THE ARCHIVE THAT GREW OVERNIGHT 🌿✨
The specimens had been pressed, labeled, and sealed away for generations.
Then one root crossed its frame.
By morning, the archive was no longer preserving life.
It was becoming alive.
She entered expecting history—and found a future growing through the walls.
What would you do if everything we saved kept evolving?
#SciFiArt#BotanicalArt
ALT A female xenobotanist stands inside a vast alien botanical archive, rendered in a luminous cyanotype and layered paper style. She wears a dark indigo field coat and holds a small, warm lantern as she faces a towering, translucent plant glowing pale cyan at the center of the chamber. Enormous white-blue leaves, roots, and pressed botanical specimens climb across deep Prussian-blue walls and broken archive panels. Thin copper repair lines run through cracks in the architecture and along the pathway, while smaller plants, hanging seed pods, specimen cases, and layered paper textures fill the scene.
Same !!
I've searched through a bunch of readily available radioactive sources to repaint the dials and maintain a permanent glow, but none really work...
I'm about to try simply painting over the burnt radium on specimens that haven't had too much flaking off
A lot of brands continued making radium dials well after WW2, but they're hard to tell apart from regular patina on the watches thzt I like
Scoring of specimens in person and exhaustive exploration of state overlap is a necessity. But even then I'm not sure we can really hammer this out until we get definitive middle Jurassic dromaeosaurs and oviraptorosaurs. Maybe flight is not a penneraptoran thing, maybe paravian
Gay aunts and uncles in animal species provide more resources for their nephews and nieces.
There’s no evolutionary pressure against being gay, so it continues to exist even if the specimens in particular don’t reproduce. The sibling’s children do, so it’s still advantageous.