Scientific Illustration

cosmosofymir:

finally… FINISHED good god this took the longest time to draw

um a pine marten, with an 0.5 HB mechanical pencil. i nearly used 0.3 but i’m SOO GLAD I DIDN’T because the fur would have been impossible to do then
the tree was also one of the hardest things i’ve tried to draw… i’m not happy with it but i hope it looks at least sort of barky ppfffhfg

i’m going to try to sell this in a couple of exhibitions i might be doing soon? if i don’t sell it there thendfgdf would anyone want it for something like £30? i would really want to charge more but idk with no frame it’s not worth much more
i’ll go half on p&p, and whoever wants it can pay the other half?

i can also do commissions like this, with A3 ones like this one being around the same price, i suppose, but that’s negotiable depending on what the subject is etc
pleeeasedfgdg ; u ;

(via spindlebug)

The dhole (Cuon alpinus)

n184_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

The leopard cat - Prionailurus bengalensis as Felis microtis

Recherches pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des mammifères :.
Paris :G. Masson,1868-1874..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39564246

The Jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi)

The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Striped hyenas (Hyaena hyaena)

dailyfossil:

Pachycrocuta - The Giant Hyena 

Mounted specimen from the Zhoukoudian Museum, Beijing. 

Reconstruction by Mauricio Antón

When: Pliocene to Pleistocene (~ 5 million to .5 million years ago)

Where: Europe, Asia, and Africa

What:Pachycrocutais a prehistoric member of the Hyaenidae. Today hyenas are restricted to Africa and western Asia, but their fossil record has revealed they were once much more wide spread. Pachycrocuta has been found in Africa and Asia, but most specimens have been found in Europe, with many localities in the Iberian Peninsula. The largest species was Pachycrocuta brevirostris, which stood over 3 and a half feet (~100 cm) at the shoulder and is estimated to have weighed over 400 lbs (190 kg). This makes it about the size of a modern lioness! Cave deposits in both Spain and China have revealed multiple almost complete skeletons, suggesting that these animals lived in packs and utilized these caves as their dens. 

As Pachycrocuta is even more heavyset and adapted for bone crunching than the living bone-crunching hyenas, it has been suggested that this fossil form was even more dependent on scavenging kills than living species. But there really is not much evidence to pack this up other than thought-experiments. As it appears that some large cat species were displaced when Pachycrocuta moved into their ranges, it is more likely it was a direct hunter that would take advantage of pre-killed remains when it could drive away other predators. Like 99% of carnivores today. The predator/scavenger divide is really not a fast or hard line at all. Even more evidence of hunting comes from the remains of interactions between Pachycrocuta and Homo errectus. These two species overlapped and bones of our poor relative have been found in Pachycrocuta dens in China! 

Crocuta crocuta - the spotted hyena

The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

biomedicalephemera:

Salmo scouleri (now Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) -  The Pink Salmon

Sometimes known as the humpback salmon or humpie, due to the humped back that males develop during spawning season.

Like all salmon, clearly one of the top predators in its ecosystem. The pink salmon is the smallest and most abundant of their family, but is still imperiled within California (though they only exist as far south as Sacramento) and Washington. On the West Pacific (throughout the Siberian and part of the Korean coastline), within British Columbia, and in Alaskan populations, the species is stable.  

Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America.: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under the command of Sir John Franklin. Part 3: The Fish. John Richardson, 1836.