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The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

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Itsa Loach Man!

First art of the year (that isn't a muscle guy)

I love the granulation effect added to the software, it gives it that rough unpredictable look that I like so much.

✨ Colourful thylacine squad frolicking! Go, lesbians, goooo✨

I’m very excited to share my submission for this year’s Swim On zine @swimonzine ! Thank you @jeypawlik for running this wonderful zine!

I think basking sharks are absolutely terrifying but also extremely fascinating, so I wanted to showcase the beauty of these creatures as well! 🦈 ✨

Grab the zine here: zine 👀

hypothetical abundism

So, in a previous tag response on the diver resisting the urge to pet the sixgill shark, I pointed out that we don’t know how a bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Bonaterre, 1788), would respond to human touch outside of duress. Well… as of today, that’s no longer the case. Here’s a video from John Sanders’ channel; just uploaded. We can see the shark settled to the floor, as it did in the GIF. It may even be the same shark. She appears unbothered by the touch, and isn’t fighting and isn’t trying to get away. In this video, we have two perspectives of the same event. So, it appears that this specific H. griseus doesn’t mind attention from humans. Reminder that every shark has a different personality, and we need more evidence before we can say that H. griseus is okay with touch and attention like this.

I’m most use to using cold press watercolor paper and had been less interested in trying hot because I heard it dried faster. I have sketchbox which sends different papers each month with the other supplies, so I have a few small pads of hot press so it was finally time to try it. It’s an interesting difference but not a bad one. I just need to explore it even more.

My favourite genre of extinct animal is forbidden pupy

A white spotted bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) exhibiting walking behavior.