Sciart Posters and Art Prints

What an energetic mating display! Enjoy it while it lasts- when the season's done, it loses its widow's weeds. (CC-BY-SA 2.0)

Colorized image of a fly wing in the SEM.

Please don't eat me! The most trafficked mammal in the world, sadly. (Based on picture by Mark Simpson; CC-BY-2.0)

Photograph of a petri dish

Late in the Devonian, some 382 to 358 million years ago, around the same time when the first vertebrates were crawling their way onto land, a massive predator called the ocean it’s home. The size of a modern day Orca, Dunkleosteus was a fish unlike any alive today. It belonged to a group of fish called placoderms, all of which possessed heavily armored bodies, to combat this Dunkleosteus had a brutal adaptation, instead of teeth, the plate like parts of it’s armored skull extended down into cleaver like blades that self-sharpened every time it shut it’s mouth.

Are YOU deeper than your relatives? ;) The ruby sea dragon was nominated as one of the Top 10 New Species for 2016. Based on the photograph by Glenn Moore and Sue Morrison, as seen in ' A spectacular new species of seadragon (Syngnathidae)' Josefin Stiller, Nerida G. Wilson, Greg W. Rouse R. Soc. open sci. 2015 2 140458; DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140458. Published 18 February 2015 by Royal Society Open Science under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

Newly described butterfly fish. Inspired by the R.L. Pyle photograph in: Pyle RL, Kosaki RK (2016) Prognathodes basabei, a new species of butterflyfish (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae) from the Hawaiian Archipelago. ZooKeys 614: 137-152. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.614.10200 (CC-BY-4.0)

Colorized image of a flea head in SEM.

The Stargazer lily is a hybrid that looks up.

Is it a crane; is it a bird of paradise? No, it's a Strelitzia inviting a sunbird for a visit!

Who doesn't love a star? Inspired by the common sea star Tremaster mirabilis: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremaster_mirabilis, and picture by NOAA Okeanos Explorer/Christopher Mah/Echinoblog, PD

This friendly octopus is into tête-à-têtes! The Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is stunning and gregarious. ("CC-BY-SA 4.0": http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0134152)

The Lilac-breasted Roller brightens up even the palest day. (CC-BY-SA 4.0; built on photograph by Prabir2011)

Leopards have the largest distribution of all the wild cats, though they are threatened by habitat loss.

All the rage: algae à la mode. Seaweeds look good on everything; they go with the flow. They're super-healthy! Especially that clever Claudea elegant tetrasporangia!

A ghostly lavender octopus.

An ostrich baby- your very own. The biggest flightless bird carries a powerful kick. But who cares, when they have such gorgeous eyes? (CC-BY-4.0)

A striking aloe, Indigenous to Namibia, Southern Africa.

One especially cute snouted insect of the large weevil family. Get a cocklebur weevil on Michdevilish merch To see a fine weevil upon a bright purse Dots on its back and dots on its nose And it shall have orange wherever it goes!

A crinkly, paper-like white rockrose flower native to south-west Portugal. The leaves of the shrub are glossy, green and sticky. The plant is volatile and burns easily. Cistus libanotis: "The epithet libanotis was the word used for rosemary by Pliny" (wiki). Thusly, an excellent way to remember Portugal!

My daughter helped to colorize this SEM image of a Surirella (diatom) from a river in northeastern Ohio.

Oh, beloved zebra, exquisite equid! Bespoke on black. Brilliant!

that elliptic lip! oh glabrous, clawed petals and translucent flowers! CC-BY-4.0:Kolanowska M, Szlachetko DL, Trejo RM (2016) Telipogon diabolicus (Orchidaceae, Oncidiinae), a new species from southern Colombia. PhytoKeys 65: 113-124. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.65.8674

Or is it a hoopla? From Wikipedia: Hydra /ˈhaɪdrə/ is a genus of small, fresh-water animals of the phylum Cnidaria and class Hydrozoa. They are native to the temperate and tropical regions. Biologists are especially interested in Hydra because of their regenerative ability – they appear not to age or die of old age. A creative collage of PD pictures, including one CC-BY-2.0 one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonynetone/25578905181/in/photostream/

From Wikipedia:The choanoflagellates are a group of free-living unicellular and colonial flagellate eukaryotes considered to be the closest living relatives of the animals. Design based on a drawing found in "The biology of the protozoa" by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan), b. 1869, Internet Archives

A truly handsome freshwater crayfish from Indonesia! (Cherax (Astaconephrops) pulcher sp. n. adult male from Aquarium Dietzenbach; CC-BY 4.0, Christian Lukhaup; G S Palmer)

Ubiquitous cosmopolitan, buff perchance, with no regrets.

It wears a yellow kerchief, and so could you!

Christmas worms just want to have fun.

The rosy countenance of the baby condor is enchanting. The California condor is the largest North American land bird and critically endangered.

From Wikipedia:The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights as well as its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand). Picture based on "Black-capped chickadee":https://flic.kr/p/bo9XJk "CC-BY-2.0":https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Step up your game! h/t: J.Bartlett

They do not make good pets! From Wikipedia: The bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) is a type of marine bristleworm belonging to the Amphinomidae family, native to the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. (CC-BY-SA) Design based on photograph by West Brom 4ever.

Inspired by: PLOS Biology Staff, The (2005): The vocal explorations of young zebra finches shed light on the neural basis of learning motor tasks (Photo: Daniel D. Baleckaitis). figshare. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030162.g001 Retrieved: 15 44, May 08, 2017 (GMT); CC by 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This is the largest species of hornbill. It has the longest period of parental dependence of any bird, taking up to two years to leave its parents. And does it like to vocalize!

From Wikipedia: The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands. Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; it tends to be found on or close to fresh water. Built on picture "Canada Goose flight 1 CC-BY-2.0 by Tony Hisgett":https://flic.kr/p/6p3ifR