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This may be the oldest ‘butthole’ imprint on Earth Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

Please enjoy the single most amazing quote from a paleontologist I have ever read: “The animal literally cemented itself—and its nether regions—into eternal history like the movie stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.” 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

I feel like I have a secret second stomach only for wonton soup specifically so I believe you.

I like to keep it simple

it makes me so happy

In a vast chamber lined with square concrete panels, a woman grips an iron ring to hang suspended in a sideways T. A taut chain extends from the ring on a diagonal down to another metal loop where she anchors her bare feet. Gravity tugs on her fiery orange hair as she reaches down to touch a broad band of mist. The hood of her loose white top spills down as do both sleeves, one bunching at the shoulder to expose her arm—her torso prevents it from falling farther—while unobstructed the other sleeve billows loosely. There is some curvature to the wall behind her, which tapers inward at the top. Boards are tacked in staggered lines extending ladder-like up the wall. A grungy tactile delight, the place looks weathered with tattered cloth draping the concrete in places. A variety of openings are covered by rusty grates or metal plates.

THE REACH (1999)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 30”

Almost a Lumen painting, in which figures are trying to work their way out of enclosed spaces and get into the light.

I used a model for this one and it was quite difficult for her to take this pose and hold it long enough to capture the gesture. 1/3

A baby bat and a baby crow at a birthday party. They are sitting around a birthday cake. Both of them are wearing a party hat. Yellow and red confettis are falling down

I told Spencer: "Happy Birthday! But you need not be this excited."

#sketchbook #watercolor

I love when cities are home to creatures. Here's a really informative article about these guys

Watercolor-based illustration of an angelic monster inspired by the dinosaur-like bird, the cassowary. The head of the creature comes to a point on top with a beak that spreads out into mirrored head crests, with three piercing eyes set in the center. Cascading down the blue neck is a branching red wattle which splits around the back of the head, creating a sort of halo. The creature has minimal body, which is a mass of purple-black feathers fanning out with four singular claws evenly spaced.

✨ Mutation March, day 2: cassowary ✨

This beautiful beast will need to be revisited after the challenge, because I must discover what happens when it opens that unholy beak. 😱

#MutationMarch2026 #monsterart #creaturedesign

Rough traditional sketch of a wolf bust seen from the side. The wolf is looking to the left of the image.

Quick wolf sketch done with pencil and markers.
#wolf #wolfdrawing #animalart

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

I'm writing one book, yes, but what about second book? Book on the side that doesn't really have a plot yet? Secret book I won't tell anyone about for a while? Book that persists only in my imaginings as I fall asleep every night? You've heard about those, haven't you?

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Photo of watercolor/colored pencil art, of a vaguely abstract half of a dove growing into and between spring flowers.

Would've loved to keep this for myself but it's going out for a good cause instead! #postcardartexhibit26

Art Challenges: March 2–8 Monday, March 2 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) Tuesday, March 3 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) Wednesday, March 4 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt #ColorADay (#RedWed) Thursday, March 5 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#FashionThroughTime) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) Friday, March 6 #Scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) Saturday, March 7 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #SmallBirdSaturday #BlueSkyArtShow (#flowing) Sunday, March 8 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) ALL WEEK #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #MixedMedia52 (#scribe)* #ShowHeart (hearts) #Abstractia (#faces) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekIForInteriors) #SensoryArt (#time) *2 or more mediums Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social Questions? @young-spartacus.bsky.social

Your art challenge cheat sheet for Feb 23–Mar 1 is here! Make art, have fun.

See comments for host list.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Digital painting of two Adélie penguins on a snowy hill, obscured with blurring lines going down the image and backed by ghostly shadows of their own silhouettes.

Digital art of hazy, pink and purple clouds at sunset with streaks of lighter pink overlaid on top like the viewer is looking through a dirty or rain-streaked window.

not much new this week to put on main due to an embarrassing new fascination. let me post some old art that looks good together.
#Art

Love to all trans people right now. Furious on your behalf.
Y'all are my friends and family. I don't forgive anyone who treats you badly.

Another small Condor oil painting. "Ugly" vulture heads are fun to paint!

Digital painting modeled after a close-up of famous painting The Meeting on The Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, except it's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Ser Duncan has his bleeding face against Prince Baelor's armor-clad arm.

jumped on the trend of famous paintings turned #akotsk
with one of my all-time faves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mee...
i am so normal about devotion and also textures.
#art

*saying affirmations in the mirror* I am a big horse. I am a beautiful horse with powerful legs. I am fifteen hands tall. No one can catch me because of my powerful horse legs and wild nature. I have all the apples I want

Digital painting modeled after a close-up of famous painting The Meeting on The Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, except it's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Ser Duncan has his bleeding face against Prince Baelor's armor-clad arm.

jumped on the trend of famous paintings turned #akotsk
with one of my all-time faves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mee...
i am so normal about devotion and also textures.
#art

A digital illustration of the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, the Coconut Crab. It’s a beefy articulated tank of a beast: heavy and strong-looking claws and long legs emerging from under a roundish domed carapace, with a vaguely comical head segment and two long antennae amid all that. Colored in shades of brown and blue with linear striations along all its limbs and spots on its carapace. A speech balloon with a very long tail that wraps around one of the crab’s legs reads ‘maybe it will happen today’. You should look up some coconut crab images soon.

Digital art of a buff, naked white man from behind in a powerful stance, holding a giant flower in front of him with a vinelike stem that wraps around his lower body.

Okay I love snow so much but even I was getting a little tired of it. So I drew this. Spoiler because butts.
#Art

In the centre is a digital painting of Cyrus, a muscular Black man with long red dreadlocks and beard, kissing Niko, a light-skinned slim man with long wavy navy hair, underwater. They are literally by a bright sun above the water. Text above and below read, "How I Approach Lighting, by Oliver Niko," on a painterly pink and blue background.

✨ How I Approach Lighting ✨

Lighting is often praised as the highlight of my work and is something I love dearly. Continue onto the thread to read about how I've reached this point and what I consider to achieve such lighting!
(1/4)

Yes please!

A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip.

I will never get over how beautiful the ribbed fins of Chtenopteryx are.

Truly, they are nature's perfect ruffle chips.

🦑📷Steven Kovacs

Might have to make a side account for fan art for the first or second time in my life.

Happy birthday!

A light grey colored flamingo chick standing on one foot with its little wings outspread. It is standing on a nest mound and an adult is standing right behind it with one foot on either side of the chick. The adult has a green band on its leg with the number 31 in white. The tail end of another flamingo can be seen in the background, blurred, as it sits on another nest mound.

A wee flamingo chick practicing its newfound ability to balance on one foot, with mom watching closely 🥰🦩

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #OneLeg #BabyBirds #Flamazing #Flamboyance #Photography #TracyAviary #BlueSkyArtShow #Two #Family

Digital art of a buff, naked white man from behind in a powerful stance, holding a giant flower in front of him with a vinelike stem that wraps around his lower body.

Okay I love snow so much but even I was getting a little tired of it. So I drew this. Spoiler because butts.
#Art