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Thank you for existing. I’m gonna miss you.

(Vent art. Dedicated to my aunt who passed away a few days ago. I’m gonna miss you, Julie 🕊️💔)

In the desert heat, some animals prepare for the future, while others think more about what they will have for breakfast today.

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chameleocoonj

finally had time to join flocking for just a bit the other weekend, although I only finished up Mr. Pants today- Velociraptor + Kank

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alphynix

Lentamanusuchus hubeiensis was a small marine reptile that lived during the early Triassic, about 248 million years ago, in shallow tropical seas covering what is now southwestern China.

It was part of a group known as hupehsuchians, early cousins of ichthyosaurs that had toothless jaws, paddle-shaped limbs, eel-like tails, and distinctive bony armor along their backs.

Around 1.2m long (~4'), Lentamanusuchus had particularly broad flippers with extra bones in its hands, a transitional state between its ancestors and later polydactylous hupehsuchians.

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dianafirai

Order for a wounded

tyrannotitan

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dianafirai

Commission sketch yutyrannus

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notryvn

— Some more austroraptors!

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whyflippen

Argentinosaurus metroplex vs mapusaurus trypticon because why not

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yee-qi

Down to My Level

A South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) has turned the tables against its assailant, a young Fuller's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei). Her predation attempt has apparently gone horribly wrong; and with the eagle's broken wing, it's the moa that has the upper hand on the ground. Female giant moa were especially large compared to the males, and likely competed for them. Eggs were also enormous. They fed on a variety of tough or high-growing plants cropped with the bill. Their neck was usually held in a horizontal position, sort of like outdated depictions of Diplodocus and similar sauropods, but it could probably lift the head upwards if necessary - and necessary it likely was; as its primary predator attacked from above.

The Fuller's eagle is the largest eagle known to man. Potentially double the weight of the harpy eagle, its large claws were able to penetrate down to a moa's pelvis while hunting. It had proportionally small wings for forest manuverability, chasing, toppling and ripping at the moa until it died. Its prey was so proportionally large compared to it, in fact, that the Fuller's eagle had a bill more like a vulture because it was effectively doing the same thing and shoving its head into giant carcasses - that it made. Both of these animals went extinct in the 1400s, shortly after the Maori settled South Island. They hunted the moa; and their introduced rats would have destroyed their eggs. When the moa died out, so did the giant eagles.

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usik-paleo-illust

Doolysaurus

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tigertoons

This is a 3-D scan of NRM A56 6599, highly regarded as “the best preserved” of only 5 adult thylacine wet specimens in the world.

She, a doe, was captured somewhere in Tasmania in the year 1882. She was on display at the London Zoo from the 14th of November 1884 to April the 2nd, 1893. She was originally purchased by a Dr. A. Bingham Crowther of Launceston, from the Zoological Society of London.

She is currently in the collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm

I’d have more information here but for some reason all of the information on this pretty lady is about genome sequencing and other bullshit, so here’s to hoping colossal biosciences doesn’t get their greedy hands on her and damage her for her DNA.

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