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Creature from the black lagoon
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A gang of Chinshakiangosaurus chunghoensis take a well-deserved mud bath in Early Jurassic China
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cretaceous-kid · 25 days
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Result from the Kimmeridge Clay #paleostream!
We were only able to scratch the surface, but I think you get the idea ;)
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cretaceous-kid · 27 days
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its been months since i heard anyone talk about mastodon
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cretaceous-kid · 1 month
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HEY YOU! Did you already go into your settings to opt out of Tumblr selling your stuff to train AI? You better do that now!
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cretaceous-kid · 1 month
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let’s do this to help keep ai dinosaurs looking like garbage for as long as possible
head up if you don’t want tumblrs partnered ai companies automatically scraping your blog for image datasets, you need to manually opt out.
You can’t do this in the app rn, only the desktop version or web browser on your phone. It will also need to be done for every sideblog you have.
You find it by opening up your blog settings > scroll down to visibility > prevent third party sharing
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As an aside, I’d thoroughly recommend opting out of having your blog scraped, even if you’re not an artist. Afaik Tumblr hasn’t explicitly stated which companies they’ll be partnering with, but the vagueness of that wording is really alarming.
These datasets use a lot of selfies for photorealistic results, moderation of who has access to these datasets is notoriously ass, and a lot of AI engines are being used to generate pornography and racist imagery (you can see this rn with the rise of ai generated propaganda). While ‘your likeness is used in an awful generated image without your consent’ IS a worst case scenario, it’s a really upsetting one. Protect yourselves.
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cretaceous-kid · 1 month
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Cretaceous Characters - Quetzalcoatlus meets a sub-adult triceratops. Just a silly paleoart cartoon thing of mine.
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And so the Riversleigh #paleostream concluded! Lots of weird marsupials in this one. Since we chose to depict here a Miocene faunal zone you will not come across your typical Australian megafauna, like Diprotodon and Dromornis, that stuff came later.
We are looking at their ancestors, before the rainforest collapse.
Here some detail shots. Next time we will visit the Kimmeridge clay, a late Jurassic marine ecosystem.
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Depictions of iguanodon, pterodactylus, ichthyosaurus, plesiosaurus, hylaeosaurus and megalosaurus based on the crystal palace statues as well as their modern counterparts. The crystal palace dinosaur statues constructed in the 1850′s are both very impressive pieces of art as well as a striking demonstration of scientific progress in the field of paleontology, for all their inaccuracies they are still an extremely important piece of paleoart history.
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FUCK YEA EXTINCT PREHISTORIC LIFEFORMS ARE AWESOME YESSSSSS
i’m getting word that many are saying this
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A Great auk, a young individual, swims about in the seas of the North Atlantic. Once a common sight, now reduced to nothing but memories
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Happy Valentine’s Day- Show your friends that your feelings will NEVER go extinct with some cambrian critters.
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by @Beetlemoses on twitter
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cretaceous-kid · 2 months
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Pterodactyls by Théodore Susemihl, in Pierre Boitard, Paris before men, 1st article, Musée des Familles – Lectures du Soir , volume III, June 1836, 257-281.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mus%C3%A9e_des_familles/nKc_AAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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cretaceous-kid · 2 months
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Burian’s icthyosaurs will always be my favourite depiction
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"Fights between rival Ichthyosaurs (e.g. at mating time) or with other powerful reptiles often ended in severe injury, traces of which can still be seen in their skeletons."
Prehistoric Sea Monsters. Written by Dr. Josef Augusta. Illustrated by Zdeněk Burian. 1966.
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cretaceous-kid · 2 months
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Dinosaur with most grotesquely deep jaw proportion to its own head (not mention a huge head compared to rest body)
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Only after a while I realized that barrel ones look like snapping turtles (Chelydridae). Very shape dudes, and they aren't related to Protoceratops.
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cretaceous-kid · 2 months
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The Blue Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus
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