Owl infographic from last year!

comparative anatomy assignment from last year 🥩🥩🥩

me, diving down a research hole that's only part of what I should be working on? Nooo....

(yes)

duck migration poster!!

if anyone would like a general guide to the ripening process of raspberries I gotchu <3

this is not a tutorial this is just me rambling

family resemblance.

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prints

wolf's story (left)

ash's story (right)

DEATH in the ILIAD: an Infographic

(originally 2014, updated slightly for 2023 - hey it's almost as old as Homer's Trojan War was long!)

A Wukongopterid

“When a living person goes in here, both the body and the soul, they cannot return, unable to get out for all of eternity.”

What color are orcas' eyes?

In short, mostly brown. In long, it's a bit complicated as Killer whales (and for that matter, all cetaceans) have multi coloured eyes! Unlike us humans, who have a singular coloured iris and a white sclera, cetacean eyes come in more flavours. Their iris is circled by a pale ring of varying colour, and the surrounding sclera is more often than not coloured too, sometimes even bi-colored. I have actually been working on a cetacean eye-colour-chart thing so I have some neat illustrations ready.

Here you can see the components that make up a cetacean's eye. It should be noted though that when relaxed, the eyelids cover much of it, leaving almost only the iris visible. As an example: a Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). On the left a clear view of the eye in its totality; on the right as visible in life.

Onto the whale in question. All cetaceans have beautiful brown irises: in many it is an unbelievably rich reddish hue when sunlight hits it directly. In shadow or underwater it looks more subdued though. Then comes the pale ring which in Killer whales is quite variable: in some animals it is very pale, almost white, while others have beautiful bright blue rings. The sclera appears two-toned in blackfish as far as I've seen. Killer whales have a rather modest dark brown area of sclera around the iris-pale-ring-combo, with the surrounding "base" sclera reddish pink. For comparison, False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) have a bit more substantive dark brown sclera area, with the surrounding sclera a striking bright red.

I hope this answers your question! This makes me want to finish this chart haha so maybe that'll come soon-ish in its totality.

little thing of mendel :^)

https://kristin-910.tengp.icu/zj/lyAS4j1

If anyone wanted a brief introduction to automatons… I got you

I wish I added some textures, but I finished this at nearly 5am… so I just handed it in