William Tenney
@residentsmeagol.bsky.social
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Archaeopteryx by Maurice Wilson (1950) 😍
December 6, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Archaeopteryx by Maurice Wilson (1950) 😍
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As I share around this time of year, the various derived features on the turkey skeleton, and where they first emerge on the phylogeny of dinosaurs:
November 21, 2024 at 7:50 PM
As I share around this time of year, the various derived features on the turkey skeleton, and where they first emerge on the phylogeny of dinosaurs:
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A poster with all the whale and dolphin species found around Andenes, Norway. It was a nice challenge depicting the animals in a dynamic way, keeping the scale of each whale correct.
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 AM
A poster with all the whale and dolphin species found around Andenes, Norway. It was a nice challenge depicting the animals in a dynamic way, keeping the scale of each whale correct.
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
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This past summer, I had an opportunity to follow and photograph several colonies of oak treehoppers from newly laid eggs to the emergence of adults. Oak treehoppers are unique in that mamas stay with and protect their young throughout their entire development. Check out this emergence of an adult!
November 22, 2024 at 3:10 AM
This past summer, I had an opportunity to follow and photograph several colonies of oak treehoppers from newly laid eggs to the emergence of adults. Oak treehoppers are unique in that mamas stay with and protect their young throughout their entire development. Check out this emergence of an adult!
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November 22, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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Just finished this great spotted woodpecker in watercolor! Loved using brighter colors, and rendering weathered birch bark was tricky. Painted in my Etchr A6 sketchbook with QoR colors and a Pentel Aquash brush. Fun fact: woodpeckers can peck 20 times a second without harm! #bird #sciart
November 22, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.
www.livescience.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
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Presenting you with ✨bugs✨
November 22, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Presenting you with ✨bugs✨
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I'm always captivated by the delightfully named Peacock Fly, Callopistromyia annulipes (Macquart, 1855) [family Ulidiidae]—this one was strutting on a log while waving its wings #FlyFriday #Diptera
November 23, 2024 at 3:21 AM
I'm always captivated by the delightfully named Peacock Fly, Callopistromyia annulipes (Macquart, 1855) [family Ulidiidae]—this one was strutting on a log while waving its wings #FlyFriday #Diptera
Xbox 360 released 19 years ago today. I still collect and play games for the system. <3 🎮
#Xbox #Xbox360 #Microsoft
#Xbox #Xbox360 #Microsoft
November 23, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Xbox 360 released 19 years ago today. I still collect and play games for the system. <3 🎮
#Xbox #Xbox360 #Microsoft
#Xbox #Xbox360 #Microsoft
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So BlueSky is currently trending as an app and that's what's bringing people in and focusing and using the app, but Bo Burnham makes a good point here. What happens down the line when we plateau? Will there be a need for more engagement and thus they'll change format? I pray not.
November 20, 2024 at 12:56 PM
So BlueSky is currently trending as an app and that's what's bringing people in and focusing and using the app, but Bo Burnham makes a good point here. What happens down the line when we plateau? Will there be a need for more engagement and thus they'll change format? I pray not.
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Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
November 21, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
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Cucurbita pepo is one of the oldest domesticated species. Over millennia, it has proved astoundingly versatile.
Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!
Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!
November 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Cucurbita pepo is one of the oldest domesticated species. Over millennia, it has proved astoundingly versatile.
Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!
Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!
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Feeling nostalgic, thinking it's time to post some old favorites for the BlueSky community >>>
One of the most stunning #flies (maybe insects in general) I've seen: #Leucotabanus annulatus, a horse fly (Tabanidae). Males are naturally white, while females are a bit more drab gray/brown. Raleigh, NC
One of the most stunning #flies (maybe insects in general) I've seen: #Leucotabanus annulatus, a horse fly (Tabanidae). Males are naturally white, while females are a bit more drab gray/brown. Raleigh, NC
November 19, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Feeling nostalgic, thinking it's time to post some old favorites for the BlueSky community >>>
One of the most stunning #flies (maybe insects in general) I've seen: #Leucotabanus annulatus, a horse fly (Tabanidae). Males are naturally white, while females are a bit more drab gray/brown. Raleigh, NC
One of the most stunning #flies (maybe insects in general) I've seen: #Leucotabanus annulatus, a horse fly (Tabanidae). Males are naturally white, while females are a bit more drab gray/brown. Raleigh, NC
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A #TenebTuesday bonus—a ventral view of Lepidochora eberlanzi parva showing some ultrapsammophilous characters: disk-shaped, compact and streamlined body; enlarged protibae; and other tibae widened and flattened—for "swimming" through loose, wind-blown sand! #Tenebrionidae
November 19, 2024 at 3:33 PM
A #TenebTuesday bonus—a ventral view of Lepidochora eberlanzi parva showing some ultrapsammophilous characters: disk-shaped, compact and streamlined body; enlarged protibae; and other tibae widened and flattened—for "swimming" through loose, wind-blown sand! #Tenebrionidae
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'I'm Nobody'
Kulindadromeus and Unicorn
(With Emily Dickinson)
Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.
A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲
Original artwork available at auction. 🙏
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Kulindadromeus and Unicorn
(With Emily Dickinson)
Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.
A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲
Original artwork available at auction. 🙏
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D6j...
November 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
'I'm Nobody'
Kulindadromeus and Unicorn
(With Emily Dickinson)
Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.
A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲
Original artwork available at auction. 🙏
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D6j...
Kulindadromeus and Unicorn
(With Emily Dickinson)
Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.
A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲
Original artwork available at auction. 🙏
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D6j...
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I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature.
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
November 16, 2024 at 1:51 PM
I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature.
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
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Just sharing some of my favorite color vinyl variants in my record collection:
November 17, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Just sharing some of my favorite color vinyl variants in my record collection:
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Fear the Old Blood 🩸
My design of Bloodborne as an old pulp horror novel
My design of Bloodborne as an old pulp horror novel
November 15, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Fear the Old Blood 🩸
My design of Bloodborne as an old pulp horror novel
My design of Bloodborne as an old pulp horror novel
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Looks like a great place for a nap
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Looks like a great place for a nap