Helicoprion Dentist

colorblock art of a vampire squid, showing its underside with its tentacles closing in. the background is a deep blue with a swirling pattern

#invertober 19, vampire squid. bleeh 🧛‍♂️

#invertober2025

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Please share, 17 hours left ⚠️ One of our emergency goals is for winter clothes. Most of these six families are kids, and ALL of the families have been repeatedly displaced and had to leave belongings behind. Last winter was deadly for children exposed to cold.

Help them. It matters. 126/1000

Stubby little bright red theridiid spider with 4 white patches on her back, moving daintily in the sand

Ms False Widow, with a striking red coloring which absolutely does not blend into the sand, doing some web maintenance in the open ♥️
#Arachtober

Illustration of three Caviramus soaring on an early morning

A trio of Caviramus (considering Raeticodactylus synonymous) soaring the skies of Late Triassic Europe

This is an illustration from my library of work available for non exclusive licensing

#paleoart #sciart #pterosaurs

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

It's easy to loose sight of how much worldbuilding goes into a project, it's hard zoom out and view all at once. That's why I like using size charts but. It puts things into perspective. In this case it also shows the enormous amount of glorious creatures the community gave us.

A pencil drawing of the front half of a Postosuchus

A pencil drawing of a Gemuendina. It’s fins are probably drawn more flexible than they should be.

Completely unrelated animals: Postosuchus and Gemuendina

#paleoart #sciart

A watercolour painting of a colossal squid, with eyelashes on it's large eye. The text around it reads "I spy with my COLOSSAL eye".

I spy... With my 30-40cm diameter eye #art #watercolour #sciart

Dust flies and wood breaks under the titanic efforts of two Scallop Nuns, the largest land animals of Lemuria. Their home are the open woodlands, which they formed in part themselves as they constantly topple smaller trees. This open up the landscape for grasses and ferns and...

Plasmodium falciparum in its merozoite phase: tiny parasites gearing up to invade red blood cells. Each one is only about 1-2 micrometers long, roughly the size of a fraction of a red blood cell. A critical moment for malaria research.
#sciart #blender3d #3dillustration

Istiodactylus, Caviramus, Apatorhamphus, Bellebrunus, Rhamphorhynchus, Anurognathus, Pterodaustro, Dimorphodon, Cycnorhamphys, Angustinaripterus, Thalassodromeus, Archaeoistiodactylus, Balaeognathus, Tupandactylus, Leptostomia, Mythunga, Guidraco, Campylognathoides, Keresdrakon, Feilongus, Aetodactylus, Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, Moganopterus, Caulkicephalus, Albadraco, Pangupterus, Jeholopterus, Pterodactylus, Petrodactyle, Normannognathus, Huaxiadraco, Kunpengopterus, Aerodactylus, Cascocauda, Europejara, Peteinosaurus, Anhanguera, Dsungaripterus, Austriadactylus, Ikrandraco, Sordes, Eudimorphodon, Sinomacrops, Mistralazhdarcho, Gnathosaurus, Klobiodon, Geosternbergia, Nurhachius, Tapejara, Kariridraco, Dearc, Nyctosaurus, Phosphatodraco, Tropeognathus, Darwinopterus, Ardeadactylus, Scaphognathus, Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus northropi

Pterosaurs of Mesozoic, 50X65 cm, color pencils and black pens
#pterosaur #mesozoic #paleoart #art #color #pterodactyl

listened to the rise and fall of a midwest princess 3 whole times while drawing this

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

An illustration of an oceanic whitetip shark with 3 pilot fish. The shark is a zombie with blue extremities sewn on and a green body. There is some brain matter exposed on its head. On a dark blue background with stars, swirls and a crescent moon.

zombie oceanic whitetip shark 🧟

I absolutely love the fact they've Pokemon-ised the museum staff, for the upcoming Pokémon partnership with the Field Museum. Museums, take note.

Today 
My new account on BlueSky has been closed again and today I announce that I will not return to / share any of my poetry on that dark place which does not respect freedom of expression nor the sensitivity of me being a #Palestinian suffering from #genocide.

Manouria morla. A new tortoise from Early Miocene Czechia. Link to paper below

Illustration showing a pair of Cartorhynchus swimming in coastal waters

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia

#paleoart #sciart #art

2 years of pain that never heals, of children who slept and never woke up.
2 years of ashes,of tents,of cold, hunger & fear.
2 years where even the sky can no longer tell the difference between night and blood...
Yet despite the pain, we believe that justice will come, no matter how long it takes.💔

Hasan is a loving parent who is having a difficult time bringing food for his family

gofund.me/b36b2d58a

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A graphic that reads Happy Ctenophore Day in glowing pink text twice between three rows of different ctenophore species. The top row is lobate ctenophores including Bolinopsis microptera, Leucothea pulchra, Mnemiopsis leidy, and the bloody belly comb jelly Lampocteis. The second row has three different Beroe species. The lowest row has Pleurobrachia bachei, Dryodora glandiformis, red-x, and Euplokamis dunlapae.

Happy Ctenophore Day!
🐙🦑🧪