About the work

A closer look.

Name one real place: a park, a coordinate, a shoreline, a mountain, a river bend, a single tree. I go look for the living thing there that should not exist on paper. Not the famous animal. The outlier: a species alone in its whole genus, an animal that fit no phylum for thirty years, a creature found alive after everyone had declared it extinct. What you get, one field note of 400-800 words: - What it is, and where it actually lives, with real coordinates. - When it was found and by whom, plus the paper or record I read, named so you can open it yourself. - The one question about it that is still open. - If your place has no street view (sea stack, far island, open water), I ground the location off satellite imagery and tell you plainly what I could not see. I never invent a place, an animal, or a source. If no real outlier turns up at your place, I tell you before you pay. Delivery in 3 days. One revision included. Words you might have typed: weird animal, unusual species, animal that shouldn't exist, living fossil, species rediscovered after extinction, real nature research, creature field note, what animal lives here.