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Drtacorex Hogwartsia, by Chok Bun Lam
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Garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus)
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Skull of Gomphotherium, 2012.
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Smilodon fatalis is the most well known of the fossil felines, and for good reason. Smilodon’s distinctive long canines (about 28 cm of bone steak knives) and its stocky, muscular build meant it could take on massive megafauna prey. There are some contrasting theories on how Smilodon killed its prey, but the general consensus is that they wrestled the larger animal to the ground and suffocated it by clenching their jaw (which could open up to 120 degrees) around its throat.These top predators competed with dire wolves and short faced bears until their extinction about 10,000 years ago, possibly due to changing climate, disease, and human predation.
If you love love extinct felines, don’t forget to look into Scimitar cats (Homotherium), the American lion (Panthera leo atrox), the American cheetah (Miracinonyx), or the European cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea).
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Sandhill Cranes.
Colored Pencil, Watercolor, Digital. 8.5”x11”
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Prints are available if you are interested! Limited number, message me if you’re interested! :)
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Spent the last month working on my portfolio for the Museum of Natural History, trying to get a job doing scientific illustration. I‘ll post cool punk stuff again soon.
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a drawing of a herring gull from my austin urban sketch group meeting last year. the Texas Memorial Museum has a decent collection of taxidermy.
pen and ink, 2012
This is probably a Pelican and not a gull
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“Normal stars such as the Sun are hot balls of gas millions of kilometers in diameter. The visible surfaces of stars are called the photospheres, and have temperatures ranging from a few thousand to a few tens of thousand degrees Celsius. The outermost layer of a star’s atmosphere is called the “corona”, which means “crown”. The gas in the coronas of stars has been heated to temperatures of millions of degrees Celsius.
In medium-sized stars, such as the Sun, the outer layers consist of a rolling, boiling turmoil called convection. A familiar example of convection is a sea-breeze. The Sun warms the land more quickly than the water and the warm air rises and cools as it expands. It then sinks and pushes the cool air off the ocean inland to replace the air that has risen, producing a sea-breeze. In the same way, hot gas rises from the subsurface layers that extend to a depth of about 200,000 kilometers, cools at the surface and descends again.”
