Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>background so you can see the whole animal &amp; then its reflection is shown against dark blue so you can see how its bioluminescence would appear underwater with fluorescent blue spots.</p><p>This adorable Bobtail squid (actually, not a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/squid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>squid</span></a>, but a cephalopod of order Sepiolida, closer to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cuttlefish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cuttlefish</span></a>) is printed by hand onto black Japanese washi paper with a deckle edge. Sometimes these little things are called dumpling squid or stubby squid. Objectively some of these cutest cephalopods around 🧵3/4</p>