This image was drawn last year for a University of Texas at Arlington Biology Department shirt. The letters are formed by species that various students and/or faculty members in the Department researched. Ultimately, the image wasn't used because of turbulence from a couple of biology graduate students over the mating turtles on a shirt intended for sale to biologists and biology students - I was unwilling to change the turtles given the students making waves did not work on asexual species. Learn why turtles shouldn't be supressed at www.turtlesurvival.org.
Two friends mailed me a Lagerhead® black and tan tool, which was appropriate since I'm a turtle fan. This picture muses my sending them a less conventional "lagerhead" for their use in making black and tans (southern vernacular for large snapping turtles is "loggerhead"). Get involved with turtles at www.turtlesurvival.org
These are links to some of my longtimeiest friends' websites that I feel may be worth my imaginary visitors' time to check out:
http://overthemoonscifi.wordpress.com/
Lots of musings and stories, including human fate scenarios. Interesting considering the boy's from Arkansas and the man lives in L.A. He's a talented writer and wants to make a movie, but I think Rob Zombie had it right when he opted to first make millions by being a rock star, then fund his horror flicks.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/428442824/h-e-l-l-h-o-u-s-e?ref=live
http://trailsofarkansas.blogspot.com/
A great site by a man of strong credentials for those who are curious about outdoor offerings of "The Natural State", but not yet ready to see them without the aid of a computer screen.
The link below has nothing to do with Nature. Maybe. Once we succeeded in erasing warm-blooded megafauna from the Western Hemisphere, people looked elsewhere to exercise their inborn, feverishly tribal, emotions. As a former member of the Death Valley Stadium home crowd, I can attest that not even spear-point pursuit of a yummie Glyptodon likely stirred such arbitrarily insane behavior among humans as do athletic sports.
http://thesportsseer.com/
Twig snakes live in Africa. They look like dry vines with vexatious eyes and stalk lizards to eat. These snakes do not constrict their prey, but instead use venom delivered through small fangs. Some chameleon species give direct birth, which is why this snake isn't gulping eggs out of mommie's cloaca.
I drew this when Odontochelys, the oldest known fossil turtle, was described a few years ago. Odontochelys must have lived in coastal seas. Before Odontochelys was discovered, many scientists thought ancestral turtles were land dwellers, in part because the former oldest turtle fossil, Proganochelys, was seemingly terrestrial. The current fossil champ gives its respectful condolences to the former titlist. Get involved with turtles at www.turtlesurvival.org
