Patrons have their first dibs on the new bat skulls, linocut prints, and limited edition prints now!

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#sciart #paleoart #curio #natureart #fossil #livingfossil

Prints have finally arrived for stocking my booth at the Oddities and Curiosities Expo in Charlotte, NC next weekend, including the limited edition Patreon 2025 favorites re-releases! #natureart #sciart #horse #horseshoecrab #fossil #livingfossil

So I've been drawing a lot of fish recently :D

#fish #traditionalart #fishdrawings #coelacanth #livingfossil #oarfish #doomsdayfish

The votes are in, and these two crowd favorites of the Beastie and Bone Patreon exclusive illustrations are coming soon as limited-edition 11"x14" prints: I ENDURE (horseshoe crab) and WILD ONE (radioactive Hagerman horse fossil).

#curio #paleoart #fossil #livingfossil #horse #sciart

🌿 34 years of patience pays off! Japan's Tsukuba Botanical Garden achieves first artificial pollination of Welwitschia — a 2000-year-old "living fossil" from Namibia's desert. Seeds obtained!
kantenna.com/topic/w...
#Japan #Botany #LivingFossil

#alligatorgar #alligatorgarinc #gar #livingfossil #cladeandgenus

1/3 #livingfossil 9 months ago I posted about the Eastern Cape Giant Cycad bsky.app/profile/ladd...

Now a post about a living fossil from the animal kingdom: The #horsshoecrab. Seeing it for the first time immediately gave me the impression that it was from a different time or planet.

Evolution's Perfect Design Rejection Letter

Evolution's Perfect Design Rejection Letter

#Horseshoecrab #Evolution #Limulus #Livingfossil #Naturalselection

sciencehumor.io/evolution-memes/evolutio...

That pine tree outside? It’s a survivor from the Dinosaur Era! 🦖🌲 Discover the ancient secrets of gymnosperms hidden in plain sight. phys-edu.net/wp/?p=56386&... #Botany #LivingFossil

“Living Fossil” Discovered by Accident Could Reshape Tree of Life It’s not uncommon for a new species to be discovered among existing collections; it’s rare that the new species is still alive, though. But that’s what a research team from Charles University in...

“Living Fossil” Discovered by Accident Could Reshape Tree of Life #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #LivingFossil #TreeOfLife #Evolution

#plants #history #botany #art #medicine #livingfossil 🌱

Ephedra distachya - Sea Grape

Ancient plant that has changed little in the last 100 million years. Source of the stimulant Ephedrine, first isolated by Nagayoshi Nagai c1885.

Cambridge Botanic ref:
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/tra...

Here’s my #Thursday
#Senryu #haiku #Vss365 #Ginkgo
#leaves #trees #nature
#BlueSkyPoem #moonlight #livingfossil
#ivy #lonely #HaikuCrush
#photography

Late light burning low
in the lonely ivied house –
Ginkgo leaves eavesdrop

Here’s my #Wednesday
#Senryu #haiku #Vss365 #Ginko
#leaves #trees #nature
#BlueSkyPoem #moonlight #livingfossil
#dinosaurs

Ginkgo leaves shimmer
under the same moonlight where
dinosaurs once roamed

BBC Two - Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth David Attenborough discusses the coelacanth, a living fossil hidden for 400 million years.

Watching #DavidAttenborough 's Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the #Coelocanth - its AWE-some!!!

The coelocanth is truly mesmerising.
If interested definitely read "A Fish Caught In Time: The search for the coelocanth" its a great book.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#deepsea #marine #fish #livingfossil

It was a massive dead Atlantic sturgeon, a so-called living fossil whose ancestors once swam alongside dinosaurs. #ViralVideo #ZarnabLashari #HudsonRiver #DinosaurFish #SturgeonMystery #LivingFossil #NatureShock

New Species of “Living Fossil” Fish Found Hiding in Plain Sight After 150 Years Researchers found dozens of Triassic coelacanth fossils in UK museums. The fish were once mistaken for reptile bones. The coelacanth is often called a “living fossil.” Once believed to have vanished...

New Species of “Living Fossil” Fish Found Hiding in Plain Sight After 150 Years #Science #Biology #Zoology #NewSpecies #LivingFossil #MarineBiology

This month in the B+B Patreon we’re exploring more living fossils, change, and human relationships with the wild in WANING, featuring the still-living megafauna species The Spanish Moon Moth!

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#darkacademiadecor #moth #livingfossil #curio #paleoart

Horseshoe crabs on Cape Cod beaches: Photo Shoot Horseshoe crabs, called living fossils, have been wandering the ocean's shallow waters for 445 million years and are still unchanged in Cape waters.

Props to the humble horseshoe crab having been on this earth for ~445 million years, www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2... #arthropods #beach #beaches #capecod #horseshoecrab #livingfossil #ocean #populationdecline #tideline

A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains.

A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains.

A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains.

A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains.

New mechanical sea creature! ‘Horseshoe Theory’, mixed media assemblage...up on the wall at Beinart Gallery in Small Works, opening this Saturday 5-8pm! 🦀⚙️

#crab #horseshoecrab #livingfossil #biomechanicalart #blueblood #mechanicalcrab #art #sculpture #assemblage #assemblageart

acrylic painting of a nautilus

A quick Nautilus done in Acrylic on a Canvas!

#rufiart #art #traditional #nautilus #painting #marine #wildlife #animal #cephalopod #livingfossil

July Exclusive Art: I Endure | Beastie and Bone Get more from Beastie and Bone on Patreon

Got teary while writing the story behind this month's Patreon/Happy Mail Club art. It was meant to be scientific, and instead it got raw. Identity, endurance, memory, what makes us, US.

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#ArtSci #livingfossil #horseshoecrab #paleontolpogy #art #hopecore

Always wanted to draw a goblin shark (such a strange, but cool-looking specimen) 🦈👺🌊😃 #SharkWeek2025 #GoblinShark #deepseashark #livingfossil #mitsukurinidae #mitsukurinaowstoni #underwater #sharkart

Equisetum, commonly known as horsetail, is a genus of 15 rush-like, jointed, perennial herbs that reproduce with spores instead of seeds. They are considered living fossils, dating back to the Carboniferous period 350 million years ago.

#livingfossil #tuesday #kind #share #survivor

Ever heard of a plant that can live for over 1,500 years and only has two leaves? 🌱 Meet the incredible Welwitschia mirabilis, a living fossil found only in the Namib Desert! #Welwitschia #NamibDesert #LivingFossil

#extinct animal back. What does this teach us?
#endangeredspecies #echidna #dailydebunks #indonesia #livingfossil

The latest video in our fern playlist has dropped, and we had a lot of soggy-footed fun putting this together. In less than three minutes, anyone can feel confident identifying it!
#ferns #livingfossil #cinnamonferns #wetlandplants #frondfriends #fernfans

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Discovery of a Lifetime: Student Discovers Ancient “Living Fossil” Underneath Rock A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa’s arid Karoo region. In March 2022, Stellenbosch University student Rohan Barnard was exploring a farm in the Swartberg...

Discovery of a Lifetime: Student Discovers Ancient “Living Fossil” Underneath Rock #Science #Biology #Paleontology #LivingFossil #AncientSpecies

My favourite tree species, always a thrill to see one: Wollemi pine #wollemia #kewgardens #livingfossil #gymnosperms

“Living Fossil” – Elusive Insect Thought To Be Extinct Rediscovered After 40 Years The Monte Gordo Grasshopper, a rare living fossil, was found again in Cape Verde, revealing its resilience in harsh environments. The Monte Gordo Grasshopper (Eyprepocprifas insularis) is one of the rarest...

“Living Fossil” – Elusive Insect Thought To Be Extinct Rediscovered After 40 Years #Science #Biology #Zoology #LivingFossil #RareInsect #Rediscovery