 and found this! Just look at it, with a little candle on it's head!!! I don't know much about it, but does this count as Deep Sea?
(Image from Monterey Bay Aquarium, https://www.mbari.org/gallery/deep-sea-wallpapers/peacock-squid/ )
(Also relevant to #SquidTember)
Good morning on this first day of #Squidtember 2024!
Need some reading for your Sunday? Download the SQUID ZINE! You can color & learn about 🦑!
It’s available in English, Spanish, & Japanese, thanks to translators Masaki Taya & Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez!
The zine is pay-what-you-wish!
When you “get a ticket”, you’ll be emailed links to download in all 3 languages. Each will come with the option to download for digital reading or to print a double sided booklet! https://givebutter.com/aNWslJ
Humboldt squid are too cool for just 1 post.
Often ~100lbs
Super strong
Live in areas with oxygen so low most other active predators can’t hack it
Live in huge squads- like over 1000 squid together
Have a color pattern based communication system
Sometimes eat each other
There's one week left in #Squidtember. We gotta make the most of it!
Ele Willoughby, PhD
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
David W. Jones
Blue Appaloosa
Patrick Duffy