A sponge reef from the Carboniferous Bear Gulch formation. A pair of female Daidal acanthocercus mantis shrimp forage for food together (some mantis shrimp species form long term monogamous relationship pairs). Echinochimera, a strange chondrichthyan, swims past in the foreground while the elongated Thrinacodus forages between sponges.
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I have some prints in my Etsy: https://etsy.me/3TPcl9i
and Inprint: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/big.hippo.art/
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Carmen the whale!
I wasn't very good at the swimming levels in Rayman 2, but at least there was a funni purple whale guiding me through them.
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Octopus Under the Shelter of Rocks, 1961, by Olga Khludova (1913-1975), Soviet marine biologist & artist, wife of fellow zoologist-artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Kondakov (1908-1999), and apparently one of the first female scuba divers (along with Olga Zhukova) in the USSR? State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia. [Via Google Arts & Culture]
It's difficult to find much info on her in English, and even harder to find more art...here is a page which has low-res scans of color plates from her 1963 book Beyond the Blue Threshold, including another octopus: https://coollib.com/b/198822-olga-florentevna-hludova-za-golubyim-porogom/image
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Underwater jellyfish and seals - just below the kayak. Turquoise jewel ocean.
Digital illustration from "Maybe A Whale" children's book.
You can see the book over here.
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I'll format this blog a lil better eventually but for the time being enjoy these water babs!
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