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An endangered species drawing (almost) every day, with a dumb caption.
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Sometimes you're just a little fish in a little river in a big world...
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Dalmatian Spined Loach (Cobitis dalmatina)
Cetinia river system in Croatia
Status: Endangered

#art #natureart #fish #fishart #ecology 🐡🧪🐟
June 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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GOAL: Make it across this branch by next year. In the meantime, mmm, fungi!
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Newcomb's Tree Snail (Newcombia cumingi)
Maui, Hawai'i
Status: Endangered

#art #sciart #invert #bugart #snail 🌿🧪🐡🐌
Digital art of a snail on a thin tree branch. The shell is long and conical, brown with mottled cream streaks. The snail's head pokes out of the shell, showing two sets of feelers.
June 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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"The feather shawl—is MY trend. Just remember that when it becomes the new Tiktok thing."
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Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)

Southeast Asia to the Solomon islands
Status: Near Threatened

#art #bird #natureart #conservation #birdsofasia🌿🪶🧪
Art of a pigeon on the ground, gray with teal feathers on his back half merging with bright green feathers on his upper wings. His thick feet are cream mottled with brown. Around his neck are long, thin feathers hanging like tassels.
April 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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"Hello, I'm the Easter Bunny! Er... what? Bunnies have wings, right? Since they lay eggs, right...?"
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Virginia Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus)

Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Virginia, USA
Status: Endangered

#art #animalart #mammals #bats #conservation🌿🐡🦇
Art of a bat with extremely long ears that point straight upward. His body is orange and furry, his face pink and wrinkled with a cute small smile. His brown wings are half-unfurled at his sides.
April 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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"Look, man, it's my clown name. The kiddos love it."
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Frecklebelly Madtom (Noturus munitus)

Tennessee and Alabama, USA
Status: Upper Coosa River populations Endangered

#art #natureart #fish #rivers #sciart 🌿🐠
Art of a small catfish with several whiskers. They are light tan, with dark brown speckles and several larger bands of dark brown on their body and fins. They swim in a river with pebbles on the bottom.
April 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)

Antarctic Ocean
Status: Least Concern
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"All Mesonychoteuthis babies get a transparent hat at birth."

This picture is specifically to mark the first-ever recording of a live colossal squid in its habitat. (and it's a baby)
Art of two colossal squids, an adult and a juvenile. The adult is red-pink, with eight tentacles and two long arms with paddle-like ends. Her head is long, with a fin at the top, her eyes are large and yellow. Between her tentacles is a small squid, with a transparent top of their head, eight tiny tentacles, and reddish unformed eyes.
April 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Gentian Pinkroot (Spigelia gentianoides)

Florida and Alabama, USA
Status: Endangered
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"The morning star is here under the trees."
I am amazed at the way the half-open buds form perfect stars.

#art #natureart #flower #forest #botany #wildflower 🌼🌿
Art of a wildflower with white and pink flowers in various states of bloom and large heart-shaped leaves. The fully bloomed flower has a morning glory shape with pointed petals. The half-bloomed flower forms a star shape where the petals still touch each other.
April 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Cylindrical Lioplax Snail (Lioplax cyclostomaformis)

several rivers near Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Status: Endangered
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"You try writing that name when you're 20mm."

#art #natureart #snail #inverts #bugart 🌿🐡🐌🧪
Art of a small snail with a spiral cylindrical shell. They take up a small portion of the image, and their shell is dark green.
April 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)

lives in oceans worldwide
Status: Vulnerable; protected by CITES, multiple treaties and laws
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"Feeling cute and chonky, might go nom some jellyfish."

#art #natureart #turtle #oceans #marinebiology #marineecology #oceanart #herps #reptile
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Art of a large sea turtle floating in a turquoise ocean. She is pale tan with dark greenish shell and flippers. Her head turns toward us, folds of skin around her neck.
April 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Bahama Oriole (Icterus northropi)

endemic to the Bahamas (North Andros, South Andros and Mangrove Cay)
Status: Endangered
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"Baltimore's got nothing on this Bahama mama."

#art #bird #nature #natureart #birdart #birds🌿🪶
April 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Red Stumpnose Seabream (Chrysoblephus gibbiceps) AKA Miss Lucy

coast of South Africa
Status: Endangered
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"I don't need to put my baby in the bathtub, I already know he can swim. Silly landlubbers..."

#art #natureart #oceanart #marinebiology #fish #oceans🐡🌊🐠🌿
Art of an ocean fish. She is pale pink with light orange stripes, and a very large, prominent forehead. Her large lips and folds around her eye give her a frowning appearance.
April 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Cheat Mountain Salamander (Plethodon nettingi)

Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, USA
Status: Threatened
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"How come no one ever wants to play poker with me? Is it the glitter?"

#art #natureart #herps #salamander #animals🐡🌿🎨
Art of a small reddish-brown salamander. Their body is in a snaking shape, with a long tail, small legs, and rounded head with yellow eyes. Their body is covered with light speckles.
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Peñasco Least Chipmunk (Tamias minimus atristriatus)

New Mexico, USA
Status: subspecies Endangered
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"The least? The most smallest? Am I really the ittiest-bittiest?"

This chipmunk is the newest addition to the Endangered Species Act, on Jan 9 this year.
#art #natureart #rodents #mammals🐡🦊🌿
Art of a small reddish-brown chipmunk sitting on a log, eating a pine cone she holds with her front paws. She has several white and brown stripes across the side of her face and down her back, and white cheeks. Her thin, fuzzy tail is curled in an upside-down U.
April 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus)

Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic
Status: Critically Endangered
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"I'd just like to take this moment to express my appreciation for Cylindrus, they've really been a pillar of the community..."

#art #marinelife #ocean #oceanography #coral 🧪🐡🌊🪸
Art of a coral against a turquoise sea background. The coral has many thick, finger-like pillars that are a pale orange, fading to yellow at the tips.
April 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Slenderclaw Crayfish (Cambarus cracens)

Tennessee River basin, Alabama
Status: Endangered
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"Beware... those who are lost near the riverbank may encounter the mysterious and terrifying slenderclaw, recognizable by his elaborate moustache and bloody (???) claws."
#art #nature #crustacean 🦞🧪🐡
Art of a reddish-brown crayfish against a blue-green background. He has eight pale segmented legs, a fan tail, two long feelers and several smaller ones, and two thin claws colored red on the tips.
April 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Oregon Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa)

British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon
Status: Threatened (US); Endangered (Canada)
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"The world champion in the 100m frog stroke remains Oregon's darling despite controversy that her webbed feet give an unfair advantage."

#art #natureart #frogs #herps 🐸🌿🐡🎨
Art of a frog floating in water with head above the surface, legs splayed to each side. Her body is mixed red and yellow-green, with dark spots all over. Her protruding eyes are yellow, and her long toes are connected with webbing.
April 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Quarry Worm Salamander (Oedipina poelzi)

Costa Rica
Status: Endangered
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"Lungs?! Viejo, why wouldn't you just breathe through your skin?"

#art #natureart #sciart #herps #salamander #animalart #ecology🐡🌿🐍
Art of a salamander with a long, thin body like a worm that curls around the image. They have tiny thin legs, protruding eyes, and they are a purplish-brown color.
March 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Spotted Handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus)

Derwent River estuary, Tasmania, Australia
Status: Critically Endangered
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"Being a fish with hands is certainly useful when getting into a stoush with those nasty invasive starfish."

#art #ocean #oceanart #fish #endangeredspecies 🐡🌊🐠
Art of an orange fish with small red spots all over. She sits on the seafloor, a large head tapering to skinny tail. She has frowning lips and a protruding eye. She has multiple fins but most noticeably two front fins to her sides that extend out like short arms and hands that grasp the seafloor. She has a shark-like fin on top of her head, accentuating the triangular shape of her body.
March 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Mediterranean Freshwater Crab (Potamon fluviatile)

Italy, Malta, the Balkan Peninsula
Status: Vulnerable
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"Who knew living in the Roman Emperor's toilet would make you grow big and strong?"

(A population of particularly large crabs lives under the Trajan Forum in Rome.)

#crab #art #inverts🌿🐡🦀
Art of a muddy blue and yellow crab. He has eight segmented legs, and his body is turned upward, claws waving in the air.
March 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Sierra de Omoa Spikethumb Frog (Plectrohyla exquisita)

Honduras
Status: Critically Endangered
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"Having four thumbs is just exquisite, I tell you."

#art #frog #nature #herps #amphibian #frogart 🐸🌿🐡
Art of a green frog clinging to a vertical branch. The frog has protruding, Kermit-like eyes and a slightly smiling face. His hands and feet, wrapped around the branch, have round suction-like tips, and his hands have a small extra thumb.
March 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Blue Star Sun Orchid (Thelymitra hygrophila)

a small area of South Australia
Status: Critically Endangered
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"Ah, what kind of sun should I be? A blue giant? A white dwarf?"

#art #natureart #botany #plantart #plants #flower #wildflower #orchid🌿🌼
Art of a single stem of an orchid. There are three purple-blue flowers, star-shaped with six petals each and a small yellow and white center. The stem is red-brown with two green buds.
March 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Smalleye Shiner (Notropis buccula) and Sharpnose Shiner (Notropis oxyrhynchus)

since the dams they are limited to the Brazos River, upstream of Possum Kingdom Lake* in Texas
Status: Endangered
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*yes, I specifically mentioned this lake for its awesome name, home to the Hell's Gate rock formation
Art of two minnows swimming different directions. They are both pale yellow and silver, one with a slightly smaller eye and one with a sharper nose. The sharpnose has a darker line across his side.
March 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Dune Tachinid Fly (Germaria angustata)

Northern Europe, Siberia, Mongolia, and Yukon, Canada
Status: Special Concern in Canada
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"I've accidentally flown into a few noses. They're hairier than me around these parts."

#art #natureart #insects #bugart #invert 🌿🧪🐡🪰
Art of a fly in flight. They have large red-brown eyes, translucent wings, a dark brown body, and segmented legs that hang as they fly. Their whole body is covered in hairy bristles.
March 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Violet Coral Fungus (Clavaria zollingeri)

Western and Northern Europe
Status: Vulnerable
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"I'm my very own aurora coralis 💫"

#art #nature #fungifriends #fungi 🍄🌿🐡
Art of a violet purple fungus in a cluster of coral-like branches, among grass and scattered leaves.
March 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Stellate Sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) AKA starry sturgeon

E. Europe / W. Asia; dams have blocked them from Danube, Volga, etc; they persist in the Ural + Caspian & Black Seas.

Status: Critically Endangered
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"Have you ever gone looking for the stars under the water?"

#art #fish #wildlife🌿🧪🐡🐟
Art of a sturgeon fish, with a long body, ridged back, pointed nose, and shark-like tail. He is charcoal grey with a white belly, and he has star-like white ridges in a line down his side that contrast sharply with his dark body.
March 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM