Thagomizers

Used to make paleoart criticism videos. Now I just shitpost about grasslands. Actual wildlife conservation communicator. Main blog: @janicevaranus

[great-and-small]

Start appreciating her 😡

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[mammalianmammals]

[herpsandbirds]

Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) male displaying, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

photograph by Dallas Harrell

[herpsandbirds]

Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus), family Viperidae, WE TX, USA

Venomous.

photograph by Francisco Portillo

[antiqueanimals]

John Macallan Swan (1846-1910). The Leopard's Siesta. Watercolor.

National Gallery of Victoria

[stavrosskundromichalis]

It’s Velociraptor Awareness Day! Here’s a dancing teenager and three feisty chicks of everyone’s favourite raptor… Velociraptor mongoliensis 🥳

[inatungulates]

Common hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius

Observed by patpatasaur, CC BY-NC

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream!

More Pocket Prehistory with Mirasaura and Titanomyrma. Afterwards Brachytrachelopan (Horizon Style) and Kank!

[herpsandbirds]

Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), pair nesting in a saguaro cactus, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Arizona, USA

photograph by John Perry Baumlin

[herpsandbirds]

Arizona Black Rattlesnake (Crotalus cerberus), family Viperidae, Arizona, USA

Venomous.

photograph by Steve Tippett

[maggotmuncher0]

trying new koh-i-noor pencils!

request for @eb-and-j !

[scienceskink]

I will find you in every life (threat)

I am forever fascinated by the arms race between coelurosaurs and ceratopsians. Among the most famous rivals in palaeomedia growing up was Velociraptor and Protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, and of course I had to add two of my faves, Gorgosaurus and Styracosaurus!

Long time followers may recognise the bottom two skulls as art I have made previously, fun fact I have been sitting on this idea for a little over two years!

[desert-love]

[a-book-of-creatures]

When you see an adolescent saguaro 👍

[puppybotz]

I really hope attenborough just keeps going, I hope he hits 200 but everyone is too nervous to like bring it up or study him or whatever cuz it's david attenborough

[afieldinengland]

just overheard a mum in the museum ask her seven-year-old child ‘shall we say bye-bye to the skull?’

[boobookittenartblog]

Reconstruction of Metapterodon anari, the new Miocene hyaenodont from Pakistan that my fellow researchers and I named in the recent paper. The new hyaenodont, roughly the size of a red fox or small coyote, is in the foreground here in a scene reconstructing Pakistan during the early Late Miocene.

Text by Steven Jasinski

Illustration by Sergey Krasovskiy