Rhincodon-cynocephalus - Thylacines And Whalesharks

Animal Oddities, 1969.

Guess who started working on a 3D model of the typhonic animal of Seth for printing :D

Work im Progress

The male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece. Source: BBC Earth

Can i just chill today i was just born

memento mori enamel pins - little remembrances of death

Quagga with African Daisies

Vaquita with Lost New Mexican Sunflowers

Thylacine with Maiden’s Bush-pea

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A group of coelacanths

Finally, I’m revealing my entries for this year’s @swimonzine Swim On 8: Offshore! I was pleased to read the notifications about how many participated and donated through purchasing this beautiful zine.

Time for the reveal:

THE BLUNTNOSE SIXGILL SHARK It is a stout shark with six gill slits who (surprise surprise!) has a short blunt nose. This shark is also sluggish, but a very strong swimmer. It is capable of boosting its speed for stalking and catching prey using its powerful tail. Its favourite meals are: fish, rays and squids. Despite its massive size, this species is rather hamless to humans, unless provoked. Unfortunately, not only endangered because it is often bycatch, but also because its popularity as a sport fish has depleted these beautiful creatures in many areas.

Halloween art piece:)

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So, in a previous tag response on the diver resisting the urge to pet the sixgill shark, I pointed out that we don’t know how a bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Bonaterre, 1788), would respond to human touch outside of duress. Well… as of today, that’s no longer the case. Here’s a video from John Sanders’ channel; just uploaded. We can see the shark settled to the floor, as it did in the GIF. It may even be the same shark. She appears unbothered by the touch, and isn’t fighting and isn’t trying to get away. In this video, we have two perspectives of the same event. So, it appears that this specific H. griseus doesn’t mind attention from humans. Reminder that every shark has a different personality, and we need more evidence before we can say that H. griseus is okay with touch and attention like this.