Magical Seadragon Perpetual Calendar
As a marine biologist, I loved the field of vicariance biogeography. Vicariance is the physical division of organisms based on environmental change. Studying this at a time before the advanced genetic technologies we have today, some imagination was required (at times) to align variation in morphology with historical shifts in geography.
One day in 2003 I was struck by the question of what a seadragon might look like if it lived in Antarctica. I imagined that it would have snowflakes for fins and have the delicate transparency of plankton. This idea led to a scientific line of enquiry of all the new magical seadragon species that are yet to be discovered in a range of locations, from coral reefs, including our own Ningaloo, the Deep Sea as well as our own back yards of imagination. They live alongside those that we know exist and love today, showing how they’re just as magical as those you might see in a fairytale.
***NB - The next date these can be posted or picked up is 28th December 2024***
As a marine biologist, I loved the field of vicariance biogeography. Vicariance is the physical division of organisms based on environmental change. Studying this at a time before the advanced genetic technologies we have today, some imagination was required (at times) to align variation in morphology with historical shifts in geography.
One day in 2003 I was struck by the question of what a seadragon might look like if it lived in Antarctica. I imagined that it would have snowflakes for fins and have the delicate transparency of plankton. This idea led to a scientific line of enquiry of all the new magical seadragon species that are yet to be discovered in a range of locations, from coral reefs, including our own Ningaloo, the Deep Sea as well as our own back yards of imagination. They live alongside those that we know exist and love today, showing how they’re just as magical as those you might see in a fairytale.
***NB - The next date these can be posted or picked up is 28th December 2024***
As a marine biologist, I loved the field of vicariance biogeography. Vicariance is the physical division of organisms based on environmental change. Studying this at a time before the advanced genetic technologies we have today, some imagination was required (at times) to align variation in morphology with historical shifts in geography.
One day in 2003 I was struck by the question of what a seadragon might look like if it lived in Antarctica. I imagined that it would have snowflakes for fins and have the delicate transparency of plankton. This idea led to a scientific line of enquiry of all the new magical seadragon species that are yet to be discovered in a range of locations, from coral reefs, including our own Ningaloo, the Deep Sea as well as our own back yards of imagination. They live alongside those that we know exist and love today, showing how they’re just as magical as those you might see in a fairytale.
***NB - The next date these can be posted or picked up is 28th December 2024***