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"Ebola on the Run" for NPR

The mysterious Jackalope! Fun fact! Hares engage in punching matches during spring to impress the females, hence the saying "mad as a march hare!"

#jackalope benjamin ben arthur hares pencil sketchdaily

"This is serious" - Dr. Wizbang

The skeleton of a baby African elephant - pen and ink with digital color.

Elephant skulls might have been mistaken for the remains of a mythical creature - the terrible Cyclops!

Wikipedia:

Another possible origin for the Cyclops legend, advanced by the paleontologist Othenio Abel in 1914, is the prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls – about twice the size of a human skull – that may have been found by the Greeks on Cyprus, Crete, Malta and Sicily. Abel suggested that the large, central nasal cavity (for the trunk) in the skull might have been interpreted as a large single eye-socket. Given the inexperience of the locals with living elephants, they were unlikely to recognize the skull for what it actually was.

Nifty Knowledge!

The Skeleton of a hound - specifically a Alpenländische dachsbracke

#dog skeleton benjamin arthur anatomy hound

A few of the creature concepts for the micro biome animation.

#animation NPR microbe biome science benjamin arthur rob stein

There's an invisible universe that lives in and on your body. Join us for a tour of your microbiome.

I've been working for the NPR the last 12 weeks, animating this tour of our human micro biome. NPR was amazing to give me so much creative freedom, I had a lot of fun coming up with all the creatures and environments.

#animation NPR microbe biome science benjamin arthur rob stein