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Cast bronze nautilus by Dave Richardson

The Impossible Octophant

I’ve been pretty hush-hush waiting for this to be a surprise which is what is happening now. Surprise! I made this new Octophant and it’s going to live outside in Grant Park all summer.

It’s a promotional poster for the completely real and alive Octophant which was on display during the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition. Yes, of course that really happened. Don’t Google it.

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It's World Ocean Day!

Oceans are teeming with biodiversity, like these ascidians (Class Ascidiacea) which are filter feeders.

SciArt by Ernst Haeckel for his Kunstformen der Natur (1904). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the University Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for digitizing.

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Beach Moonsters - Black Lagoon night surfin'

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Parker Fillmore, Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. New York, 1922. Illustrations by Jay van Everen.

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Après le Typhon

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Unspecified species of coral from the genus Astrea and unspecified species of fish from the family Serranidae (referred to in the text as a “Japanese bony fish”) from Victor Franz’s 1910 book Die japanische Knochenfische der Sammlungen Haberer und Doflein.

Full text available here.