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The story behind this image is an Osprey scientist who decides to start studying fish in a local lake that have mutated and become inedible. She flew out to pick up a sample and is heading back to the lab against a stormy sky. It was inspired by a news story about how plastics and other man-made chemicals in the water are acting as mutagenics in fish. I know that most mutations aren't like in the movies and the offspring simply die, but the image felt like something that needed to be drawn.

I also wondered how she's holding the jar without use of her claws, and I decided the gloves are rubber, so they have added grip.

Did you know that sometimes an Osprey can have their claws so deeply embedded in a fish that, when the fish dives deeper under the water to try to escape, they drag the Osprey with them and the bird drowns?