Evolution (A.k.a. Captain Darwin's Beagle Club)

Recent Work

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  Darwin by John Lyon

  The Darwin jesus fish was just an intermediate step. We dropped the tail, stood up and achieved awesomeness, as celebrated here.

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  Brain!!! by Ross Robinson

  Yay the brain! Oh yes, celebrate your cerebellum folks loud and proud. Don’t forget – it’s okay to be smart.

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  Untitled by BenteKlevenberg

  I dont know the english name, but in Norwy we call this snake Slettsnok. They are harmless and are protected by law in Norway.

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  Fossil snail by SteveW

  A fossil snail found between Maitland and Singleton, NSW.

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  Acanthostega by Janice McCafferty

  This is a watercolor I painted of Acanthostega, an extinct tetrapod from the upper Devonian. It had eight digits on each hand was intermediate between lobe-finned fish and tetrapods capable of walking on land. It is believed that the digits evolved from walking on bottoms of shallow, weedy swamps (from Jennifer A. Clack, Scientific American) rather than crawling on land.

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  i lost a huge friend!!…today, wot work i had was washed out,so i decided to visit an old friend. / i went to where i positivily knew where they were,as i last wa…

  today, wot work i had was washed out,so i decided to visit an old friend. / i went to where i positivily knew where they were,as i last was there 8 mths ago to take and document them with photos. / i got there and the space that they filled was empty. i went in2 semi shock thinking / that maybe i had gone mad or delusional and had come to the wrong spot…...... / but no, i knew the address but still i drove my car round the area just in case, but / no, this was the spot,they were gone no where to be seen! / then a nieghbour came out walking her dog and and told me that they had been / cut down in their prime!!!!!!!!!!!! i was devistated, shocked, i couldn’t believe it, why they / looked so healthy 8 mths ago and were 80 plus years old, maybe even more! / i couldn’t believe death could creep up so quickly on one so healthy, why ….just cut / down for no reason 7 mths ago….......then they told me they were too far on the road for too long, and that they had been hit several times b4,it was just a matter of time / b4 it happened again and someone would be injured or killed! / RIP THE gianormous BLOODGUM that WAS on GOLFLINKS RD / KILLARA, NSW,AUST / i will dearly miss u and ur unbelievable colour and the way that / you shared the road with vehicles and that cute way that i would swerve to give way / to you as not to damage u or myself 4 that matter,you were the most majestic / i had seen in a long time. / farewell sob,sob! / i am glad i got to paint u!! and im glad you evolved where you did,so i could find you!

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  Frog With No Lungs…An important discovery that might provide insight into what drives evolution here...

  An important discovery that might provide insight into what drives evolution here

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  [ BD ] Digital photography : Wildlife - Marine Creatures : Jellyfish 2 by boudidesign

  Marine creatures : Jellyfish

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  [ BD ] Digital photography : Wildlife - Marine Creatures : Jellyfish by boudidesign

  Marine creatures : Jellyfish

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  Something Nice…George was at the fridge again. He stared hard at the bright interior but it wasn’t there.

  Story for beastiary – it is not named in the story but I guess you could called it a slime mould or mycelioid. Not exactly an animal but not a plant either. Still Feb 19 here in Australia! Apologies, it isn’t formatted very well.

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  Going home…_(Human Calicivirus Disease (HCD) is a newly emergent, highly infectious viral disease of humans. There is no effective treatment for thi…

  Story about the present mass extinction event coming to a rather dramatic close and the new civilizations that will rise and how their knowledge of human civilization will inform their development. This is a self contained story but is also Chapter 1 of a longer story spanning about 5 million years :-) that will certainly end up as a novella or novel given enough time for me to develop and research the background information. The science of this story is real, albeit adapted for the sake of the story line, and has been sourced from actual and reputable scientific references that are listed at the end of the story.