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@stumpyshocky.bsky.social

Got a cheap makeup bag and want to embroider on it, so I doodled up this fella 🤠

A drawing of a small opossum with a too large cowboy hat. Around it says "god gives his hardest battles to his silliest cowpokes."

November 28, 2024 at 11:13 AM

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sssvvv

@sssvvv.bsky.social

This one was inspired heavily by the GOAT Simon Stålenhag. Duno how successful of an attempt it was but nevertheless it is available to be ...looked at #blender #b3d #blender3d #3dart

January 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka)

@nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social

Pelican
(2022)

November 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM

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iannlou.bsky.social

@iannlou.bsky.social

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM

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🍁🐓PENDRAKE 🐍

@peripendrake.art

Self Made Man 🌙 Redux

An antlerless whitetail deer stands in a field facing the viewer. The grass and mountains are a dark blue, so is the deer, and behind it is a hazy pink and white cloudy sky. Negative space in the clouds makes the deer look like it has antlers even though it does not.

April 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Werewolf Kisser Extraordinaire

@wolvesmaw.bsky.social

Thoth and Ammit 🐊

November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM

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Dr. Brendan Anderson

@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social

Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?

Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe

infographic about the Paleontological Research institution.
94 years of research here.
One of the 10 largest fossil collections in the USA, with 7 million specimens.
1.2 million users of their online content annually, 30,000 in person visitors
1,500 teachers use PRI for continuing education each year
link to donate: https://www.priweb.org/donate

infographic explaining that PRI needs to raise 1 million dollars by December 31st to pay off their mortgage, be free of that debt and continue future operations. They have already raised 2.1 million of the 3.1 million needed to pay this unexpected expense due to a major donor being unable to fulfill a long-term pledge

November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM

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GoGo_MrDoDo 🦤🏝

@gogomrdodo.bsky.social

DINOVEMBER 2025 - DAY 16: VAGACERATOPS
(BEYOND underrated!)

#dinovember #dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleoart #paleoartist #paleontology #sciart #prehistoric #prehistoricanimals #prehistoricplanet #vagaceratops #ceratopsian

November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦

@glengrambo.bsky.social

Rollers are a group of birds that get their name from their
dramatic tumbling flight during courtship and territorial displays.
While we did see a bit of those displays, this Lilac-breasted Roller seemed mainly concerned with flashing his fancy colours!
Kruger Park, South Africa
#Birds 🪶

A Lilac-breasted Roller flys in a blue sky. His wings are completely spread and we can see his lilac coloured face and breast. It contrasts with the turquoise blue of his under wings and the black edging on his wings

November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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Adrian

@lead-castle.bsky.social

Slapped some colour + a new crop on this comm, which i know will get totally mangled by compression, but that wont stop me from painting in monochrome red

Digital art of an anthro husky in a bulky spacesuit, standing in a dark corridor. He holds a bright red flare aloft in one hand, the only source of illumination.

November 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM

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Ferris Jabr

@ferrisjabr.bsky.social

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants.

Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage

A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out.

Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️

@fiadh.bsky.social

“no mistakes only side quests” above an illustration of an armed bird by lily seika jones

November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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Peter Nguyen

@dptbirder.bsky.social

No swans in our county for #BirdOfTheDay, but we do have some Clark’s grebes cosplaying as mini swans in our ponds

San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary host breeding pairs of both Clark’s and Western grebes! They often hybridize and we frequently see all three types in county

📷🌿🪶

Clark’s grebe adult and fledgling on a pond

November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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David Clark

@clarkeocrinus.bsky.social

This is a late Cretaceous echinoid, Hardournia mortonis, from the Peedee Fm. near Holden Beach, NC. The mouth structure is preserved with 5 beak-like teeth called Aristotle's lantern.

#FossilFriday

November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Get To Know Nature

@gettoknownature.bsky.social

More emergency cute!

I’m going to use up all my cute photos trying to counteract all the yuck out there

#birds 🌿

A small gray bird with a white and yellow breast stands on a fence post. It cocks its head to the side in an adorable fashion.

November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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Alex Plante 🐀👑

@aplante.com

love to draw my friends as birds while hanging out with them so they can give real-time feedback like “hm” and “how do i file a formal grievance” and “i’m too tired for this”