Catchup Day 25: Flying Crustaceans
With pleopods and an abdomen specialized for respiration for air. as well as light flat wing-flippers, these Shrimps are analogous to Flying Fish. On a world where there's no vertebrates with a thick atmosphere, they thrive

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It's funny to me that some ppl think of me as the gnarly violent dino combat dude (which isn't untrue) but I'm also the dude who has painted tons of pretty plant life, sparkly fish & invertebrates, & animals nesting & parenting...

so maybe thats an external bias 🤷‍♂️

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Go ahead, buy a slugscraper today! (This post is not sponsored by the Breeding Centre of Deuvertebrates, Organization for Slugscraper Ecology nor the governments of the allied cities)

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September 23, 1832, a young Charles recovers his 1st South American at Punta Alta, Buenos Aires. Among other large vertebrates, he recovers also remains of the puzzling Toxodon
https://t.co/4znXdw82Qw 🦴
Artwork by Pelycosaur24 https://t.co/lGeEtF1Pp6

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The funny invertebrates game!

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To people referring to soil invertebrates as 'insects', I have made a visual for you. You could say this really bugs me.

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Day 1 of Terrestrial cetacean

The Shovel-faced Bogpoirse is a species of burrowing cetacean from the distant future that uses hardened hairs and iron reinforced teeth to dig through the soils of the wetlands it lives in, where it preys on burrowing invertebrates.

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Oh I guess for newer bug* art for I have these doodles!
I named my novel characters after invertebrates. I haven't drawn the fly yet, but I have another character named for the Lucilia genus.

*bug in the most loose sense of the word, none of these are true bugs 😆

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I am very partial to the crusty invertebrates 🥺

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Our results challenge the hypothesis of an escalation of Palaeozoic marine ecosystems and shed light into the factors that determined the disparate palaeobiogeographic patterns of micro vs macrosquamous armoured Palaeozoic jawless vertebrates. Ilustration by

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🦎🐍🐠🦂 PET PORTRAITS!! 🐶🐱🐭🐴
$20 for a simple style portrait, $50 for a realistic style portrait 💗 photo references will be required for both!

any pet can be done, from cats and dogs to reptiles and amphibians to fish and invertebrates!

DM if interested and please spread!

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Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa, fascinating isn't it? The process can be quite troublesome indeed, do you wish to witness it?

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'Sup, nerds?

is happening soon. If you're new here, it's a periodic event where we celebrate the often-overlooked invertebrates around us. This thread covers the details of the event, so keep reading!

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WHALEFALL
A game idea I'm tinkering with. Solo, Roll & Write, PNP.

Setup: Shade in a silhouette of a whale with a pencil.

Play: Erase shapes from its body. Draw them into ocean ecosystems.
• Round 1: Fish
• Round 2: Invertebrates
• Round 3: Bacteria

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The Venebill, a Generalist omnivorous Tapejarid Pterosaur of the HE titan jungles. They feed on a variety of foods from leaves, invertebrates, fruit to fish all the way to small vertebrates. They are also intelligent being as smart as a house cat.

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I did become a marine biologist - though I work with invertebrates, not 🐋&🐬
Flipper and Ocean Girl has to take some of the blame, as well as Sir David Attenborough

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Day 11: How do you pick character names?

Mostly, I just name them the first setting-appropriate thing that pops in my head! Sometimes if I'm struggling, I pick a theme and name the characters around that. For my current project, the theme is invertebrates!

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Newest of murrayi. These squat little were the most abundant land vertebrates in their communities.

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Insects are invertebrates. Invertebrates are fish. Therefore, insects are fish.

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Fannart of 's regional Crabrawler and my Regional Combee, funky desert invertebrates

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