Darwin

Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches.  Stippled illustration showing singing, feeding, and preening.

Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches showing use feeding, singing, and preening.  Line drawing.

Singing Darwin’s Finch Geospiza fulginosa showing beak in use.  

Singing Darwins Finch Geospiza fuliginosa.  Line drawing showing Galapagos finch and beak use.

Bird preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris line drawing showing the beak in use in parasite removal

Preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris line drawing showing the beak in use in parasite removal

Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed.  Stippled illustration showing beak adaptability.

Darwin’s Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed (line drawing)

Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species.  Some of the animals and pants featured include whelks, mussels, bladderwrack, star fish, top shells, periwinkles, crabs, branacles, and anenomes.  Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Small pen and ink sketch with stippled texture and a watercolour top wash, cut to white

Earthworm coiled and curled up showing its saddle and segmentation clearly, cut to white

Worm against grassy background, looking like it should be under the ground rather than crawlign about on top of it

pen and ink stippled diagram of a worm with detail of the spines that help earthworms move

Earthworm coiled and curled up showing its saddle and segmentation clearly, cut to white

Archeopteryx reconstruction

Archeopteryx skeleton