Sciart Mugs

A striking aloe, Indigenous to Namibia, Southern Africa.

One especially cute snouted insect of the large weevil family. Get a cocklebur weevil on Michdevilish merch To see a fine weevil upon a bright purse Dots on its back and dots on its nose And it shall have orange wherever it goes!

A crinkly, paper-like white rockrose flower native to south-west Portugal. The leaves of the shrub are glossy, green and sticky. The plant is volatile and burns easily. Cistus libanotis: "The epithet libanotis was the word used for rosemary by Pliny" (wiki). Thusly, an excellent way to remember Portugal!

My daughter helped to colorize this SEM image of a Surirella (diatom) from a river in northeastern Ohio.

Oh, beloved zebra, exquisite equid! Bespoke on black. Brilliant!

Step up your game! h/t: J.Bartlett

A truly handsome freshwater crayfish from Indonesia! (Cherax (Astaconephrops) pulcher sp. n. adult male from Aquarium Dietzenbach; CC-BY 4.0, Christian Lukhaup; G S Palmer)

Ubiquitous cosmopolitan, buff perchance, with no regrets.

It wears a yellow kerchief, and so could you!

Christmas worms just want to have fun.

This illustration represents Ursus spelaeus, otherwise known as the cave bear.

The rosy countenance of the baby condor is enchanting. The California condor is the largest North American land bird and critically endangered.

From Wikipedia:The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights as well as its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand). Picture based on "Black-capped chickadee":https://flic.kr/p/bo9XJk "CC-BY-2.0":https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

They do not make good pets! From Wikipedia: The bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) is a type of marine bristleworm belonging to the Amphinomidae family, native to the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. (CC-BY-SA) Design based on photograph by West Brom 4ever.

Inspired by: PLOS Biology Staff, The (2005): The vocal explorations of young zebra finches shed light on the neural basis of learning motor tasks (Photo: Daniel D. Baleckaitis). figshare. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030162.g001 Retrieved: 15 44, May 08, 2017 (GMT); CC by 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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From Wikipedia: The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands. Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; it tends to be found on or close to fresh water. Built on picture "Canada Goose flight 1 CC-BY-2.0 by Tony Hisgett":https://flic.kr/p/6p3ifR

This is the largest species of hornbill. It has the longest period of parental dependence of any bird, taking up to two years to leave its parents. And does it like to vocalize!

The Gerbera was named after the German botanist dr. Traugott Gerber (1710-1743), a friend of Carl Linnaeus. This one is a red African Daisy that has been domesticated.

The Nightjar is a camouflage expert with handsome rictal bristles!

Tapir: a wonderful beastie.

A spiral-horned South-African antelope.

This magnificent cousin of ours is critically endangered. The mountain gorilla is found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa.

Engineer and Five Time Shuttle Astronaut

The grey crowned crane's regal crown of gold cannot leave you cold. Be bold, be bold, it says.

She wades with purpose in spectacular plumage!

Vorticella is a genus of protozoa.

Combining your love for flamingoes with your passion for prickly pears.

The Lucy mission will visit multiple Jupiter trojan asteroids over 12 years.

Gregarious and green. Who's a pretty parakeet? You are!

First Marathon Ran in Space

Goodbye, friend.

Amaryllis's sis. This one is blue, but there are white ones too. Neither a lily nor from the Nile, native to Southern Africa and naturalized around the world.

Mustachio!

During the Late Permian period (around 260 to 254 million years ago) Inostracevia and the rest of it’s family group, Gorgonopsidae were some of the largest predators on the planet, they roamed what is now Northern Russia, stalking their prey with a smiled full of sabers. Gorgonopsids were part of a group called therapsids, a group of animals that include mammals and their ancestors. They were a group that also shared common traits with reptiles but weren’t quite part of either modern group.

Also known as the Marsupial Lion, it was the largest known mammalian predator roaming Australia from 1.6 million to 46,000 years ago. Despite it’s common name, Thylacoleo wasn’t closely related to lions or cats at all, but was a member of the order Diprotodontia, which includes modern day kangaroos, koalas, wallabies, and wombats (it’s closest living relative). Thylacoleo lived at a time when Australia was packed with huge animals, such as 20 foot lizards, 10 foot tall kangaroos and multi-ton wombats. To combat this it grew big, reaching 287 pounds with muscular forearms and jaws like bolt cutters.