Hoping to elude the hunting efforts of a haast eagle a group of sea lion pups fled depper into the forest.
…the slowest one never made it
Inspired by a recent talk hypothesizing that this Zealand sea lion behavior is a relic from when giant eagles were a threat
Freshwater stingrays (#Potamotrygon sp.) have a weird "batman" mutation that some aquarists are actively cultivating. The fins fail to join up with the head and the fish ends up looking like a flappy frog-blanket-tadpole... thing. Cute?
I'm a sci-fi author and artist and I am now taking commissions - including "realistic" #mysingingmonsters renditions. Here is Bleatnik. Please let me know if you want more monsters illustrated this way.
My first poster illustrates the work on Sinosaurus sinensis that I and a few others completed last year. It includes a reconstruction based on the skeletal model I created and a wealth of other information!
Little homage painting dedicated to the old artificial restoration of the #Ulemica_invisa from the Paleozoic exhibition of the Paleontological Institute in Moscow
See the original art in the comments below↓