#prehistoric fauna

[corvuserpens]

Oviraptor Pair

"In Cretaceous Mongolia, a same-sex pair of Oviraptor philoceratops watch over their brood of rocks, among which a stolen egg from a neighboring nest now sits."

I can't tell you how many times I've shot and re-shot and worked over this painting. It's been finished for like two months, but then I forgot to add the markings on the animals, then the photographs kept coming out all wrong and eventually I rage quit. Today, after the barrage of notes I got on some of my other pieces, I scrounged up the energy to try again and FINALLY got a decent enough picture.

Skeletal reference by Ivan Iofrida

3D skull reference by Inhuman-species

Anyway, this is the finished piece based off this previous sketch I posted during Pride Month, which I recommend you visit for the full story around this painting's subject. Dinosaurs were gay, this has been confirmed by many working paleontologists, and there's nothing any bigot can do about it 😎

[orfeoarte]

some little details:

Leon is tanned and has T shirt tanlines

D's fingernails are cream with golden filigree

both animals are juveniles

[btteredtoast]

D. SHOSHOENSIS I LOVE YOU!!!! IM UR BIGGEST FAN!!

[artemholubievgolubev]

Smilodon populator is the most famous saber tooth of the Ice Age. Known from 1 million to 10 thousand years ago in the eastern part of South America and is the largest saber-toothed cat.

Its weight could reach 400 kg, and the length of the fangs with the root was 29 cm. The ancient Americans of the Ice Age could meet this powerful predator.

Smilodon populator canvas wall art, sabertooth cat of the Ice Age. Unusual gifts for men, couples gift, gifts for boyfriend, gifts for parents, mother in law gift, living room wall, kitchen wall decor, college room decor, cottage core decor

This exclusive and unrepeatable painting can be purchased here:

[thylacines-toybox]

Major shelf shuffle! I decided to swap the long standing Dino Zone with my Australian animal collection, giving them more space to spread out, and changed a lot of displays on this half of the room.

Really happy to see the Aussie animals more on display, and it's nice to have them right under the thylacine shelves! It's funny how the Tassie devil corner is just a dark shadowy place too lol. Synapsid space is down below them! You may spot that one dinosaur managed to stay on this shelf, because she is Australian too.

Since I also decided to get rid of my fish tank (don't worry, all fish had lived full lives and it was vacant for a while) I had more free space to the left side too. So I decided to move the little set of drawers up there (full of bones and such...) and make a nice skully naturey display on top. Not much of a theme to the animal figures in front, just a few I like!

And off to the left of that, Pawface is getting to hang out by my galaxy projector light and some tiny drawers of rocks and trinkets. Ink (the black, one eyed creature) is out to play for the first time in a while too!

The dinosaurs and other prehistoric guys are doing fine and only a few needed to be put away! They've got the two lower left shelves, and the lowest shelf even has a bit of a rainbow going on.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The Giant Shrimp Thing uses its weird grabby appendages in front of its mouth to grab a Wiggly Friend, but luckily not *our* wiggly friend. The appendages had both upper and lower sides, allowing the claws to be snapped shut like pincers, which they proceed to do. The appendages manipulate the fearful Wiggly towards the strange projections underneath its neck, which proceeded to Shred up the Wiggly

The Shrimp then takes the shreddings with the frontal pincers, using the projections and the pincers together to manipulate the food into its mouth. As it eats, we see the eyes on its eye stalks sweep around the ocean, looking - most likely - for more prey

The wiggly swarm continues to swim on, and we swim on with it. At some point, our wiggly friend bumps into another, and we're sent through the ocean on an unknown course once more.

This is a continuation of these posts and is an ongoing choose your own adventure story! (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

[dogfruit01]

some cenozoic beasties + closeups :]

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Pottery Fragment with Deer Designs, Dun Borbaidh and Kilpheder, First to Fourth Century CE, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[pangur-and-grim]

Poll!

thanks a lot! (for those who don't know, I can only create polls in response to asks right now, not sure why)

anyway, onto the poll:

[darksilvania]

GOLGOLIATH (Ground/Ghost) & CRANIEMBERG (Ice/Ghost)

GOLGOLIATH (Golgotha/Goliath) The tar pit Pokemon. Its body is made of tar, brought to life by the restless souls of all the pokemon that perished trapped in it. It uses their bones as armor to protect its soft, sticky body. The shape of its body resembles a Paraceratherium and the skulls from its armor are those of a Brontotherium/Megacerops, a Woolly Mammoth (Upside down) and a Woolly Rhino

CRANIEMBERG (Cranium/Iceberg/Cronenberg) The glacier Pokemon Its body is made of Glaciar ice and compacted snow, reanimated by the souls of the many pokemon forever trapped in it. It uses their bones as weapons to hunt for its prey. Its main body is shaped like a Megatherium and the skulls from its armor are those of an Uintatherium, a Smilodon and an Arsinotherium (upside down)

CRANIEMBERG's striped body is based on "Striped Icebergs" a phenomena in which icebergs melt and froze again over time, forming layers of different colors due to the impurities in the water and the difference in densities

[simpsforscience]

Have you ever heard of the 'Burgess Shale'? 😯 It's a goldmine of Cambrian fossils , a wonderland that is home to the most exceptional fossils from this era. Swipe through this post ➡️ to unearth the mysteries and ancient wonders that the Shale captured in its stones🪨 . To witness more of the prehistoric dance of animal life 🦕, join us on this monthly series 'Zoofabulous Time Trek'.

📸Image credits:

Image 1 - Olivia Little/ Freshdaily

Image 2- The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Burgess Shale Fossil Specimens

Image 3 - James St. John/ Wikimedia Commons

Image 4 - R. Gaines/ Semantic Scholar

Image 5 - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

[corvuserpens]

Forest of Gold

Moving through a golden ginkgo forest, a grown male Lusotitan browses in peace during the cooler hours of the evening. Around his feet, a small group of ornithopods pick up the leaves that fall with the change of the seasons.

For this week’s Fossil Friday, another gouache piece from almost a year ago. I’ll be real, I’m not entirely happy with this one. The execution came out a little too... Impressionist to me, too rushed because I was clearly getting frustrated with it. Like a very poor Van Gogh knock-off. Not my best. Or maybe it’s my own high standards for what my paleoart should look like affecting me again. Idk. 

I just wanted to paint something a little different instead of the same old green forest background. Ginkgo trees (or the order Ginkgoales) have existed for as long as some 290 million years! Fossils very similar to its last living species, the Ginkgo biloba, go as far back as the Middle Jurassic, so dinosaurs such as this Lusotitan might have encountered it. Imagine what they must’ve thought, wading through these trees as they yellowed out.

And, if you’re as old as I am, if you look closely around the feet of the Lusotitan you will see three little nods to a pretty obscure game, you might have heard about it, called Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis.

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[dinosaurguy]

Chauvet cave paintings, France. 30,000 years before the present times, we met some of the most majestic beings to walk the Earth, in this part of the painting you can see, horses, bison's, rhinos... All together probably scared of the pride of cave lions behind them... A forgotten scene of a lost world, frozen in time

[ancientorigins]

Deep within in the rainforests of Venezuela, a series of plateaus arise more than 9000 feet off the ground. From above, they look like islands in the sky. They are so unique in their geography that thousands of plant species exist nowhere else on the planet except on these plateaus. The mystical mountains fascinated explorers and writers for centuries, most notably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who described an ascent of Mount Roraima in his 1912 novel The Lost World.

[artemholubievgolubev]

The European donkey (Equus hydruntinus) is an extinct animal.

Lived during the Middle and Late Pleistocene to Holocene times.

It was widely distributed throughout much of western Eurasia from the Middle East to Europe.

Morphologically and genetically, the European donkey is closely related to the Asian kulan.

[microwavedmetal]

Cambrian animals be like