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gewilli.bsky.social
Daucus carota flower (details of the LP)

📷🔬 Thermo Apreo VS 2 (a scanning electron microscope)
#monochromemonday
#bnwmacro
#sciart
HFW = 1.00 mm in both images
Detail of the spiky ovary (seed making part) of the flower HFW is 1mm Detail of the middle with petals, and the rest of the flower poarts HFW (distance from edge to edge is 1mm)
September 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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sculptedreef.com
🌌 Mira the Nebula Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #ArtGallery #Art #Sculpture #Octopus 🦑🐡
August 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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ivetasaviary.bsky.social
Shining Sunbeam 🐦🪶 🎨 #Gloribirds #Birdart #WildlifeArt

It might not sound like a name of a bird, but this brilliant species truly lives up to it! Hummingbirds are known for their poetic names. Many were popularized by the 19th-century plates of John Gould and are still in use today.
A photo of a painting of a hummingbird (Shining Sunbeam) in a circle with sun and flowers.
August 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Day 6 of #AugArthroAwe - Epimeria rubrieques

what in the deep sea weirdo parade is this thing???

#invertebrates #SciArt
doodle in black ink on an orange background of Epimeria rubrieques, a weird deep sea creature that looks between a spiky isopod and a crustacean, with thin legs and antennae on a round body covered in long scales with protruding spikes.
August 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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4yvle1.bsky.social
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July 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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lordtrilobite.bsky.social
Lokiceratops skull diagram.

#paleoart #sciart
Skull diagram of Lokiceratops rangiformes in various angles. Going clockwise from top left: Anterior, posterior, dorsal, lateral, ventral and anterolateral diagonal view.
July 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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sculptedreef.com
Two "Fae" 🧚 Octopuses based on the pattern of the Larger Pacific Striped🐙

Hand sculpted from clay & lovingly painted 🎨

#ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #Sculpture #Octopus 🦑🐡
A colorful purple, blue and white octopus sculpture tucked in a shell. It's holding several Swarovski crystals.. A colorful striped and speckled octopus sculpture, painted in blue, purple, hot pink and neon green. The octopus is tucked into a shell and holds tiny Swarovski crystals
July 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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annieshaoart.bsky.social
It's #WorldSnakeDay! I'm sharing my marker drawing of a rainbow boa that I did for Chinese New Year this year. 🐍

#SciArt #AnimalArt #FineArt #Copic #Illustration
Detailed marker illustration of a rainbow boa portrait. The snake's head is shown over a loop of its body, with a dark blue to black background. The snake is burnt orange with black looping patterns, and has rainbow iridescence on its skin.
July 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
sesame-sage.bsky.social
VR painting is underrated.
#WIP #Vermillion #SciArt #birds #painting #nature
June 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Today is #WorldCrocodileDay and to celebrate here is Plesiosuchus mansellii, a super interesting marine crocodilian relative that lived during the Late Jurassic in Europe

Plesiosuchus was a thalattosuchian, a group of crocodylomorph that evolved extreme aquatic adaptations

#paleoart #art
An illustration depicting Plesiosuchus swimming in shallow coastal waters viewed from below. Several ammonites are in the scene as well
June 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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colpizen.bsky.social
#wip #sciart #Stagbeetle #entomology #ink
Illustration of Stagbeetle Metallic green light ink and golden ink on old japanese book pages
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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ultraluther.bsky.social
Episode 5 of my comic, Prehistories, is up!
This one stars Aquilonifer!

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pr...

#comic #paleoart #sciart #art #prehistoric #animals #silurian
A digital drawing of a close up of Aquilonifer with rainbow lighting. This is the thumbnail for this episode. A scene from the comic: a Carimersa watches an Aquilonifer from above. A scene from the comic: Aquilonifer travels past various other Herefordshire animals.
June 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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crystalsmithart.bsky.social
Happy International Waterfall Day! What's the best waterfall you've ever seen? I visited Niagara Falls in the winter once and it was thundering ice and water—wow!

#waterfall #bears #sciart #fall #digitalart #kidlitart #illustration
Grizzly bear sitting in water at the base of a small waterfall coming over rocks with fall leaves floating around.
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Today's dose of cute is a trio of Great Egret chicks who look like they're having a serious meeting. About the availability of fish perhaps. Those are some chunky legs and enormous feet!

#birds 🌿
Three large, gangly, white chicks with large orange beaks stand together in the bushes. Two looking up towards the third and all looking intense. But also goofy
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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romangoergen.bsky.social
🧪Climate change is driving marine species to cooler waters, disrupting predator-prey relationships. Apex predators struggle to find food, while prey species boom. These shifts threaten ecosystems, fisheries, and global food security🌎

e360.yale.edu/features/oce...

#Biodiversity #Wildlife
As Oceans Warm, Predators Are Falling Out of Sync with Their Prey
In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just beginning to focus on why some fish predators and prey — like striped bass and...
e360.yale.edu
January 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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wildoutdoorsphoto.com
I’m calling this one ‘ice bubble hyperspace’ 😀. Found a small container of water, completely frozen, yesterday with all these bubbles streaking toward the surface - couldn’t resist! Captured with the macro setting in my iPhone 16 Pro.

#photography #iphone
A mass of tiny bubbles of air, frozen into ice, stream toward the surface. To the photographer the streaks, with the dark background, imitates depictions of faster than light travel in many sci-fi shows and movies.
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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rvmrn69.bsky.social
Goodnight everyone
January 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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botany.one
📝 The Hidden Battle Between Wild and Cultivated Carrots 🧵
https://doi.org/n3gf

Wild carrots' extraordinary adaptability and survival skills are creating unexpected challenges for New Zealand's role in global carrot seed production.
.#Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Where do your carrots come from?
Close up of a wild carrot flower, or rather umbels, stalks holding umbrellas of flowers. At the moment they're all curled up into a ball and yet to unfurl.
January 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
The evolution of trees demonstrates the diverse strategies organisms take to adapt to our planet. On this @bipisci.bsky.social - 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines, swamp-loving bald cypress, and creatures that thrive in the redwood canopy. 🧪 🔈

Listen: https://buff.ly/42mSdmK
Photograph looking up toward the distant treetops of a ring of giant sequoias with a bright blue sky and soft clouds behind the leaves.
January 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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noktivus.bsky.social
Day 18 of #birbfest is the Great Crested Grebe!
Watercolours and coloured pencil

This is definitely one that looks better in real life as my scanner couldn't quite capture it properly.

#birdart #sciart #bird #art #grebe
A colourful illustration of a great crested grebe done with watercolour and coloured pencil.
January 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Blimey crikey there’s a lot of love for yesterday’s Cassowary! Thanks everyone who’s shared and liked put a real skip in my step. Here’s a bonus process vid for you all…

#Birds #SciArt #ArtChallenge #BirbFest #ArtSky #WildlifeArt #Cassowary #BirbFest2025
January 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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scotwildlife.bsky.social
Did you know that despite being one of the heaviest duck species in the UK, eiders are also one of the fastest flying species of duck? It's believed they can reach speeds of up to 70 miles an hour! 🦆👀

#Scotland #wildlife #eider #duck #BirdingScotland
A male eider duck swimming along the surface of the water with its beak open.
January 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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botjlinnsoc.bsky.social
The 'Cirrhopetalum alliance' sounds threatening, but it's just a monophyletic group of orchids! Here, the floral morphology, scent, anatomy & VOCs of Bulbophyllum species are analysed to consider #Evolutionary adaptations in the alliance 👇🧪🌍🌿
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@linneansociety.bsky.social
10 coloured images of the inflorescences and floral morphology of representatives of the Cirrhopetalum alliance.
January 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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tmartindunn.bsky.social
I have not yet seen a Kingfisher that isn't gorgeous. Always a delight to find and photograph them.

Malachite Kingfisher. Chobe River, Botswana

@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
@birdlifesa.bsky.social
#birds
🦉
January 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM