(via oh-theirony)

mrflibbers:

Teeny tiny catfish watercolor.  This is a work in progress.  I’m using some squirrel-hair brushes that my wonderful, wonderful roommate brought back from Russia. They are so nice I may die (from happiness).  The reason this is so small will be explained/shown in time!

coleoptera-kinbote:

Time to buy some shrinky dinks…

marywilliams:

Made some holiday greeting cards for a craft fair coming up. The little birdies are in no way anatomically correct, but I’m hoping the little old ladies shopping for things like them because they’re cute. :)

Now to print!

zoestanleyarts:

Marbled Murrelet

I chose to paint the Marbled Murrelet in gouache paints.
This was really a challenge for me because I was not familiar with the medium. I had fun working with the paints though.  More people should become aware of how many endangered species there are that aren’t very popular, that disappear unnoticed.

paleoillustration:

Andrewsarchus puppies by viergacht:

“Andrewsarchus mongoliensis is only known from a skull lacking a lower jaw*, and is mostly reconstructed by guesswork and related species - no juvenile specimens are known, so these are pure speculation. Because infant mammals have less defined features than adults, I’ve given them shorted skulls without the characteristic deep indent in the muzzle.”

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A cast of the only skull known of Andrewsarchus, on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wikipedia

nevver:

Animal with misleading names

(via dendroica)

biomedicalephemera:

Faces of Lorises

1. Nycticebus tardigradus malayanus (Nycticebus coucang spp.- Sunda slow loris. Note: possibly Nycticebus javanicus - the Javan slow loris)
2. Nycticebus tardigradus hilleri (Nycticebus coucang coucang - the Sunda slow loris, type species)
3. Loris gracilis typicus (Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus - Gray slender loris)
4. Loris gracilis zeylanicus (Loris tardigradus - Red slender loris)

All lorises are endangered or vulnerable due to the pet trade and their use in traditional “medicine”. While these small and nocturnal critters tend to be much more adaptable when humans encroach upon their habitat than other species of primate (making due in the trees humans transplant as opposed to their native foliage, and dealing with the human presence in stride, for example), they’re still all too often thought to “cure” various ailments with their body parts (especially the slow lorises), and traded as pets throughout their native habitat of Southeast Asia, and when they’re successfully smuggled to the rest of the world.

Seriously, people. Their cuteness is so much cuter in the wild. Lorises are freaking adorable, and the hunting strategies of the various species and subspecies are so varied and fascinating that they deserve to stay in a protected natural habitat. I mean, among other reasons to preserve them, obviously…they’re just such cool little omnivores!

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1904.

adorablespiders:

A diagram of the anterior median eye