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I mostly saw them before I was very into animal photography but anyway one of my photos of the scary...

Story behind this one is kind of funny, I was on a big rock platform and heard someone in a moderately sized group of people 'wow! a blue ringed octopus!' so I went over just to check they really knew not to touch it under any circumstances. Anyway... it was a brittle star (type of echinoderm) so I explained what that was. and I went back to where I was looking for animals (about 100m away) and looked down and there was a blue ringed octopus right there.

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Three-banded Courser (Rhinoptilus cinctus)

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The me bird (^^)

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why she ourple...

(snail under UV, trying and failing to find scorpions with @i-draws-dinosaurs)

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#uv scorpion hunting ultimate date night activity #even if there's no scorpions :(#there is still girlfriend

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🌞 Annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory Claremont, Calif.: Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912- Original source Image description: Illustration from the 1912 Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory, Pomona College, Claremont, California, depicting a detailed scientific drawing of a crab with segmented body and large, curved claws. The crab is centrally positioned and rendered with fine lines showing body texture and appendages. Flanking the crab are two smaller, leaf-like marine organisms labeled 3 and 4, each with a slender stalk and curved top resembling underwater plants. The drawing is minimalistic, set against a plain background, emphasizing the anatomical details for educational and biological study purposes related to California marine life.

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Just a correction, this is an image of a pseudoscorpion not a crab. I'm guessing these image descriptions are generated with AI which sucks since the actual illustrations themselves are often really interesting.

The figure key a couple pages above identifies it as Chelanops pallipes, which is now reclassified as Hesperochernes pallipes. I couldn't find any photos of this particular species but here is another member of genus Hesperochernes:

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#pseudoscorpion #scorpion #arachnid

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Acrylic is like what if there was a paint medium that dried so fast that you could never blend anything or get the right colour. And then oil paint is like what if you were always spending 40 dollars

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(relatively) quick painting of some waves at the beach during a storm last summer

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stop drinking beer with the deer and come have a cider with the spiderrrr

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sucking at something is the first step to getting good at it

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looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one