by Marlin Peterson | Dec 20, 2009 | Science Illustrations
This image was extremely fun to work on. It was for an article for Natural History magazine about the triumphant success of so called Argentine Ants. I chose the “pioneer” theme of the wagon, bonnet, cowboy hat, aphid-oxen etc. to make it a very easy to...
by Marlin Peterson | Jun 29, 2008 | Science Illustrations
I am super excited to attend (as a guest of Charles Griswold from the from CAS) the American Arachnological Society yearly convention held this summer in Berkeley! Pretty convenient…I whipped up this collage to throw down on the odds and ends table for...
by Marlin Peterson | Jun 19, 2008 | Science Illustrations
This was an image I did for Science Notes for an online journal article. check out the article here: http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0801/pages/food/food.html I “drink the cool-ade” when it comes to cooked foods, so my embedded visual opinion on it is...
by Marlin Peterson | Feb 1, 2008 | Science Illustrations
This striking idea was fascinating to stumble on…Jon Wagner mentioned it to me in passing one day and shortly thereafter a wikipedia search revealed this curious mystery: “The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other...
by Marlin Peterson | Jan 18, 2008 | Science Illustrations
When I first read a reference of the notion that monkeys accidentally rafted across the Atlantic to land in the new world, it spun my imagination like crazy! I had so many questions, didn’t even know quite where to start, so I read a lot of research papers that...
