Harpy eagle, the largest eagle in the world looks like a person in a bird costume, but judging by the size of his talons, I wouldn't want to make fun of him face to face. They live primarily in the upper canopy layer of tropical lowland forest and are considered "endangered species" in Central America due to the rapid decline in their numbers as a result of deforestation. Less than 50,000 of them can be seen over the world.
Harpy eagles have a hearty appetite and enjoy munching on a variety of monkeys, tree porcupines, sloths, coatis, birds, snakes, and lizards.
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i bring you a dashboard siren to draw visitors to your blog!
ok really just an excuse to post this siren whose background i painstakingly removed for no reason in particular, no magical powers included. I just really enjoy this painting on a bowl and isolating it was relaxing to do. I also only really saw just how odd her feet were while i was trying to get the fuzzy select tool to pick up on the shape of her claws.
source: Bowl with winged siren, Apulia, 330-310 BC, H 5751 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany
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Mythic spark commission for @grand-theftautumn of Salvation (left) and Alexandra (right)!
I always love the idea of pieces with so many hands but am too much of a coward to inflict that on myself for personal art but honestly this piece is making me want to give it a shot
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So it turns out Terror Birds/Cariamiformes are, in every possible sense, "Dromaeosaurs 2: The Quickening"
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