Solarpunk’d

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. [Source]

🍤 Japanese species of the genus Penaeus Tokyo: [Fisheries Bureau], 1900. [Source]

🍤 Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba: Atlas: Insects Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838-1857. [Source]

this one goes out specifically to the person on tumblr who found out this week that nautiluses are still alive from one of my comics 🐠🦑

Among the old plastic washing up from the seabed this week was this fragment - does anyone know what these letters might once have said? Google lens suggests bar of soap (definitely not), bread tag, masonic token, belt dressing (?). We wondered if it might be some sort of badge or nameplate?

🌊 Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909. [Source]

🪶 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. [Source]

In less than a fortnight my daily art practice has gone from nothing, to this, to this! Thank you @doodl-app.bsky.social I’m having so much fun!

Plesiosaur sketchbook page

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. [Source]

#InverteFest begins at midnight your local time. Post your invertebrate art, join the community art book, go find critters in the wild, celebrate with us using the hashtag!

Three Second Memory

🍤 The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage;. London, H.G. Bohn, 1839.. [Source]

martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew. Hungarian Anjou legendary, Italy or Hungary c. 1325-1335. NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.360.21. #medieval #MedievalArt

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 Commission I did in 2024.

Birds of Aotearoa

On the day the horseshoe crabs came.

Sea beasts. bestiary, England ca. 1226-1250. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 106r. #medieval #MedievalArt

🦞 Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909. [Source]

I had forgotten about this drawing 🐡

🌊 The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian islands Washington, Govt. print. off.[1905]-06. [Source]

Crabs! 🦀 #art

🦞 The Journal of the Linnean Society of London London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. [Source]

What do people need to know about shrimp? This is urgent I am at a table with 7 artists. I swear that’s relevant.

Shrimp have the fastest neurons on the planet! 🌏 200 meters per second, which is about twice the maximum you’ll usually see in textbooks.

The people yearn for ecosystem biodiversity restoration

Between Ave T & U on the promenade in Seaside Oregon there is an ongoing community knit project full of knit & crotchet versions of the creatures that live in our tide pools. #InverteFest

Here, take this battle shrimp. One could say you've found your knight in brining armor🦐

“Let’s be Friends!” #art #artist #illustration #artshare #digitalart #fineart #fantasy #sciart #paleofantasy #painting #blueskyart

just had a thought...

Crab Bots 🦀🤖

Excited to contribute to the Alligator Gar chapter in “Grizzled: Love Letters to 50 of North America’s Least Understood Animals,” by National Geographic Explorer @bittelmethis.bsky.social! FINtastic stories on Wolverines, Axolotls, Grizzly Bears, and more: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

Creatures of the Cambrian period!

River fauna ⭐️🐟

Hominin artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you 🦧 pls follow for more karb and other #SciArt

Drawing some big dumb fish that bite and/or just swallow stuff whole And one cranky piranha

Some marine crustaceans from the Oxford Book of Invertebrates (1971) #Crustmas

In the new year I want to do a series on HanksChannel called “find the papers” where I take a fun science fact and then actually find the papers that established that knowledge. Anything you want me to dig up? I’ve already done “Male anglerfish are sexual parasites.”

A specimen of Rhinolambrus contrarius from the tropical Indo-Pacific. in Paris. #crustmas This one was quite sizeable at least a foot across or so.

Sharing this again for #Crustmas, celebrating crustaceans! 🦀