#Palaeoblr

[cedarspiced]

oh FUCK off

[paleoart]

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Below the poll is a series of animal images labeled A through J. A is the least close to the birds we have today; J is the closest. If you encountered these animals in the wild, which would you call birds? If you pick a higher up option, then that means you consider all the below ones birds as well - so if you pick A, then BCDEFGHIJ are all birds. If you pick J, only J is a bird.

A:

B:

C:

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E:

F:

G:

H:

I:

J:

PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO IT CAN LEAVE PALAEOBLR. I NEED PEOPLE WHO DON'T RECOGNIZE THESE ANIMALS ON SIGHT TO VOTE.

I apologize to all of y'all with vision impairments for whom this poll is inaccessible. Alas, this is an experiment, and I cannot name the taxa. Thank you.

All alt text includes artist attribution; I did not make these pictures myself.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Please welcome Perucetus, the new - and largest- known archeoceti.

A whale of enormous proportions. While it's exact size and weight is certainly a matter of heated debates it was no doubt a really big boi. Here a quick sketch of it approaching a time traveler.

[kiabugboy]

POV: you went diving at night and spotted Ordovician nautiloids feasting on a eurypterid carcass, after a while the commotion has attracted the giants, Endoceratids slowly creeping into view

[dani-m-art]

Spinosaurus once again going for a swim

A watercolor/gouache painting that's going to be a bookmark probably

[fishsfailureson]

TBH I think that Paleontologists should be allowed to fight private collectors who purchase any specimen that is incredibly valuable to science actually.

[delyth-thomas-art]

Please help the National Museum Of Wales

Please sign the petition!!!!

You don't need to be living in Wales or the uk to sign.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

The restaurant I went to tonight with friends had paper tablecloths and coloured pencils "for children to draw with". So I created some Fellows while waiting for pizza :)

Featuring Big Steppy the Edaphosaurus, King Chungo the Vast and Terrible the Cotylorhynchus, and Ramfy Rinkus the Rhamphorhynchus

[barghest-land]

an angel 🌠 Iberodactylus

[stavrosskundromichalis]

Some hungry Abrictosaurus consors checking out a dried out river bed in Early Jurassic South Africa

[paleoart]

Bob the Wheal

(Rodhocetus)

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[a-dinosaur-a-day]

How is the parasaurolophus used its horn for sound resonating idea seen nowadays?

100% the leading hypothesis. we've even modeled what the sound would be like

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Cambrian critters are actually spaceships, their battles where epic.

Here an Anomalocaris cruiser is attacked by the hit and run tactics of an Opabinia.

[kadalsaurus]

Baryonyx walkeri sketch

my attempt on baryonyx

[strawberry-crocodile]

When I say "Birds are Dinosaurs" and you say "No you know what I mean, when we say dinosaurs we mean Something Else" I think like... you don't know what I mean.

There's sort of a constructed category of dinosaurs as these scaly, powerful, outdated animals, and birds as these delicate modern animals, and I want you to understand that these ideas are based on outdated science and human biases. That birds can and have grown huge and predatory, that dinosaurs were a hugely diverse group that had grazers and small arboreal animals and fast intelligent ones.

Birds are a category of dinosaur, the only one we have left around. Appreciate them, demythologize dinosaurs, and destroy the boxes you put nature into.