Personally Victimized by the Quaternary Extinction @laughing-thrush - Tumblr Blog

westdogcraft

A Pronghorn antelope buck, AKA a speed goat, done in punch needle embroidery 🪡

westdogcraft

Another batch of pridesopods completed ☺️

medievaleftea

On my dragon loom since some days:

That's brocading...many years ago i did this all the time. But it takes a ton if time.

dozydawn

abalone

solderalchemy

Ocean debris, re-engineered. 🐚

A sliced cross-section of nature’s architecture, armed with hand-soldered spikes. It’s giving nautical gothic. It’s giving deep-sea relic.

Step into the studio.

earthen-were

Considering this a success and finished after many experimental failures...a real raccoon jaw bone glazed and fired in a kiln!

#Huh.#Would think the heat would weaken the bone but maybe the glaze reinforces it enough it doesn’t matter?#… idk how hot bone needs to get to get crumbly either so.#Neat result I wouldn’t have thought to try.#My brain now going ‘can glaze shell? Or bits of bark? Or LEAF???’#Shoosh brain we do not have a kiln.

sixth-extinction

Potosi pupfish (Cyprinodon alvarezi) Extinct in the wild since the 1990’s, this species of pupfish is now bred in captivity by dedicated aquarium hobbyists. [Source]

catchymemes

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

bugthingsdaily

Today's bug thing is this house centipede beadwork!

mosswormartstudio

My favorite painting of this little run of watercolors I’ve been up to this spring 🌲

This is a view from one of the trails around the Oregon Caves.

historicalbookimages

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. Original source Image description: Illustration of a large fossilized mastodon molar tooth, showing detailed ridges and worn areas on the cusps. The tooth is labeled “Mastodon Giganteus” and appears cracked with visible internal cavities and texture, highlighting its massive size and structure typical of the extinct Mastodon giganteus species from North America. The drawing is in black and white, with shading emphasizing the tooth’s contours and surface details.