a lot of great tattoo artists

gustav klimt style by candelariacarballo

http://www.whoismatyashalasz.com/

tattrx

illustration by Jonathan Burton

(via: New Scientist)

natural history of mammals

Natural History of Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish, Marine Life, Insects ; By Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675 Bayer, Frederick M., Burndy Library, Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919 Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675 on Flickr.

ricardo solis's animals

Ricardo Solis, an artist working in Guadalajara, Mexico... says a team of highly intelligent, "mini-me" creatures got itself a roll of black ribbon. Using giant scissors, the mini-me's cut themselves long slivers, which, dropped from a blimp, they pasted on a horse.

johann zahn

Johann Zahn. Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Lochner, 1696.

Field guide to the most common monsters of the late 1500s.

Prodigiosae species monstrorum (Amazing Monsters), 1575, Gerard Janssen van Kampen and Antoine van Leest, printmakers. Woodcut in De naturae diuinis characterismis… by Cornelius Gemma. The Getty Research Institute

modest medusa tattoo

emily rose murray medusa tattoo

seawolf medusa tattoo

early whale illustrations

A selection of Whales illustrations from the 16th to the 19th century.

taming monsters

Meet the Prehistoric Giant Platypus

by Shannon Palus

An indigenous Australian legend has it that the first platypus was the odd offspring of a duck named Tharalkoo and a rat. In a nod to the tale, researchers have named a newly identified ancient giant platypus species Obdurodon tharalkooschild.

All that was found of the creature was a single tooth at a site in Queensland, estimated to be between 5 million and 15 million years old. The molar (above, right) shows wear that indicates that the platypus probably crushed hard-shelled prey, like turtles (above, left), also found fossilized at the site.

Modern adult platypuses do not have teeth, but their ancestors did. Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long—bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today…

(read more: Science News/AAAS)

Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina

interactive monster map!

http://www.slate.com

Chad Person: Here There Be Monsters

Chad Person. Here There Be Monsters

Barbarian Dominion, 2012. US currency on canvas, 16 x 16”.

Kraken, 2012. US currency on canvas, 16 x 16”.
Monstro, 2013. US currency on canvas, 16 x 16”.
What great demons lie beyond the realm of our imagination? Here there be monsters – of the most vicious kind. The puppet masters are restless in there desire for control. If you are unshackled, stand up. If you can walk, run.
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map monsters

storm trooper bathing suit

Mike Pooch Pucciarelli

Faro de Oriente Febrero 2013

A Monster Born of a Ewe

gryphon love