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Illustrated Sketches of Natural History: Consisting of Descriptions and Engravings of Animals. Second Series. 1864.

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Bud Flood: sir can I interest you-

Drake: absolutely fucking not

You know, Bud was probably a door to door sales person before he was the CEO of his water bottle company. Because after getting bombarded by one today, it takes a mix of charisma and manipulation to get into people’s houses and take up 2 hours of their time just to talk about their product. Like, I can imagine Bud doing that so easily. Maybe not about water– maybe he sold washing machines. But imagine him swooping in on more timid people and walking away with a bunch of money for a product he knows will break just a little after warrenty runs out.

Happy Autumn everyone!  The Warners are dressed and ready for the fall season!  A very special collab done with my beautiful cheezy friend, @cheezydraws They did the sketch and I lined and colored it!  I had so so much fun with this piece, and can’t wait for our next project together! ✨

Doctors be like

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.

ghost shark egg case

De-extinction Company Aims to Resurrect the Tasmanian Tiger

The scientists who want to bring back mammoths now hope to revive the marsupial carnivore thylacine

The thylacine has long been an icon of human-caused extinction. In the 1800s and early 1900s, European colonizers in Tasmania wrongly blamed the dog-sized, tiger-striped, carnivorous marsupial for killing their sheep and chickens. The settlers slaughtered thylacines by the thousands, exchanging the animals’ skins for a government bounty. The last known thylacine spent its days pacing a zoo cage in Hobart, Tasmania, and died of neglect in 1936.

Now the wolflike creature—also known as the Tasmanian tiger—is poised to become an emblem of de-extinction, an initiative that seeks to create new versions of lost species. Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based de-extinction company that made headlines last September when it revealed that it planned to bring back the woolly mammoth, announced today that its second project will be resurrecting the thylacine.

Australian scientists have been hoping since 1999 to use emerging genetic technologies to try to bring the thylacine back from the dead. When the species went extinct, Tasmania lost its top predator. In theory, reintroducing proxy thylacines could help restore balance to Tasmania’s remaining forests by picking off sick or weak animals and controlling overabundant herbivores such as wallabies and kangaroos, some researchers say. But early attempts at cloning the animal from museum specimens’ DNA failed, and the effort has not attracted significant funding—until this year.

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My carp :((

Andrej Dugin