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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026

Gas prices have risen dramatically this year. For the typical driver, that's $65 more spent on gas monthly. If you're a typical F-150 driver in states like Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, or Missouri, you're spending >$350 a month on gas now. We've got to give people other options.

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Rising Gas Prices Are Punishing Household Finances. Policymakers Should Invest in Transit to Reduce Household Costs.

Amid months of rising gas prices, a typical driver now spends $65 more on fuel each month today than they did a year ago.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jean Valentine, wow

Outside the Frame

It is enough, now, anywhere,
with everyone you love there to talk to.

And to listen.
Slowly we can tell each other some things about our lives:
runs, rests, brief resolutions; falls, and lulls;
hard joyful runs, in certainty; dull, sweet
durances, human silences;
look back in at the children,
the regular, neutral flicker of their blood; pale, solemn,
long-legged animal-gods in their sleep,
growing into their lives, in their sleep.

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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.

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Grant Olsen @grantaskswhy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you don't want to give $ to Amaz0n, maybe your public library card gets you free access to watch the Ben Wolf documentary "Changing Lanes" on Kanopy. featuring David Byrne and Janette Sadik-Khan The story of the fight over a bicycle lane / traffic calming project on McGuinness Boulevard.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 09/06/2026

It’s remarkable how a motorist will kill someone and it will be reported in a grammatical form in which you could easily substitute “lightning” or “hail” for “a car”

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 10/06/2026

Look what I made! I originally had the idea three years ago, but haven't been able to get time to make it until the last couple of months! Air dry clay (ladoll) and airbrush to finish. I need to get some good photos at some point! 1/2 #sculpture #airdryclay #bookworm #bookwyrm #monster

photo of the front part of a book end which has a purple 'wyrm'/monster kind of thing popping out one side. He has a pale turquoise tummy and four legs on his front half and nobbly black shiny horns on his head.

photo of a book end sculpture I made - from above, you can see the tail nearest the camera here which is curled around. It's purple and turquoise. The front end is looking away from the camera and has a textured nobbly back.

the bookend of a 'bookwyrm' i made doing its job and holding up some books! The monster has a very derpy expression on its face and there are two front teeth sticking out with a grin. It has pale blue eyes.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"Americans prefer large trucks and SUVs." The reality:

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Mayon Cliff Choughs - by Cornish artist and illustrator, Matt Johnson More of this artist's fabulous work, here: mattillustration.bigcartel.com/products #birds #birdart #art #Cornwall

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Whimsy Weaver @whimsyweaver.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I'm having a lot of fun at #CampChimera especially an excuse to research and draw critters!

Pen sketch of a flamboyant cuttlefish, with a smooth body with random projections and a bunch of curled tentacles in front.

Handwritten text reads Ascarosepion pfefferi. Native to indo-pacific ocean. Diurnal Hunter of fish and crustaceans. Camouflage helps them stalk prey. Their flesh contains a unique toxin, sometimes advertised with bright colors to dissuade predators. Their skin can change colors rapidly to adapt to their environment in beautiful, hypnotic displays.

Two handwritten pages of a notebook decorated with floral washi tape and stickers.

Summer goals: 100,000 steps in June. Earn all merit badges. Practice releasing perfectionism.

Second page titled Eco Engagement, above an ink drawing of a hairy bee labeled Anthidium species.

There are seven species of leaf cutter bees native to the Puget Sound region. Access to native plants and undisturbed soil is important for their conservation. These bees cut sections of leaves to create cell divisions in their roots. They carry pollen on the large bellies, careful not to rub it off until they get home.

The hairs are called "scopa" and it helps them due to the right entrances of their nest cavities where pollen may be lost from their legs compared to other bees.

Handwritten page titled Insect Friend, Monday 6/2. Pen and ink drawing of a wild flower. Hanging from the center is the large abdomen of a spider with dimples and a pink stripe, who is holding a bee.

The flower spider, Misumena varia, are found in Europe and N America. They ambush pollinators on flowers. Their vision is great, and their color and pattern can adjust to their surroundings during each molt. Their venom is harmless to people.

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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Just yesterday, a new study was released showing that protected bike lanes attract 4.3 times as many riders, improve health and safety, and reduce fuel consumption. But no, we can't slow down drivers! lloydalter.substack.com/p/protected-...

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Protected bike lanes attract over four times as many cyclists

So of course, politicians want to tear them out.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Mama Wood Duck and ducklings. She had 14 total, two are out the frame.

A brown duck with a brown bill and white eye ring. She is paddling through water and has 12 ducklings following her.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

New episode up! We talk with Charles T. Brown about his essential new book, Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement, out now from @islandpress.bsky.social. We get into how to repair our cities, the importance of Black leadership, and what it truly means to “love thy neighbor.”

The cover of a new book from Charles T. Brown, titled Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement. It shows black and white striped image that recalls both the American flag and the bars of a prison cell, with a bright red bloodstain in one corner.

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🌲🐾 Sayth @pinepaws.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🌉💸 Commissions are OPEN 10 slots! All funds helping me exist in San Fran while the government figures stuff out. ETA of June for completion but might be sooner. Please share! ko-fi.com/pinepaws/com... #fursale #furryart #furry #commissionsopen #commission #kofi #furrycommissions

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Biscotti (pine-paws)'s Commissions

Support Biscotti with a donation, tip, or commission!

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Ilis Trudie 🏝 @ilistrudiepalmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Happy Wednesday, friends. Whatever you do today, do it with love.

A calm sea and sky with trees growing along the side of a sloping incline that goes down to the beach below.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“…beyond intentional attacks, drivers in cars, SUVs and trucks threaten the safety of our public spaces everyday but we treat the damage they do like the weather: something inevitable that just happens.”

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Shawn Micallef: Vehicles have become weapons by design — and public space is in their crosshairs

A culture like ours weaponizes vehicles — from the way they are designed to the way the roads they run on are designed.

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Frohedadrin @snks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Jetzt die besseren Fotos: Fledermaus, Art hab ich keine Ahnung. Hing in 2.5m Höhe am Stützbalken eines Hochsitzes. (Flog dann irgendwann weiter)

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BetaPop @betapop.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My new album, Generation Loss, is out now just in time for #BandcampFriday! This album is centered around our remembrance of the past and how it combines with our future. Any support is greatly appreciated, thank you for listening! #furrymusician #furrymusic lizardhands.bandcamp.com/album/genera...

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orsomoretti.bsky.social @orsomoretti.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tragelaphus strepsiceros grandis - a large subspecies of the greater kudu from Olduvai.

Giant Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros grandis), extinct subspecies.

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The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The fashion house Fendi has sponsored a two-year restoration of the Grotto of Diana at the Villa d’Este, a Renaissance villa that belonged to a cardinal in the Catholic Church who decorated his vast estate with many depictions of classical myth. wildhunt.org/2025/04/a-wo... #pagan #grottoofdiana

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A would-be pope's shrine to Diana reopens after 40 years - Europe, News, Paganism, Religion, TWH Features, Uncovering the Past

Witchcraft & Pagan News - The fashion house Fendi has sponsored a two-year restoration of the Grotto of Diana at the Villa d'Este, a Renaissance villa that belonged to a cardinal in the Catholic Churc...

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Macie hates it here @macie.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Spring flowers. 🌱

An orange tulip, a few daffodils, and I think striped squill flowers in a sad little flower bed.

Grape hyacinths with a raspberry plant creeping into the corner.

Creeping phlox and a few strawberry plants.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.

A color photo of a delicate and fluffy white medium-haired cat sitting on a window ledge. They are looking at the camera. What makes this photo extra special is that the cat is backlight by the sun coming through the window, the light illuminating their fluffy hair making them appear glowing and angelic.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I am sympathetic to all the people responding to this with workarounds like the udm=14 trick and such but my feeling is that we should not reward a company that has flagrantly insulted its users with our business or eyeballs; I'm using Kagi and so far it's good.

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Lizzi 🐦🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Heard today is #WorldPenguinDay !! Here's a piece I painted last year for my partner 💜 [ 🎨 #art #birdart #birds #penguin ]

A digital illustration of two African penguins holding flippers and looking at each other romantically. They have mostly white belly feathers, with a black mask, black feet, black flippers, and a prominent black stripe and black specks. A large purple heart surrounds them in the background.

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My painting TROUT WATER

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"Americans have an idea that cars equal personal freedom,” said Sarah Goodyear, co-host of a podcast called “The War on Cars... "If you reduce speed limits, it really does save lives and it really does reduce catastrophic injuries. But we are not willing to pay that price."

nytimes.com

A Deadly Crash Puts a Spotlight on New York’s Worst Drivers (Gift Article)

The city has long grappled with traffic fatalities. Officials and residents are now asking what more can be done after a fatal crash that killed a woman and two of her children.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The famous Antarctic theropod Cryolophosaurus has just caught a juvenile Glacialisaurus. That’s going to be a great meal! This is the package art I did for the upcoming Cryolophosaurus figure by Beasts of The Mesozoic line! #paleoart #dinosaurs

Illustration depicting Cryolophosaurus with a juvenile Glacialisaurus in its mouth. The dinosaur is in a coniferous Antarctic forest

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Daylighting intersections is a simple, low-tech design change that could make a huge difference ... especially for those who are shorter than all the giant car hoods

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So REVERSAL is a new graphic novel about what happens when the ley lines reverse and magic (and monsters) become a thing again—and how a teen girl and her family survive in this crazy new reality. Buy it here: bookshop.org/a/23067/9781... and please reskeet this to spread the word!

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Reversal

Check out Reversal - <b>A contemporary fantasy/action-adventure graphic novel from Eisner-nominated writer Alex de Campi, and artists Skylar Patridge and Kelly Fitzpatrick.<br><br>Two years ago, mag...

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 08/04/2025

It's #Portfolioday apparently! So why not join in. I'm a watercolourist based in the UK. My favourite genre is fantasy and folklore with a heavy leaning on creatures, but I have dabbled in other areas! www.emilyhare.co.uk/pages/portfo... #dragons #dragonart #creatureart #fantasyart #watercolour

A peaceful scene of a swamp, with greens, blues and purples, a tree in the foreground and the head of a huge dragon visible resting in the water. A white heron takes off next to the dragon and it's eye is open.

a blue dragon prepares to land at its nest of two dragonlings atop a huge mountain. Pale pink mountains with mists are in the background

watercolour. A blue and pink scene of a lagoon with a mermaid sitting on a rock in the middle of the water with her pink tail and fins breaking from the surface.

half human/half tentacles. The being stares at the viewer while relaxing in a cave pool with its tentacles coming out of the water, its upper body looks humanoid with long black hair and white glowing eyes.

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It's #PortfolioDay I’m a Traditional Artist | Illustrator | Birdwatcher. Been making nature art since 2005. Work with all mediums, both digital and traditional. My artwork is featured in many top publications. Nature art educator since 2011. prasadnatarajan.com/the-artist/ #sciart #art #nature

Blue Pansy Female butterfly, body color is brown, with orange rings and violet oval patterns. Saturated dull yellow colorations on the wings.
Looks like mother nature look lot of time painting the butterflies, so many patterns and colors!
Blue Pansy Female(Junonia orithya) Hokote Lake,Bangalore,Karnataka,India

Title:Penace_15
Species: Blue Pansy Female(Junonia orithya)
Watercolor on Paper
Size:7.9x 5.8 inches, Unframed
Reference: Own Image
Location:Hokote Lake,Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Date:August 19th 2019
Hours: 54 Hours
Reference: Own Image

Spotted Owlet published on Indian Birds Cover Indian Birds is a forefront book on Indian ornithology.
Link to the online edition: https://indianbirds.in/pdfs/IB_15_6_Final_Highres.pdf?fbclid

Spotted Owlet a bird perched on a tree branch, leaves directing the viewers towards the bird.
This artwork was published on Indian birds cover, thanks to the editor Mr. Aasheesh Pittie for choosing my artwork. Indian Birds is a forefront book on Indian ornithology.
Link to the online edition: https://indianbirds.in/pdfs/IB_15_6_Final_Highres.pdf?fbclid
Title: Mid-day Encounter!
Species: Spotted owlet (Athene brama)
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 8.4 x 11.6 inches, Unframed
Reference: Own image.
Location: Lalbagh, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Duration: 49 Hours
May 5th,2022

Big eye study of the Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris) handmade with watercolor pencil on paper. Eye in various color shades of lemon yellow, green, blue and burnt sienna. Black iris with off white highlights, off white brow and off-white eye ring, black stripes below the white liner under the eye. Fur colored in yellow, brown, red, green and greys. My signature in red.
Did this online demo for Scholar Stationary fellow artists, watercolor pencil Tiger Eye study.
Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris) from Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India. One way to grab attention towards nature based subjects is to make works of charismatic subjects. Though i stay away from popular subjects, sometimes on poplur demand i make bigs cats. Offcourse India is known as "Land of Tigers"
Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris)
Medium: Watercolor pencil on Scholar Paper
Size: 4.8 x 4 inches,220GSM Paper
Duration: 5 Hour 15 minutes
Location: Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India
October 16th, 2024
Reference image: Own Reference image

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ @ RCCC : K26 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ It'd mean the world to me if you felt like sharing my work? My name is Rachamim and I make personal queer fantasy work inspired by my Greek Sephardi background! Thank you and have a safe day! 💗

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Liberal Jane @liberaljane.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! ✊ trans rights are human rights. full stop. #TDOV #tdov2025

Digital illustration of a large diverse group of trans people. Text reads, 'There are infinite ways to be trans.'

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Zao 🍜 @shingamizao.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy Trans Day of visibility everybody! To all my trans followers, friends, and mutuals. Just wanted to let you all know that you will always be valid no matter what. You are seen and heard. And you are loved. 🏳️‍⚧️ You matter. You will not be erased. You exist as you are and that’s perfectly valid. 💙

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Laurence Lemieux @laurencelemieux.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hi! I'm an embroidery artist from Montreal and I do custom pet portraits! laurencelemieux.com

Embroidery portrait of a tabby cat bust on an natural fabric in a bamboo hoop with the name Marjo in black letters on top of the cat.

Embroidery portrait of a gray British Shorthair cat head with orange eyes on natural fabric in a dark brown round hoop. Bellow the cat face, the name Raoule is embroided in medieval-like black font.

Embroidery portrait of an orange cat head on top of his name Jacques in big yellow letters with black shadows on a very pale blue fabric. The round frame is orned of a crocheted blue yarn.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

AI search engines are wrong 60% of the time (with Google's Gemini being the absolute worst) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Chart: "Generative search tools were often confidently wrong in our study"

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Want to learn more about mantises? Check out the latest video from @scibugs.bsky.social and don’t forget to give her a follow.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Canada Jays are smart and cheeky corvids. They are often called camp robbers and will snag a bite of food wherever they can. The ones at Wapusk Adventures near Churchill, Manitoba have the visitors pegged as easy marks :) I always enjoy interacting with them. #birds

A small grey bird spreads its wings as it lands on a woman's head. She's wearing a teal toque and green parka with a fur hood. A large camera is strapped to her front. She's standing in a snowy yard in the forest on a sunny day.

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Here’s my last start-to-finish painting courses featured in The Landscape Painting Studio. I’ll show how to paint these along with me through detailed step-by-step videos. JimMusil.com/learn Doors open for a limited time.

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POM! @pinpoms.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Painting of pomemarimo ポメマリモ #original #pomeranian #marimo

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Whimsy Weaver @whimsyweaver.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I've had this #marimo for ten years now. Truly a lovely, low maintenance spot of greenery in my home.

A 6 inch glass cube full of water, a layer of multicolored pebbles, and a dark green sphere made of algae

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Gen Conway @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So I've also done some more technical scientific illustration stuff, this is a Diprotodon cervical vertebrae compared to its closest extant relatives (koala and a wombat) I did for my final piece for a scientific illustration topic last year. #SciArt #ScientificIllustration #Diprotodon

Labeled graphite drawings of a Diprotodon, koala and wombat cervical vertebrae

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