#historial sciart

[arthistoryanimalia]

For a belated #WorldAlbatrossDay:

1. Pl.6, Oceanic birds of South America, V.1, New York, 1936

2. Pl.40, Wild life of the world, London, 1916

3. Pl.XXVI, Le monde de la mer, Paris, 1866

Via BHL

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Forgot to post these yesterday here! Our first two constructed ecosystems are coming together for the #LemuriaChallenge. We started yesterday with the coral reefs...

And continued today with the rudist reefs...

Afterwards we laid the foundation for the carbonate platform reef which will be finished today. Also on the menu later tonight: coasts!

We have over 950 entries with several thousand species to choose from, so this will be a lot of work

We continue with these around 9 PM CET

[eutrochiumfistulosum]

Here's the next design in my new set! Definitely a member of this one.

[histsciart]

Cuttlefish, Squid, and Octopuses

Figure 1 (Top Left): European Squid or Common Squid (Loligo vulgaris).

Figure 2 (Center): Unicorn Octopus (Scaeurgus unicirrhus).

Figure 3 (Bottom Left): Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis).

Figure 4 (Right): Musky Octopus (Eledone moschata).

SciArt by Comingio Merculiano for Giuseppe Jatta, I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (1896).

View more stunning illustrations from this work in Biodiversity Heritage Library's Flickr album. This work was digitizing and contributed to BHL's digital natural history library by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

[thecoffeeisblack]

Work in progress sketch for Heterodontosaurus tucki, an Ornithischian dinosaur that lived from the early Jurassic to the early Cretaceous (200 to 140 million years ago). They were small animals, with H. tucki being one of the largest members of its family at a theoretical length of only 5 feet 9 inches and weighing in at a portable 22 pounds. Their name translates as "different toothed lizard," a reference to their uniquely varied types of teeth. While most dinosaurs only had one type of teeth for eating plants or meat, Heterodontosaurids had 3 different types; including small incisor-like ones in the front, behind a small beak, cutting cheek teeth, and vicious fang-like incisors. Despite packing 2 sets of saber-teeth it is likely that H. tucki was an herbivore or perhaps an omnivore. The incisors on the upper jaw were serrated on the back and the ones on the lower jaw were serrated on the front, allowing them to work together at whatever it was attempting to eat. A relative of H. tucki, Tianyulong was discovered with hundreds of bristle like filaments along it's body, there is a good chance that other Heterodontosaurids also possessed this spiky coiffed integument. ----------------------------------------------------- As part of my reference for this piece I used this amazing 1:1 skull reconstruction from scaledbeast.com It's a great place to get realistic reconstructed skulls for all sorts of prehistoric creatures; great for art reference and great for collecting!

[circadiancrunch]

Doing lots of sketches and studies! This one refrenced from a photo by user socal_angling on iNaturalist

The rest are on Patreon, free for all members paid or free. Preparing for the next rockfish piece.

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

BIG PROJECT TIME

Welcome to Euramerica, a spec bio project set in the late early permian, right before Olson’s extinction. Euramerica is what happens when the titular continent never collides with gondwana during the late carboniferous, never forming pangea or atleast delaying it.

Rules:

By the way, not all submissions will get in, so dont get mad if yours dont get in. Dont worry, they can be canonized later, as like bones or a corpse during the extinction and maybe lead to more clades idk.

Please use the clades on the list, if theres anything you feel should be added, lemme know.

Entries should be submitted on Discord in the event-submissions channel (duh), or on tumblr, just make sure to tag it #Euramerica or you could just @ me in the post (@he-who-needs-to-be-silenced)

A human has to make the art (no ai you will be skinned), this can be a paper drawing, a clay sculpt, play doh, digital drawing, 3d models anything. You can even make it out of carrots.

I will be making 3 separate murals for the little northern island, name of Stephania

When submitting, these thing should be either on the image or the text you send:

Species name (scientific or common)(preferably scientific tbh but both is fine)

Clade

Habitat

Size

Ecology

Any little tidbits or behaviours youd like to headcanon

Here’s the discord if you wanna help me not search the internet: https://discord.gg/mFxVZ2Ut

Edit: I realize now that i should probably but the google drive folder for those not on discord

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B391zNM2wCw-LebF09bza9dr_bvaUOJa?usp=drive_link

Edit again: prob should put th deadline

You have until October 1st 2024 **6am (or till i wake up) Eastern Daylight Saving Time**

[titanartwork01]

Species Name- Simosuchus Maxisimus

Creator- Titan

Clade- Notosuchia

Diet- Omnivore- insects and vegatation

Habitat- Savannah/Hot steppe and wetland

Height-2.5- 3.5 meters (but can get bigger on rare cases)

Length- 2.7

Ecology- Meduim Hardy Grazzers

Additional Info- This omnivorous nototsuchian has grew in size to the bountful resources it is able to dig and rummage , they also travel in small parties of 5 to 10, some getting much larger during the mating season where larger bulls will have bellowing show downs in small rivers and ponds.Simosuchus Maximus will also create large burrow (more like shallow holes) and rest in side.

They are hunted my larger carnivores and other carnivorous crocodyliformes, but they are quite sturdy account to the armor.

They will also rip apart termite or ant nest if found.

[lycomorpha]

Lichen sketch - forked tube lichen AKA Hypogymnia imshaugii, from a photo by Jason Hollinger

[science-for-the-masses]

I actually wrote my university dissertation on the use of art to communicate and disseminate science to wider audiences. At the time, not many people had any interest in it, aside a few studies and projects that had been happening over a period of about 40 years, and so it's really great to see it happening here.

[fiberopticgal]

Article: The Invention of Time

The Invention of Time

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #WorldOkapiDay!

Here is the first published image of an Okapi from a 1901 watercolor by ZSL fellow Sir Harry Johnston. Quite good #SciArt considering he hadn't yet seen a live one and only had a skin, skull, and verbal descriptions to work with! It was given the scientific name Okapia johnstoni in his honor. ("Okapi" was derived from its Indigenous name "o'api" from the local Lese tribe.)

See the plate in context with the original text here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31888385#page/52/

🚨The Okapi is currently listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

A piece from the #MonkeyCruise series, in which I take classic pieces from art history and replace humans with extinct primates and alter the scenes accordingly.

Here it's Mesopithecus witnessing a beached Otodus megalodon.

[eutrochiumfistulosum]

Here's another new dinosaur sticker! You know ankylosaurus was a party animal.

[histsciart]

Lined Surgeonfish 

Acanthurus lineatus. SciArt by John Whitchurch Bennett for his Fishes of Ceylon, 2nd Ed. (1834).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

[thecoffeeisblack]

Rough work in progress sketch for Corythosaurus casuarius. First discovered by Barnum Brown in 1911, C. casuarius was a member of the hadrosaur family of dinosaurs, it lived between 77 and 75.7 million years ago in what is now Alberta, Canada. Like many members of it's family it sported impressive head ornamentation similar to that of the modern Cassowary, which is where the name for the type species came from. We know a fair bit about Corythosaurus as the first specimen found was nearly complete and  articulated (its bones being still arranged as they were in life) and it even had impressions of skin. They are estimated to have an adult size of around 30 feet in length and possessed a skull that was over 2 feet tall due to the crest.