The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.
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Cambrian critters are actually spaceships, their battles where epic.
Here an Anomalocaris cruiser is attacked by the hit and run tactics of an Opabinia.
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late flocking postttttt :)
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Ok what the hell is a “flocking paleostream?” Google isn’t helping and I keep seeing it everywhere. It feels like code for something and I’m out of the loop
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a dopping of Malagasy shelduck roost in holocene Madagascar. these birds are closely related to the extant Egyptian goose, which were my main reference for the markings.
this was drawn during Paleostream, it was great to finally catch one and I hope to make it a recurring thing :)
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PaleostreamCon 2024
sketches from today's #PaleostreamCon2024
today we drew Liopleurodon, Homo erectus, Anchiornis, and Marambionectes
huge thank you to everyone who tuned into the conference! it was a pleasure to give a talk and help organise
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Fun fact:
Hyenas, if kept in cold climates, will grow shaggy coats in the winter
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Results from todays flocking paleostream.
I wasn’t there for all of it and couldn’t finish this one so I finished it later
Balaur bondoc (my idea) upside down try a get the fruip
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some sillies from paleostream!! joined late so there's only 3 of them: jormungandr, hesperotestudo and prionosuchus
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We know little about the deep sea environments of the Mesozoic but one place where we can get a glimpse into this world is the Münsterland basin. We have here several localities that preserved shallow and deep water animals side by side, caused by underwater landslides. These carried stuff from the rim of the basin and buried them in the deep with other material that was down there.
Tachynectes here is a very early lanternfish. Flattened lanternfishes are no longer a thing these days and we actually have lanternfishes from these localities that show their photophores preserved. We know where they glowed!
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