While we're talking about prehistoric megafauna, can we have a moment of awe for Indricotherium / Paraceratherium / Baluchitherium, the largest known land mammal to walk the Earth?
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I really, really love giant ground sloths, so for today’s Zooly Art Challenge here's paleoart of a Megatherium americanum, the last of which went extinct about 10,000 years agoa. While some reconstruct it as a hairless mammal like an elephant due to its large size, I prefer the idea that they were furry. Since we don't know for sure what color they were, I took a bit of artistic liberty there. Ink pen and Copic markers.
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So stoked watching my friend paleo posting and taking interest in prehistoric megafauna (which I enjoy but I also want him to look at dinosaurs w me)
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GREAT TUSKED BEASTS OF THE SIBERIAN TUNDRA -- THE WOOLY MAMMOTH.
A museum worker checks the hair on this woolly mammoth replica. 📸: Jonathan Blair, Nat Geo Image Collection.
A pristine mammoth tusk is discovered with the skull still attached. 📸: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Nat Geo Image Collection.
Resolution from largest to smallest: 2610x1916, 1843x2713, 1828x2736, & 1172x794. Mammoth-sized pics!
Source: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/woolly-mammoths-extinction-cloning-genetics.
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Artwork made exclusively for my enamel pin set Kickstarter, launching July 20th. Follow the project here to be the first to know when it launches!
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The Hybrid Fossils
This "fossils" pokemon are not revived from bones, but rather they are cloned from prehistoric blood samples, recovered from another fossil pokemon
This ancient Bug/Rock pokemon can be found and revived, to extract blood samples with which you can re-create the ancient pokemons, however, the blood samples recovered from the mosquito are usually deteriorated and to create a complete DNA sequence you will need to mix 2 samples. There are 4 diferente Blood samples: Mammal (Ice), Reptile (dragon), Bird (Rock) and Fish (Water)
Mammal/Reptile becomes Ice/Dragon, it is based on the inostrancevia alexandri the largest species of Gorgonopsid
Mammal/Bird becomes Ice/Rock, it is based on the Aepyornis maximus known as the "Elephant Bird", the largest terrestrial bird that ever existed
Fish/Reptile becomes Water/Dragon, it is basd on the shastasaurus sikanniensis, the largestest species of Ichtyosaurus
Fish/Bird becomes Water/Rock, it is based on the Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, the largest penguin to ever live
The man in charge of this experiment of prehistoric splicing is Professor Marrow, an expert on "Paleogenetic" and the one who discovered the whole process
Professor Marrow is based on a mix of John Hammond from "Jurassic Park" and Dr. Moreau from "The island of Dr. Moreau"
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Animal of the Day!
Titanis (Titanis walleri)
(Photo from Florida Museum of Natural History)
Conservation Status- Extinct
Habitat- North America
Estimated Size (Weight/Length)- 150 kg; 2 m tall
Diet- Mammals
Time Period- Pliocene; Early Pleistocene
Cool Facts- Titanis was one of the larger terror birds that stalked the plains of North America for thousands of years. Incapable of flight, Titanis most likely relied on its long legs to outrun its prey. While a skull has never been found, it is assumed that Titanis had the massive, ax-like beak other terror birds of the time period had, leading to interpretations of what its complete skeleton may look like. Due to having excellent movement in their neck, it is believed that Titanis would chase down its prey and batter the animal to death with its massive beak. Titanis most likely went extinct due to competition from new predators, especially bears and big cats.
Rating- 11/10 (Could outrun a horse.)
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A Jaguar (Panthera onca augusta) attempts to take down a Harlan's Ground Sloth (Paramylodon harlani) in Southwestern North America
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prehistoric sharks!!
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I am considering some writing ideas. Some very normal writing ideas.
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A Replicated Sculpture Of The Giant Short-Faced Bear, Which Inhabited A Significant Portion Of North America Until Approximately 11,000 Years Ago
And yes, humans would have encountered it.
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Gomphotherium, clash of proboscideans, free study of territorial or competitive behavior.
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American Bison
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