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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Keilan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵</p><p><a href="https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spoonflower.com/en/fabric/1699</span><span class="invisible">0670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pattern</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/surfaceDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surfaceDesign</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BurgessShale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurgessShale</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trilobite</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wiwaxia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Opabinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opabinia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InverteFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InverteFest</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>invertebrate</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here&#39;s an enlarged Wiwaxia, an animal (possibly a mollusc) from the Early and Middle Cambrian.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wiwaxia</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a></p>
llewelly<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@KateShaw" class="u-url mention">@<span>KateShaw</span></a></span> has released a new episode, on wallabies, the literal bigfoot, and their natural opposite, Wiwaxia!</p><p><a href="https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/07/22/episode-390-the-wallaby-and-wiwaxia/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.</span><span class="invisible">net/2024/07/22/episode-390-the-wallaby-and-wiwaxia/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/hop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hop</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/molluscMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>molluscMonday</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/bigfoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bigfoot</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/wallaby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wallaby</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/kangaroo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kangaroo</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wiwaxia</span></a></p>
llewelly<p>if only there was a Bohemian Wiwaxia, a Cedar Wiwaxia, and a Japanese Wiwaxia. </p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>birds</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wiwaxia</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/molluscs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>molluscs</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/molluscMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>molluscMonday</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>One of my wiwaxia for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InverteFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InverteFest</span></a>! </p><p>This is a handprinted Wiwaxia, a half billion year old soft-bodied animal covered in scales and spines. These animals lived in the early and middle Cambrian period and fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada's Burgess Shale. The animals themselves were only about 5 cm (2") but my linocut prints are much bigger.</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collage</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/washi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washi</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wiwaxia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Garbage Data 🦝<p>Graphic for <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Siberion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Siberion</span></a> vs. <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wiwaxia</span></a> for the <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/CambrianSmackdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CambrianSmackdown</span></a>!<br>Left: ni075</p>
Garbage Data 🦝<p>Round two, poll two of the <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN</span></a>!<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberion?wprov=sfla1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Siberion</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiwaxia?wprov=sfla1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wiwaxia</a><br>A graphic with visuals of our contestants will be posted in the replies.<br>Please vote &amp; boost for reach so that we can see who the best <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> era critter is!<br><a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poll</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polls</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Tournament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tournament</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Bracket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bracket</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/CambrianExplosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CambrianExplosion</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Arthropod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arthropod</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Arthropods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arthropods</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossil</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossils</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Extinct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extinct</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Silly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silly</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prehistoric</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Paleo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleo</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Siberion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Siberion</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/SiberionLenaicus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiberionLenaicus</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wiwaxia</span></a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/WiwaxiaCorrugata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WiwaxiaCorrugata</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Day 23 of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtAdventCalendar</span></a> is Wiwaxia! This is a handprinted <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> Wiwaxia, a half billion year old soft-bodied animal covered in scales and spines. These animals lived in the early and middle Cambrian period and fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada's Burgess Shale. The animals themselves were only about 5 cm (2") but my linocut prints are much bigger. Each print is 28 cm by 35.6 cm (11" by 14").</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/washi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washi</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multimedia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wiwaxia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a></p>