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Art by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, (1707 - 1788)

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

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The birth of Snake Venus

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Greg Beecham (American,b.1954)

Housecat, 2006

oil on linen

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