Marine Royalty

Fulfilling my dream of being a marine vertebrate paleontologist through posts and reblogs. My fav marine reptile since childhood is an elasmosaurus.

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Dragon Bones by Sarah Glenn Marsh and illustrated by Maris Wicks

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Dragon Bones by Sarah Glenn Marsh and illustrated by Maris Wicks

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Dragon Bones by Sarah Glenn Marsh and illustrated by Maris Wicks

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Bird brain evolution talked about by Dr. Aki Watanabe

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Dragon Bones by Sarah Glenn Marsh and illustrated by Maris Wicks

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Atopodentatus has one of the best paleontology glow-ups. When it was first described in 2014, scientists thought this marine reptile had a genuinely bizarre zipper-like mouth. Then in 2016, two new fossils showed up and revealed that the original specimen was badly crushed. Its actual face looked way more like a handheld vacuum cleaner than a zipper. Art by Joschua Knüppe. Merchandise available at https://fossi.ls/I5mFds.

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Trilobites A to Z

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Temnodontosaurus platyodon, the first ichthyosaur to be collected by Mary Anning and her brother.

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Ichthyosaurs were predatory marine reptiles that swam the world’s oceans while dinosaurs walked the land. They appeared in the Triassic period, dying out around 25 million years before the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. much more streamlined, fish-like form built for speed. One species has been calculated to have a cruising speed of 36 km/h. These enormous predators remained at the top of the food chain until they were replaced by the plesiosaurs.

-ZME Science

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the magic growing dinosaur and the housefly (happy make a terrible comic day!)

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art by Curtis Lanaghan

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Anonymous painter (circle of Gerolamo Tessari), Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (detail), 1518, Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

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Stolen from Paleontology CoprolitePosting

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I can't stop thinking about the Cretaceous Kraken...

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official cephalopod post