Here Comes The Tassel Dragon, Bearing The Candy Peach Flag! Im Still Learning How To Use Watercolors,

Here comes the tassel dragon, bearing the candy peach flag! I’m still learning how to use watercolors, but I like how he turned out! Concept: tassel dragons are bred and braided for parades or processions, and retire to live comfortable lives around antique shops or textile mills.

“Hey Nikole, why do you still read newspaper comics?”

because that is not edited in the slightest

i am not smart enough to summarize the conclusions of the independent patellar evolution presentation but weirdly emus dont actually have kneecaps

Smith’s Longspurs have a mutualistic relationship with a peculiar sort of fungus of the genus Cyathus, more commonly known as a Bird’s Nest fungus. This unusual mycorrhiza forms as a shallow bowl-like structure, and utilizes the droppings of nestling Longspurs to nourish itself and surrounding grassland. In return for vital nutrients, the grasses provide shelter and food for the small insects that parent Longspurs feed to their children. By the time the chicks are ready to fledge, they are coated in fungal spores and will distribute them far and wide.

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its really hard to measure moment arms in emu feet because their footwrists have cartilaginous extrusions that might work like kneecaps e: more like bicycle chain tensioners

i am home safe from ICVM 2016

i really, really need to figure out a way to get paid to attend academic conferences because holy shit what incredible fun that was even just an afternoon.

e: on that note have you all considered helping support my work on patreon