This is so beautiful!

Thank you!

The Amber Tree, this month’s riso print

I’ve always had a love for amber fossils, so this one was a great excuse to do a bit more reading on the prehistoric insects preserved within and trees that were responsible.

Thank you!

Great question. 😆 I haven't tried!

Front of the 2025 Canada Post fungus stamp set's Official First Day Cover, featuring images of 5 different fungus stamps against a background that includes larger-size cropped portions of the oyster fungus illustration.

Canada Post released this set of 5 #fungi #stamps last week. I'm so pleased to have had the opportunity to illustrate them!
Design by Joce Creative.
More stamp images: www.emilydamstra.com/canada-post-...

#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt

Beautiful!

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It's awesome!!!!! I love it. Great lyrics and illustrations.

Awesome!!

It’s awesome! The bonobos are great and I also love the tree, vines, and background.

Beautiful! That would make for a fun jigsaw puzzle!

Magnificent!!

Beautiful!

Nice work!

Fantastic!

The way nature is depicted in popular culture is, I suspect, something that many nature enthusiasts notice and care about. Although I wrote the post 8 years ago, it still consistently ranks as one of the most-visited pages at my website in any given week.

Please, enough with the dead butterflies! - Emily S. Damstra We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

I really like Bluesky (thanks, @jay.bsky.team) so I hope that a future iteration of its logo might depict a LIVE butterfly. Like bsky's logo, butterflies in popular culture are often shown w/ their wings unnaturally spread as if they are pinned (dead). Details:
www.emilydamstra.com/please-enoug...

Blastoids, edrioasteroids, echinoids….oh heck how about all the spiny skin -oids!

Thank you!

Wow,I really appreciate that; thank you!

Thank you!

@pantherinsnow.bsky.social be sure to see the replies from @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social 😀

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I’m unsure; I don’t know how many similar species there are, or what nuances might distinguish them. The one I illustrated is from the Silica formation in Ohio.

I agree that—for such a plentiful and delightfully diverse group of animals (at, least as fossils)—brachiopods seem vastly underappreciated. Thanks!

Thanks!

Detailed color illustration showing 3 different views of the same specimen. Two at the bottom are the unreconstructed fossil from different angles. The reconstruction at the top shows the brachiopod in life position, with 9 visible boreholes and the common epibionts Cornulites and a bryozoan. The shell has pinkish and whitish horizontal stripes and the valves are slightly agape, with cirri lining the opening.

This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting.
#FossilFriday #sciart

Detailed color illustration showing a dorsal view of a False map turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica) carapace.

In this illustration of a false map turtle carapace, I show the scutes on the right side & the underlying bones on the left.
Notice the way that the scutes overlay the bones, so that their edges don't line up. Like a brick wall!
#sciart #herps

Yep. I’ve heard some refer to it as a courtship display, but never before have I heard the oil spill scenario!