I did a talk for kids about animal taxonomy yesterday. We discussed some of the ways we group the different kinds of animals. This chart helped:
When I got home, I was inspired by the invertebrates again. They are so diverse and cool that they really deserve further study. The class I remember best from my undergraduate years was Invertebrate Zoology at UC Santa Cruz. Thanks Dr. Kerstin Wasson! Here’s some notes for my next lecture…
More later. MISSION BLUE, MISSION BLUE!
Mission Azul 
Nice to see you up and drawing again, old man. Like the drawings of the in and out holes for invertebrates. Had a friend who found a gumboot chiton the other day. What a score!
-Bruce