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You have traveled back in time to Late Permian South Africa and all of the sudden you run into this pair of Moschops capensis head butting! What a sight that must have been! Moschops was a dinocephalian therapsid, this a very distant relative of ours #Paleoart #sciart #synapsids
Engravings from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) by naturalist and scientific illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.
Merian was born #OTD 1647. Further details about her remarkable life: https://t.co/dvqS0lc41j
#histSTM #WomenInSTEM #sciart
#Feathursday The European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is similar to a rainbow when flying. The English term "bee-eater" was first recorded in 1668, referring to the European species. #Birds #SciArt #HistCol #Archives #VanBerkheij collection #MuseumFromHome #NatHist #Museums
Happy birthday Maria Merian born #OTD in 1647. Artist, entomologist &, #HERper. Her #book on insects of Surinam is one of our favourites & we often feature it in our tweets. More in our blog: https://t.co/3BBIt38C1I #SciArt #EntHist #WomenInSTEM
I'm taking the #aprilcolorschallenge by @faunwoood this year! Prompt 1: favorite color!
Did you know that some plant-associated #bacteria can suppress plant pathogen? The bacteria use the T6SS weapon to disrupt the insect microbiota, promoting #pathogenesis.
#sciart #scicomm
A sample of illustrations by @micaduranartist portraying the body's response and drug therapies for viral and bacterial infections.
Clients: @TheScientist, @ShawScience, @Ferring, @AstraZeneca, @clinedavismann, @chimerix, @WheelerTrigg
View More: https://t.co/dIL0DjKs9G
#sciart
Just came across the @flickr account of the @BioDivLibrary where they uploaded tons of beautiful #illustrations to the #PublicDomain. Check out e.g. these beautiful #beetles and #Hymenoptera by Samouelle 1819!
#SciArt #Botany #Zoology #Entomology #Insects
https://t.co/1sOG36hMeO
Tanystropheids are another group of amazing early #archosauromorphs that lived exclusively during the Triassic. They came in long-necked and SUPER long-necked forms. Most were terrestrial but at least one taxon was marine. Illustrations from my in-prep book #Paleoart #sciart
Our second #CSCIartcompetition image shows clustering of single-molecule localisation microscopy data of DNA stained with Hoechst to segregate signals into individual chromosome territories.
Chromosome territories (nucleus)
Kirti Prakash (Rowitch lab)
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Need a bit of #SciArt this morning? Read/listen to "The Petrified Fern," by Mary Bolles Branch on your coffee break! The moral of this poem is that no matter how inconsequential your efforts may seem, they'll be appreciated in time. #PalaeoPoems #PaleoArt
https://t.co/piDBW6izMj
Our second scientific image from the #CSCIartcompetition comes from @Gio_Canu from the Vallier lab.
United by the love for science
Giovanni Canu (Vallier lab)
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#HistoriaMNCN En sus inicios reunió casos teratológicos humanos y animales por la gran curiosidad que despertaban en la gente. La 1ª publicación (1784) fue "Colección de Láminas que representan los animales y monstruos del Real Gabinete de Historia Natural" de J. B. Bru. #SciArt
#BotanicMonday: a cultivar of Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa), one of Australia's most recognizable #wildflowers. #SciArt by P. Stroobant for "L'Illustration Horticole", Vol. 12 (1865), contributed in #BHLib by the Raven Library of @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/qbuvycC92J
Results from the #paleostream!
Parapropalaeohoplophorus, Shamosaurus, Llallawavis and Zby.
#paleoart #sciart #ankylosaur #sauropod #dinosaur #bird #terrorbird
March 29: Red currant is in bud, according to Stillingfleet's 1755 #CalendarOfFlora, recorded in Norfolk. Ribes rubrum. Choix des plus belles fleurs: et des plus beaux fruits by Redouté. https://t.co/TpJel3hBRZ via @BioDivLibrary @mobotgarden. #BHLib #SciArtSunday #SolaceInNature
Anyone else been snacking a lot recently?
Another one from Mark Catesby’s ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’
#RareBooks #illustration #SciArt
Approximate size of some Dromaeosaurs I’ve reconstructed recently. From left to right: Dineobellator, Zhenyuanlong, Achillobator, Velociraptor (bottom) and Microraptor (top). #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs