The next prompt for #printerSolstice is Triadic Colours, or 3 equidistant colours on the colour wheel. I went with secondary colours: orange, purple & green. My Lino block print of 2 Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 🧵1/n #starfish#seastar#ochreStarfish#invertebrate#sciart#purpleSeaStar#PisasterOchraceus#kelp#MastoArt
Long presumed to have no heads at all, #starfish may be nothing but
Naturalists have puzzled over what might constitute head of a #seastar, commonly called a "starfish." With five identical arms—any of which can take lead in propelling sea stars across seabed—it's been anybody's guess how to determine the front end of the organism from the back. Teams from Standford and Berkeley detected #genes associated with head development just about everywhere in juvenile sea stars https://phys.org/news/2023-11-presumed-starfish.html