The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in @Nature, @MathiThiru95 and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. https://t.co/i05me2SXI4
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Arctic fox and homotherium cub. Maybe, lower part was eaten by scavengers? Or just some even less lucky kitten
I was hoping to finish this during homotherium craze, but, like wounded muskox, gave up the fight.
#paleoart#fox#DigitalArtist#Animal#IceAge
Shrub Ass - breed of ass that was bred for independent life in harsh environment, valued for unpretentiousness, high intelligence and strenght, although can be aggressive towards humans
I forgor that i have twitter...
So, this is a fanart for one of my favourite games, the Amazon Ascension in roblos, that suddenly became a loading screen. Quite great, innit?
#fanart#ROBLOX#shark#amazon#fishing
Prehistoric clash!
Old drawings of european leopard (Panthera pardus spelaea) and european dhole (Cuon alpinus europaeus), that met somewhere in Germany, during the Eemian interglacial. Meant to be a giftcard for meh frien
#paleoart#panther#leopard#battle#drawing#photoshop
Parabubalis capricornis defending calf from vicious red fox somewhere in Altai mountains.
Parabubalis was hartebeest-like antelope, that lived in the Siberian steppes during late Pleistocene, and possibly could last to bronze age!
#paleoart#antelope#fox#drawing
@MarkusBhler10 "Parabubalis capricornis V. Gromova, 1931.
?Late PleistoceneβHistoric Holocene, Transbaikalia; in Altai, perhaps until the 1st millennium BCE. Holotype (Zhercha River valley (Shilka River basin), Transbaikalia) in count. depicted: Fundamentals of paleontology. Mammals. fig 520"
@MarkusBhler10 Since Parabubalis was described in 1930-s and based on only one skull piece, only reliable info that i have found was old soviet paleontology textbook. It can be outdated, but it's the only we have