#sea animals
Manatees
Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants.
The main causes of death for manatees are human-related issues, such as habitat destruction and human objects.
Their slow-moving, curious nature has led to violent collisions with propeller-driven boats and ships. Some manatees have been found with over 50 scars on them from propeller blades. Natural causes of death include adverse temperatures, predation by crocodiles on young, and disease.
Apart from mothers with their young, or males following a receptive female, manatees are generally solitary animals.
Manatees spend approximately 50% of the day sleeping submerged, surfacing for air regularly at intervals of less than 20 minutes.
The remainder of the time is mostly spent grazing in shallow waters at depths of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in–6 ft 7 in). The Florida subspecies (T. m. latirostris) has been known to live up to 60 years.
Endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus)
Manatees
So this is the last part of the designs I uploaded previously- it’s a shirt design that’s been accepted for scoring on Threadless.com! https://www.threadless.com/designs/class-cephalopoda
I would super appreciate any reblogs and scores to help it get printed! :>
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Please do not repost or use the design without permission.
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Who doesn’t want an adorable penguin to celebrate the holidays with!! (I also have an option minus the Santa hat for people who don’t celebrate Christmas but still want a cute penguin buddy!!)
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Emperor-Penguin-Baby-with-Santa-Hat-by-Squiddllr/60596483.7H7A9
Looking for some funny holiday shirts?
Santa claws
Seas & greetings
Be merry and bright
This October I have been working on a series of marine skeletons! Here are the ones I’ve done so far:
A Harbour Seal:
A Stingray:
And a Seahorse:
Stickers are coming to my Etsy shop soon!
This month is inktober!! A marine biologist I follow on IG (@marinemumbles) is holding a series of art prompts called #rockpoolaroid with a list of ocean themed prompts that I am very excited to work on! October is a month for celebrating creativity (no matter skill level) - feel free to join along on IG!
Enjoy my first messy watercolour of the month - a crab!
Finally caught up and added some Sea Star/Sunstar stickers to my Etsy shop!! Next up will be some awesome postcards
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Squiddllr?ref=notif_nfyfs&order=date_desc
Perfect way to add a taste of the ocean to your notebooks or water bottles ❤️
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Squiddllr?ref=notif_nfyfs&order=date_desc
Six-rayed Sea Star
Love spending my time drawing flowers of the sea
Currently working on filling my screen with Salish Sea Anemones
Moonglow anemone
An hour and a half in - love how these tentacles are turning out (only on the second layer!!!) but definitely sad to see the bright colours go
I’m starting to work on a sea anemone and I’m loving how hectic and colourful my base layer looks each colour is a different layer - so many tentacles to draw and add details to!!
These stickers have been selling like crazy! I had to order a whole new batch of them - thank you so much for all the amazing support!!
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/898060827/vinyl-giant-pacific-octopus-sticker?ref=shop_home_recs_26
Egg-yolk jellyfish are a beautiful jellyfish found in the waters along the West Coast. Hitchhikers like crabs have been found catching a ride inside their bell (the umbrella shaped top)- which is something I REALLY want to see!
Happy pride month everyone! I am so excited to be spending this month talking about how diverse sex, mating, and gender are in the ocean (or water)!
Head to my Instagram to enter my World Oceans Day giveaway for the chance to win one children’s T-shirt size 4 and three octopus stickers!
Haven’t posted a video in a while. We went tidepooling yesterday and saw these adorably tiny thick-horned Nudibranchs I am definitely obsessed (and had a hard time leaving them behind haha)
Ooh look what just came in the mail I’ll be adding them to my shop soon!
Blood star… why are you such a simple but complex being??? After hours of drawing and redrawing I think I’ve reached a star that I like and that represents the many blood stars I’ve seen hidden in between rocks. Next up I will spend days agonizing over the leather star
Did you know that sea urchins in the wild wear shells, rocks, leaves, and algae as hats? It’s theorized that they use the hats to help weigh them down and to protect them from predators. They might even help protect the urchins from UV rays and help camouflage them.
In aquariums apparently urchins kept taking parts of the exhibit to use as hats - including items like baby corals. To help keep the exhibits intact, staff started printing small 3D hats for urchins. These hats were not only functional - but made aquarium urchins so much more fashionable than their wild friends.
Working on this blood star right now what’s your favourite sea star species?
Look at the spikes on this one! This Frosted Nudibranch (dirona albolineata) was super intimidating at first - but I actually loved playing with the many layering “spikes”. Crazy to see all the forms these creatures come in
Here’s a better photo of my Monterey Sea Lemon and Atlantic Ancula
Sea life specimens I - II - III
https://www.behance.net/gallery/86172351/Sea-Life-Specimens
https://www.instagram.com/vladimirsart/
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Happy to share the final project of the Crazy Monster series done for the Earth Touch/Smithsonian Channel. The SEA CREATURES episode features ‘some of the weirdest, fastest, wildest, and mightiest creatures in the watery underworld.’
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this is a horseshoe crab appreciation post
He uh. Twisted himself in half.
sea angel/clione stimboard for @octahedral-chaos
with deep sea stims and glowcore! (when i opened requests i asked myself how long it would take for you to request /fond)
That anemone crab is lit.
