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Buzzfeed illustrator Andrea Hickey and writer Claire de Louraille have created some great images of what Ursula, the aquatic witch diva from The Little Mermaid, would look like if she lived in different ocean environments.
The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.This, for example, is what Ursula would have looked like if she evolved in the open ocean.
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This massive nostalgia trip was consulted on by aquarists Alicia Bitondo, Chris Payne, and Bret Grasse from Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. The article re-envisions Ursula as a glass octopus, a blue-ringed octopus, a colossal squid and many other species of cephalopod. Although the age-old question remains: with six tentacles and two arms, is she half squid or half octopus?
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