#holocene

[tigertoons]

Thylacine mother cleans her child - 2 hours, 42 minutes

[rubixramblings]

Yeen Fact #666: Bone Room

Yeen Fact #666: "In Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava-tube system, archaeologists found a vast "bone room" filled with hundreds of thousands of animal remains (plus some human bones). The culprit? Striped Hyenas, dragging in and chewing on them for at least 6000-7000 years (A den reused and added to for millennia). Hyena tooth-marks, coprolites, and even hyena skeletons in the deposit confirm who did the housekeeping."

This has been another fun Hyena Fact.

[transparentfossil]

3.7" Fossil Mud Lobster (Thalassina) - Gunn Poin, Australia

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

There is no tomorrow for Moa kind.

In this result of yesterdays #paleostream we explore the Holocene of New Zealand, a world we largely lost not even 1000 years ago.

For this piece we did something a little different. While one locality, Pyramid valley, informed us largely on the bony remains, another Dart river valley, offered moa coprolites and a literally cinematic setting.

Dart river offers us a locality with a lot of moa diversity and provided a lot of information on the ecology of this lost guild of mega herbivores. Down to their preferred habitats and foods.

In this size chart by Discord members Tim and Gnath you get an idea for the huge loss in fauna these islands have experienced since the arrival of humans (extinct stuff on the left. Humans also appear in the stream image, but I wanted to make their appearance not directly visible.

[aberrantologist]

The Carolina parakeet was a North American parrot declared extinct due to human activity less than a century ago.

[transparensie]

spring to summer

[alex-fictus]

can you do the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō ?? or the whole family that went extinct? love those guys :(

I got to do this design for a commission and they were kind enough to allow it to enter the main Paleo Party once it was finished!

Stickers!

[skintartan]

HOLOCENE

BLUEPRINTS: Of course. There is a room *behind* this one, locked within your former double's head.

Holocene is probably my favorite character in the game. Had an absurd amount of fun painting this one - all the textures, lines, dotted patterns, splashes and little details.