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Scientific illustration of a seagull, a simple ink drawing of a bird in flight over a beach.

Science Art: Herring Gull 4, by Robert Pos, 2008.

25 August 2024 grant 0

Here’s Larus argentatus, one of those wild animals that barely seems wild because it interacts with people so much. Simple line art captures a wild creature in motion, above a shoreline… Read the rest “Science Art: Herring Gull 4, by Robert Pos, 2008.”

Scientific illustration of hawks, vultures, and various other birds from a 19th-century natural history text.

Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.

21 July 2024 grant 0

This is an educational poster, retouched by Wikimedia Commons user Rawpixel, of birds. It’s taken from Oliver Goldsmith’s book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature… Read the rest “Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.”

A brand new tiny deer.

15 June 2024 grant 0

Awww. Sci News has reported on the historic discovery of a new deer species in Peru. The short-legged dwarf deer Pudella carlae is the first deer discovered in the 21st century, and the first… Read the rest “A brand new tiny deer.”

Scientific illustration of a wailing panther kitten, staring balefully out at us in a black-and-white engraving.

Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.

19 May 2024 grant 0

That is a kitten. A panther kitten. Offspring of the catamount. Doesn’t look all that happy to have its picture engraved.

On a digital device, there’s no telling how large this… Read the rest “Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.”

Baby dragons commute out of their caves.

21 March 2024 grant 0

The New York Times reports on olms — blind, pale, cave-dwelling salamanders once believed to be baby dragons — regularly traveling up to the surface out of their underwater… Read the rest “Baby dragons commute out of their caves.”

Milking the amphibian

8 March 2024 grant 0

NPR has a story about a caecilian. Not Sicilian, but South American, these are to salamanders what glass snakes are to lizards: a legless version that looks like a whole other kind of thing.… Read the rest “Milking the amphibian”

Scientific illustration of lynxes in the snow. Two big cats with tufts on their ears growling at each other over what might be a recent kill. Or a log. It's hard to tell. The cats, though, are very vivid.

Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909

24 December 2023 grant 0

Two cats at dusk, growling in the snow.

The nights have been long, but they’re growing shorter.

May you survive your own lonely wilderness and find warmth and companionship where … Read the rest “Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909”

Scientific Illustration depicting how eye-spots draw attention even in a confusing visual field.

Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.

13 November 2023 grant 0

An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation, which looks at eyes, eyes everywhere, all kinds of eyes. The book … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.”

SONG: Secret Dragons

22 April 2023 grant 0

SONG: “Secret Dragons”.

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SOURCE: The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island,”… Read the rest “SONG: Secret Dragons”

Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island

14 April 2023 grant 0

The Guardian reveals Phyllurus fimbriatus, a charismatic, 15cm (6-inch) reptile otherwise known as the the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, which has never before been scientifically… Read the rest “Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island”

Scientific illustration of a rabbit, bright-eyed and determined, outrunning an owl, claws outstretched and hungry beak open wide.

Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.

22 January 2023 grant 0

I wasn’t sure if this really counted as a scientific illustration, despite finding it in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, since most of the other plates in this book are really … Read the rest “Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.”

Female snakes have two clitorises.

29 December 2022 grant 0

The Guardian reveals research into the private lives of lady snakes, which has found that those things human scientists thought might be scent glands or underdeveloped penises were actually… Read the rest “Female snakes have two clitorises.”

Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.

27 December 2022 grant 0

Defector (not just a sports blog) reports on a zoological discovery – that turtles have been vocalizing all along, but we’ve only realized they had voices in the last couple… Read the rest “Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.”

Something to be thankful for: Some nearly extinct species are quietly springing back.

23 November 2022 grant 0

Science News celebrates a potential (and fragile) recovery – that might have far-reaching implications – with observations that several species of harlequin frogs, thought… Read the rest “Something to be thankful for: Some nearly extinct species are quietly springing back.”

Scientific illustration of elephant seals in Baja California, Mexico, seen as a photo of a diorama in the American Museum's "Hall of Ocean Life."

Science Art: Elephant Seals of Guadaloupe Island

20 November 2022 grant 0

This is a likeness of the elephant seals of Baja California, Mexico, as displayed in 1933 in the newly opened Hall of Ocean Life in the American Museum. The seals were at this point already … Read the rest “Science Art: Elephant Seals of Guadaloupe Island”

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