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Find out what Marlin’s latest creations and projects are. These posts also have some neat background and descriptions of his murals, drawings, and other artwork (with the nitty gritty of problem solutions). And, get some interesting personal thoughts, and interets with this blog roll as well.
Were giant ground sloths the original dispersal agents for Osage Oranges? (Maclura pomifera)
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 native...
Sweepstakes rafting across the Atlantic
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 took...
Nocturnal Heads
nocturnal head portraits Finally we are to do a large project using scratchboard. it is such an amazing medium...for how it looks, and for its forgiving nature. Basically its paper coated with clay that you can brush or use a pen to get your blacks, then you follow...
Termite mound plunderers…old and new worlds meet
Those that know me, know me and my lady are David Attenborough junkies. Life in the Undergrowth will always remain the best, but the Life of Mammals is obscenely sweet. I especially was enthralled by the section focusing on termite eaters, and it was my...
how do aquatic insects use the surface of water?
I love the fact that many insects pass through an aquatic stage on their way towards maturity. And those that spend their whole lives either in water, or never more than metatarsal-length away from it...fascinating! The myriad different paths of evolution that those...
UC Santa Cruz Science Illustration Program- chapter 1!
We all (15 of us) have met each other, the personalities are beginning to emerge, and the projects with their fudgeless deadlines have just begun to descend upon me. We are starting with black and white, which seems fitting, and are steadily seeing on the horizon...