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Hannah Comstock

@hannahorca.bsky.social

The next mutation is Siphonophore! This one was a lot of fun to design.

Illustration of a creature bust with “siphonophore” written below it

November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM

A.L. Kaplan

@alkcomics.bsky.social

of the sea

illustration of a woman with short black hair and a crop jacket floating in a dark void with a siphonophore

November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM

It's Helga Again

@helgaastrophysics.bsky.social

This bioluminescent siphonophore was filmed nearly 4,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico, glowing as it drifts through the dark.

November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

@whoi.edu

Often mistaken for a type of jellyfish, the beautiful-but-poisonous Portuguese man-of-war is actually a siphonophore! These "colonial organisms" are made up of genetically identical, highly specialized parts called zooids that work together for the good of the whole—and can pack a powerful punch!

November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Xena Snowscale (Ehksidian)

@ehksidian.bsky.social

new banned spell list dropped:
Bones to Siphonophore
Greater Glue Sausage
Dislocate Kidney
Move Mirth
Summon Phylum
Opalize Eyeball
Debrianize
Pormt's Greater Papercut

November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM

Hannah Comstock

@hannahorca.bsky.social

I love how each one of these designs can be so different from the last. Can’t wait to make more. As always still open for suggestions of ideas to mutate the base dragon with :)

Thank you @clichejames.bsky.social for the suggestion!

Line art drawing of a creature bust with text “siphonophore” below it

Line art drawing of a creature bust with text “base dragon” below it

November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Todd Hoss/Pup Scamp

@bighossjock.bsky.social

If you see anyone that uses AI, even not in the furry circle, go find and block them asap. It’s all a giant siphonophore, and blocking is the best way to stop them from using your art/comms from being fed to the machine

November 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM

wicked little critta

@vilicus-kirbycaden.bsky.social

An you guys liten to blood on his hands by siphonophore its a really good song

October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

@whoi.edu

Throwback to that time when we lit up the United Nations in New York with a visitor from the ocean twilight zone!
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This 2021 Climate Week projection featured a siphonophore—a colony of specialized marine organisms that work together to enhance group survival.

Learn more: twilightzone.whoi.edu

October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Alex Escalante

@tsunami3876.bsky.social

The siphonophore that is Putin, Netanyahu,Steven Miller, Russell Vought, and the useful idiot they put in office.

October 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM

VETIVER 🦌🌘

@dragontaur.bsky.social

YO, I'm Surge! 🐉 I make introspective furry art & fursuits under studio name Draconic Absurdism!

🧡 Monsters, Spyro, Bloodborne, horror media, liminal spaces, insects, Minecraft, furry history, kink, EDM, breakcore, metal, hip-hop, & punk music!

Links: linktr.ee/dragontaur

A reference sheet of Warren, they/it/ze/hir, an androgynous looking warthog/wild boar hybrid who is technically an orc because orcs in my world are anthro boars. They can be depicted with many different sunset-esque color palettes as they dye their fur regularly

Ref sheet of Durian, they/ze/hir/it/she/any pronouns, a lightning/water dragon taur that was once a fire/light dragon but transitioned later in life. They have sphinxoid (shapeshifter taur) ancestry, which allows them to shift colors like a chameleon and change details of their body around such as horn shape/spikes/wings.

Ref sheet of Brine, an abstract representation of self that doesn't have one design. It can be depicted as a siphonophore, an eel, a tornado, a thermal vent, a brine pool, a stygiomedusa gigantea, lightning, fog/mist, or they also have a specific water/lightning dragon form that is dark teal with eldritch-like tentacles

A ref sheet of Vetiver she/they/it, an anthro silver and cinnamon brown androgynous not-deer with carnivorous teeth, dark navy antlers, and black percings. She wears femme goth/punk clothes. After losing part of one hoof in an accident, she designed her own prosthetic with four humanoid fingers and retractable claws.

October 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM

Lisa

@tuexplorer1.bsky.social

Unsure of the depth for this benthic siphonophore, but somewhere around 4500ish. @nautiluslive.org dive L1009 #CookIslands #MarineLife

October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM

Felicity 🍂

@trashyot.bsky.social

first draft concept for a siphonophore girl

October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Lisa

@tuexplorer1.bsky.social

Benthic siphonophore
@nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife

October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM

🦐 | back on my bullshit

@cupnoodlerations.bsky.social

Or a siphonophore running down his spine ough that'd be fun.

October 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM

Felicity 🍂

@trashyot.bsky.social

i gotta draw a weird siphonophore girl i wanna make asap tbh

October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM

MBARI

@mbarinews.bsky.social

In our newest edition of deep-sea animals that can dance better than you, we present the siphonophore samba by Apolemia rubriversa.💃⁠
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Siphonophores (pronounced “sigh-fawn-oh-fours”) are colonial creatures made up of specialized segments that work together as one.

October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM

the many versus the money 🇺🇦

@grrlscientist.bsky.social

The Portuguese Man Of War Is Actually Four Distinct Species

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#species #MarineBiology #siphonophore #oceanography🌊 #ecology #conservation🌏 medium.com/grrlscientis...

October 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM

Coonae

@coonae.pokengine.org

moreee #art #sketch #monkeywrench

another oc for my fan species. his name is Harmon and he looks like a mean bitch. whether he truly is or not... yeah he definitely is

a sketch of the monkey wrench character, Bandito, redesigned as my fan species, a Harlecoon

a sketch collection of various alien creatures, for a puffy planet setting. they're all based on various sea creatures mixed with winter and christmas motifs. for example: a literal christmas tree worm, jellyfish baubles, fairy light giant siphonophore, and sea angels. the creatures are adapted to the strange strata of this planet.

a collection of sketches for a part of the Harlecoon home planet, featuring various desert plantlife and landscape features, including a village design with hanging tent houses.

September 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂

@littletunny.bsky.social

(3/3)

A drawing of an aye-aye bully. Text:
2029: The Aye-Aye Bully
"You asked, we listened! The Aye-Aye Bully is BACK!"

A drawing of an elephant seal bully. Text:
2030: The Elephant Seal Bully
"And it still can't swim."

A drawing of a sage grouse bully. Text:
2031: The Sage Grouse Bully
"Hey so... What the hell is a Sage Grouse...?"

A drawing of a siphonophore bully. Text:
2032: The Siphonophore Bully
"Each part is its own unique, separate individual, which incurs its own unique, separate vet bills!"

September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Ele Willoughby

@minouette.bsky.social

Above the waterline is the gas filled structure or bladder called pneumatophore which acts as a sort of float and a sail. Below the waterline is a cluster of zooids of several sorts.

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertebrates #siphonophore #sciart

September 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM