Navigator
Dung beetles have been shown to navigate using "the bright stripe of starlight from the Milky Way" on moonless nights.
I tweaked and made stencils of the Milky Way and mountains. The dung beetle was altered from this image at RhinoAfrica. Overlaid on its dung ball is a map of cosmic background radiation (remnant heat from the Big Bang), as measured by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).
"To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question"
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
This piece (done in ArtRage) was inspired by my reading of Ross Andersen's essay "In the beginning" in Aeon. (Thanks to Umair Haque for the link.)
Navigator
Dung beetles have been shown to navigate using "the bright stripe of starlight from the Milky Way" on moonless nights.
I tweaked and made stencils of the Milky Way and mountains. The dung beetle was altered from this image at RhinoAfrica. Overlaid on its dung ball is a map of cosmic background radiation (remnant heat from the Big Bang), as measured by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).
"To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question"
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
This piece (done in ArtRage) was inspired by my reading of Ross Andersen's essay "In the beginning" in Aeon. (Thanks to Umair Haque for the link.)