brilliant mistake

Only 9 more shopping days until Christmas!

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) photographed attacking and killing a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), explaining the the fatal injuries of stranded harbor porpoises along the Calfornia coast.

If this disturbs your warm happy view of dolphins, take heart; the experts think it may all be a case of mistaken identity. The dolphins are really trying to commit infanticide, and accidentally mistake the smaller porpoises for dolphin babies that they are trying to violently murder. Feel better?

Nina Katchadourian, Genealogy of the Supermarket (detail)

On the bus.

I was bored last night and made this.

Table 71, Stephoidea (Radiolarians)

Erst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature),1899-1904

Table 11, Discoidea (Radiolarians)

Erst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature),1899-1904

(Oops! This was supposed to publish yesterday. So Friday will be a twofer & the end of Haeckel week.)

“The Ilulissat Glacier is responsible for putting more ice into the global ocean than any other glacier in the northern hemisphere. The iceberg that sank the ‘Titanic’ probably originated here.”

Table 8, Scyphozoans (Jellyfish)

Erst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature), 1899-1904

Table 56, Copepods

Erst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature) 1899-1904