[darksilvania]

Fossil YAMASK (Ghost/Rock) & Fossil DWEBBLE (Dragon/Rock)

This two pokemon has made their home in a vast ravine rich in fossils, the constant interaction with the fossilized remains eventually caused some changes in their physical appearence as well as behaviour.

Fossil YAMASK carries the fossilized claw of an ancient raptor like predator.By doing so this pokemon has been able to channel this predators spirit from the afterlife. Thanks to his the pokemon has started to look more like such creature, featuing feather like spikes and claw like fingers. It brandishes the Claw as a weapon and uses it to fight.

Fossil DWEBBLE has made its rocky shell using a piece of bedrock that contains the skull of an ancient ceratopsid. Somehow having such remains constantly on them has affected them on a genetic level, making them tougher and more aggresive, choosing to fight head on instead of hiding inside their shells.

This pokemon evolve by leveling up inside of the ravine into DEINORYGUS (Ghost/Rock) & STYRACRUST (Dragon/Rock)

DEINORYGUS (from Deinonychus) now posseses the fossilized remains of the original predator from wich the original claw came, still embeded in stone. Despite its looks it can move with incredible speed, and having freed the fossil's sickle like claws from the rock, it uses them to slice its opponets with ferocity.

STYRACRUST (from Styracosaurus) now carries a fully developed ceratopsian skull on top of its rocky shell. Its body now has changed to become as tough as the skull with sets of armored horns that can be used for both defense and attack. It uses the large horns of the skull to fend of predators as well as compete with other members of its species for territory.

[kikicolors]

Eternal Sleep

[spineless-chordate]

the good ol' non-dinosaur dinosaur.
Dimetrodon angelensis (largest), Dimetrodon teutonis (smallest), and bonus Edaphosaurus boanerges.

[dilong]

I haven’t posted any art in a bajillion years so have this WIP of the Turkana Grits giant abelisaur

[lostinhistory]

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

[antediluvianechoes]

Andrewsarchus, Nikolai Litvinenko

The morning came slowly, drifting on the brightening sky, ushered by birdsong. Andrewsarchus shivered, curled her toes in the sand, then sat up. There was no denying the day's arrival. The sunlight glittered through the trees like sparks from a green fire. She never could doze when the sun was up. Binking away the last of her sleep, Andrewsarchus greeted the new day with everything it deserved—a yawn.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

This Saturday we will have a special stream to help raise funds for a new prep lab in Peru, home of Perucetus and many more fantastic creatures yet to be described and discovered. Rewards are waiting!

The campaign tries to establish a new dedicated prep lab because recent discoveries have made it more and more difficult to house the ever growing collection. Peru doesn't have much funding for paleontology so it's up to the public to make this happen...#

Help Peruvian Palaeontologists build a Fossil Preparation Lab!

English: Over the past 20 years, palaeontology in Peru has gained increasing attention from the scientific and general public due to the lar

GoGetFunding

If you pledge to the campaign and send me during the stream a confirmation of payment in DM's you are able to get a free wish for a 10 min sketch, except for humans and NSFW stuff I basically do anything that is doable within 10 min, here some examples:

As usual this will happen on Twitch.

[leaping-laelaps]

514 millions years ago in what will one day be known as the Emu Bay Shale (South Australia), a tiny Isoxys glaessneri encounters the hunter 'Anomalocaris' briggsi.

'Anomalocaris' briggsi was a large suspension-feeding radiodont related to the famous raptorial predator Anomalocaris canadensis. It is one of two radiodont species for which exceptionally detailed fossils of compound eyes are known. The eyes in this species in this species are unsual for radiodonts in that they are not stalked, and protected by a small plate which was likely a modified version of the lateral carapace elements found in hurdiids. The eye morphology suggests that 'A.' briggsi was a mesopelagic species capable of inhabiting depths of several hundred meters, using its acute vision to detect planktonic prey (Paterson et al. 2020).

Isoxys was a cosmopolitan genus of stem-euarthropod in the Lower and Middle Cambrian, characterized by a bivalved shield covering its whole body, two large eyes, and a frontal pair of so-called 'great appendages' probably used for grasping food items. These appendages show similarity with both the frontal appendages of megacheirans and those of radiodonts like Anomalocaris, and its mix of derived and basal anatomical traits (such as biramous appendages but an unclerotized trunk) make it a crucial organism for understanding the early evolution of arthropods (Legg & Vannier 2013, Zhang et al. 2021).

I tried to recreate the feeling of this common yet lovely type of scene in sci-fi movies where a ship or station gets dwarfed by a gigantic object slowly emerging behind it from the shadows - the only difference is that the 'giant' eye here is only about 3 cm wide, though that was still huge for the time.

References and technical details about the reconstruction under the cut:

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[leaping-laelaps-art]

I'm happy to report that this wonderful radiodont fellow finally has a proper name: Echidnacaris briggsi!

Published yesterday - along with the other radiodont from the Emu Bay Shale, now known as Anomalocaris daleyae - in this paper (which is unfortunately not open access, but I'm sure it will get shared somewhere...)

[everydaylouie]

Smilodon 🐱

[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.