Illustration of a flamingo with its beak in the water, fishing for shrimp. Text reads "A Flamingo's Spin on Dinner. Written by Sofia Caetano Avritzer, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel."

You already know that flamingos eat shrimp (and that's why they're pink!) but have you ever thought about HOW they eat shrimp?

Read about tiny underwater tornados in my new comic with @snexplores.bsky.social: www.snexplores.org/article/flam...

Feeling weepy with joy for all the Mariners fans out there tonight! Congrats y'all THEY FUCKIN DID IT. What a game, and I only started watching in the 9th inning!

he watches most games every single year. He has to go through this EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. I'm holding on for dear life

Watching Da Mariners

I don't normally watch baseball, but my brother has been a die-hard Mariners fan for his ENTIRE 36 years of life, so I'm watching the playoffs in solidarity.

I do not know how he does this YEAR after YEAR I can barely handle NINE INNINGS. how has his HEART survived, I mean literally the organ

MARINERS I STG

I don't normally yell when I watch TV, but tonight I'm watching the Mariners play and my cat is VERY concerned

THAT WAS A STRIKE DAMMIT

Being a Mariners fan is so hard 😭

Banana slug enjoying a leaf in the rain 10x speed

Drawing of a snail+horse hybrid with a snail body, horse head and snail eye stalks. And snail shell. It's called a snorse.

snorse

Photo shows a flier advertising pet portraits by JoAnna. Text says the portraits start at $50 for your pet on a plain background, with extra add-ons available like a more detailed background. Email petsbyjoanna@gmail.com to learn more.

Hey did you know I take commissions for pet portraits?? These are bespoke works of art that capture your pet in fun and whimsical ways! DM me or email me at petsbyjoanna@gmail.com for more info! #artcommissions #petportrait #hireanartist

Illustration shows a brown-spotted fish with big fins and weird little legs coming out its underside. The fish is eating a clam. Text reads "Sea Robin Legs Double as Tongues. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel"

I also recently published this comic as well with Science News Explores, about SEA ROBINS and their TONGUE-LEGS. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming. #sciart #sciencecomic

www.snexplores.org/article/sea-...

Comic panel featuring a stupid-looking llama munching on some grass. Text reads "Optical Illusions Fool Hoofed Animals Too. Written by Maria Temming, Illustrating by JoAnna Wendel"

Check out my new comic at Science News Explores! It's about goats, sheep, llamas...and optical illusions! Written by Maria Temming #sciart #sciencecomic

www.snexplores.org/article/shee...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Hiked Catherine Creek in the gorge yesterday, it was so beautiful!

Let me know what ecosystem-specific mermaid I should do next! #sciart #ocean

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in a kelp forest. She has green skin and hair and is eating a bright purple sea urchin.

Annnnd finally, we reach the shallow sea and find out Kelp Forest Mermaid. She has green skin, flowing green hair, and competes with sea otters to gobble up all those pesky sea urchins

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the open ocean. She has tiny arms, lots of blubber, and blue skin. Her backside facing the surface is darker blue, for camouflage

Moving up, we find our Open Ocean Mermaid! She evolved alongside whales and sharks, with counter-shading for camouflage, a lot of blubber for warmth, and she even evolved a melon for echolocation! She doesn't need her arms, as she's a filter-feeder like a baleen whale #sciart

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved at a hydrothermal vent. She has reddish skin, big eyes, and long fingers.

Staying in the deep sea, we find our Hydrothermal Vent Mermaid, who has similarly big eyes and reddish skin, with some defensive spikes on her tail. She feeds on chemosynthetic bacteria and thrives in hot, dark places #sciart

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the deep sea. She's got big eyes and teeth, long fingers (one with a bioluminescent lure), reddish skin and a translucent tail.

What would mermaids look like if they evolved in different parts of the ocean?

First we've got our deep-sea mermaid with her translucent tail, weird long fingers, big eyes and bioluminescent lure #sciart #illustration #comics

I wish I could send my therapist funny therapy reels and be like "us lol"

Yeah I've got a GROWTH MINDSET I bloom once a year and then go DORMANT for the winter

Henri Matisse's Blue Nude II painting but it's a frog

Frog Matisse

yesss I got three tattoos there last year! A crawdad, a snail, and a garter snake!

Birdhouse???

Photograph shows a stack of magazines called Science News Explores. On the cover is an illustration of a young girl flying over pink mountains and a green river. It's the illustration to accompany the cover story, called "Journey into the Dreamscape," about lucid dreaming.

Gonna try posting more. If you're a scientist/science writer or science artist, give me a shout so I can follow you!

In the meantime, here's a cover I illustrated for the August 2024 issue of Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social

Goin to be at the aquarium next week ON MY BIRTHDAY I could literally not be MORE EXCITED

Cartoon shows a cat sitting on a chaise lounge, talking to a butler. The cat says "Tell the human I want a belly rub, then I'll claw him. It'll be a gas."

Practicing one-panel gags!