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Photo of a Barbary lion at the Bronx Zoo (dated May 1904). ( x )

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Yangtze spirits

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Saw one of the last 30 (!) remaining stuffed Quagga today and went full Elementary mode! Look at him 🥹

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My take on the broad-billed parrot! It must have been quite the weird guy when it was around.

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Wild Animals of Yesterday & To-Day. Written by Frank Finn. Illustrated by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. 1913.

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i can't play a happy tune on my own,

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Downright chuffed about this oarfish bookmark I bought years ago in Japan and just rediscovered in my drawer. It’s made of shiny metal and the head crest is soft ribbon.

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little one

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The Isabella Quagga | Charles Hamilton Smith | Yale Center for British Art | rawpixel

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Remember these guys? I had the whole collection back in 538 Million BC 💜🦑

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some birds declared extinct this year

bachman's warbler | bridled white-eye | kauai akialoa

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[ID: Photos of a painted clay sculpture of two Przewalski's horses leaning against one another in an embrace with their eyes closed. The sculpture is from the shoulders up. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

This was an older Embrace piece that wasn't up to scratch, was going to recycle it, instead reworked the faces and manes, and used it as an opportunity to practice painting with acrylics. One of the faces has the more “plastic” look that I've been trying to avoid with acrylics (lower left photo). Watering the paint down and then gradually layering seems to keep the matte look I was getting with gouache.

Available on my Etsy

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Golden toads with eggs By: Michael & Patricia Fogden From: Natural History Magazine 1984

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I see himb

Does Ivory Bill 2024 is spotted???? The rumor come out

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Norfolk Kākā (bottom) and Great Auk!

Project for one of my classes. Gouache on aquabord.

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Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)

Photo by Juan Carlos Munoz

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We know little about the deep sea environments of the Mesozoic but one place where we can get a glimpse into this world is the Münsterland basin. We have here several localities that preserved shallow and deep water animals side by side, caused by underwater landslides. These carried stuff from the rim of the basin and buried them in the deep with other material that was down there.

Tachynectes here is a very early lanternfish. Flattened lanternfishes are no longer a thing these days and we actually have lanternfishes from these localities that show their photophores preserved. We know where they glowed!