//=time() ?>
Super late #SundayFishSketch and off theme. Some chocolate dips for my own Easter themed sketch.
Here's hoping your birthday doesn't suck, @Lampichthys! Thank you for building such a great community through #SundayFishSketch!!
This week’s #SundayFishSketch is all about puns. Hypomesus transpacificus, or the Delta Smelt, is an endangered smelt that is endemic to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in California. Happy (early) birthday to @Lampichthys!
Bonus #SundayFishSketch because I missed last week, which was themed around April ‘foolers’. The pygmy seahorse blends in almost perfectly with the fan coral onto which it clings.
Belated #SundayFishSketch of a prickly sculpin (Cottus asper). They fool many with their impressive camouflage! I have encountered several in northern CA, sometimes pretending to be juvenile salmon.
My #SundayFishSketch for this week's bones theme is the Glass catfish.
These little fish have transparent bodies, with their skeletons on full display! As a result they're a popular addition to community tanks in the ornamental industry. https://t.co/ZSVJzx0qBu
My best sketch from #paleostream and my entry to #SundayFishSketch. Skull of Saurodon leanus.
The "infamous" Red Bellied Piranha for this week's #SundayFishSketch. Maybe one of the most misrepresented fish ever (along with several sharks). Piranha swim in schools as a means of protecting themselves from larger predators as opposed to it being a hunting strategy. 🐟
For the schooling theme #SundayFishSketch, E drew a young barracuda and H drew some shrimp.
#DKY @Lee_FG @sharktagging researchers found that while some #sharks flee #hurricanes, #TigerSharks stick around the storm! This behavior may take advantage of a buffet of sea animals that didn’t make it through the storm.
#SundayFishSketch #Biotelemetry #AnimalBehavior #Foraging
Schooling tangs for #sundayfishsketch
Incidentally, if anyone would like to throw a tiny donation to UNICEF/Ukraine here 👉 https://t.co/alSbghFgS4
I'll repay you with a digital print-ready copy of any drawing(s) you want ⬇️ https://t.co/m82KmU471X🇺🇦💙💛🙏
The Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) is a ray-finned fish that inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. It is also known as the silver king. #sciart #scicomm #ecoart #bioart #sundayfishsketch #sundayfunday
A late #SundayFishSketch submission with this playful Australian lungfish!
An old (over 200 years) Greenland shark. They are not especially ancient, in relative shark terms, but these sharks may live a very long time, perhaps up to 400 years or more. Their slow and very cold lifestyle may enable a lengthy lifespan. #SundayFishSketch #Sciart
An Australian Lungfish for this week's #SundayFishSketch theme of "fish unaffected by time". Fossil remains identical to this species have been found in New South Wales dating back to over 100 mya. Lungfish as a group have been present in the fossil record since the Triassic.
''living fossils'' : sturgeon
#SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme Sketch a fish "unaffected by time." By that I mean, with lineages where species now look similar to many of their extinct relatives (e.g., gar, coelacanth). #sciart #FishyFriday #teamfish
Polyodon spathula, the American paddlefish, belongs to the family Polyodontodae, a group of fishes that emerged in the early Cretaceous and have since been relatively unaffected by time. This individual, however, succumbs to the consequences of daylight savings. #SundayFishSketch