Dr Mark D. Scherz
Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. I work mostly on the reptiles and amphibians of Madagascar. Also a photographer and occasional poet. Sometimes I bake.
My tumblr is concerned mainly with reptiles and amphibians, my research, evolution, biodiversity, systematics, and taxonomy, but I also try to keep things light-hearted. I am a huge fan of puns. My main website is at www.markscherz.com; go there for research updates, photo galleries, and other things.
Bioluminescence Oil, 18 x 24 in, 2015, First in the Bioluminescence series.
The light of life and the natural world. In all the vastness of space, as of yet, we know of only one planet that supports life. At least within some great distance from here, life is rare. Each organism being the exquisite and detailed product of billions of years of evolution, life is precious. This point of light and inspiration stands in contrast to the lanterns and lights that are historically thought to be sources of illumination but are now dimmed; mythologies and superstitions humans have created as we struggled in the dark of ignorance to understand our world. But the process of science has revealed a luminous, living planet, more amazing than we could have ever imagined. Where the intricacies of biology are miracles of evolution and our consciousness is a gift of natural processes that allow us to experience what it is to be alive.
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