Marine Royalty

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

[aberrantologist]

Hupehsuchus does... whatever by some stromatolites.

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from the Walking With flocking paleostream featuring Ornithocheirus, Brontoscorpio, Liopleurodon, and Koolasuchus.

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from the flocking paleostream featuring Epidexypteryx, Witwatia, Ceratosuchus, and Prognathodon.

Today is also my birthday!! 🎉

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from the Attenborough Birthday Flocking #paleostream featuring Attenborosaurus, Microleo, Caipirasuchus, and Materpiscis.

[gumi-megpoidd]

not her name????? fuck you

[seafossilqueen]

@beetlemoses

[themeeplord]

Spinosaurus day!

The pattern/colors are inspired by the fantastic Loon bird <3

2026 dinosaur prompt list

[your-did-it-official]

Every Saturday is coelacanth Saturday

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

On tonight's Walking With Flocking #paleostream we covered Ornithocheirus, Brontoscorpio, Liopleurodon and Koolasuchus.

It was a stream in memory of Benjamin Bartlett who passed away the other day, among other things he composed the soundtrack for Walking With Dinosaurs, Beasts and Monsters.

[seafossilqueen]

@beetlemoses

[seafossilqueen]

@beetlemoses

[paleo-bug]

[internet-shiba]

my piece for vol. 2 for @fossil-fighters-zine !!!!

and thank you to @cryptidshollow for helping me to get this across the finish line!

some progress images under the cut and make sure u check out the zine!

[amnhnyc]

Happy Trilobite Tuesday! Sometimes a fossil specimen tells a story: One day in the Silurian Period, this 5-in- (12.7-cm-) long Arctinurus trilobite came to rest next to a Dimerocrinites crinoid. Despite their flower-like appearance, crinoids are marine animals related to sea stars that use feather-like arms to catch drifting food particles. This fossil, from the Rochester Shale Quarry of New York, is a snapshot of life some 430 million years ago.

[silverd64]

So a wild @fossil-fighters-zine volume 2 just appeared!!! Have these 100% real not clickbait vivosaurs in the OG game official style! Go see everyone else's epic and cool work in there!!

[eartharchives]

450-million year old jellyfish ancestor looks like a flailing carwash tubeman

A newly identified fossil from Quebec reveals a 450-million-year-old relative of jellyfish, offering rare insight into the early evolution of these delicate marine invertebrates.

https://www.popsci.com/science/jellyfish-ancestor-fossil-canada/

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.