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I saw the future flowering just like a ruptured vessel Somebody's going to get screwed - It won't be me. Someday I am going to walk out of here free.

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A baby phytosaur sunning himself on a fallen log.

Bonus retro version for good measure.

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MYOSAURUS GRACILIS

LAGARTO PARECIDO AL RATÓN GRÁCIL

Myosaurus era un dicinodonte de tamaño pequeño, con un cuerpo relativamente alargado y ancho del Triásico inferior.

Tenía cráneo grande y ancho, con dientes especializados para la masticación de plantas. Estos dientes eran cónicos y adaptados para triturar materia vegetal. A pesar de ser un dicinodonte, los colmillos apenas sobresalían del pico que cubría su boca.

Vivió en la Antártida durante el Triásico, período en el que el clima era mucho más cálido y estaba cubierta de bosques selváticos.

Aquí se lo ve siendo acechado por Thrinaxodon liorhinus, un cinodonte carnívoro con el cual compartía territorio

HABITÓ: Antártida

HACE: 250 millones de años (Triásico)

ES UN: Sinápsido, Dicinodóntido (no es dinosaurio)

MEDÍA: 40 cm de largo

PESABA: 1 a 2 Kg.

COMÍA: Herbívoro, plantas a altura baja

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For Fossil Friday, here’s a double-page spread from my book (När dinosaurierna tog över, Idus förlag) depicting a scene from Southwestern China during the Early Jurassic. A pair of coelophysids (Panguraptor lufengensis) curiously observe a large sauropod (Chinshakiangosaurus chunghoensis) as it lumbers through the forest.

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Tricolored Suchomimus

YAYY, finally done!

Not what I usually do so I was a bit stressed how it'd come out.

Prints, stickers etc. available on Reddbuble and Teepublic

I based the colors on Tricolored Heron (juvenile, specifically)

Thanks everyone who took part in the poll and gave feedback!

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some food for thought, happy holidays!

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🦈 Dive into the Museum’s collections with Ryan Thoni, curatorial associate of Ichthyology, and meet the shark that inspired the Jaws movie poster!

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how about some pterosaurs for a change

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Taco night

(alt: Video render of Isoxys minor, Middle cambrian bivalved arthropods shown here in orange with a dark aquarium background

Isoxys has a taco shaped carapace enveloping it's entire body like a copepod, the open part of the 'taco' pointing down, its segmented body is completely hidden inside the 'taco' with tiny swimming legs reminiscent of those found in Triops, barely visible poking out of it. and two front appendages that look somewhat like an anomalocaris' claws but pointing up although they are not closely related to anomalocaris. It also has two eyes visible on the front, poking out of the carapace

Tl;Dr a swimming taco with segmented 'tusks' on the front and shrimp like legs poking out the bottom.

The video depicts them flitting around the aquarium from a close-up view with a short focus distance since they are typically only 1 cm long)

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Was looking through my copy of Paläoart and thought this Artwork of Heinrich Zeller of two Ichthyosaurs would do numbers on Tumblr.

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I told myself that if I ever need anything to paint I should pick the first photo I see on my dash and paint it and this was the first one so I committed.

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welcome... to Nothing Park

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#Paleostream 17/05/2025

here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!

today we sketched Vasuki indicus, Camptorhynchus labradorius (Labrador Duck), Mosura fentoni, and Pterodaustro