I’ve finally finished my biological patches set! After many months of designing, editing, and trial and error, I’m proud to post up photos of the final products!
They are woven with bright, beautiful colors that will endure many washes and adventures to come. They’re only $8 in my store:
Here are the first five patches in my biological patch set. Once all ten are made, the rainbow of studies will be complete! Each one is illustrated, digitized, and embroidered by me. Stay tuned for more! Next up is herpetology ;)
Reblogging this post for the update!
Reblogging again for yet another update! Newly added: Arachnology.
All the designs have been redrawn, new creatures picked. Super happy with these!
African Civet, Long-Eared Owl, Heliobacter Pylori, Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle, Bacteriophage, Manta Ray, Shaggy Mane Mushroom, Echeveria Succulent, Parson’s Chameleon, and a Dilophosaurus Skull.
It was really cool to see how @acornpress took my drawings and turned them into fun little charms. I wanted to come up with a set of pins that sort of coincided with my biological patches set, so I chose favorites from the ten disciplines and voila- cute, bright, little pins!
I’ve finally finished my biological patches set! After many months of designing, editing, and trial and error, I’m proud to post up photos of the final products!
They are woven with bright, beautiful colors that will endure many washes and adventures to come. They’re only $8 in my store:
Here are the first five patches in my biological patch set. Once all ten are made, the rainbow of studies will be complete! Each one is illustrated, digitized, and embroidered by me. Stay tuned for more! Next up is herpetology ;)
Mounted reconstruction on display at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, Colorado
Reconstruction by Charles Bonner
When: Cretaceous (~ 89 - 83 million years ago)
Where: North America
What:Saurodon is one of the large fish which swam though the Cretaceous Seaway, the marine waters that covered much of North America during the late Mesozoic. This particular species was ‘only’ about 8.5 feet (~2.6 meters) long, with a relatively skinny body and large pointed lower jaw. These features are what gives the family Saurodontidae the nick-name 'sword eels’. The Saurodontidae fall into the later group Ichthyodectidae, a completely extinct clade that contains some of the largest fish on record. Today the living relatives of these gigantic fishes are in the clade Osteoglossomorpha and are some of the largest bony fish that swim though today’s waters.
This was not a very specious group - there are only three described species - but they have been known to science for almost two-hundred years. The first Saurodontidaewas named in 1824 by Richard Harlan (the discover of Harlan’s ground sloth) - but was misidentified as the jaw of an extinct marine reptile. This was corrected only six years later when the first Saurodon specimen was found, and it was clear that the fragmentary specimen which was previously named belonged to a large fish, not a marine reptile. The use of the long lower jaw in Saurodon and its kin is not well understood, but it has been hypothesized that perhaps these predatory fish dug prey out from the deep muds at the bottom of the seaway.
Lana’s sawshark is one of only seven species in the genus Pristiophorus, and the second Academy research associate Dave Ebert himself has described. Collected in 1966 off the Philippine coast, this type specimen—the specimen on which the species description is based—is slender-bodied, has five gills, and measures a little over 77 cm (30.5 in.) in length.
Due in part to the depths the species inhabits—more than 800 feet below the surface—very little is known about Lana’s sawshark. Scientists can only guess at how many there might be, where they live, or how they reproduce. However, they do know how sawsharks use their telltale snout. Like the larger and better-known sawfishes (which are actually rays), they use their rostrum like a sword, whipping it back-and-forth to stun and kill their prey.
Labor Day might be a very ferocious hurricane, with the ability to scour islands of their sand and then kill people with it, but he also shreds a mean guitarfish.
…this is the first page of a multi-page comic I am working on. I will add the rest over time (as my thesis allows).
Don’t let the barbel deceive you (sorry, goatee), the forkbeard was actually named for its bifid pelvic fins situated near the ventral side of the fish’s head. Like a beard, if you will. A forkbeard. It’s not actually the only forkbeard out there though, as P. phycis shares its genus with P. blennoides: the greater forkbeard, or sweaty betty. I should have saved that one for another post.
Meet the monkeyface prickleback. The fish with a face even its mother couldn’t love. I’m sure I don’t need to explain the ‘monkeyface’ bit (hint: it’s the ‘nose’) but ‘prickleback’ refers to the many spines supporting the fish’s large dorsal fin. There are actually around 70 species of prickleback (Stichaeidae), including absolute gems like the high cockscomb (Anoplarchus purpurescens) and pighead prickleback (Acantholumpenus mackayi).
There isn’t sufficient information to say with any certainty why someone thought they should call a fish a snook, but it’s absolutely fantastic. Otherwise known as róbalos, linesiders and sergeant fish, there are currently 12 species of snook, including the armed snook, fat snook and my personal favourite: the largescale fat snook.
Thewobbegongsare a small family of carpet sharks (Orectolobiformes) which, among others, include the tasselled wobbegong (pictured), network wobbegong, ornate wobbegong and my personal favourite: the floral banded wobbegong. The name’s origins are somewhat unclear, but it’s probable that ‘wobbegong’ is a New South Wales Aboriginal word for ‘shaggy beard’ (referring to the fleshy lobes attached to the sharks’ heads)!
Kyonemichthys rumengani • A New Genus and Miniature New Species of Pipehorse (Syngnathidae) from Lembeh Straits, Sulawesi, Indonesia [2007]
Abstract:
A new genus and species of the gasterosteiform family Syngnathidae, Kyonemichthys rumengani, is described from a single 26.8 mm TL adult female collected in Lembeh Straits, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
It is one of the smallest members of the family relative to body mass, and resembles the pipehorse genera Acentronura, Amphelikturus andIdiotropiscisin having a short head and snout angled slightly to the axis of the body, dermal appendages and flexible tail lacking a caudal fin.
It differs from the three most notably in having fewer trunk rings (9, versus 11-15), more tail rings (51, versus 37-46), a posteriorly positioned dorsal fin originating on the eighth tail ring (versus usually originating on the trunk, but not posteriorly farther than the second tail ring) and a uniquely swollen trunk with a medial constriction.
Devil Catfish (Bagarius bagarius), also known as the Indian Dwarf Goonch. #SciArt from Pieter Bleeker’s Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, Tome 2 (1862). Contributed for digitization by the National Library Board of Singapore @nlbsg to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50176469 _________________________________________________ #DevilCatfish #Catfish #Fish #Ichthyology #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #NLB