Mesa Schumacher
@mesabree.bsky.social
Project Animalia #749
Bazinga (Bazinga rieki)
An Australian #jellyfish named after Sheldon's "fooled you!" slogan, and the seven stringed harp this jelly's radial canals reminded biologist of.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #748
Eastern screec owl (Megascops asio)
Busy week, I'm drowning. But I have this owl.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #owl #owls #birds #birdart #biodiversity #dailyart
Project Animalia #747
Atlantic bobtail squid (Sepiola atlantica)
A color-shifting magician.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #cephalopod #squid #bobtailsquid #biodiversity #dailyart
Project Animalia #746
Madagascar hoopoe (Upupa marginata)
Love me a #hoopoe. Fun to draw!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #birdart #birding #birds #biodiversity #dailyart
Project Animalia #745
Blue Lanternfish (Diaphus coeruleus)
It's possible #lanternfish compose up to 65% of deep sea biomass. The photophore-studded #fish migrate vertically daily to feed.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #fishart #dailyart
Project Animalia #744
Indian Ocean Crocodilefish (Papilloculiceps longiceps)
A master of sandy camouflage...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #fishes #fish #fishart #dailyart #biodiversity #oceanart
Project Animalia #743
Atlantic hump-backed dolphin (Sousa teuszii)
The hump? It's an accumulation of connective tissue that grows as they age.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #dolphin #dailyart
Project Animalia #742
Garden tiger moth (Arctia caja)
Adult form of "wooly bear" caterpillar. Bright colors advertise its toxicity, they convert from toxins in their food.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #lepidoptera #dailyart #moth
Project Animalia #741
Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus)
This gar has existed in this form since the time of the dinosaurs. Floats like a log, snags prey like a mousetrap.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #gar #fishes #dailyart #fishart
Project Animalia #740
Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus)
Living only in the wetlands of the high Andes, summering in salt lakes, leaving when they dry out.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #flamingo #birds #bird #dailyart #oceanart
Project Animalia #739
Vent octopus (Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis)
Combining my love of the deep ocean, and of all creatures #cephalopod!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #deepsea #octopus #octopuses #dailyart #oceanart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #738
Bird dropping spider (Cyrtarachne sp.)
Once upon a time there was an #arachnid called the Bird dropping spider. And there was much rejoicing.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #spider #dailyart #oceanart #biodiversity #spiders
Project Animalia #737
La plata dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei)
The only river dolphin that also lives in estuaries and ocean water.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #dolphin #cetacean #marinemammal #dailyart #oceanart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #737
La plata dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei)
The only river dolphin that also lives in estuaries and ocean water.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #dolphin #cetacean #marinemammal #dailyart #oceanart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #736
Black olive snail (Oliva vidua)
For obvious reasons. And now I feel hungry somehow...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #snail #mollusk #shell #dailyart #oceanart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #735
Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)
Curious and slow= the ‘right’ whale to hunt. Numbers dropped from 30k to 40-50 by 1920. Today, ~2000 exist.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #whale #oceanart #biodiversity #oceanart #whales
Project Animalia #734
Serama chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
In 1890's there was a "hen men" craze (chicken-obsessed men) who will hen-splain your ear off at a party about their chickens.
Susan Orlean's work:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
#sciart #medart #chickens #animaalart
Project Animalia #733
Flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum)
Yellow polka dot... mantle!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #snail #seasnail #mollusk
Project Animalia #733
Flamingo tounge snail (Cyphoma gibbosum)
Yellow polka dot... mantle!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #snail #seasnail #mollusk
Project Animalia #732
Channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus)
#Toucan bills help with thermoregulation. They can send more or less bloodflow there to keep or release heat.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #birds #bird
Project Animalia #731
Long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta)
Finally got to Australia to see some of their crazy cool animals - like this nocturnal insect-loving marsupial!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #bandicoot #marsupial
Project Animalia
#730 Smooth Trunkfish (Lactophrys triqueter)
I was reminded that today makes 365+365 = 2 years of animal drawings!
Feeling festive!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #fishart #fish #trunkfish #dailyart #dailydrawing
Project Animalia
#730 Smoth Trunkfish (Lactophrys triqueter)
I was reminded that today makes 365+365 = 2 years of animal drawings!
Feeling festive!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #fishart #fish #trunkfish #dailyart #dailydrawing #illustration
Project Animalia #729
Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Let's see if I can get back on drawing track...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #furseal #seals
Project Animalia #729
Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Let's see if I can get back on drawing track...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #furseal #seals
Project Animalia #728
Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
Been sick, packing, and scrambling to catch up on work. But drawing a #dolphin helps body and mind relax.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #wildlife #biodiversity #dailydrawing
Project Animalia #727
Emporer squid (Chiroteuthis imperator)
Squid day!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #squid #cephalopod #wildlife #biodiversity
Project Animalia #726
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
A small marsupial southwestern Australia which smashes hearts with its adorable ever-smiling upturned jaw. Aw.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #quokka #marsupial #wildlife #biodiversity
Project Animalia #725
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
One more from the cat files...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #cat #lynx #feline #bobcat #wildlife #biodiversity
Project Animalia #724
Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
So I've recently visited Australia...and I saw some animals. Get ready for some fun...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #cockatiel #parrot #birds #bird #wildlife #biodiversity
Project Animalia #723
Rainbow crab (Cardisoma armatum)
A colorful inhabitant of Nigerian rivers. Yes, a freshwater crab!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #whale #crab #rainbowcrab #biodiversity
Project Animalia #722
Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
One of ten "rorqual" whales, which filter feed through baleen.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #whale #seiwhale #oceanart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #721
Caspian seal (Pusa caspica)
I'm a bit low on words this week, but...
the scientific name of the caspian seal is really fun to say. Go on, try it. 😊
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #seal #oceanart #biodiversity
Project Animalia #720
Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
The season of cats continues...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #cats #fishingcat #biodiversity
Project Animalia #719
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
Unbelievable leaper, high-speed chaser, all in high altitude, low oxygen, freezing conditions!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #snowleopard #bigcats #biodiversity
Project Animalia #718
Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus)
Back to the water for another seal, critically endangered—fewer than 700 swimming the seas.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #monkseal #seal #Mediterranean #biodiversity
Project Animalia #717
Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco)
Resident of the Himalaya, "a canine of debated taxonomy."
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #wolf #canine #biodiversity
Project Animalia #716
Arabian green bee-eater (Merops cyanophrys)
Drawn to color
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #bird #beeeater #birds
Project Animalia #715
Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
From a recent collaboration. Another beautiful Himalayan-dwelling cat.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #cat #cloudedleopard
Project Animalia #714
Turquoise-crowned Hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi)
Sick in bed, not doing much drawing today. So, a hummingbird from the queue.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #birds #hummingbird #bird
Project Animalia #713
Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
More whales...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #whales #beakedwhale
Project Animalia #712
Serval (Leptailurus serval)
Worth a google to see how this cat pounces on rodents. Wish my spine were that flexible!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #cats #serval
