THREAD: This week's is all about tomatoes!

For every like on this tweet, I will post one fact about tomatoes until this time next week or until I run out of facts (whichever comes first).

Buckle up buttercups! This one is going to be fun! https://t.co/Ff97SQEpyI

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Here's a mech of Plankton's called the Phytopunk. Plankton has made a lot of robots before, but this one has holographic-ish mea— er, wings. It's a possible recurring boss for The Plank-Domination. In fact, it might have an important role in The Plank-Domination.

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Botanical illustration and the park: Nicolai Laurentii Burmanni Flora Indica : cui accedit series zoophytorum Indicorum, nec non prodromus florae Capensis by N L Burman, 1768, BHL/Smithsonian.....https://t.co/KfgNRKLxPo

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SMIL-ing through the pain? A specimen of the Triassic phytosaur shows evidence of extensive bone fractures and healing consistent with In this diagram, all the indicated bones had some kind of fracture!

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Hanna ist Biologin. Sie erforscht Phytoplanktons Photosynthese. Wenn Leute die Lösung der Klimakrise auf Wissenschaft & Innovation schieben, meinen sie auch Hanna. Hanna hat davon nix. Sie sucht wieder Fördermittel. Und eine Stelle. Und eine Wohnung. Hanna ist müde.

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Abraham Munting, Phytographia Curiosa: Sumach Arbor https://t.co/7vbcVGSrOq

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Abraham Munting, Phytographia Curiosa: Acetosa Vulgaris sive Rumex Canpferinus https://t.co/6hEyDtVphR

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Painting of my pretty ball phyton-sized naga men,
Shadowy and Venomous, that was supposed to be a simple doodle
But then I couldn't stop.

Anyway, I really like drawing snake patterns, especially rattlesnake ones.

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Look at this beautiful figure made by Peter Mikula () et al. with the help of plotting methods. Check out the full article here: https://t.co/o4KRYQv43S.

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Another day gone by, another day without a new painting. Sigh. Here's some of the phytosaur Mystriosuchus steinbergeri to keep things ticking over.

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Whales help to fertilize phytoplankton upon which all sea life is dependent.

Japan and Norway have continued to kill whales every year since the 1986 whaling ban.





Fig: Dependency of Sea Life on Phytoplankton

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Finished these two quick commissions for a friend and worked on the lines and flats for phyto on my stream earlier.

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: Myristica fragrans vient du grec "muristikos"=odorant et du verbe "murizein"=parfumer. Fragrans veut dire "odorant" en latin. C'est l'arbre qui produit la noix de muscade, muscade étant dérivé de "musc", une sécrétion odorante appréciée en parfumerie.

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Quick morning sketch of being drawn to the beach during a bioluminescence event. Phytoplankton in the water emit a blue light when agitated giving the waves an eerie glow.

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Fun fact the crocodilian niche and body plan is so good that it convergently evolved several times in animals that aren't particularly related.

Phytosaurs are perhaps the clearest example.

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