I will never get tired of seeing wild turkeys roaming through the suburbs. And I will absolutely pull over on the side of the road to talk to them until they get bored and wander away.

Every year I create a Christmas card for Kraken Robotics, a submersible company based in Newfoundland. Here’s this year’s design featuring Santa Kraken holding some submersible batteries and riding in a sleigh pulled by firefly squid.

Results from the #paleostream! A wish by @vincent-notitalian.bsky.social showing a spec evo version of the Toarcian, Falciscaris and Zavacephale.

@hakaimagazine.com did a series on what life is like for these guys (features a Mystacocarid - not in the preview pic! There are 4 articles, check them all out) Here's how to keep the Hakai team going www.biographic.com/hakai-magazi... #Crustmas 🧪

A holiday mummering drawing. Mummering is a popular Xmas tradition in Labrador and Newfoundland. Groups of people go door-to-door dressed in masks, rags, and old clothes, asking to be let in. Once inside, mummers will sing, play music, and tell jokes in exchange for snacks and alcohol.

First day of #crustmas with some friends gathered for the holidays. From left to right: Magnapinna squid, sea pig, pterotrachea sea elephant, giant Pacific octopus, remipede, coelacanth, and tripod on the rug

Since Stranger Things is on a lot of people’s minds right now, figured I’d share this little article I wrote a couple years ago about D&D monsters in the show. www.cbr.com/dnd-monsters...

The next dragon “mutation” is Whale Fall!

Happy Turkey Day, y’all!

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, has a new exhibit: Ants - Tiny Creatures, Big Lives. We went today, and here are some impressions. It’s not a massive exhibit, but well done and certainly worth checking out if you’re in the area. The exhibit runs through May 17.

The Predator using their mandibles to delicately eat a whole bag of cheese cubes.

Got so busy with work stuff in October that I didn’t have time to do any Halloween-related drawings. So I’m doing them now. Here’s an Anatomically Implausible Skeleton of the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt, Clavelina ossipandae, from the waters around Okinawa.

#Dinovember2025 Day 10: Burgess Shale Pictured here are Metaspriggina (top) and Pikaia (bottom), they might look like worms but they're actually more closely related to vertebrates! Animals that looked similar to these would eventually give rise to fish and tetrapods! #paleoart

Some astronomy for Native American Heritage month ARROKOTH In 2014 NASA’s New Horizons mission photographed an unusual object in the Kuiper Belt. Called a contact binary, the object was formed by two icy planetesimals that collided and stuck together.

Found an old piece of plywood in the basement and used a jigsaw and paint to give it a glow up. #painting #Halloween #birds

Just wanted to share this little display I made for my museum’s Halloween festivities. I thought it was kinda cool.

Who was the first VERIFIABLE LGBTQ resident of the White House? Rose Cleveland, sister of Grover Cleveland and acting first Lady from 1885-1886.

Made a creepy paper bag puppet craft for my trolley museum!

Day 30 - Dream. The final day of #sciartseptember. My long-term dream has always been to create a series of illustrated guides that would help identify the various jellies and jellyfish of the would. Creating illustrations like the ones below to accurately ID species.

News @ Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (UMO) in Bayreuth: new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, named today after UMO's prime excavation site, the Jurassic clay pit Mistelgau. @olorotitan.bsky.social beautifully reconstructed the to-be fossil on a belemnite battleground typical for the locality.

Photos from a program I taught at my library job about Slime and how animals and plants use mucus and mucilage for defense, movement, hunting, filter-feeding and other fun stuff. We also made slime from school glue, baking soda, and contact lens solution, but I didn’t get any photos of that.

Refreshing the stickers on my car

White people can move the needle if they want. Y'all got Jimmy Kimmel back on the air boycotting, you can throw some of that expendable income to support the vulnerable through mutual aid, you can make some moves against fascism instead of performatively bemoaning what you think doesn't affect you.

Happy Labor Daybor!

Salinella salve - an #invertebrate cryptid, lost to time. For more details about this strange organism, see: www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc... #SciArt 🧪

A cool wooden Anchisaurus skeleton at the Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop in Hamden, Connecticut.

I've written a post about Myxobolus medusae - a myxozoan parasite that lives in the eyes of red-bellied piranhas. Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but this microscopic medusa is in the eye of a piranha #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/08/myxo...

¡La famosa batata! During #TaludContinental_IV, the largely Argentine science team nicknamed sea cucumbers batata, which means sweet potato in Spanish. While we have no authority to change animal names, we believe that batata is an excellent upgrade for the oh-so-important but humble sea cucumber.

PBS needs you, y'all. Become a member. Get Passport. mainline documentaries until your eyes bulge cuz your brain is too stuffed.

www.inprnt.com/gallery/tamv... I haven't shared my Inprnt page for some time now! Prints of this and my other art is available 💀🦑 #artists #inkdrawing #supportartists

I think scary monster designs need to look more at herbivores for examples of creepy weir shit. Example: the muntjac’s fucked up gaping scent glands on their face and how springboks having a flap of skin on their back that they can unfurl to show off the white fur on the inside??? Of their back??

Some Space Jockey designs for an Alien RPG campaign I’m developing

For your afternoon enjoyment- a street pipe in New Haven, Connecticut painted like a crocodile.

Felt cute. Might delete later.

Wanted to post more Pride anglerfish for June, but COVID knocked me out for 2 weeks. But Pride doesn’t end with June, so more anglers are a-comin’ . Today it’s Himantolophus, the Footballfish, in Pansexual Pride colors.

Instead of reading that article about the "anti-woke literary scene," read some books from this list that would make those weird dorks shit themselves to death.

Happy Disability Pride month, y'all. If you're disabled, share your links (arts, crafts, books, zines, ko-fi, mutual aid, what have you) so we can share it! Non-disabled folks, like, share, & buy/donate! Let's uplift some voices and help some folks!

Another Pride angler! This is the Needlebeard Angler, Neoceratias. Needlebeards completely lack the glowing lure of other anglers. Additionally, their jaws are covered with long teeth outside the mouths. It’s not known what they eat, but their teeth may act as a cage to catch gelatinous prey.

Another Pride anglerfish! Here’s the Wolftrap Angler, Thsumatichthys, with Trans Pride colors. Wolftraps, also called Wonderfish, have their glowing lures located on the roof of their mouths. They also have wide upper “lips” that can flip down to form a cage around prey lured into their mouth.

Here’s where we’re at: - Calls are coming in and being answered. Trans girls are living. - Until we can raise enough $ to pay for support, this hotline is run by a very small group of volunteers. Please help us get the funding we need to save trans lives. DONATE: pay.downdivas.com

Finally getting around to doing some Pride flag creatures. And only halfway through the month! This year I’m creating Pride flag anglerfish, starting off with the most well-known species, Melanocetus johnsonii.

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...

Painted some more prehistoric creature plywood cut-outs for Dinosaur Weekend at my trolley museum! Left to right: Carnufex, Tenontosaurus, and Atopodentatus.

Painted some plywood dinosaur eggs for Dinosaur Weekend at my museum!

Antarctic wormy molluscs! SOLENOGASTER! #molluscmonday youtu.be/AOYrIUdwyjw?...

I wrote a new book! This one is a collaboration with fellow artist Stanton Fink. We made a field guide to the prehistoric ghosts, library spirits, and other oddities of the Garden of Lost Ages. www.amazon.com/Guide-Fauna-...

More Ice Elephants living in icy surface of Enceladus. These critters are collectively nicknamed “hobs” because they live in the tunnels of large ice elephants and help with cleanup, parasite control, and other “household maintenance”. L to R: domovoi, gnome, kobold.