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Got so busy with work stuff in October that I didn’t have time to do any Halloween-related drawings. So I’m doing them now.

Here’s as Anatomically Implausible Skeleton of the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt, Clavelina ossipandae, from the waters around Okinawa. Sea Squirts are little filter-feeding colonial blobby critters in the phylum Chardata- meaning they’re very distantly related to us.

Skeleton Panda Sea Squirts have been popping up on SCUBA diving social media for a while with no formal taxonomic name. They were finally given a scientific name and a thorough study in 2024.

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four cellists play Ravel's Bolero ... on just one cello. Bolero has long been a test of endurance for snare drummers, but here, every part is played by a cellist. With only one instrument in sight, Wiener Cello Ensemble 5 + 1 leap to the task, involving a fair amount of acrobatics! Watch it all unfold ...

The ocean molded this clump of bricks into a rock shape

Wind waking time

Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, BC, Canada

This study from 2025 also indicates that, in urban areas, light pollution is becoming a greater disruptor for growing seasonality than temperature is; which is HUGE considering how prevalent the urban heat island effect is. They found that these effects greatly lengthened the growing season and delaying the projected end dates. This is bad because it also disrupts the life cycles of everything reliant on the plant’s life cycles, such as parasites, feeding insects/animals etc. It can also even lower the amount of available water due to the plants requiring more water in prolonged growth seasons. These systems are dynamic and not in a vacuum.