Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)さんのイラストまとめ

This illustration shows the immense stomach capacity of Chiasmodontidae, which are for good reason also called swallowers. Thanks to @jethroreading32 to bring my attention to this great piece of historical zoology art. #deepsea

The soft tissue of the #dugong lips is absolutely freaky to say it at least. The isolated tusks look surprisingly similar to those of a hippo, and there was in fact a historic case in which a severed dugong head in a shark stomach was mistaken for an out-of-place hippo head.

@jordantyranny @RSprackland There were a lot of really freaky prehistoric deers. Sadly they are usually often in the shadows of Megaloceros, and they don´t get much attention in general.

Whe you realize that some medieval miniature painter of the 13th century accidentally made a preview life reconstruction of the bizarre "#unicorn" which was drawn in 1749 by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz based on ice age mammal bones from the #Einhornhöhle (unicorn cave) of the Harz.

No modern species of crocoylian is really green, at very best we find a vaguely greenish mix of greyish and yellow in a few species. And yet the idea that crocodiles are green is so prevalent that we find even countless reconstructions of prehistoric crocs which are deep green.

Some more details of the giant #Berardius. The surface with those countless scars took extremely much time to finish. And yet it shows only a rather moderately scared specimen, in reality many older Baird´s beaked whales are just covered in scar tissue.

There are some good physiological reasons to consider that some of the largest ground sloths were actually more or less hairless. But I have another explanation, giant ground sloths were just #kaiju #aardvarks. Change my mind. Life-rec of Eremotherium by @JoschuaKnuppe

Lamnid sharks have all a similar general body shape, but yet they differ a lot in shape, proportions and color. That´s something we really have to keep in mind when reconstructing #Megalodon, there is really no reason to assume that it just looked like an oversized #greatwhite

A new blog article about the spectacular fossils from the island of Mors in Northern Jutland: https://t.co/Vn8EiEWHDX