Spider and strange crustacean enthusiast...

mostly wildlife/interesting rock formation photos & reblogs of art | palaeo student | any pronouns | early 20s | also really into goth music but that's on a different sideblog

[spinus-pinus]

Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum

3/15/2024 Orange County, California

[syncarida]

you'd never guess this but 'gigantoscorpio' really is a very large scorpion

[syncarida]

I really like this

[decapod-of-the-day]

Decapod of the day: Calcinus laevimanus | Left-handed Hermit Crab

[dysfunctionalphotography]

Black Flying-Fox, Exmouth WA

[dysfunctionalphotography]

Urodacus sp. Kalbarri WA.

If you want to go scorpion spotting, bring a UV torch! They stand out like little jewels.

[vintagewildlife]

Scorpion under blacklight By: Fredric L. Frye From: Captive Invertebrates 1992

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MetalMonday :

Nose ring with #scorpions

Mochica (Moche) culture, Early Intermediate Period (200-600 CE)

Origin: Huaca Cao Viejo (Upper Platform, NW Courtyard)

Bimetallic gold & silver

El Brujo Archaeological Complex EBBME00000-22

[herpsandbirds]

Namaqua Burrower Scorpion (Opistophthalmus pallipes), family Scorpionidae, Northern Cape, South Africa

photograph by Johan Marais

[syncarida]

when I'm reading a paper about some other animal and my beautiful perfect favourite creature the syncarid is mentioned

[masonlindroth]

Recent commissioned work.

[transparentfossil]

2.4" Spiny Ceratarges Trilobite - Zireg, Morocco

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Result from yesterdays Emu Bay Shale #paleostream! This was our first Cambrian formation piece AND No. 50 in this series! This place had some interesting challenges attached to it and it's fauna has some fascinating members.

Over the last few decades we have begun to get a better idea of the diversity of radiodonts and the Emu Bay Shale shows us parts of it. In this case we have two simolarly sized anomalicarids. Anomalocaris itself and similarly sized, but filter feeding Echidnacaris.

The tricky parts come in when we look at depositional environment. As this sketch by Pregistorica (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4jvyoxo2m7gkd6ip7z2b6lq5) shows: we have animals living in the shallows, the water collum and in a deep basin BUT, they were all preserved at the bottom of this basin. Which begs the question where...

...to best put the camera for this piece. Eventually we settled for a position just below the beginning of the slope, trying to max the amount of species but also keeping the composition interesting. Size chart this week came from discord users African Mud Turtle and F0ssilized.

[transparentfossil]

2.8" "Trident" Walliserops Trilobite

[kiabugboy]

Anyone here who's into Trilobites, i got a video for you

Based on the new trilobite soft tissues discovered in a Middle cambrian Morrocan specimen that's been buried in a volcano.

Full video on my youtube channel!

Kiabugboy

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

https://scitechdaily.com/truly-astonishing-discovery-of-500-million-year-old-pompeii-trilobite-fossils-shake-up-scientific-understanding-of-the-long-extinct-group/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381772319_Rapid_volcanic_ash_entombment_reveals_the_3D_anatomy_of_Cambrian_trilobites

Sources ^

[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.

[transparentfossil]

1.35" Pelagic Trilobite (Cyclopyge) Fossil - Huge Eyes