Mike Costelloe
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Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
May 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
December 4, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Drawing from around the Fourth of July, my son quite helpfully providing the reference material
November 19, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Drawing from around the Fourth of July, my son quite helpfully providing the reference material
I've drawn a lot of buses for Boxcar transit over the last two years, here are some of them: 🚌🧵
November 14, 2024 at 8:46 AM
I've drawn a lot of buses for Boxcar transit over the last two years, here are some of them: 🚌🧵
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Your entire business is nothing but stealing other people's shit, how about every penny in your valuation gets confiscated and returned to the people you stole from, your whole work product gets degaussed, and you go get a job
It would be so nice if even one (1) motherfucker faced even one (1) consequence, ever, at all
Not sure “search” is quite the right name for what’s happening here nymag.com/intelligence...
June 15, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Your entire business is nothing but stealing other people's shit, how about every penny in your valuation gets confiscated and returned to the people you stole from, your whole work product gets degaussed, and you go get a job
An older drawing from a couple of years ago, for an article about a zombie-themed running app. #illustration #ink #drawing #zombie #running
June 4, 2024 at 12:36 PM
An older drawing from a couple of years ago, for an article about a zombie-themed running app. #illustration #ink #drawing #zombie #running
Recent #illustration work to mark the anniversary of the completion of the first American transcontinental railroad, finished with a golden spike in Promontory, Utah on May 10th, 1869. Pencils/ink brush/digital color. #process #ink #art
June 3, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Recent #illustration work to mark the anniversary of the completion of the first American transcontinental railroad, finished with a golden spike in Promontory, Utah on May 10th, 1869. Pencils/ink brush/digital color. #process #ink #art
One of my favorite works from 2023, gouache and digital
Ancient Egyptians had a god that was represented by a hamadryas #baboon, held & mummified baboons. But where did they get them from? We analysed #ancientDNA from a baboon mummy & found out: coastal Eritrea near the ancient port of Adulis elifesciences.org/articles/87513
December 24, 2023 at 2:27 PM
One of my favorite works from 2023, gouache and digital