#prehistoric ungulates

[markhors-menagerie]

†Sinomegaceros pachyosteus

Art credit: RudolfHima

Sinomegaceros was another genus of recently extinct giant deer, this one found in Asia, including Tajikistan and Japan. The species shown here, S. pachyosteus, lived in China until about 12,000 years ago.

#markhors-menagerie #animal facts #animals #biology #fun facts #palaeontology #prehistoric animals #ungulates #even toed ungulates #ruminants #deer & kin #deer #sinomegaceros

[antiqueanimals]

Evolution of zebras. Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

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#prehistoric #prehistoric mammals #ungulates #equids #zebras #mammals #felines #big cats #lions

[paleopup]

American Bison

#animal art #digital art #paleontology #digital illustration #illustration #procreate #vulture culture #animals #creature art #paleoart #prehistoric #cottagecore #fossils #bison #megafauna #plants #nature #buffalo #ungulate

[entelodontidae]

Daeodon was such a strange animal. Literally a terrestrial, (probably) carnivorous hippopotamus. Never ceases to be my favorite thing this earth has grown.

Daeodon (heavily stylized), dorudon and hippopotamus

#daeodon #dorudon #hippopotamus #ungulate #prehistoric animals #prehistoric #extinct species #extinct animals #extant animals

[scribblesartcollective]

A fossil we don't find I'm California is Megaloceros. A genus of extinct deer with impressive palmate antlers. These giants roamed Eurasia from Ireland to Siberia during the Pleistocine. We had our own giant deer in North America, the Stag Moose. Maybe we can do one in the future! Designed by @onioncakes #megaloceros #megalocerosgiganteus #deer #pleistocene #iceage #giantdeer #prehistoricmammals #prehistoric #ancientmammals #enamelpins #pincollector #softenamel #coloredmetal #ungulate #elk #candy #pincollection #onioncakespins (at Scribbles Art Collective) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjv5eQlvUUI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#megaloceros #megalocerosgiganteus #deer #pleistocene #iceage #giantdeer #prehistoricmammals #prehistoric #ancientmammals #enamelpins #pincollector #softenamel #coloredmetal #ungulate #elk #candy #pincollection #onioncakespins

[silverhart-makes-art]

I have been patiently waiting for any excuse to do an ungulate-animal for Bestiary Posting and when the description for the Haesorog this week mentioned horns I got excited. Ungulates are by far my favorite critters to draw, and they're well known for their ornamental head gear.

Here I'm depicting a defensive mother haesorog lifting her dorsal crest and lowering her head in response to a perceived threat, which her young seems more curious than fearful of.

Originally I was leaning towards an antelope-like animal - particularly a pronghorn, but the 'ibis footprints' made me pause. Ibises have four toes I believe, but I could see their footprints only showing three toes, which means we've got an odd-toed ungulate on our hand. Rhinoceros have three toes, and as a bonus they come with horns! As the haesorog is thick furred, I went with a Sumatran rhino for my jumping off point.

That said, I still wanted an antelope feel, so I made my haesorog more gracile; slimming and shrinking the face and head to be more 'stag-like'; giving it longer, more slender legs; a longer neck; etc. Overall I just wanted a more antelope-like build for my rhino-creature, specifically thinking of large antelope like the Giant Eland (who's dewlap I included but it got a bit lost in the pose).

For it's horns I did consider something closer to a pronghorn, but decided that a nasal horn was just more fun. In order to fit the 'branching horns' description, I went with something like the prehistoric brontotherium horn. I also added some horny eyebrow ridges - just for fun.

For coloration, it's described as being colored like a bear with a thick coat, so I chose a nice ruddy brown fading to grey, with darker legs as you often see in brown bears. It's grey-brown fur is perfect for blending into the rock and scrub of it's home. As it's also said to change appearance when afraid, I decided to give it a dorsal crest that you see in some antelope. The pose is also inspired by nyala, the males of whom put their heads down while they raise their crest to display to other males.

#maniculum bestiaryposting #haesorog

[adobe-outdesign]

I'm loving all the neopets posts, would you ever consider reviewing my not very popular favorite the ogrin?

Ogrin have a reputation for being an "ugly" Neopet, but in all honesty I don't really get why. I can get why they're not super popular, as they're not overly cute nor elegant, and they don't really have a distinct visual hook compared to some Neopets—but ugly? Not so much. There are a few things that could be tweaked, but I still like Ogrins as a whole.

Visually, they're kind of like an okapi of sorts, in that they're ungulate-like and have stripes only on the back part of their bodies. However, they also have a few unique features, such as having paws instead of hooves. I like this, as it makes for a more interesting creature design.

The body is broken up pretty well into three shades of the same color—darker accents for the fur, the base color, and tints for the face, underbelly, and paws. This helps with contrast and readability. I also feel like the stripes could've been the same color as the fur.

As a whole, the stripes are the one issue I have with the design—they feel a little cluttered in such a small space and they already have a lot going on with the rest of their bodies. They're interesting, but I feel like they would've looked a little stronger without them.

Ogrins were released not too terribly long before customization, so they look about the same other than the markings not quite reaching the tuft of fur on their cheeks in the customized version and a wider stance.

Favorite Colours:

Robot: Robot Ogrins have a really neat look, giving them an incredibly intense expression and some really slick plating over their bodies. I do think they're a smidge too detailed—the weird blades on their forearms, extra lights on the tail and haunch, and head light could've all been dropped—but it's still neat looking. I do wish it had a mane-like structure on it though, as it doesn't read much like an Ogrin without it.

The uncased version is also interesting, with fun spring-like horns and a neat looking jaw. However, it doesn't really look like it goes under the cased version at all, and between the two, the cased is the stronger design.

Tyrannian: Ogrins already have a pretty prehistoric look to them in a sense, so the Tyrannian Ogrin works out well. I like how the stripes have been increased to be longer and cover more of the leg (once again, very okapi-like), and details like the spots on the fur, claws, and a longer beard. However, I do take a bit of issue with the head—the mohawk should've also been spotted for consistency, and the face needed a far more grumpy, more caveman-like look to it.

Chocolate: My favorite part of this design are the little chocolate shavings that form the mane, which is a fun concept that works really well. It also sports a nice white chocolate drizzle for the stripes, whipped cream fur, and has a nice drippy look around the base of the paws. It's cohesive and looks really good (and delicious).

BONUS: Unsurprisingly, I also have to give a shout-out to the giraffe design with the spotted Ogrin. It's super simple but looks very nice, and the spots feel a bit more cohesive than the stripes did on the original design.

#neopets #neotag #ogrin #neopet reviews

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Thoughts about the Pachyrhinosaurus in Prehistoric Planet being depicted with horizontal ungulate pupils? Do such eyes make sense on herbivorous dinosaurs? (Noticeably, PP's Triceratops doesn't have them.)

It's something that we don't really have any decent evidence for or against. Modern reptile pupils can be highly variable, even amongst birds (skimmers have vertical slit pupils that seem to help them process visual information while flying right next to the surface of the water), so I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that some dinosaurs could have had pupil variation as well, within reason.

For example, slit pupils on dromaeosaurs was a popular palaeoart trope for decades but if we compare them to other very visual avian hunter like birds of prey, slit pupils don't really offer any specific advantages so they're unlikely to have evolved. On the other hand, animals like Pachyrhinosaurus would likely have benefited from the increased field of view that horizontal pupils provide. I'd call it a reasonable enough speculation given that our actual physical evidence of dinosaur eyeballs is zero!

#prehistoric planet #pachyrhinosaurus #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr

[majingojira]

Identifying Skeletons from Drawings

Okay, Paleonerds, I need help. I've been going through every piece of Paleomedia I can get my hands on, logging them, and trying to ID as many of the prehistoric fauna as I can.

Today, I hit a hard one.

This art is from the 1996 BBC Documentary "Life & Earth", and while the Mesozoic fauna is easy enough (Pteranodon, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Didelphodon, Elasmosaurus), the Paleogene (Or Early Tertiary one as was known at the time) is a lot harder.

I mean, there's more to ID and a lot of it is small.

Still, I was able to identify Gastornis, Barylambda, and Palaeochiropteryx.

There are probably a few ungulates, carnivorans, creodonts, primates, and multituberculates that are just a wash.

If anyone knows what the things are, or better yet, the art piece this is from, let me know!

#Paleontology #Paleomedia #Life & Earth #BBC #Documentary #Dinosaurs #Mammals #Prehistoric #Extinction #Tyrannosaurus #Pteranodon #Triceratops #Elasmosaurus #Didelphodon #Paleogene #Gastornis #Barylambda #Palaeochiropteryx

[rudi10001]

Rudi10001's Guide to Designing Realistic Animals

So, drawing animals can be a challenge to some especially for people who still learning how to draw them, well this guide will teach how YOU can draw realistic animals.

NEVER make the legs straight: If you make your animal's legs straight something's wrong with this creature as if it where in permanent pain and suffering because some dumb person decided to stick metal poles in it's legs, remember almost all animal legs bend so please make their legs bend they must have 2 bends at minimum

Here, are all of the different types of leg that an animal can have from left to right, first we have Plantigrade which yeah some animals do have a plantigrade mode of walking us humans are plantigrades, but plantigrady is quite rare in animals because most prefer to be quick to avoid danger, and thus leading to Digitigrades, these animals make up a majority of all land animals because of how efficient it is and these animals differ from plantigrades because they walk on their toes and not their whole foot think your pet cat or dog which are digitigrades. Last but least are Unguligrade animals, think ungulates they are an infamous example of an unguligrade they walk on the very tips of their toes unlike digitigrades and almost all members are herbivores. Though this rule does NOT apply to aquatic creatures as they have fins instead of legs.

2. DO NOT Awesomebro them: Do I need really go into this rule? Awesomebro is usually a term used by dinosaur experts to types of people/media who usually see dinosaurs, rather than normal living animals of prehistoric times, as violent bloodthirsty monsters usually to appeal towards the general audience. Though I think this term can also be used on fictitious animals as well, this usually means shrink-wrapping, the addition of spikes, and sometimes stupidly powerful stuff like stupidly powerful venom that can kill anyone with one bite. Real animals can be just as if not even cooler than these monstrous animals that have their bones exposed and have spikes and kill everything in their path because they are heartless killers, instead of doing normal animal things like sleeping, playing, doing their uh business (that means taking a crap), eating, mating. Not everything in an animal's life is all about fighting to the death there's more of mundane things like I have listed up top, as cool as it is they too are living things. Sorry about that rant that I made

3. ALWAYS make them proportionate: Please DON'T make the animal's head like many times larger than it's body, if you have trouble with a creature's proportions you can always use references, so if you're using a feline creature you can use a cat and other felids as reference when creating it, if you're using a tyrannosaur-like creature you can use real tyrannosaurs as reference. So, you can have the most accurate proportions to an animal, I mean I am BAD at drawing arthropods but I can use reference images of Arthropods to draw an anatomically accurate one.

4. NEVER leave an animal's description as blank: This would make people ask what this animal is related to and what does it eat? This is much worse if they're on a drawing with a still pose so explaining how this animal lived would your viewers context of what their world might look like and the ecosystem they live in.

5. ALWAYS make their colors believable: Animals come in a variety of colors, though all of them are believable to a certain point, so not telling a reason as for why a certain animal of yours is vibrantly colored is like saying a certain creature is classed as something and not explaining why.

Though these rules DO NOT apply to Furries, humanoid creatures, and sapient creatures, as they are more human than animal, so they'll have their own guide. Btw these are for worldbuilding and Spec Evo, so if you just design animal just because you want to you do actually have to follow these rules, but they're there if you want it.

#Animal #worldbuilding #spec evo #speculative evolution #animal design #how to guides

[screampotato]

I had SO MUCH FUN with this guy!

Part of the fun in these griffin drawings is in messing up your expectations. By drawing a prehistoric animal using tropes usually associated with modern animals and mythical creatures, I can make it hard to categorise and force you to look at it in a new way.

If I were to use the tropes we usually see in drawings of this creature, your brain will just stick it in the drawer marked "dinosaur" and move on. But that's an impossibly broad taxonomic term that could be equally correctly applied to a drawing of a pigeon. We don't look at a picture of a deer and say "ah yes, an ungulate".

These were animals. Beasts. Creatures. These were the griffins of legend. Not "mistaken for griffins" - these were the animals the legend describes. If I can show you a glimpse of that, maybe I can also show you a glimpse of our world as a magical place where creatures like these could live and thrive.

#griffin #griffins #gryphon #gryphons #fantasy art #fantasy animals #fantasy creatures #my art #my artwork #sketch #sketchbook #palaeontology #protoceratops

[markhors-menagerie]

†Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)

Art credit: Roman Uchytel

You’ve probably heard of this animal before- a giant, woolly-coated relative of modern rhinos with a metre-long horn. It lived in a habitat which covered most of northern Eurasia for 100,000 years, before disappearing abruptly 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age: the mammoth steppe. This was a cold, dry grassland which often snowed, and was inhabited by mammoths, bison, reindeer, horses, saiga antelope, mountain sheep, cave lions, wolves, and a variety of other animals. Here, the woolly rhinoceros was one of the largest herbivores, eating grasses and shrubs. Humans encountered these animals, and cave drawings made by prehistoric artists give us clues to their life appearance and behaviour.

#markhors-menagerie #animal facts #animals #biology #fun facts #palaeontology #prehistoric animals #ungulates #odd toed ungulates #rhinoceros #woolly rhinoceros #Coelodonta

[antiqueanimals]

The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

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#mammals #ungulates #equids #wild asses #african wild asses #zebras #horses #przewalski's horses #tarpans #prehistoric #prehistoric mammals #hyracotherium #hipparion

[ognimdo2002]

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Pachyrukhos moyani – Hoofed rabbit

Meet the Pachyrukhos moyani, the rabbit-like ungulate from South America.

The rabbit-like ungulate from South America in prehistoric times, this continent was isolated and allowed various marsupials and placentals evolved into different species until Great American Interchange.

This rabbit like ungulate was convergent evolution and unrelated to placental rabbits, filled their ecological niche and as their role without any replace it.

This animal become extinct when rabbit arrived and competed by placental mammals, the sabertooth cats and wolves.

#ognimdo2002 #earth responsibly #science fantasy #earth #earthresponsibly #fairytale #art #ibispaint art #pachyrukhos #rabbit #notoungulate #mammal #south america #tangled #convergent evolution #bunny #bunny 🐰

[twowivestwoknives]

What animal would be cutest if scaled down to the size of a cat?

OH FUCK sid ur good at this

okay if its prehistoric it's a tie between Paraceratheirum, Nundasuchus, or Ambulocetus.

If current age I'd say prolly any big non-cat predator would have a Time, so like Crocs as most of them arent cat sized. Though I would say honorary bonus would be Elephants or Rhinos or Hippos (none ar predators...strictly". I am "canadian" after all. Most of the rest of the animals Id think would b cute small (ungulates...mostley...) have tiny versions already hence.

#fuck there was an animal i was thinking of and im blanking forgive me #steverogersisbi #answered

[strigops]

actinopterygii, mammalia, sarcopterygii!

actinopterygii: how structured do you like your day to be?

im like, obnoxiously flexible, but i enjoy a bit of structure but not too much? i am fine with structure and i have my night routine but aside from that, as long as i have a slight idea of what im supposed to be doing im cool without much.

mammalia: are your hands usually cold or warm?

absolutely frigid, its the shitty circulation babeee. i don't feel cold tho! simply aware that my hands are ice lol

sarcopterygii: what’s your favorite prehistoric creature?

i am going to apologize in advance for not being able to be normal abt this question: i have So Many and its more of a "fav taxa from this group/particular time period" than absolute favs. that said, i will always have the biggest of soft spots for true saber tooth cats and nimravids, xenosmilus is probably my favorite. i love phenacodus and diacodexus so much too, they are easily my fav willwood fauna (diacodexus teeth are SO pretty and satisfying to find ;-; and i simply love a bizarre maybe-ungulate that refuses to fit in our unecessary taxonomic boxes). love an entelodont as well. and mesonychids!! nothing more terrifying than a carnivorous ungulate.

ALSO i do have a fav trace fossil, scaphichnium (dung beetle brood cells), little multicolored jelly beans my beloved

#my prof describes diacodexis teeth as 'chocolate sweetheart candies' and tbh they do look like them. theyre v cute #thank u for sending stuff!!