For the #SciArtSeptember prompt glowing, it’s my linocut of the #bioluminescent firefly squid! The firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans), also called sparkling enope squid or hotaru-ika in Japan, live at depth (200 to 400 m) and are bioluminescent and emit blue light from photophores. 🧵1/2
Happy #Squidtember! Here's a lovely 🦑 weirdo that showed up to perform inverted balletic contortions for the cameras onboard NOAA's Okeanos Explorer, during a dive in the Gulf of Mexico in 2018.
You gotta love a deep-sea sighting that can make a marine biologist exclaim: "What is THAT?"