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Two years ago I was contacted by Greg Rouse of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute to create an illustration of a giant pink sock-like organism called Xenoturbella which he and his team had discovered around a deep sea mussel bed.
Greg asked me to keep the drawing under wraps until his paper had been published, but today the article finally came out, so now you can see my work.
The big purple sock here is Xenoturbella monstrosa (not profunda as the article states. That's another species Greg's team discovered). Also in this scene are the deep-sea mussels the creatures may have been feeding on. Other smaller animals include red jellyfish, brittlestars and tube-dwelling amphipods (those yellow soda-straw-looking things). The orange thin g in the lower left is an acorn worm, or enteropneust.
Here's an article about the discovery: m.phys.org/news/2016-02-team-d…
And here's the article itself: www.nature.com/nature/journal/…
Greg asked me to keep the drawing under wraps until his paper had been published, but today the article finally came out, so now you can see my work.
The big purple sock here is Xenoturbella monstrosa (not profunda as the article states. That's another species Greg's team discovered). Also in this scene are the deep-sea mussels the creatures may have been feeding on. Other smaller animals include red jellyfish, brittlestars and tube-dwelling amphipods (those yellow soda-straw-looking things). The orange thin g in the lower left is an acorn worm, or enteropneust.
Here's an article about the discovery: m.phys.org/news/2016-02-team-d…
And here's the article itself: www.nature.com/nature/journal/…
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I hereby dub these "Precambrian Hotdog Scraps"
amazing creatures, I immediately thought of Salinella salve
amazing creatures, I immediately thought of Salinella salve