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Haeckel’s Problematical Phylogeny

I’ve had the beginnnings of this post hanging around backstage here since the early summer. Today, the handsome cephalopod illustration above showed up on FFFF, and so (in the absence of any compelling alternative) tonight, Ernst Haeckel, this is your … more…

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more tentacles

I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…

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persistence of cephalopods

A few weeks ago, I ran across a bunch of pictures by visioluxus at DeviantArt, Of The Deep (nsfw) which featured a model tastefully draped with an octopus. I was reminded of, and was prompted to locate the Hokusai woodcut, … more…

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Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!

Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers! Oh yes! A handsome collection, being a side-dish of the rather wonderful and previously unsuspected (by me, at any rate) octopus blog, Octopia. This cover particularly caught my eye, despite that the perspective and scale are … more…

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