Scientific Illustration

A Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) by Zel Stoltzfus

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A Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) by Zel Stoltzfus

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An Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) by Zel Stoltzfus

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A Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) by Zel Stoltzfus

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Tanzanian Beetle by Zel Stoltzfus

Description by the artist: “This is a beetle whose picture I snapped in 2008 at Lake Natron, Tanzania. Sometimes an organism sums up a place so well and this scrubby little beetle seemed a fitting figurehead for the parched landscape surrounding around the brackish soda lake”

A conceptual illustration of a subspecies of Crocodile skull from New Guinea in colored pencil, watercolor and pencil by Zel Stoltzfus

Pencil and Watercolor illustration of a Malaysian Cicada by Zel Stoltzfus

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Tinantia pringlei. a Habit. b Involute ptyxis of young leaf at shoot apex. c Chasmogamous flower. d Detail of upper stamens, depicting slight basal fusion and relative stamen lengths. e Lower medial stamen. f & g Lateral stamen (F) with moniliform trichomes (G) on filament. h Pistil in profile view. i Detail of glandular microhairs on ovary. [Illustration by Zel Stoltzfus, www.zellustration.com.]

Floral Morphology and Organogenesis in Tinantia pringlei, Along with a Review of Floral Developmental Variation in the Spiderwort Family, Commelinaceae. Christopher R. Hardy, Jason Ryndock. The Botanical Review October 2012