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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore day! Its a perfect day to celebrate such a small yet beautifully diverse phyla that comes in a wide array of shapes and colors. #Ctenophoreday

Drawing of various Ctenophore anatomies showing the diversity of the phylum. center/front, top left, and right are lobate ctenophores, center/back is a beroid or nuda ctenophore, center/right is a cydippid or tentacled ctenophore, and bottom/left is a benthic ctenophore

A drawing of the Blood belly comb jelly ctenophore (comb jelly) which is known for its stricking red coloration that helps it live in the deep sea

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 7d

Oh thanks for that feedback, I can do that in the future on posts!!

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much!!!

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 8d

Day 30 - Dream. The final day of #sciartseptember. My long-term dream has always been to create a series of illustrated guides that would help identify the various jellies and jellyfish of the would. Creating illustrations like the ones below to accurately ID species.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 8d

Day 29 - Foresight. Elasmobranchs (including sharks, rays, and skates) includes species that can either give live birth or lay beautiful egg cases of varying shapes. Depositing them in secluded locations so the foreseeable next generation hatches safely. #sciartseptember

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 9d

Day 28 - Harvest. Numerous species of algae are vital in numerous aspects of aquaculture, especially species like Nannochloropsis which is harvested as live feed for other species #sciartseptember. A comissioned color pencil drawing for a previous client.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 10d

Day 27 - Bounded #sciartseptember. In the deep sea a pair of shrimp will begin living in glass sponges and remain trapped inside the sponge once they get larger, the shrimp will be bound to the sponge for the rest of their lives.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 10d

Day 26 Forage - #sciartseptember Leaf cutter ants can travel up to 100m (330ft) from their nest to collect or forage for leaves or other materials. (ignoring the people part)

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 12d

Day 25 - Tireless #sciartseptember. A quick sketch based a little bit on this upcoming year. With my defense approaching next Spring/Summer the long nights into my research are definitely piling up.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 13d

Day-24 Numbered. #sciartseptember. Through the effort of museums around the world, our natural world is collected, given a specific number, and safely stored in their collections. Here they are often guarded for future generations to study and unveil their secrets.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 13d

Day 23-Scouting #sciartseptember. Often field work takes a lot of research, trial & error, planning, and even scouting out locations. Its a lot of hard work but with enough luck it can often pay off.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 15d

Day 22, Fellowship. A sketch from the work I did during my last fellowship which redescribed a deep sea benthic ctenophore Tjalfiella. Unlike other benthic comb jellies, Tjalfiella has three openings to its gut, a primary mouth and 2 secondary mouths on its "arms." #sciartseptember

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 16d

Day 21, Reef #sciartseptember. A single crown of thorns seastar is capable of eating 10 square meters of coral a year or its own body size worth each night.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 16d

Very quick 10 minute sketch for day 20 glacial #sciartseptember. Ice cores collected from glaciers is one way researchers are able to study our planets past. Some ice cores have samples that go as far back as 5 million years.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 18d

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 18d

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 18d

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 19d

Day 18, Cenote for #sciartseptember. Not exactly a cenote, but blue holes are large marine sinkholes, with one of the largest being the Great Blue Hole in Belize. This is an old drawing I made of one back in 2019.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 20d

Day 17, Trawl. Although numerous advancements have greatly diminished the amount of bycatch in trawls around the world, still hundreds of thoudands of cetaceans are still unintentially caught. #sciartseptember

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 20d

Day 16: Rift #sciartseptember . Deep in the sea numerous species often call the numerous submarine canyons as home including the curious and adorable rattails

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 20d

Catching up on some prompts for #sciartseptember Day 15, Spawning. Typically 7-10 days after the full moon numerous coral species (particularly around the GBR) will spawn and release thousands of eggs at night

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 22d

Day 14: Mimic of #sciartseptember. Cant resist doing a quick sketch of one of my favorite marine critters the Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) who is well known for changing its body shape and texture to mimic a variety of wildlife including lionfish, flounder, and sea snakes.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 25d

#sciartseptember prompt wandering. Here we have the Arctic tern will migrate twice ayear from the Arctic to the Antarctic and cross over 44,000 to 59,000 miles (70,000 to 95,000 kilometers), traveling over a million miles over its lifetime.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 26d

A double feature for today's #sciartseptember prompt venomous, cause I can't decide. We have two old drawings of mine featuring the box jellies chironex fleckeri and alatina alata...some of the most venomous yet beautiful animals in the world

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 27d

the Tawny Frogmouth for the #sciartseptember prompt Tawny. Always super interested in animals that can mimic their environment to some capacity.

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