🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
50+ specimens of Mosasaurus lemonnieri were found in Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk Formation in Hainaut, Belgium 1880s. They have now been thoroughly redescribed, with one specimen a new species - Thoraxion tahlequahae!
🎨: @Shamu_blackfish
encountered a funny bug when testing the new ability for aegirocassis against an megalograptus..
I've settled on a defensive knockback thrash for it, and I'll include some water/bubble fx as well as panic scattering of any follower fish that im going to be creating after
After developing a robot learned from early ichthyosaurs (Chaohusaurus) fin parts were reassembled and converted to more advanced ichthyosaur. Attempt to predict the differences in swimming between the early ichthyosaurs and several evolved ichthyosaurs. For science education.
🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
New Crossognathiform fish named Mictlanichthys from Turonian-aged marine marls of the Mexcala Formation, San José de Gracia Quarry, Molcaxac Municipality, Puebla, Mexico.
🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
New frond-fossil described as Dengyingia pennata from Ediacaran Shibantan Member of Dengying Fm, Wuhe, Yangtze Gorges area, South China. Represents transitional form from Charnia-like proarticulans to modern sessile filter-feeders like sea pens.
🎨: Zhe Chen
Result from the fifth Lemuria stream! In this we covered the fauna and flora of the deltas. These in-between habitats house a wide array of critters that go in and out of water and in and out of the sea. Giant carps and algae munching simosuchids are a common sight.
Here the result of the coastal Lemuria piece! Penguins, plotopterids and whales pile of the shores of Lemuria which is increasingly rocky on the northern shore thanks to the subduction up here. Many of the cliffs here are reddish in color due to the red corals that were common...
have the new filter-feeding foods and systems set up! as well as a large dust impact/drag cloud for aegirocassis-sized creatures and up, and a showcase of the new lively eyes for megalograptus (also new godrays! but they are still WIP, trying to figure out a good look for them)
#PaleoAgainstAI
The AI 'docu' Jurassic Sharks.
A glimpse into a future in which AI, dumbed-down narration and the inclusion of talking heads for 'credibility' conspire to make scicomm lose credibility altogether.
A THREAD. (1/?)
(Left: real reconstructions; Right: on-screen AIGC)
The Ordovician episode of Surviving Earth aired tonight and while only on screen for a few seconds I did recognize my favorite animal to make concept art of: Phacops. While it is one of the most common trilobites ever I had such a blast painting this little guy!