Friday Cephalopod: Live! From Hawai’i!

I’m on a small island in the middle of a great big ocean full of exotic and beautiful invertebrates. It feels good.

Mary’s Monday Metazoan: My kind of flower

Friday Cephalopod: The better to see you with, my dear

(via the Smithsonian)

Botanical Wednesday: Ko’oloa ‘ula

I’m going to Hawaii next week, while snow is still on the ground here in Morris, so I have to think tropical.

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(If you’re wondering, I’ll be attending and speaking at the West Coast Regional Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology.)

Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I’ve always wondered how hoofed animals pick their noses

Friday Cephalopod: Who is the real cuttlefish?

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So when Arizona firefighters get called to rescue a cat up a tree…

Earlier, I posted a photo of a saguaro — Rob Bartlett had to one-up me by sending me this photo of a saguaro+.

Botanical Wednesday: I see it as giving the finger to the heavens

But that’s just me.

Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I wish I had jewels for skin, too

(via National Geographic)

Friday Cephalopod: The cold stare