Admantus's Barina Lair

My all-purpose account for reblogging things relating to stuff I like

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Some time ago we had the #PaleoZoo challenge on Discord, sponsored by Prehistoric Kingdom.

Goal was the creation of realistic zoo habitats that could hause extinct creatures. As examples I created a bunch of them over the course of a weekend.

Part three. A Shringasaurus temple, Archaeotherium getting brushed, Stegouros burrow, Plateosaurus hatchery, Wakaleo enclosure, Eryops colony, Lystrosaurus lookout, Giganthopithecus canopy walk, Australoraptor waterfalls, Numudotherium pond and the Erlikosaurus canyon.

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Based on a recent Twitter discussion

Gular glands in crocodiles are one thing, but many are also not aware of the facial and movable glands in muntjacs.

These structures aren't really sexy so they are often omitted from documentaries. Here a video of them in action that made it's rounds some time ago.

It’s a muntjac deer #shorts

Muntjacs also known as barking deer or rib-faced deer, are small deer of the genus Muntiacus native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Muntja

Utterly bizarre when you are not familiar with them. It often makes me wonder what kind of glands we might miss in paleoart. Uropygial glands in birds for example, when did they evolve? Did non-avian dinosaurs already have then or did they use another, analogous structure during preening?

Another example are enlarged skin glands like the poison glands in many amphibians. Could temnospondyls already have something like this?

Just remembered, duikers are a good example of large preorbital glands as well, often appearing as prominent slits and pouches in front of the eyes. Some oreodonts like Eporeodon might had have similar structures.

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Results from the Flocking Together* #paleostream. Tanystropheus, Ambulocetus, Bison priscus, Inostrancevia.

*during Flocking Together we vote on a number of suggested taxa, the four most voted are getting drawn on stream within 20 min. Everyone is invited to join.

[kleioscanvas]

Dromaesaur with colours inspired by Secretary Birds. His name is Henry.

[kleioscanvas]

Shields!

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Another sketch brought to you by #paleostream

Sangusaurus wading through a river, on it's back a lazy temnospondyl enjoying the sun.

Sangusaurus is a fascinating African dicynodont with an especially broad skull, lots of rugosities on it's snout as well as a crest!

[johnconway]

The painting I know you've always been waiting for, wrestling Anchisaurus.

[ambylotl]

During the last Ice Age, what is now part of the Rio Grande Valley was a dense swampy marshland that was home to many unique and now extinct animals, such as the powerful Colombian Mammoth, the Giant Gopher Tortoise, or the cunning Saber-Toothed Tiger. Many modern animals had far vaster ranges and were more plentiful, such as the condor or the whooping crane. By the end of the Pleistocene, as the ice began to recede, and the first Paleo Native Americans established themselves within the continent, many of these creatures died out. Many more today are still at risk of being nothing more than a memory in Texas' Natural History.

[ambylotl]

ooohhh you want to commission me so baadd oohhhh you are pulling out your wallet and navigating to my DMs to ask me for my very affordable prices ooooohhhhhhh

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Results from the #paleostream! Uranocentrodon, Piscogavialis + Thalassocnus , Transylvanosaurus and Nannites.

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Ursus ingressus fleeing from a very angry Elasmotherium

Another sketch brought to you by #paleostream

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[gotterhag]

This is an EXTREMELY blessed post! And accurate! When I first moved out I was so excited for my new place I slept on the floor and had my tv there and that was it. Loved it. You grow and you build and you gain and you lose. I lost that place and everything in it. Now I have a new place with new things and it’s very much home.

[saritawolff]

Hailing from the Late Cretaceous, Halszkaraptor is a great example of just how diverse dromeosaurs were.

Most likely discovered in Mongolia by fossil poachers, and passed from collector to collector until finally making its way to paleontologists in 2015, Halszkaraptor wasn’t officially described and named til 2017. The fossil was then finally returned to its home in Mongolia.

Halszkaraptor was unique in that it was very obviously a dromeosaurine attempt at being a waterfowl. It was about the size and shape of a cormorant or merganser, with a long graceful neck, small flipper-like forelimbs, and a flat, almost duck-like mouth with sharp, backward-curving teeth. A new clade was made to place Halszkaraptor in, along with its relatives Hulsanpes and Mahakala.

[assiraphales]

I think what modern filmmakers keep forgetting (especially disney affiliated productions) is that actors used to have a much more hands on and involved part. they weren’t just reading lines handed to them in a dark alley ten minutes before filming. they suggested script revisions and could improvise lines on the spot bc they knew their characters.

[assiraphales]

if mark hamill says “that’s not my luke skywalker” that’s a problem. if temuera morrison had insight into boba fett’s character the producers shouldn’t have just told him to deal with the script he was given. if seb stan was concerned about the lack of closure in the steve bucky relationship that’s an issue! the insane levels of secrecy and treating actors like the only thing they are good for is regurgitating lines is so detrimental to modern film/television

[prokopetz]

Something to bear in mind is that this isn’t our first turn on this particular merry-go-round.

Back in the early days of Hollywood, when vertically integrated monopolies were the norm and studios, distributors and theatre chains were all owned by the same parent companies, actors were basically treated like cattle, locked into exploitative multi-film contracts, routinely kept in the dark and lied to, and – apart from a handful of the very largest stars – had very little creative input. This would remain the case until a series of massive antitrust lawsuits in the 1930s and 1940s forced the studio monopolies to break up.

Now we’re seeing a shift back toward all film production being controlled by a tiny handful of companies, employing abusive booking practices to push the theatre chains around and exercise de facto control over theatre booking decisions in spite of technically being unaffiliated – and we’re also seeing a shift back toward how actors were treated under the old studio monopolies.

Like, this isn’t just a problem with the cultural zeitgeist. It’s not just a matter of people forgetting how to make good films. There are concrete economic incentives that lead to this sort of behaviour – and just like the first time around, it’s probably not going to get solved any way other than at legislative gunpoint.

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Ink doodle of a birg diving for stalked bivalves on a rocky seabed.

Long, bottle-brushlike filter feeders sway gently behind them, their delicate tentacles protected by needle sharp spines nestled among them.

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[iguanodont]

A rush of air, a shadow, and suddenly, a sickening WHACK

Such is the method of ehkusuiit Ik, the Cliff Striker. Long spurs on its forelegs are a formidable weapon for dispatching prey. Before the target can regain its footing, the cliffstriker will land to finish the job..

Its usual prey are flagdeer, but they have earned a formidable reputation among herders for knocking mounted birgs right off their trunkhorses. All the more reason not to venture alone into backcountry!

Cliffstrikers have symmetrical feeding arms (unlike Zhuuwhip), and the ability to rotate their eye plate to remain level with the ground. Their young can fly within a few days of hatching, but lack spurs. Instead, they cling to the back of their mother and scavenge her kills for the first few months of life, until they they grow large enough to hunt rat sized animals on their own.

[thesilicontribesman]

'Pinecone Point' Viewpoint and Contemporary Artwork, Craigvinean Forest, nr. Dunkeld, Scotland.