"Using its tail as a fifth leg, the shasta salamander spies a scorpionfly climbing on the talus." Randy Schmieder's illustration is one of several handsome drawings featured inWunderfrosch, The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) Art Gallery. Randy's work was also published in Life on the Edge: A Guide to California's Endangered Natural Resources.
Science for Art?s Sake
Rat-King (Rattenkonig), 1993Freak of nature or fairy tale? "The earliest recorded sightings of a rat-king, a group of rodents bound inescapably together through the accidental knotting of their tails, are found in Northern European accounts dating from the Renaissance." Katharina Fritsch's monumental sculpture, shown at the Dia Center in New York, brings out the haunting mythical power of this phenomenon; an accompanying essay by Lynne Cook explores the fascination with memory and childhood that informs this German artist's work.
