Jen C Mars

Great Blue Heron This painting has flown off to it's new home, but before it left I scanned it and made some prints 🪶 🐡

Yet more evidence that we're not as different from other organisms as we like to think we are.

AND WE WON!

Your annual reminder: 🍂Leaves are Not trash🍂 Leaves are Opossum blankets 1/2

THEY'RE HERE show them some love PLEASE

This trailer for an aquarium sim just made me cry a lot so you should also watch it

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Don't let their bright colors and scary spines fool you. Gulf fritillary caterpillars (Agraulis vanillae) are harmless. #BugSky #Entomology #NaturePhotofraphy

the star-thrower ⭐

I usually see at least one pirate spider each year. This one, in the genus Mimetus, was climbing on the frame of our front door at night on July 15 of this year. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. #Arachtober #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

City Nature Challenge this year, I noticed this little Bark Lynx Spider dangling from my hat. Recently on one of our #Arachtober #spider hunts, I told my girlfriend that 4 eyes are better than 2. She corrected me: we both wear glasses, so we have 8 eyes. Just like a spider! #macrophotography

Bittern demonstrating how their eyes can look right down their bill (Something they have in common with most heron species) to help them pin point prey before they grab (or stab!) it with their beak! #ukwildlife #ukbird #nature

QsotN: "We've already got a mummy, a bush and a team of dogs just by TAKING them. Why would this dragon have a saddle if we weren't meant to ride it?" "A werebear riding a dragon is the most metal thing ever." "'Semantic satiation,' 'semantic satiation,' 'semantic satiation'…" #DnD #TTRPGQuotes

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

A thing — if not exactly It — is happening... soon.

I just about poured coffee into my cereal bowl so that’s how I’m doing this morning

#invertober 20 is a pennsylvania ambush bug \o/ been on my mind for a while, i love how blocky they are #invertober2026

This one is now available on my website www.thierrystlaurentdion.com Study of a Hawk Ballpoint pen on paper 8x10 #art #birds #nature #sciart

There's a big lot of vintage oval Koh-I-Noor sketching pencils up on Goodwill's auction site and I have talked myself out of bidding on them but I am a little sad to see them go Also a vintage pencil catalog that honestly hurts more

my patented technique for how to never draw your belts backwards again: ED

Chicago Bird Collision Monitors has been trying for a decade or more to get a bird safe ordinance in place, and the city keeps dancing around it If you live in the city, let your alderperson know you support the ordinance

Since mid-January, I’ve been working almost exclusively on the largest single project of my 30 year career. “After the Age of Dinosaurs” opens August 39 at Chicago’s Field Museum, and includes almost 70 illustrations (by me) of the rise of mammals, birds, and reptiles starting 65 million years ago.

one of our visiting scientists (here to fluoresce some pigment traces on a burial ship) just described Egyptian faience as "self-glazing clay," which blows my entire mind

A trio of photos for #Arachtober — a non-venomous spider, family Uloboridae (Hyptiotes?) from Tippecanoe County, Indiana — a personal first and favorite find!

Update: We raised well over $25,000 for the vaquita!! Combined with last year's total, we are looking at $40,000+ that is going to go toward some MAJOR conservation work! I'll let you know when I can share more! Catch the VOD w/highlights reel & more: www.twitch.tv/videos/29037... #SaveTheVaquita

Another older Halloween comic. I lost the old file so I recently had to redraw it, and I had a lot of fun revisiting this.

My original illustration I did on stream for #savethevaquita week is up for auction! All profits from this will also be donated to Porpoise.Org to aid with helping save the vaquita. ebay.io/m/G8q45I

#SaveTheVaquita Week closing ceremonies is happening now!! twitch.tv/kaseysnowart Join us to celebrate the highlights, the art, the merch, and learn just HOW MUCH we raised for the vaquita....it's gonna be a good time!!! #vaquita

Eight days of vaquita drawings It’s been good to see so many artists and streamers raising funds and awareness over the past week. I hold on to hope, and I appreciate the many people who work tirelessly year round to try to protect those that remain, and to give them a chance to recover Vaquita.mx

#Arachtober Day 17 My VERY FAVE spider - Ms. Hacklemesh Spider (Callobius). They're just so dang pretty! Found this Ms. in the kitchen sink drain trap yesterday when closing cabin for the season, took some convincing as I told her she'd be better off outside. She def needs a meal! #Inverts

We're raising money and awareness for the critically endangered Vaquita porpoise! There are less than 20 of them left alive and new regulations passed may result in the imminent extinction of this animal. Let's do something about it together! See you in 10 mins on twitch to #SaveTheVaquita

Eight days of vaquita drawings It’s been good to see so many artists and streamers raising funds and awareness over the past week. I hold on to hope, and I appreciate the many people who work tirelessly year round to try to protect those that remain, and to give them a chance to recover Vaquita.mx

To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸

#SaveTheVaquita This is my seventh porpoise drawn on this page, possibly the same number of vaquitas that still exist in the world. It's grim, but there is hope, and there are many people are working tirelessly to try and save them Streams, info and more at vaquita.mx

Working on a plant-insect relationships lecture and found something new to me. Midgley et al (2015) (doi.org/10.1038/npla...) reported a smelly, dung-mimicking seed that is primarily dispersed by deceived dung beetles! 'a' and 'b' below are Ceratocaryum seeds. 'g' is the beetles' typical target

Least bittern 🪶 🐡