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[nemfrog]

Human reproduction. Anatomie élémentaire en 20 planches. 1831/1839.

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[70sscifiart]

Late 70s cover art by Giuseppe Festino for Robot magazine

[wolvesandcomputers]

The Blind Cave Hippocampus

Image Description: A drawing of a hippocampus that looks like a fetal horse on the front and a cave salamander on the back. The image is surrounded by notes on the creature. The notes read:

The dark spots are vestigial eyes that can sense changes in light.

The textured feet help it grip wet rocks.

Blood vessels, bones and organs are visible through the hippocampus’ thin hide. A layer of mucus offers some protection to its sensitive skin, but they are rarely out of the water for long and cannot tolerate direct sunlight.

They have no teeth

It breathes clouds of heavier than air gasses that it uses to kill its prey. This is an instinctive reaction they cannot be trained out of. Anyone attempting to handle them must use safety gear.

Once its prey is dead it drags the carcass into the water and wedges it under a rock until it has decayed enough to be mostly liquid. Then the cave hippocampus slurps up its meal.

A Blind Cave Hippocampus can go several years between meals, much longer than other species of hippocampus.

An explorer approaches a pool containing a cave hippocampus. Protected by a respirator and bottled air, the human has little to fear from the creature. The Blind Cave Hippocampus will rarely physically attack a conscious target out of fear of injury.

Another monster from the Pool Kelpie discussion. Remember the best way to avoid dying in a cave is to stay out of caves.

[morphimus]

[sealsdaily]

Today's Fur Seal Is: Sock Puppet Baby

[psychophore]

Prejudgement

[skraeet]

my vers of baby vexes

Scar & Cub baby photoshoot

[caleod]

4-10-24 "Exotic"

[sonyshock]

Art request for MephilesLover in Twitter that had me thinking 'I hope they are aware how I like to draw Mew' al the way through > H > Social media  + Commissions  + PAPERCUT

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[lewisdeklein]

My….my son. Nikolai fetus was born May 22nd 2024 at 11pm. He weights 10 quarters ❤️

[nemfrog]

Fetal skeleton. Anatomical atlas : illustrative of the structure of the human body. 1845. Cover detail.

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[croquettesvs]

Wip, still tryna make him look more like him and decide on the bg.

[haylor-stuff]

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[itsmezzoe]

Merry Christmas to everyone! 🎄

[blondebrainpowered]

Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (c. 1712 – 17 April 1794) spent twenty-five years traveling the towns of France, teaching obstetrics in an effort to share her extensive knowledge with poor country midwives. Madame Du Coudray invented the first life size obstetrical mannequin, or “The Machine”, for practicing mock births. Only one example of the original machine, patented in 1778, survived and is on display in the Musée Flaubert et d’histoire de la médecine in Rouen, France. It includes a life-size mannequin representing the lower part of the female body, a doll the size of a newborn baby, and various accessories demonstrating female anatomy, a seven-months fetus, twins, etc. Between 1760 and 1783, she traveled all over rural France, sharing her extensive knowledge with poor women. During this period, she is estimated to have taught in over forty French cities and rural towns and to have trained 4,000 students directly. She was also responsible for the training of 6,000 other women, who were taught directly by her former students. In addition, she taught about 500 surgeons and physicians, all of them men. In her thirty years of teaching she taught over 30,000 students. Through this educational effort Du Coudray became a national sensation and international symbol of French medical advancement. Via Anonymous Works.

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