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Joe Swaluk, master fish carver

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Swaluk is considered by many to be the world's best wood carver of fish. He creates life-size decorated carvings of all types of fish. One major piece is a white marling scattering several other fish. Swaluk is commissioned to create custom work.

Methods, Practice, Biography, Wood-carving, Wood carving, Swaluk, Joe

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Running ghosts

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The pronghorn antelope has a body that is uniquely suited to running at speeds of up to 60 mph. The antelope may have evolved as a runner because it was pursued by speedy but now extinct predators that lived at the end of the last ice age.

Research, Physiological aspects, Natural selection, Animal locomotion, Pronghorn antelope, Pronghorns

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The master's hand

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Mahoney paint portraits of fish through his business, Trophy Portraits. He usually paints from photographs, but he can also paint fish that have gotten away or have been released. He enjoys the variety of his work.

Officials and employees, Works, Wildlife artists, Mahoney, Mike, Trophy Portraits

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