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Is it a shrimp? Is it a jellyfish?
Nope. It's pseudo-anomalocaris! Extremely happy because of how its fossils would confuse paleontologists in the future.
Eumecichthys fiski // @franzanth
The unicorn crestfish lives in open water at around 1000 m (3300 ft) deep. Despite its slender body, fossils suggest that its early relatives looked more like their shorter, round-bodied cousin, the opah.
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Remembering French paleontologist Marcellin Boule #OnThisDay. His study of Neanderthals in the early 1900s is often pointed to as the source for the creatures' brutish image https://t.co/tNohDfb21W #histsci #fossils
Bergamodactylus is named after Bergamo province in Italy where it was found in the 1970s. #pterosaur #science #fossils https://t.co/YNvLG0koUs
New on Pteros: Carniadactylus lived about 215 million years ago near the northern shore of the ancient Tethys Ocean. #pterosaurs #fossils #science https://t.co/4eKpuu9uB9
Yixian pterosaurs // @franzanth
This formation in China is among the richest known site for Cretaceous Period fossils all over the world. It was a lakeside environment with a number of feathered dinosaurs and a variety of pterosaurs that fed on fish.
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Famous British paleontologist Richard Owen mistakenly identified Lonchodectes as Pterodactylus way back in 1851. This seems to have happened a lot. #pterosaur #fossils #science https://t.co/93epUzaQtU
Since fossils don't preserve soft tissue, it's hard to tell what dinosaurs might have looked like. Many artists just leave off possible feathers, quills and skin flaps. But if we drew modern animals the same way - well, baboons might look like this. 🖼️: https://t.co/kmWy3LBW5J
Every time someone tells me “crocodiles are living fossils, they have never changed in millions of years” I go and reconstruct one of the MANY odd looking pseudosuchians (croc-line archosaurs) that will appear in my book #paleoart #pseudosuchians
Fish fact: The earliest relatively-complete fish fossils date around 470 million years ago. Here are artist renditions of Arandaspis from Australia (470my old) and Sacabambaspis (450my) from Bolivia. Both are armored jawless fishes.
It's not a garlic. Or maybe it is?
Inaria is a shallow water thingy that lived 550 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Australia and Russia. It's a ~mysterious~ creature but paleontologists suspect it might be related to corals and jellyfishes. #FossilFriday
Both fossil specimens of Prejanopterus show a snout curved to the left. If this is not distortion of the fossil, Prejanopterus is surely one of the weirdest #pterosaurs. #fossils #science https://t.co/OJgmPKFOga
New at #TetZoo... Enough With the 'Duckbilled Dinosaurs'! Do you know how long it took to draw all those goddam scales? https://t.co/J0ULT5WYF3 … #dinosaurs #evolution #fossils #TetZoo
Illustrations inspired by the complexity of rocks and fossils: https://t.co/QL76DCyrY9
The exceptional fossil of Beipiaopterus contains preserved skin with blood vessels that may have been used for regulation of body heat. #pterosaur #fossils #science https://t.co/3aOLdA5HCj
Vampyronassa // @franzanth
Vampyronassa was described as a vampire squid relative from the Mid-Jurassic. Though similar in appearance, some people doubt the classification due to the trickiness of analyzing cephalopod fossils.
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NEW Spider Bandana & Invertebrate Fossil Bandana up for preorder, each in 2 colors! I'm really excited to introduce these new designs! #sciart #insects #arachnids #fossils https://t.co/U7XMQrW3jb