The folks at the science-illustration program at California State University, Monterey Bay apparently have time on their hands, which turns out to be a good thing for the rest of us.
They have been turning out some of the weirdest imaginary hybrid creatures you could ever, you know, imagine, and they're calling them "critter combos we'd love to see in the wild (from a safe distance)."
Nadia Drake at Wired has enabled these starving artists by reproducing their illustrations at her Wired. She writes that she "was inspired by our readers, who seem to be very interested in everything we write about spiders or sharks." Thus, the spidershark:
If that isn't enough for you, try the dinoflagellate starling, which is easier to look at than to say:
Or this thing, whatever it is:
Drake swears that "we have committed no acts of journalism here." If you live in California, what you are seeing is your tax dollars at work. My New York taxes aren't paying for this, but if I lived in California, I'd be all for it.
-Paul Raeburn
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