Latest fossil to my collection. A orthoceras which was a squid like creature that swam the ocean 360million years ago in the Devonian age

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For here's a throwback of Lunaspis, the Devonian placoderm whose name appropriately means 🌙🛡️ (weird to remember the entire 1st half of 2018 for me was drawing the Paleozoic with colored pencils in a sketchbook)

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Another Ghibli piece. Ponyo, Sosuke, and a bunch of Devonian fish.

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Late Devonian //

The early forests of Late Devonian altered the environment, forcing animals to adapt. Creatures like Tiktaalik, a transitional animal showing traits of both fish and amphibians, lived in this period.

https://t.co/c0ckDTzZNl

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Progress made on my series Deep Time Dramas! Working to combine and expression. Plenty more to go on these (including actually adding animals ofc)
1. The Devonian - love, connectivity
2. The Ordovician/Silurian Extinction - indecision, separation

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Pterygotus was a gigantic arthropod that could grow to 2.3 metres long! They lived during the early Silurian-Devonian period. They had a pair of large eyes & a smaller pair in the centre of their head.

(Credit: Olof Helje)

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Fish heads: Neurocranial anatomy of an enigmatic Early Devonian fish sheds light on early osteichthyan evolution https://t.co/AplI0A5Q10

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Letter B is for !

Fun fact: boreaspis was the most suspicious prehistoric fish & did not work well together. This made them easy prey & actually caused them to go extinct long before the Late Devonian Extinction 🙃

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Devonians - top notch musical comedy The Ministry of Biscuits is coming to Ashburton on 10th May: https://t.co/PfpSRH4OzI
More about the show here: https://t.co/bNvb4aK0sG
Illustration by

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Fractured Devonian granites of West Moose River pluton, Cobequid Shear Zone, NS: regional mineralization
https://t.co/J5AXf98MYd

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A newly discovered tetrapod-like fish from the Devonian shakes up the marine-terrestrial transition. Zhu et al https://t.co/ZLi7sqyPw5

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I swear this fish's face is like, the Devonian period's kawaii shonen hero.

BOREASUPISU-MAN, TASUKETE~

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Late Devonian forest // Franz Anthony
The early forests of Devonian altered the environment, forcing animals like Tiktaalik to move to land.

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Kiktaalik's eye, close-up. Late Devonian art. https://t.co/hrguDKilbN

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Definitely making the list of top 10 best armoured fish of the Devonian period, it's Dunkleosteus!

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Tiktaaliks eye, with nictitating membrane, Late Devonian. Watercolor and marker. https://t.co/Agn1NkeBIb

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Tiktaalik's eye, with nictitating membrane. For a Devonian comic, in development. https://t.co/b8fvVqoPG8

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