Prompt: Goats can adapt to extreme heat and drought through a combination of traits that allow them to conserve water, process low-quality feed, and manage high thermal loads. They use their rumen as a temporary water reservoir and can tolerate significant dehydration; they concentrate their urine and desiccate their feces to minimize moisture loss; the reduce eating during the hottest midday hours; they browse on woody shrubs, tree leaves, and thorny plants that remain accessible and nutritious during dry spells; they actively seek out natural or man-made shade structures and adjust their drinking frequency when temperatures rise; and they develop short, thick, lighter-colored hair coats with less subcutaneous fat, helping reflect solar radiation and release body heat. The image is an exquisitely detailed National Geographic quality close-up illustration of goats in a desert with dry, leafless, shrubby trees, gnawing on bark. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Giant fruit bats – aka flying foxes (Pteropus) – are not well equipped to cope with ever more frequent heatwaves. In late 2018, two days of extreme heat in the far north of Queensland wiped out one-third of Australia’s spectacled flying foxes. Flying-foxes have four strategies for thermoregulation – fanning their wings; clumping together to compete for what shade is available; licking themselves, and panting. Panting is the last resort strategy, as – like licking – it leads to dehydration. When temperatures reach 42°C and above, these strategies start to fail and animals suffer heat stroke and imminent death. That is why a some flying foxes have taken to belly-dipping, that is, skimming over the surface of rivers or pools, dipping their belly fur into the water. They then retreat to the trees to lick the cool water from their fur, lowering their core body temperature. The image is an exquisitely detailed National Geographic quality close-up illustration. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: As research shows, in times of climate change, the majority of fish populations are moving nearer the north and south poles, or to deeper waters than they usually would live in. Schools of fish migrate to such cooler habitats to cope with rising sea temperatures. The relocation of habitats affects whether fish can reproduce, how much they grow, and even how well they can digest their food. As an example, Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) populations have moved roughly 73 miles toward the Arctic. The image shows a split-view of a school of Atlantic cod swimming in cool waters. The lower two-thirds of the image shows a close-up view of roughly a dozen cod, which have a heavy body, a distinct pale lateral line, a barbel (whisker-like growth) on the chin, and three separate dorsal fins. The top third of the image shows an ice floe in freezing waters, with electric-blue, clear skies above. The image is an exquisitely detailed National Geographic quality close-up illustration. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Seals (Phoca vitulina) adapt to climate change and habitat loss by extending migration distances and surviving on lower-quality food, which has a negative impact on their body condition and health, and reduces reproductive rates. Seals that normally give birth on ice are forced to give birth on land, exposing pups to land predators and cutting into pup survival rates. Seals’ current behavioral adaptations are insufficient to offset environmental stress, and long-term climate warming will continue to threaten the survival of wild seal populations. The image shows an exquisitely detailed National Geographic quality close-up illustration of a small pod of seals on a rocky shore, gathered around their pups to protect them and shelter them from the hot sun. Above, in the dunes, lurks a hungry cougar trying to spot and pick out vulnerable seal pups. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, monarch butterflies adapt by shifting migration timing, lingering in northern areas during extended warm autumns, or even by completely suspending migration. Moreover, As wintering climates face severe heat and habitat stress, some monarch butterflies have adapted by staying year-round rather than completing long-distance migration. This mirrors non-migratory monarch populations already established in places like New Zealand, Australia, and parts of Europe. Monarchs also shift their breeding ranges northward during summer, and broaden their range of breeding host plants, laying eggs on introduced milkweed species (such as tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica in Texas) rather than waiting strictly for native varieties. Moths and butterflies in general find it hard to adapt: specialist species tied to specific host plants or isolated habitat fragments often cannot shift fast enough. About 40% of species fail to adapt and experience severe population. The image shows an exquisitely detailed and strongly colored National Geographic quality close-up illustration of a kaleidoscope of monarch butterflies resting on an orange-blooming tropical milkweed. Some monarchs have their wings folded, others have them open, showing their dramatic orange-and-black coloring and veining. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) find it hard to cope with climate change. They lay their eggs in beach sand, whose temperature determines whether the hatchlings are male or female. Warmer sand produces females, causing a crisis by drying out turtle eggs. The eggs that do hatch produce up to 99% females, so that the lack of male turtles makes reproduction impossible. Sea turtles must adapt by shifting nesting timing to cooler months and egg-laying to nighttime. Moreover, turtles need to expand their geographic range to higher latitudes or to more shaded, vegetation-covered beaches. Leatherbacks already dig deep nests to buffer against surface heat, and individuals that dig deeper could pass on that trait. The image shows an exquisitely detailed National Geographic quality close-up illustration of several sea turtles on a tropical shore during a full moon, climbing dunes to higher, vegetation-rich altitudes. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
climate change series: local mosquito populations collapse
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ChatGPT 2
(Ultra)
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3312 X 2496
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Prompt: In times of climate change, local populations of mosquitoes can collapse for several reasons in wetlands, temporary ponds and small water bodies affected by prolonged drought and climate change. These wet areas are breeding sites for mosquitos. If the micro-habitats, breeding grounds, and food sources of mosquitoes collapse, mosquitoes cannot reproduce, and local populations of water-dependent mosquito species die out. Warmer temperatures accelerate mosquito metabolic and breeding cycles, but extreme and uncharacteristic heatwaves can push ambient temperatures past the lethal thermal limit of certain mosquito species or desiccate adult mosquitoes before they can reproduce. However, these declines in mosquito populations are local, and overall eradication of mosquitoes through natural climatic stress alone is neither feasible nor desirable, as a complete loss would trigger severe food web collapses for fish, birds, bats, and pollinators. The image shows a dramatically detailed, low-perspective, National Geographic quality illustration of piles of desiccated mosquitoes in a terrain of cracked clay that used to be a body of water. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, hummingbirds find it very difficult to maintain their body temperature when it is very hot during daytime. At night, when hummingbirds slip into torpor, during which their body temperature plunges by up to 75 %, the birds have a harder time saving energy during warmer nights. Warmer temperatures combined with drought or dryness reduce available ford sources to these extreme-metabolism birds, who have to feed nearly constantly. Thus, in this imaginary evolutionary scenario, hummingbirds have migrated to higher altitudes, and, as their food sources are slower to adapt, the birds have had to tap into new foods such as tree sap, insect honeydew, and overripe and damaged fruit. Moreover, hummingbirds seek out shady microsites, for instance under tree branches. Finally hummingbirds are evolving additional cooling mechanisms, such as feather loss around the eyes and feet for heat dissipation, and frequent splashing in water sources to cool off. The image shows a National Geographic quality closeup of several very brightly colored hummingbirds with smooth, iridescent feathers on their wings, bodies and tails, and fewer feathers on their normal-sized heads, splashing in a puddle. Water is spraying everywhere as they shake off glistening droplets. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, desert mice adapt to more severe drought periods and hotter temperatures in several ways: Physiological changes to adapt to harsh environments include bigger ears that let the desert mice get rid of excess body heat. Camouflage has given them a speckled tan-and-cream appearance. Migration to higher altitudes has taken the edge off heat exposure for parts of the desert mice populations. Finally, desert mice populations remaining in the hottest habitats have turned to digging tunnels with underground chambers in which they cluster together and enter a state of torpor with a slow metabolism during the greatest heat spells to conserve energy and reduce heat exposure. In lowering their metabolism, the mice also automatically reduce the amount of water they use, a crucial survival strategy in a food- and water-restricted environment. The image shows a cross-section of an underground chamber with a cluster of several large-eared, tan-and-cream desert mice in a state of torpor, curled up around each other in fetal positions. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, we can imagine very severe drought and extreme heat to have completely dried out jackrabbits food and water sources. Moreover, predators such as birds of prey have mercilessly chased jackrabbits, so that the remaining jackrabbit population has migrated hundreds of kilometers along dry riverbanks to moister river deltas in search of vegetation. Over several generations, the jackrabbits’ long legs have evolved to give them more splayed toes with webbing, allowing them to wade through viscous, thick mud to forage. The fur on their legs has all but disappeared to allow them to move more freely through their new muddy habitat, and the fur on their bodies has acquired camouflage colors that let them blend in with the greens and browns of the river deltas. Jackrabbits have evolved their ability to swim, and have become more comfortable with crossing large bodies of water to seek out new food sources and breeding grounds. The image shows a National Geographic quality closeup of a female jackrabbit accompanied by several young leverets, feeding on rich greens. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, with insects becoming rare food, pangolins have turned to the ocean for new food sources. Pangolins’ evolution into semi-aquatic animals is founded on natural advantages they have: They have a natural swimming proficiency, and are very powerful and graceful swimmers, using their snake-like tails to propel themselves through water with speed and ease. Pangolins have valves to seal their ears and nostrils, a feature they developed to keep insects from crawling into their ears or nose. This physical characteristic serves them well in the water, also allowing them to dive deep to forage for shells, crustaceans and other bottom-dwellers of the ocean. Pangolins’ overlapping keratin scales form a streamlined, hydrodynamic armor in the water. Pangolins have always sought out water to rid themselves of parasites. Taken together, these features predispose pangolins to evolve for an aquatic life, where they only surface to breathe and to bear their young. Their evolution has given them webs stretched between their heavy digging claws. Their tails have flattened horizontally to act as an efficient paddle. Pangolins will have no problems evolving further into fully aquatic animals. The image shows a single pangolin swimming and foraging. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Northern snakeheads (Channa argus) are a highly invasive freshwater fish that even today are facultative air-breathers equipped with a suprabranchial organ and a bifurcated ventral aorta. They can absorb atmospheric oxygen and wriggle overland between drying ponds. In times of climate change, their habitats can be imagined to be drying up, putting evolutionary pressure on populations of northern snakeheads that have not been eradicated as an ecological threat to become fully terrestrial and seek out food sources on land, like insects and amphibians. The northern snakehead is a golden tan to pale brown, with dark blotches on the sides and saddle-like blotches across the back. Terrestrial evolution has increased the size and range of motion of northern snakeheads’ fins, so that they can move along dry ground almost like sidewinder snakes. The image shows a single large northern snakehead about to grasp a salamander on boggy terrain. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, wild horses have left dried-up grasslands to feed on kelp mats in the ocean. It this fast-forward imaginary evolution of horses, the aquatic equine species has developed modified, shortened and flattened legs to swim better. The aquatic horses’ tails have also flattened, and the tail hair has fused into a type of rudimentary flipper or rudder. The horses’ fur has become coarse, with short, oily, and insulating hair, and camouflage color under water. The horses’ bodies have streamlined through blubber accumulation, allowing the animals to move through cold water for long periods. The horses have acquired the ability to pinch shut their nostrils and flatten and close their smaller ears, so they can dive for long periods to graze under water. The horses move onto the land from time to time to rest, and in the breeding season they gather on beaches or flat areas to mate and to give birth. The image shows sunlit herd of adapted moose foraging on underwater algae. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Alaskan king crabs have left the ocean and have found a new habitat in the temperate rainforests of coastal Washington and Oregon North. The crabs shelter among the lush, thick blankets of green mosses and ferns carpeting the ground below the dense canopy of towering Sitka spruces, Douglas firs, Western red cedars, and deciduous trees. The huge, dark red-burgundy Alaskan king crabs peer out from the vegetation, waiting for prey to come along – banana slugs, snails, salamanders, and even snakes. The crabs hold their claws up, ready to snatch prey. The Alaskan king crabs have adapted to life in the rainforest and have become a new invasive species in times of climate change. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, moose open up new habitats under water. Already today, moose have specialized nose flaps that can seal their noses while they dive up to 6 meters under water to graze on nutrient-rich aquatic plants. Moose often seek out water to escape dense, relentless swarms of mosquitoes that can drain up to half a liter of blood daily from a moose. In a conceivable further adaptation, the moose grow webs between their two-toed hooves, with the two toes lengthening to streamline underwater movement. The web stretches between the two toes. The moose’s coats become slicker and seal in warmth and air, like the fur of beavers. Slowly, the moose begin to prefer underwater foraging to terrestrial feeding. Moreover, the moose face only few predators under water. The moose begin to come on land only to bear their young. While they still need to surface to breathe, like other aquatic mammals, their lifestyle is gradually adapting to a life fully under water. The image shows sunlit herd of adapted moose foraging on underwater algae. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, octopuses have begun to go terrestrial. Already today, some species, like the Abdopus aculeatus, regularly leave the water to hunt for crabs at low tide. To spend longer times on land and tap new food sources, octopuses have started to develop a fairly thick waxy body coating that helps them retain moisture. Also, they have begun to evolve a cartilage-based internal framework that serves as a rudimentary skeleton. The protective coating and the internal scaffolding come at the cost of octopuses amazing ability to change colors in milliseconds by means of specialized skin cells called chromatophores. The chromatophores have atrophied and have been largely replaced by a very intricate green-brown camouflage pattern of octopuses’ thicker skin. The octopuses have retained full flexibility of their limbs and are able to move very nimbly and quickly to escape and hide from predators. Their new feeding grounds are grasslands, where they forage for worms, insects, frogs, salamanders, and the odd small mammal. The image shows three octopuses moving along a grassy meadow in search of food, under cover of a cloudy day, which helps prevent their skin from dessicating. The style is a biological illustration with extreme scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, limpets are well-positioned to go terrestrial as their ocean food sources dwindle and sea levels rise. Limpets first invade the newly flooded coastal estuaries and forests. Limpets’ hard shells seal in moisture and give limpets the time over generations to develop the capacity to process air for oxygen. Terrestrial limpets have acquired the capacity to crawl slowly over decaying matter, feeding as they go. Limpets have made it to higher ground, where they slowly crawl up rocks and stones covered in lichen, a new food source for the limpets. The image is a close-up of limpets attached to higher-ground stones surrounded by grass mats and wildflowers. The stones are weathered and covered with gray-green and yellow-green lichen. The limpets have developed the colors of the lichen-covered rocks, with gray, tan, yellow, and olive green bands concentrically arranged around their keyholes, with darker and lighter rays of the same colors along radial ridges radiating from the keyholes. The limpets thus have fairly good camouflage. The new food sources, the protective carapaces, and the ability to breathe air and move along terrestrial surfaces have allowed limpets to grow to sizes topping out at 30 centimeters (12 inches). The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, walking batfish have escaped the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which has poisoned their habitat and killed off their plankton food supply. The bottom-dwelling batfish have left the Gulf to become terrestrial and feed on large masses of shoreside algae slicks that form thick, dark brown blankets on beaches. The batfish have evolved to retain water subcutaneously to keep them from drying out, and have developed the ability to derive oxygen from the air though their thickened skins. Moreover, their pectoral fins have lengthened, hardened, and gained mobility, enabling the batfish to “walk” on these fins. Considering that animals first left the oceans for dry land nearly 400 million years ago, at the end of the Devonian period, this speeded-up evolution scenario is absolutely believable. The image is a close-up of several batfish scavenging among thick algae mats on shore. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, feather duster worms have adapted to a terrestrial habitat. For these filter feeders to successfully colonize land, the feather duster worms have increased the sticky mucus and grooves of their tentacles to trap food particles from the air. Moreover, the mucus contains poisons to immediately paralyze insects that come into contact with the worms’ fans. The feather duster worms’ outer cuticle has hardened by increasing calcium deposits to effectively form an exoskeleton. Also, the worms have developed a vascularized skin, like their distant relatives, the earthworms, to breathe oxygen from damp air while preventing water loss. The giant feather duster worms have developed a camouflage coloring for the swampland they inhabit, with flecks of yellows, greens, and browns in their large fans that sway in the breeze to capture airborne food. The new swampland food sources and their toxic mucus to fend off predators have allowed the feather duster worms to grow to twice the size they had as ocean dwellers. The image is a close-up of several feather duster worms attached to a rotting log in the swampland, their fans fully open. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: In times of climate change, many species of animals and plants teeter on the brink of extinction. Over 14,000 species are listed as directly threatened by rising temperatures. For example, higher temperatures and earlier flowering of vegetation in spring confuse vitally important pollinators like bumblebees. Bumblebees are failing to shift along with northward creep of vegetation. Bumblebees are vulnerable to temperature extremes, so populations at the southern borders of bumblebee habitats are succumbing to higher temperatures while failing to keep up with the northward shift of vegetation. Scientists confirm that sightings of bumblebees have dropped significantly. Bumblebees are crucial “buzz pollinators” – some plants rely on these insects for fruit production. The dream shows a large, intricate cherry tomato vine with many sprays of cherry tomatoes in bloom. Where the blooms have fallen off, the unpollinated calyxes are empty. The tomato vine is surrounded by a host of ghost bumblebees – that is, imagined perfect bumblebees rendered in transparent blue buzzing around the tomato vine. The tomato vine itself is naturalistically rendered in delicate watercolor as a biological illustration with scientific precision.
Prompt: In times of climate change, lobsters have adapted to a terrestrial habitat. They have converted their gills into lung-like, vascularized branchiostegal lungs, allowing them to forage for small prey in a moist woodland environment. The lobsters are well protected by their carapace, whose colors blend in perfectly with the greens and browns of the forest floor. They have no natural enemies and have invaded the woodland habitat, crowding out more vulnerable small mammals. The rich food sources of the woodland have allowed the lobsters to grow to twice the size they had as ocean dwellers. The image is a close-up of several lobsters foraging. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors
Prompt: In times of climate change, sea fans have adapted to terrestrial life, attaching themselves to growing on rocky outcrops reaching into the air. The sea fans have formed colonies where the air is thick with insects. The sea fans are a colonial coral with several main branches and a highly intricate latticework linking smaller branches. The soft polyps on the skeleton, which is composed of calcite and gorgonin, are brilliantly red, with older polyps fading into pink. The fans are orientated at right angles to the wind current; each sea fan grows as a single, flat, plane layer like nets directly facing wind currents, and letting air travel through the openings in the network while trapping insects and other particles that fly against the polyps. The sticky polyps on the sea fans slowly digest the food particles. The ground around the sea fans is littered with tiny particles, the residues of the digested insects’ exoskeletons. The sea fans have adapted to life on land and are invading drier ground as a new destructive, invasive species. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: 6. In times of climate change, eels have left the oceans to exploit new food sources. They have migrated from the ocean to mangrove estuaries into wetlands, where they navigate by trapping moisture in their gill chambers, breathing through their thick skin, and moving at night when it is cool. The move through the moist fields at night to eat terrestrial worms and slugs, amphibians, crabs, and small rodents. The eels have adapted to life on land and are invading drier pastures as a new destructive, invasive species. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors
Prompt: In times of climate change, entire colonies of predatory sea urchins have left overgrazed oceans and tidal pools, where they left behind urchin barrens, in search of new food sources. They have migrated up the rocky shores to steep cliffs and beyond to rocky plains, where they have attached themselves to rocks and rubble in large swarms. The voracious sea urchins have acquired a degree of mobility now, and feed on small rodents, insects and nesting birds on the wind-swept, stony plains. The sea urchins have retained their dark purple color and have kept their dozens of extremely long, sharp, gray-white spines, protecting them from any natural enemies. The sea urchins have adapted to life on the rocky coastal and inland plains and have become a new destructive, invasive species. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Huge patches of large, 20-centimeter-long, brown and white gooseneck barnacles have populated the walls of stone seashore houses, all but obliterating the walls and windowsills. The gooseneck barnacles have left the ocean and have adapted to living on land, attaching themselves to building walls, stone fences, facades and concrete structures. The barnacles feed on any insects or birds flying by or landing on a barnacle. The barnacles represent a new invasive species in times of climate change. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: Dozens of living, mature conch shells have left the sea and have traveled all the way to Alpine meadows, where they are creeping along the meadow with their big, red, muscular foot, and looking around with their distinct, stalked eyes. The hungry conches are devouring and annihilating the flower-filled meadow vegetation, leaving the soil bare in their path. The conch shells are a new invasive species in times of climate change. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
Prompt: A dozen starfish are creeping along the forest floor. They represent a new invasive species in times of climate change. The five-armed, red, large starfish are vegetation destroyers, eating all the forest floor vegetation they come across and leaving behind barren soil. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.
slogans, sayings and turns of phrase: dreams are more powerful than facts
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ChatGPT 2
(Ultra)
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3812 X 2144
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Prompt: “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
slogans, sayings and turns of phrase: wonder and beauty
Model:
ChatGPT 2
(Ultra)
Size:
3840 X 2160
(8.29 MP)
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Prompt: “Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
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