I am very partial to the crusty invertebrates 🥺

11 28

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

9 34

🦎🐍🐠🦂 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!

12 33

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?

48 51

'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!

111 300

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

1 22

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.

3 68

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

0 1

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

78 227

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

39 491

Vertebrates are comparatively rare in Mazon creek with makes this temnospondyl such a treat. Soft tissue has been preserved including its delicate toe pads.
https://t.co/F8NBOQ6nIr

61 267

In particular, the scene showing the evolution of vertebrates is especially well done. The screen transitions smoothly and succinctly illustrate the major evolutionary steps from jawless fish to the ancestors of tetrapods. It’s a great example of animation’s endless potential.

0 7

The 2nd Round
3 Invertebrates, 2 Xenarthras, and 1 Pterosaur

Anteater:
Mantis Shrimp:
Glyptodon:
Jellyfish:
Pteranodon (Pterodactyl) :
Wasp: https://t.co/zds0YEuc5m

1 9

A wild Ctenophorae has appeared!

Comb jellies, are marine invertebrates that have eight rows of comb-like cilia on their transparent, gelatinous bodies.

Haeckélmon uses AI to synthesis Earnst Haeckels form studies of sea life and iconic Pokémon illustrations

0 5



Not a dinosaur? It must have been a great surprise to find the skull of an ancient animal with very big teeth in PEI back in 1845! Sphenacodontids are non-mammalian synapsids, large terrestrial vertebrates that lived before the dinosaurs during the Permian Period.

10 34

Project Praya Thread 5:
While vertebrates are the dominant terrestrial animals they are not the only rulers of Praya, the Skaravaitheres are a clade similar to vertebrates but evolving completely independent

19 79


"Neotropical fish alone make up 10% of all vertebrates on Earth."
🤙

11 43

Mammal reveal, meet the Gomble, a buckchisel tooth multituberculate that lives a generalist omnivorous lifestyle with a diet mainly consisting of invertebrates like eusocial insects https://t.co/LNtk3AV14W

2 16

Your ancestors were (very likely) four eyed freaks. There's evidence among the earliest vertebrates of two "optical" eyes, and two parietal eyes that sensed light/dark states and secreted hormones appropriately.

One of them "became" your brain's pineal gland.

49 214

Auroramamongus longirostris is a medium sized neoamongoid that lives in cuba and the carribean islands. it specializes in rooting up insect colonies and using its filimented arm to rake up the invertebrates.

6 46