this is for cool art I find since I didn't have a blog for other people's non-fandom works. The whole nanosaur thing is nostalgia from when I was small and would "help" my dad play the game. I doubted just doodle was available so I thought it would be fun to do something like that unless I think of something better.
The Paleo Party Guest of the day is the American Cheetah, Miracinonyx!
They're not particularly closely related to the modern Cheetah, they just share some morphological similarities and possibly a similar niche, though this has more recently been questioned.
Age: 2.5 million to 16,000 years ago
Location: North America.
This sticker can be found in my Pleistocene listing!
It's Moon Day, so let's look at a dinosaur from the moon!
…Well, not literally. But Eoraptor lunensis' name means "dawn thief from the moon", in reference to it being discovered in the Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) of Ischigualasto Provincial Park, Argentina.
Living during the Late Triassic, around 231-229 million years ago, Eoraptor was one of the earliest known of all dinosaurs. Originally classified as an early theropod, it's now thought to actually be a very early offshoot of the sauropodomorph lineage, closely related to other South American forms like Buriolestes and Pampadromeus.
It measured around 1.2m long (~4'), with leg proportions that indicate it was a fast runner. Its jaws contained both leaf-shaped and serrated pointed teeth, suggesting it may have been an opportunistic omnivore, feeding mainly on plant matter but occasionally supplementing its diet with smaller prey.
Unlike later dinosaurs it also still had vestigial palatal teeth on the roof of its mouth.
Eoraptor would have lived in a warm humid climate alongside several other early dinosaur species such as Herrerasaurus and Eodromaeus — but this was at a time before the dinosaurs had become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates, so other animals like rhynchosaurs, aetosaurs, rauisuchians, cynodonts and dicynodonts were also very abundant in the Ischigualasto ecosystem.
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References:
Mancuso, Adriana C., et al. "Paleoenvironmental and biotic changes in the Late Triassic of Argentina: testing hypotheses of abiotic forcing at the basin scale." Frontiers in Earth Science 10 (2022): 883788. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.883788
Sereno, Paul C., et al. "Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria." Nature 361.6407 (1993): 64-66. https://doi.org/10.1038/361064a0
Sereno, Paul C., Ricardo N. Martínez, and Oscar A. Alcober. "Osteology of Eoraptor lunensis (Dinosauria, sauropodomorpha)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32.sup1 (2012): 83-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.820113
Wikipedia contributors. “Eoraptor” Wikipedia, 23 May. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoraptor
Wikipedia contributors. “Ischigualasto Formation” Wikipedia, 23 Jun. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischigualasto_Formation
This is, in my opinion, the saddest piece in the whole museum.
AT1 Eyak was one of the massive male AT1 transients that plied the waters of Prince William Sound. He was named after the native Eyak people of PWS. The Eyak no longer exist and the last full-blooded Eyak and native Eyak speaker, Mary Jones, died in 2008. The AT1 transients are much like the Eyak; they too will one day disappear, and will take a beautiful and unique language with them.
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