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As if anyone following this blog hadnt seen that coming! I joined team fossil in artfight. My goal may be humans, but I know me. my muse goes WILD in july

Artfight 25

Here we are again! Artfight is around the corner! And I will draw! Last year I tried to push my limit in output, this year I want to exercise drawing humans ( balanced out with some horses to stay sane ) You can find my profile here

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On conservation and survival

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The final design for my Sinosauropterix acrylic keychains! Im so happy with the design i think the leaves really work. With the prototype that came back i found that the tail was long and prone to snapping so i needed a filler and it turns out that theres an absolutely incredible fossil plant from the same formation as them called Leefructus mirus! Its a prehistoric fossil BUTTERCUP! Ill be selling these at my local con but after that theyll be for same somewhere online possibly kofi?

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🩶 paddlefish 🩶

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:

isn’t he beautiful

listen to the SOUND when he bites

and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them

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not with the intent to change anything or 1 up capcom. this is my attempt to make sense to the anatomy. free to use, this is really for future notes.

idk how they fly and im not gonna put the special shoulder to wrist wing tendon idk the name of there rn

these types of arm can still provide your seikret with 25mph (40kph) of running speed, while the current estimate to the non modified seikret is 28mph (44Kph), thankfully not a significant loss.

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Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) | 2024

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whatever

go my cleaner wrasse

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They dont have to pay taxes, survive under pressures unimaginable and some people mistake their awe for terror

idk about you all but the horrors at the lowest depths of the ocean are completely within my comprehension. it's just some weird fish with sharp teeth or like, a big squid or whatever. maybe some huge sea bug. why is this so existentially terrifying to you all

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From previous fossils, they already knew the dinosaur had asymmetric feathers, which are vital to creating thrust in modern, flying birds. But the hard slab of limestone around this specimen had also preserved a key layer of feathers called tertials that had never been documented before in Archaeopteryx.

“It’s important that this is the first time these feathers have been seen,” John Nudds, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England who didn’t participate in the study, tells the Guardian’s Hannah Devlin. “These new feathers seen in this beautifully preserved specimen—as well as the asymmetric feathers—confirms it could fly.”

She could fly!

Article link!

@seananmcguire Something to brighten your day. She could fly!!!

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I snuck through the catfishdoor

Tumblr Fish Party!!!

@i-am-a-fish @i-give-you-a-fish @fish-identifier everyone invite more fish blogs!!!

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Commission for @magmacannon of a Dunkleosteus riding a wave.

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🗡 D. Marcus Elieser Bloch’s, ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin … Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands …. Berlin: Auf Kosten des Verfassers und in Commission bei dem Buchhändler Hr. Hesse, 1782-1795.. Original source Image description: Illustration of a swordfish labeled “Esox Brasiliensis” featuring a slender, elongated body with greenish scales and several dark vertical bands. The fish has large, round eyes and a distinctive long, narrow, pointed snout resembling a sword. Fins are detailed with fine lines, including a forked tail and pectoral fins. The illustration includes a small circular sketch near the tail. The image is framed with text in the upper right corner, providing the species name in Latin, German, French, and English (“The Under-Sword-Fish”). The style is a precise, colored engraving on a plain background, typical of 18th-century natural history illustrations.

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On April 16th 2025 the US federal government has proposed to change the interpretation of the endangered species act so that it no longer protects habitat.

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.

Wildlife need their habitat. If the ESA redefines harm so that habitat is no longer protected, the implications for wildlife would be catastrophic.

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Both the park and the artist are also on bsky, for those of us who nuked their twt accounts Park: https://bsky.app/profile/rwpzoo.bsky.social Artist: https://bsky.app/profile/hollymaedesigns.bsky.social

Y’all I want to throw massive kudos out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for a choice they made today: rather than joining in on a GenAI trend all the zoos are doing right now, they chose to support and spotlight an artist on their staff!

The big thing right now is these GenAI “figurine toys” of zookeepers or zoo management. And instead they shared a version drawn by one of their staff!

Go give them some love, if you’re on FB. Too many zoos are really getting into GenAI and just whitewashing the climate change / copyright issues that come with it, so I want this zoo to get as much positive feedback as we can muster for making a better choice.