[pmamtraveller]

The Spectral Titans, by Anthony Machuca

[katborg82]

Deinocheirus mirificus, a large humpbacked ornithomimosaur that lived in Mongolia during the late cretaceous period. It likely frequented wet marshlands, using its muscular arms and flat toothless bill to gather and eat aquatic plants.

[dozydawn]

“Although there are several theories about the origin of Dominican blue amber, there is a great probability that it owes its existence to ingredients such as anthracene as a result of 'incomplete combustion' due to forest fires among the extinct species Hymenaea protera trees about 25 to 40 million years ago.”

[rawrdinosaurfriends]

Day 18: Triceratops

Wellness check-in. Have you had your mud bath and snack today?

[img id] Digital cel-shaded artwork of a chunky, creamsicle-colored triceratops plonked into an isometric square chunk of marshy grassland. The dinosaur is sitting, winsome expression directed at the viewer, with its reptilian tail poking out the back. The horizontal lower half of the triceratops is covered with bluish-black mud, some still wet and sliding down its body. A chunk of wet grass in the triceratops’s beak drips into the muddy water surrounding its feet and butt. More grass remains to be eaten around the triceratops’s hedonistic resting spot. [/id]

[sierraveree-art]

Art Isn't Optional

(a line borrowed from John Green @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog in The Anthropocene Reviewed, about the human desire to make art and the existence of cave art)

This is a pot I created for my ceramics handbuilding class, approx 1 ft tall. Based on neolithic pottery and painted with an homage to the cavepaintings in Lascaux.

[mossworm]

Orthoceras (big) and Lituites

[aberrantologist]

Hupehsuchus does... whatever by some stromatolites.

[mindblowingscience]

125-million-year-old fossil reveals 'pregnant' shellfish

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Graciela Delvene of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (CSIC) has uncovered the old

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Graciela Delvene of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (CSIC) has uncovered the oldest known evidence of maternal care in shellfish, revealing that some freshwater species were protecting and incubating their young more than 125 million years ago. Published today in Scientific Reports, the new research found fossilized soft tissues preserved inside ancient shells. This is a remarkable discovery because such tissues normally decay soon after an animal dies. Among these tissues were microscopic embryos and larvae preserved within the gills.

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[gracerbasilisk]

take it all in stride / speak, don't confide

[mossworm]

Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras

[rawrdinosaurfriends]

Day 19: Plesiosaurus

Sea reptile chases fish in kindly style This monster is real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace.

Has very wide smile.

[img id] Digital cel-shaded artwork of a plesiosaur at the end of a failed lunge to catch one of ten fish. The plesiosaurus is giant, whale-like, with its vertical tail poised upwards in the seawater, and its head brushing the sandy seafloor. Clouds of disturbed sand float around the plesiosaur’s head, long neck, and fin. This plesiosaur was drawn from the more modern idea that giant sea animals have a lot of blubber. This means its neck starts out as thick as its belly and then tapers, evenly, to the width of its narrow head. The fish being hunted are yellow, with red heads and purple rainbow fins. The whole scene takes place on an isometric chunk of seafloor, during a sunset that stains the sand and rocks violet-pink. Red corals perch on a corner of sea rock nearby. A sad little fish skeleton can be seen buried in the sand. [/id]

[paleoart]

Oh, to be enjoying the warm waters of the WIS. Patreon • Ko-fi • BlueSky  • Instagram • Prints & Merch  

[transparentfossil]

5.7" Pyritized Ammonite (Quenstedticeras) Fossil Composite Cluster

[blueiscoool]

Memory of an Ancient Forest Slice of Quercus Simulata Wood

Miocene, 23–55 Million Years Ago Stinking Water Pass, Harney County, Oregon, USA

Petrified wood, quite literally “wood turned to stone,” is created when the structure of a tree is slowly replaced by minerals, preserving it in stunning three-dimensional detail. Unlike most fossil plants, which survive only as impressions, each piece of petrified wood retains the intricate architecture of the original, with colors and patterns shaped by the tree’s lifetime, the conditions of its burial, and the final polish that reveals its beauty.

[masonlindroth]

Recent commissioned work.

[cosmicanger]

Petoskey stones ~ fossilized coral that lived 350 million years ago - the rocks rounded in the surf along the shore of Lake Michigan near Petosky, Michigan

[transparentfossil]

25g Mahoumacrinus sp. Scyphocrinites elegants Crinoid Devonian Fossil 1262