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Humpback Whale with Ancestors

“Look how much we’ve changed”

Me when the seal is Baikal

"Thylacine Song" by Jocean

Running somewhere

Sharktober Day 21: Bunny Shark

While there aren’t any rabbit sharks (unfortunately), there are rabbit fish (chimaera monstrosa) that belong to the same class as sharks (Chondrichthyes). Their range overlaps with sharks like the rare (IUCN vulnerable) smalltooth sandtiger (Odontaspis ferox).

From La Ballena y los animales del mar, illustrated by Gabriele Pozzi, 1985.

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

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Pandemic, war, and ecological collapse are on my mind.

Ballpoint on heavy paper.

Various moa bones, some still retaining partial skin and feathers, from the collection of the Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand (1880). The photos themselves were taken by the Burton Brothers, one of New Zealand’s most important 19th Century photographic studios. [ x ]

Cryptid dolphins. Sir Peter Scott recorded unusual dolphins accompanying Commerson’s dolphins on an expedition to Antarctica as recorded in his Travels of a Naturalist book, they may be Chilean dolphins or something quite different.

illustration, Sir Peter Scott from Travels of a Naturalist.

Quagga Foal

This young female Quagga foal only lived one week after capture in 1857, it now sits in the South African Museum as a mount.

Still looking for Xmass gifts? Big Hippo has a few fishy prints in his Inprnt collection: 

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/big.hippo.art/lillies-sharks/

Golden Eagle on a Rocky Outcrop. George Edward Lodge (1860-1954)

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

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Leopard Seal Selkie Studies! Every seal is inherently friend shaped, so I did my best to remedy that. The boy with the scar is a brooding protagonist, and the loooong snooted woman is Seal Supremacy Grandma.

halloween special: ghost aquarium 

Quick dip, anyone?

Pennant Point Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

salmon (real life)

11/30/22 California Condor

ever wanted to see winged fish. yes you have

(you can get this on my redbubble)

I have three snowy little thylacines up for adoption right now! You can grab one here. They are based on this real snowthylacine I built a couple of winters ago!

Desert Dwellers. Written by Michel Cuisin. Illustrated by Wolfgang Weber. 1987.

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Dr phil kissing vin diesel

Desert Griffin

15% off on all my prints this weekend on esty. Sharkgazing is one of them:

https://etsy.me/3i3WAxR

hypothetical abundism

another one

Album of Sharks, Tom McGowen, 1977. Illustrated by Rod Ruth.