Wonderful. Very, very cool. Have you considered maybe penciling in the "arthropods" and discarding the digital title? And your name in the corner? Could be epic. Again, very cool.
Thanks! This is from my early internet days when I plastered my name much larger on things than I do now. I may not revisit it at the moment, but noted.
And the ladybug is thinking: Must be a distant ancestor.
But unfortunately they're only related by phylum alone. Trilobites fell under their own sub-phylum of arthropods independently from hexapods like insects. They were the Paleozoic era's greatest success story but when the Permian period started, their numbers dropped, and when the era ended, they went kaput with 90% of all other life.
You're correct of course - the relationship is remote and distant and they did not even share ecological niches, since the ladybug's hadn't even developed yet. But fascinating to contemplate nonetheless, or at least fascinating enough to me to produce this sketch.
Perhaps your invert zoo professor (pity the poor professor hasn't got a spine...oh wait, now I see-) perhaps they and I should be doing a children's book together. The target audience would be ladybug children. Unless we wanted it to be a horror novel, then we could market it for aphids.
I wrote some things about this piece on my site, here: [link]
And thank you.
But unfortunately they're only related by phylum alone. Trilobites fell under their own sub-phylum of arthropods independently from hexapods like insects. They were the Paleozoic era's greatest success story but when the Permian period started, their numbers dropped, and when the era ended, they went kaput with 90% of all other life.
Very simple and it makes me to think...
Perhaps your invert zoo professor (pity the poor professor hasn't got a spine...oh wait, now I see-) perhaps they and I should be doing a children's book together. The target audience would be ladybug children. Unless we wanted it to be a horror novel, then we could market it for aphids.
I wrote some things about this piece on my site, here:
[link]