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More silly little doodols and a Kiwibara
Sometimes I wanna know what mother nature was smoking
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged Wiwaxia, an animal (possibly a mollusc) from the Early and Middle Cambrian.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged hyolith (Lophotrochozoa), this one is from the Cambrian.
tribute to anomalocaris
cambrian abc for art class ...
STUPID anomalocarises
Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains of a huge new fossil species belonging to an extinct animal group in half-a-billion-year-old Cambrian rocks from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The findings were announced on September 8, 2021, in a study published in Royal Society Open Science.
Named Titanokorys gainesi, this new species is remarkable for its size. With an estimated total length of half a meter, Titanokorys was a giant compared to most animals that lived in the seas at that time, most of which barely reached the size of a pinky finger.
“The sheer size of this animal is absolutely mind-boggling, this is one of the biggest animals from the Cambrian period ever found,” says Jean-Bernard Caron, ROM’s Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology.
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It's the Cambrian Explosion!! ~ 🎶
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Opabinia:
Anomalocaris:
Trilobite:
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Recently, I have been very interested in these small ancient creatures because of my current college project. And since I'm proud of these arts (it's been so long since my last traditional artwork -w-"), I decided to post them here, even though they aren't very related to my main content X"D.
Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains of a huge new fossil species belonging to an extinct animal group in half-a-billion-year-old Cambrian rocks from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The findings were announced on September 8, 2021, in a study published in Royal Society Open Science.
Named Titanokorys gainesi, this new species is remarkable for its size. With an estimated total length of half a meter, Titanokorys was a giant compared to most animals that lived in the seas at that time, most of which barely reached the size of a pinky finger.
“The sheer size of this animal is absolutely mind-boggling, this is one of the biggest animals from the Cambrian period ever found,” says Jean-Bernard Caron, ROM’s Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology.
Continue Reading.
It's the Cambrian Explosion!! ~ 🎶
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Opabinia:
Anomalocaris:
Trilobite:
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Recently, I have been very interested in these small ancient creatures because of my current college project. And since I'm proud of these arts (it's been so long since my last traditional artwork -w-"), I decided to post them here, even though they aren't very related to my main content X"D.
Thinking about it, the squishiness makes perfect sense, particularly given that fossils of the claws (frontal apendages) and mouthparts (oral cones) were the first parts of the critter to be discovered and (mis)identified...
Speaking of which, I'm sure you know this already but I just think it's cool, the reason for the name Anomalocaris is because it was named for the frontal apendage (grasping claw thing) which was originally thought to be the body of a weird shrimp-like creature, hence the meaning of the latin name, 'weird shrimp' (or more accurately, 'abnormal shrimp' or 'unlike other shrimps')...
If you didn't know, when people call anomalocaris a shrimp It's just jokey! Shrimp are arthropods like insects and arachnids. Anomalocarids were more like arthropod adjacent or according to some models part of a group ancestral to proper arthropods.
Velvet worms are the only modern example of anything possibly related to them, and anomalocaris would have had the same soft worm-like anatomy. YES even educational materials and scientific diagrams give it a jointed hard exoskeleton but yes this is just wrong and we actually knew it was wrong for most of the time we've known about them. They were squishy like a big caterpillar!
holy SHIT please read the whole thread and many more of these images right here, this artist put together an updated Opabinia reconstruction where every single one of these minute details (except coloration, obviously) are fully sourced making this most likely the first depiction factoring in 100% of current knowledge about it. Even I didn’t know it had little feet like a velvet worm and could have walked around on them! I never knew exactly how the trunk is oriented or how many “teeth” it is! I especially didn’t know the mouth was that weird! And I kind of assumed this since it’s a lobopod and all, but the whole animal was soft and squishy except for the eyes and the teeth. It did not have armor plates or a jointed exoskeleton like a lot of people portray. This also means all five of the eyes would have been able to bend and look around independently! The eye structure in fossils also indicates that they would have PSEUDOPUPILS! That’s the pupil-like dot in the eyes of insects like mantises!
Another #paleostream sketch
I frequently critique alien designs in pop culture for being incredible unimaginative. One reason is that our own plants history has seem numerous clades come and go that put Hollywoods creativity to shame.
Here some Lyrarapax (a radiodont) attack a Yuyuanozoon, the largest known member of a clade called Vetulicolia
THE SPIRAL OF TIME How many Prehistoric critters can you name in the Spiral?
I have finished my latest video! Its not much, but Im proud of it!
Here's a little 2d edited project I've been working on! Its got a bunch of prehistory all in one drawing! Its got critters from the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic ,Cretaceous and so on and so on!! Its just a little edited progress timelapse to show all that's happened but I hope you all enjoy it!! Can you find your favorite prehistoric denizen?
THE SPIRAL OF TIME How many Prehistoric critters can you name in the Spiral?
have finished my latest video! Its not much, but Im proud of it!
Here's a little 2d edited project I've been working on! Its got a bunch of prehistory all in one drawing! Its got critters from the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic ,Cretaceous and so on and so on!! Its just a little edited progress timelapse to show all that's happened but I hope you all enjoy it!! Can you find your favorite prehistoric denizen?
Got an Announcement coming soon!! If you like paleoart and you would like to wear your favorite critter as a Pin or have any particular prehistoric animals you would want as a pin, then stay tuned for something big coming!