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Dave Hayes
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Professor of Biology @ EKU | Molecular Ecology, Freshwater Invertebrates, Natural History Collections, 3D Printing | He/Him www.etsy.com/shop/GnarlyLarvaeStudio
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Let me emphasize: these are Banana Slugs of Dimensions and Presence. They Do Not Slime Into a Venue Unnoticed.

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True bugs. 😎 Clockwise from upper left: bronze and silver treehopper (Umbonia), crosshatched cicada (Neotibicen), bronze and silver planthopper (Fulgoridae), resin water boatman (Corixidae). Love these little world-slurpers 🧋#invertebrates #bugs

Four-panel montage of four bugs made by me: a metal thorn bug on a branch, a pen-and-ink cicada in an open sketchbook with a pen nearby, a metal planthopper perched in my hand with long nose raised, and a grey 3D-printed water boatman on its back in my hand.
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Brindle Madtom. Sometimes your “work-in-progress” looks so good you want to call it quits. That’s how I feel about this latest print. This model, based off photos preserved museum specimens, was expertly sculpted by @rickstikkelorum as a commission for Gnarly Larvae Studio. 🐡 #SciArt

3D printed Madtom in translucent plastic, 400mm
3D printed Madtom in translucent plastic, 400mm
3D printed Madtom in translucent plastic, 400mm
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Giant Greenside Darter model that I recently finished. Printed at 14inches long, hand painted, and glazed. Digital sculpt by Rick Stikkelorum, available on Sketchfab. #SciArtwww.ebay.com/itm/11606517...

3D printed Greenside Darter
3D Printed Greenside Darter.
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I bought this transparent PETG filament for a different project but I just had to use it for a goldfish too. Fortunately Totarin Models has designed a fantastic fancy goldfish.

3D printed fancy goldfish.
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First test print of Rick Stikkellorum’s recently revised Ichthyostega sculpt, now with open mouth and so, so many teeth. It’s always an honor when I get to be the first one to see a designer’s digital sculpt as a physical print, especially when it’s something as iconic as Ichthyostega. 🐡

3D printed Ichthyostega
3D printed Ichthyostega
3D printed Ichthyostega
3D printed Ichthyostega, inside of mouth.
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Day 8 of the #ArtAdventCalendar - a coloured pencil drawing of a yellow lady slipper that I did as part of a drawing class I was teaching. 🎨

A coloured pencil drawing of the profile of a yellow lady slipper flower.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas#SciArt 🐡

Darter fish Christmas ornament.
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A few slimy friends have been added to my Etsy shop. Hellbender and Axolotl sculpts by @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social#SciArt 🐡

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Content Warning: Bones and dead things. I'm not normally a person who is interested in bones, but I am so very confused by this squished pumpkin-face fish skull. Google Lens is also confused so I need some fishsky help. On the muddy banks of the Ohio River. What is this?

A confusing maybe fish skull that is broad and flat and shaped like a smiling jack-o-lantern run over by something. It is sitting on the muddy banks of the Ohio River.
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Dave Hayes
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Professor of Biology @ EKU | Molecular Ecology, Freshwater Invertebrates, Natural History Collections, 3D Printing | He/Him www.etsy.com/shop/GnarlyLarvaeStudio
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