January 20th, 2009 
You are all probably familiar with my and KZ’s fascination with tattooing arts. By now most of you should be aware of Carl Zimmer’s science based tattoo gallery that features us both. But did you know that there is gallery of sea life tattoos? The Love lab at UCSC host the ever growing gallery of human debauchery and tattoos all centering on the oceans! Which once again proves marine biologists are bad ass. Below are few of the choicest but head over for the full 15 pages of splendor.
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One of these days I will get my tattoo… a male weedy seadragon giving birth to seven children..
honestly, everything at the love lab website is amazing http://www.lovelab.id.ucsb.edu/index.html
So…
Inquiring minds (ok, maybe just mine) want to know…
ow many Cephalopod tats vs. echinoderm tats ?
Good call Eric, we’ll need to look into this. Craig has one and Southern Fried Scientist has two Gastropods. We’ve seen octopus and squid tats on DSN before.
I have 3 squid tattoo ideas, two of them I hopefully one day will get, the other I will give to you guys since I probably won’t do it but its a tattoo of tentacles around your ankles or so, so it looks like you are being dragged into the sea.
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I have to say that those are really some cool tattoos, I do like that octopus idea with the tentacles wrapped around the ankle.
Hi,
That’s a nice design of tattoo. Never thought about oceanic theme design tattoo before since most customer always ask something scary or cute…maybe I’ll display this new oceanic design on my wall.
temporary tattoos
hi, i never think before about squid tattoo, but your post is great, i will find out next. thanks
It took awhile, but I finally got my weedy seadragon tattoo! After it heals, I’ll think about adding a brood of young ones.
Send us a pic when it heals and we’ll post it!
will do! In the meantime:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs496.ash2/76945_1649846056803_1556535430_1534407_8112723_n.jpg
That’s bad ass!! I love the colors! Do you have / will you get something to balance the other side of the body?
I survived the first tattoo… once that heals, I’ll give some thought to another… perhaps a dragon moray wrapped around my left arm.