Hi chaps

:tentacle:

I'm working on a seas & oceans sticker atlas for kids, and am seeking a good, naturalistic illustration of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. (i.e. looking alive & swimming)

Has anyone seen one?

Ta muchly ;^)

Avast Skood,

:welcome:

Not too many illustrations come to mind; there are a few clinical (profile, plan and detail) drawings to be found in Steve O'Shea's Colossal squid fact sheet, and at TOLWEB's Mesonychoteuthis page.

They're not illustrations, but pages 7 and 8 of the Tentarcticles (Mesonychoteuthis / Colossal Squid) thread in the Physiology & Biology forum feature photos of the lifesize Mesonychoteuthis model produced for a Discovery channel special. Quite startling, especially the photos taken in a dark swimming pool.

Best wishes for your project.

Yours truly,

Clem

And it would look a bit like this (from the front), although I've a sneaking suspicion that instead of holding the arms down that it would hold them up.

This image is of Teuthowenia pellucida, a juvenile.

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=3569

Hi again, chaps
:tentacle:
Many thanks for the pointers. The Discovery model is nice :)
It may be a helpful if we have to commission anything. ('tho that's unlikely at this stage...)

Sent you a pm Skood...thanks!
greg

does it have to be real? cuz steve gave me to a link with nice photos of latex a colossal squid for AFO...

Neither a very good, nor a completely biologically correct illustration, but one of the very few which exists in the web: http://www.kryptozoologie-online.de/Forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=3&sort_method=pic_time&sort_order=DESC&start=12
I made this illustration some time ago with pencils.

Thank you Sordes, for that picture (although as you say not "a completely biologically correct illustration") has taught me how to draw a squid better than what I drew before.