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First up for the tweetstorm - a pod of extinct long-snouted "river" dolphins (saltwater but likely freshwater tolerant) Parapontoporia and mancalline auk feeding on sardines and an unaware juvenile California sheepshead off CA coast 3 mya - graphite + digital, 10x14"

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2019-03-03

The Great Auk. A species horrifically wiped out by humans. (Art John James Audubon) https://t.co/POoXkl5lka

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2019-02-03

Got the end of 'Ithaca,' the ugly duckling, stuck in my head on Bloomsday:

When?

Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

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Art by Richard Hamilton

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2018-06-16

The threats facing our flora & fauna are as great – if not greater – than they were when we lost the Great Auk after centuries of relentless human exploitation . Here is a moving account of this sad extinction . . . https://t.co/FXX9DG8Sft

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2018-05-21

Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 46 from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873) hand coloured lithograph. View the book for free via https://t.co/y8qLypIQRv

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2018-05-19

Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 341 from John James Audubon's Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London.

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2018-05-19

Boom! July 3 is because it's the anniversary of the last sighting of the great auk: https://t.co/Am0JpNIA1D

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2017-07-04

July 3rd will be Also the last time the Great Auk was ever seen... https://t.co/YU3CZxXfMp

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2017-05-04

Planing to make an artpack of the Gods and Goddesses of Dota 2, and the first is Scree'auk

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2016-07-29