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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
I collaborated on the snails in short series and had a great time working on these with @franzanth.bsky.social
Snails in short page describing handedness in snails, snail feeding modes, and how snails make shells out of different minerals
May 7, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
Don't sleep on the crab database as a source for
#InsertAnInvert2024! Here are images of all 3 of the suggested true crab species this week:

Ixa cylindrus by Ondřej Radosta
Stenorhynchus debilis (close enough) by Arthur Anker
Ranina ranina by Tin-Yam Chan

Explore this website! 🦀🧪
dorsal view of Ixa cylindrus, looks like a round crab but with long tubular projections from the lateral parts of its carapace photo by Ondřej Radosta dorsal view of Stenorhynchus debilis. the body is teardrop shaped, with a lengthy pointy rostrum, and is striped vertically. the legs are loooong and spindly photo by Arthur Anker dorsal view of Ranina ranina. this species doesn't look like a true crab, because its carapace is elongated and its pleon (abdomen) is sticking out the back like a very skinny lobster's would. the eyestalks are emphasized, as are the wrench-like claws and spade-like legs. photo by Tin-Yam Chan
May 7, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Early Cretaceous hatchet wasp!
Procretevania exquisita, a parasitic wasp from the Yixian Formation of China! #paleoart #wasp #insect #entomology
A pen line drawing of a dumpy looking wasp, with short stubby legs, small wings and a large round abdomen.
May 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization.

Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
crab anatomy diagram that covers the basics of the crab anatomy and names of various body parts diagram that shows the various different shapes of crab claws and how the shapes relate to their lifestyles diagram showing the various segments of crab legs and how the different leg shapes relate to their lifestyles diagram showing all the complicated limbs that sprout out from a crab's face
May 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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the-episiarch.bsky.social
When most people think of the "zombie snail parasite" they think Leucochloridium paradoxum - but that's just one out of ten different species of Leucochloridium.

They all have different colours and patterns, this one is called L. passeri.
#invertebrate 🧪
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Left: Snail infected with Leucochloridium passeri collected from Hemei Township (Changhua County) by Jui-An Lin, photo. Top right: Labelled L. passeri broodsac. Bottom right: A trio of L. passeri broodsacs with metacercariae removed from an infected snail.
May 1, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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dhilrukshi.bsky.social
The most famous bug in Australia is the Witchetty Grub. It's the larvae of the Cossid wood moth and an Indigenous Australian delicacy. The grub is the most important insect food of the desert. It's high in protein and tastes like chicken and scrambled eggs.

#Invertefest
April 30, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
The #InverteFest group most closely related to us: tunicates!

Yes, they are part of chordates, whether they represent the largest free swimming salp (Thetys vagina) or sessile species (Polycarpa aurata and the colonial Didemnum molle)! 🦑🧪

*check out the amphipods riding the salp
Thetys vagina. Seen swimming through a night time plankton soup, it is several inches long and looks like a transparent blob with some interior structures from anterior to posterior. The gut is yellow/orange. ALSO there are a bunch of hyperiid amphipods riding on the blob head end! Screencap from gopro video on my blackwater dive in Tulamben Bali Funny leathery sock like critter, Polycarpa aurata. It's stuck to the seafloor and has 2 big openings. Mostly light orange with bright purple grooves and some tubercles on the outside Photo from Seraya, Tulamben Bali A bunch of Didemnum molle attached to a rope(?) which is overgrown with sea life. There are 20-30 small round individuals in the colony, and one big one that you can see inside the siphons. They are white on the outside and green on the inside Photo at Seraya, Tulamben Bali
April 29, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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lacerdajulio.bsky.social
It's the last day of #InverteFest and I'm working on something with bugs! Kind of.
A poster with lineart of Bug Pókemon from the Sinnoh Region depicted in realistic style.
April 30, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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goblinville.bsky.social
It was once believed that you could predict the harshness of an upcoming winter by looking at the stripes of wooly bear caterpillars. A large central brown stripe indicates a mild winter, while a small stripe means it will be harsh 🐛
#InverteFest
April 30, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest runs until the end of the month (Tuesday).

Keep posting your invertebrate art, plug your merch & service, find some bugs in the wild, do whatever you want.

Here's our community science project on iNat if you haven't joined: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
a poster showing 14 different crab species. there's a lanky boi, there's one with serrated claws, another with triangular carapace, a hermit crab in ammonite shell, and so on.
April 29, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
I finished my April #InsertAnInvert2024 with an Elvis worm just in time for #InverteFest.

I LOVED drawing the different marine worms.

#SciArt
a large watercolor journal page with watercolor illustrations of 4 different marine worms: a brown knotted up ribbon worm, a fluffy reddish pink and blue feather duster worm protruding from a tube, a purplish blue shinny scale worm and a yellow white and black oval shaped flatworm
April 24, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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goblinville.bsky.social
In European folklore, stag beetles were often associated with the devil, and some believed they would carry burning coals in their mandibles to set houses on fire
#InverteFest
April 30, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
Been waiting to deploy my mantis shrimps for #InverteFest! The first two are a cheeky and a a shy individual of Odontodactylus scyllarus, the most beautiful species. The last is a terrible picture of a larval stage somersaulting in blackwater 😍🦑
Full body view of the beautiful peacock mantis shrimp in every color of the rainbow. You see why it's called the peacock as there are bright colored spots on the uropods and on the antennal scales. Melasti, Tulamben Bali Another of the same species. This one is shy so it is mostly in a burrow, but its amazing eyes seem entrained on my camera Melasti, Tulamben Bali Black water that looks like outer space. In the center is a weird transparent mantis shrimp larva with one pair elongated hooked appendages (these are the smashy ones in adults)
April 30, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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InsertAnInvert2024

Wormification week 3: long, not limbless

Fuchsia flatworm (pseudoceros ferrugineus)
a fuchsia flatworm crawling around. It's not very fuchsia in this drawing, which is drawn in blue and shaded with blue halftone. just pretend it's a cyan flatworm, an animal that probably doesn't exist.
May 1, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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magicmetalbird.com
InsertAnInvert2024

Wormification week 2: long, not limbless

Giant tube worm (riftia pachyptila)
four giant tube worms coming up from the same spot. they're drawn in blue lines and shaded with blue halftone.
April 28, 2024 at 2:30 PM
invertposting.bsky.social
Ah crap, I've somehow managed to miss most of InverteFest!

Been writing several new blogposts and also workin on two large speculative evolution projects, one of which will be posted here real soon.

In the meantime, I've updated this one
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Mesozoic deadfall communities - an ancient ecology
This post is about Mesozoic deadfall communities - think whalefalls, but marine reptiles! The dead bodies of large aquatic animals have a b...
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May 1, 2024 at 11:05 PM
invertposting.bsky.social
Happy #InverteFest! My discord server is hosting an invetebrate-themed #speculativeevolution project, focusing on invertebrates that might've existed in deep time but didn't fossilize; bring your best hypothetical radiodonts and weirdest cycad pollinators
April 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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jencmars.bsky.social
A mantis, for #InverteFest

Pencils and gouache on 9x12" hotpress paper.

#insects
Close up portrait of a green mantis looking directly at the viewer on a soft, out of focus shadowy green background.
April 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
A #TBT pic for #InverteFest - a newly-hatched angle-wing katydid (Microcentrum sp.) on my fingertip. I don't put myself in the picture that often, but sometimes it's fun for scale. Antennae for days. 🐙 🌿
A macro photo of a tiny, newly-hatched green katydid perched on a fingertip against a blue-green background.
April 25, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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stanton.bsky.social
The creature on the cover of "17 Defunct Arthropods" is Marmacuma samimei, an extinct hooded shrimp from Late Pleistocene Turkey, where it lived in a hypersaline lagoon until its home reconnected with the Black Sea, then died out due to fatally drastic salinity changes
#InverteFest
April 24, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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stanton.bsky.social
The trilobite on the cover of my Brief Primer of Trilobites is the legendary Terataspis grandis, a gigantic lichid trilobite from Early Devonian New York and Ontario. It's known from fragments that suggest an adult animal of at least 60 centimeters in length.
#InverteFest
April 25, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
Making our way to #InverteFest.🐌

#guildeleven #art
A giant snail with structures and windows on its shell, accompanied by octopuses, traversing choppy waters.
April 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
invertposting.bsky.social
Happy #InverteFest! Here's another thread focusing on the invertebrates in paleo documentaries, this time the amazing Sea Monsters - A Prehistoric Adventure!

Six species are featured in the documentary – coiled ammonites, Baculites, Tusoteuthis, Uintacrinus, jellyfish, and Inoceramid clams.
April 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest is going strong. I'm compiling the artists who are selling things or looking to connect with clients under this post. Go support them!

Feel free to add yourself.
poster design with 12 nudibranch species of various shapes and colors. some are round, others long, frilly, or branched
April 25, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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stanton.bsky.social
In celebration of #InverteFest, go buy my coloring book, "17 Defunct Arthropods" and leave a 5 star review! It features various non-trilobite arthropods both obscure and famous, and all defunct
www.amazon.com/Defunct-Arth...
Amazon.com: 17 Defunct Arthropods: Volume I: 9798668318414: Fink V, Mr Stanton Fordice: Libros
Amazon.com: 17 Defunct Arthropods: Volume I: 9798668318414: Fink V, Mr Stanton Fordice: Libros
www.amazon.com
April 24, 2024 at 3:33 PM