Happy Halloween!
​An illustration of a decomposed Mickey Mouse. High resolution royalty free image without watermark for commercial use available here

A 3D illustration of the now debunked competing conspiracy theory that the Earth is flat, as it appears from land, rather than spherical. Earth texture maps courtesy of NASA.gov. A high resolution, royalty and watermark-free image available for instant download ($35 USD) Here

This is a small stain that I discovered on a natural gas radiator that really, really resembles an old daguerreotype photo of Edgar Allen Poe!
Simply a smudge or a smear? Or perhaps another mustached person from the 19th century?
#edgarallenpoe 

​-Bill

Influenza Virus - Still Hanging Around: A cartoon illustration of the influenza virus.

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​#virus #influenza

​Anxiety and Depression Illustration 01

An abstract spray paint illustration related to the psychology of clinical Anxiety and Depression depicting the imagery of hopelessness and despair through dark color and distorted faces. The image would accompany [clinical] articles written on the subject of mental health, anxiety and depression.

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An illustration of a group of Woolly Mammoths feeding on wild grass in an ice age grassland during an autumn feast.

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. M. primigenius diverged from the steppe mammoth, M. trogontherii, about 200,000 years ago in eastern Asia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant.

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Just as other prehistoric lifeforms such as insects or cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), the dinosaur lineage are still with us today. Evolutionary adaptation seems to keep pace with the changes in the environment of the Earth. While some lifeforms such as cyanobacteria and insects seem to be nearly perfectly adapted without a need for radical morphological change for any of the Earth's periods, others such as dinosaurs needed to change quite significantly. The larger theropod (T-rex) and sauropod (Brontosaurs) dinosaur varieties were not well adapted to change and subsequently had a glorious run then mostly disappeared for a variety of reasons. The small theropod dinosaurs such as Ornitholestes (illustrated above) on the other hand had a future, but would still need adaptations along the way to adjust to the ever-changing environments in which they continued to evolve. That form would be what we now refer to as birds.  

While the small dinosaur Ornitholestes is long since extinct, her basic biology was solid enough in her close genetic cousins, for instance, to adapt to flight or even lose their teeth completely in favor of a beak. It it is not difficult to imagine, when looking at a modern Cassowary for example, to really get an idea of just how these small theropods looked or even moved around and behaved during the Jurassic Period. Feathers as a flock of fur (a type of scale actually) would have come around first to provide warmth and dryness....and would then further be adapted for flight. Close examination of fossil evidence now confirms that virtually ALL theropod dinosaurs were covered in some form of insulating feather/fur. The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods were a large chunk of the Earth's history and had plenty of cold and wet climates, feathers would have been nearly tantamount to long term survival. 

Having chicken for dinner tonight? Well, you're eating a dinosaur.

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