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  2. Biological illustration - Wikipedia

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    Ink drawings are typically made on a heavy drawing paper, such as Bristol board. [ 5 ] Digital illustration can be done using a monitor or drawing tablet , computer software such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop , or it can be used in post-production after the illustration has been drawn by hand.

  3. Coquille board - Wikipedia

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    Coquille board, also known as stipple board, is a type of drawing paper with a pebbled texture. The grain is impressed into the uncoated paper during manufacture. [ 1 ] Used with a soft lithographic crayon or carbon pencil , coquille produces a shading effect similar to hand stippling in a fraction of the time. [ 2 ]

  4. List of carnivorans - Wikipedia

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    Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.

  5. March of Progress - Wikipedia

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    The caption below the image reads "We will not allow ourselves to be made into monkeys!" Riley Black, writing for Scientific American, argues that the idea of a "march of progress", as depicted in the 1965 Time-Life illustration, dates back to the medieval great chain of being and the 19th century idea of the "missing link" in the fossil record ...

  6. Pre-Pottery Neolithic B - Wikipedia

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    Head of statue, Jericho, from c. 9000 years ago.Displayed at the Rockefeller Archeological Museum in Jerusalem.. Cultural tendencies of this period differ from that of the earlier Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), in that people living during this phase began to depend more heavily upon domesticated animals to supplement their earlier mixed agrarian and hunter-gatherer diet.

  7. Tortillon - Wikipedia

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    A tortillon, a drawing tool used to smudge A tortillon being used to blend. A tortillon (/ t ɔːr ˈ t iː j ɒ n /; also blending stump) is a cylindrical drawing tool, tapered at the end and usually made of rolled paper. It is used by artists to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media. [1]

  8. Dicynodontia - Wikipedia

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    A 2024 paper posited that rock art of a superficially walrus-like imaginary creature with downcurved tusks created by the San people of South Africa prior to 1835 may have been partly inspired by fossil dicynodont skulls which erode out of rocks in the area. [14] Dicynodonts have been known to science since the mid-1800s.

  9. Man-eating plant - Wikipedia

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    A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...