For when it’s still #FintasticFriday but #Baturday is just around the corner…
Jade pendant, #bat with #shark wings
Costa Rica, Central Caribbean Region, 500 BCE - 800 CE
H 15.5 x W 3 cm
Museo del Jade, Costa Rica
“The team found that a school of #fish moving together in just the right way was stunningly effective at #noise reduction: A school of seven fish sounded like a single fish.
A modern sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) and its 5 m long relative Carcharias cuspidatus from the Oligocene. The size is known from a partial skeleton that was found near Rauenberg in Baden-Württemberg.
🦈 Dive into the depths of the ocean with 'Psychedelic Shark'! 🌀🎨
This artwork brings the vibrant, electric energy of the sea to life. 🌊 Mesmerizing hues swirl around a powerful shark, showcasing its fierce spirit and captivating presence.
Well, it was against a pretty bad team (they haven't scored more than 1 goal away from home all season), but I'll take a 3-0 #Bruins win over the #Sharks. Solid, workmanlike effort that got the 2 points.
"Maintaining healthy populations of just nine key wild species (or groups of species) – including elephants and wolves, but also wildebeest, musk ox and bison, as well as marine fish, whales, sharks and sea otters – can play a vital role in controlling the carbon cycle on land and sea."
"The researchers outlined guidelines for governments to provide long-distance larval drifters, like #urchins and #lobsters, as well as #MigratorSpecies, like #turtles and #sharks, with protected stopovers along coastal corridors. "
"The turbines’ seabed foundations, bolstered by rock piles around the masts, function as artificial #reefs upon which flora and #crustacea thrive, which then are consumed by #fish, #porpoises, and #seals.
Marine scientists have found that these #RenewableEnergy parks can serve as sprawling #MarineSanctuaries, some of them as vast as 80 square kilometers (31 square miles) in size."
I think is that #oilers fans are about to find out why Evander Kane was basically fired out of a cannon into the sun by the #Sharks before they got him. #nhl#hnom
Today's random portfolio artwork post is a fishy mural I painted for The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (human shape added for scale). It's a Western Interior Seaway scene featuring Squalicorax (#shark), Tusoteuthis (#squid), an octopod (in the shark's mouth), and a school of Apsopelix #fish.
