Oarfish oarfish
Washed up on the shore fish
Far too big to keep fish
From growing in the deep fish

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...and for THIS week’s here’s a big, beautiful Pacific white shark affectionately known as Scar Girl. Haha thanks for helping me get my calendar straight!!

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Fishes with scientific tautonyms - the rattail (trachyrinchus trachyrinchus) for this week's

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In honor of one of my favorite scientific tautonyms (where the generic + specific names are the same), the wonderfully grumpy Lota lota, or burbot

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Nothing sketchy about today's from . Literally nothing—it's not a sketch. Pretty painty, however. And very, very fishy...

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Learned today that several species of use tools! Fascinated by their body shapes/movements while they fan away sand to find food, then take the food and bash it against a rock "anvil." (Choerodon anchorago)

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Highlights from the stream, a with Leedsichthys, swimming Avaceratops (with hybodont), courting Dimorphodon and Icarosaurus in a storm.

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why is the mighty Xiphactinus upside down? Because does not like Xiphactinus, that’s why. Stay tuned for the full to be featured in the exhibit by Triebold Paleontology - coming soon to a museum (hopefully) near you.

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Another This time Eomesodon, a beast that was able to grow surprisingly huge for a pycnodont. I saw a original in Solnhofen, especially impressive because one is able to the the sculpture of the scales which are usually too small to notice.

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Working off more of my photos, here is Mesonauta festivus (Thanks to for the ID) another cichlid! Due to time constraints, the piece went from twelve fish to eight fish to six fish, but at least there's a background for once!

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Pale deep sea lizardfish: the monotype that says it all.

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In between unpacking boxes, did a quick of the sole member of the family Amiidae: the great grinnel, classy choupique - most commonly known as the beautiful bowfin!

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Epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum. (Much more practice needed with colored pencils!)

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Since I drew a bloodfin tetra, I feel it only appropriate to share the other I have made with this species! A cleared and stained bloodfin tetra to go with my

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My last of 2017. A lucky fish to start 2018 on Carassius auratus, the common "not so gold" goldfish.

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Scalacurvichthys naishi painting no. 2 done and dusted, only two days late for

should find this one interesting

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A very late of a marvelous, magnificent mudskipper.

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my best shot at a Chrysiptera hemicyanea. A pomacentrid, as prompted by .

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