tentacle spectacle

If it involves tentacles in art or nature, it's here.

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🦑 Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1912. Original source Image description: Historical scientific illustration showing a detailed squid with a prominent, rounded mantle and multiple long arms extending upward, some with visible suction cups. Surrounding the main squid figure are close-up drawings of individual tentacle segments, suction cup rows, and the squid’s head and eye in detailed view. The delicate shading highlights texture and anatomy typical of early 20th-century marine biology studies. The image emphasizes the squid’s arm structure and suction cups, providing insight into cephalopod morphology from the 1912 Plankton Expedition publication.

[apolonisaphrodisia]

No Spline, by beeple (Mike Winkelmann),

[jacques-le-fataliste-23]

Martin Voigt, ‘Flucht lV’

Via: https://www.instagram.com/p/CejwWQiKE3C/

[clawmarks]

I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli - 1896 - via Internet Archive

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Josh Guglielmo 

[nemfrog]

Plate XIX. Pelagic squid.  Histoire naturelle.  1802.

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Mural at The Seattle Public Library

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BioShock Infinite Undertow Vigor Bottle

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Save our Souls Pirate Ship by ~emptyfridge

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🐌 Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabuifères viants, et fossiles: Paris: Impr. de A. Lacour, 1835-1848. Original source Image description: Illustration of two detailed cephalopods, specifically squids, from an 1835-1848 natural history text. The upper squid is shown with a soft, elongated body, broad triangular fins, large eyes, and ten arms, two of which are longer with visible suction cups. The lower squid displays a torpedo-shaped body with similarly long arms, prominent eyes, and more defined shading emphasizing its texture and contours. A small close-up of part of a squid’s arm with suction cups is depicted on the right. The drawing combines delicate stippling and shading to highlight anatomical features, emphasizing the species’ morphology for scientific study.

[jareckiworld]

Joanna Karpowicz — Street in Osaka II (Anubis Series) [acrylic on canvas, 2025]

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A Silver Ocean Storm by *veinsofmercury

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Mermay Sketches by Russell Jones

[fromthedust]

Didrachm (reverse) - 8.6 grams silver - Eretria, Greece - 500-480 BCE 

Tetradrachm - 17.2 grams silver - Eretria, Greece - 500-490 BCE

Litra - .87 grams silver - Syracuse, Sicily - 460-450 BCE 

Socrates (Greek, 469–399 BCE) could have handled any of these coins and asked why they depicted an octopus — or what values they represented …

In the 5th century BCE the value of a litra was equivalent to the value of a pound of bronze, while the value of a didrachm (two drachmas) was considered to be about the value of two days wages for the average worker in antiquity.

The current (July 2020) value of bronze is $1.37 per pound, and value of silver is $206.51 per pound, or 45½ cents per gram. A pound is 453.592 grams.

[themarinevampireshop]

“Common Octopus” Page 183 of ‘Cassell’s Natural History.’ {1896} Research: TheMarineVampireShop

[clawmarks]

Lehrbuch der Zoologie - Otto Schmeil - 1930 - via e-rara

[histsciart]

Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) (left) and squid (Loligo vulgaris) (right). 

SciArt from Tintenfische (1913) by Werner Meyer. View more in @biodivlibrary with thanks to @smithsonianlibraries for digitizing.