Rough color block vs final; thank god for so I don't have to waste paper on a bunch of rough sketches before I find something I like. I was inspired by the vibrance of extant sea turtles, which are never just plain brown or green

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All this talk of big cows demands perspective! Certainly the body size is big (& there are some huge specimens), but please, it pales in horn size to the which is the largest extant horned animal on Earth! Just goes to show that the Watusi is the real Bos

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The fossilized skeletons of pterosaurs - which look quite different from any extant flying vertebrate - baffled many early palaeontologists. One early theory suggested that pterosaurs were flying marsupials.

(Credit below)

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Quadrivium: Animals displaying instruments of astronomy instead of the more usual musical instruments in a margin of Ptolemy's "Almagest," manuscript from the early 1300s: BL Burney 275, f. 390v: pillar sundial, equatorium, astrolabe, and sextant

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Baleen whales are known for their large size, but in the past some were relatively small. Here's the Oligocene baleen whale Fucaia goedertorum, its skull and mandibles are not much larger than the extant Pacific White-Sided Dolphin

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And we'd like you to meet the 6th of our new sharks for GUZZLE - he's a Megamouth Shark!
Megamouth sharks are a species of deepwater shark. They are the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks.

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Chuffed to have had the pleasure of drawing more dinos for the awesome recently! They were used in an epic battle between at . I hope my spinosaurus put up a good fight for 🦖

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Happy
Today commemorates the of the (Pinguinus impennis), a large flightless in the family that lived in the North Atlantic and was hunted to extinction in 1844. Let's and our extant seabirds!

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◎貴サークル「SEXTANT」は、日曜日 東地区“リ”ブロック-05a に配置されました。
 
ありがとうございます!受かってました!
鷺沢文香さんの成人向本頑張ります!

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Hooray for extant dinosaurs!

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Cool new article in today (https://t.co/czcN7cbCWq) by Krister Smith, , et al. on pineal evolution based on a fossil monitor lizard. I wrote the commentary: https://t.co/xsabNG9u4S. Here's a modded image based on an scan of an extant Varanus.

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Michelangelo, “The Torment of St Anthony,” the artist’s earliest extant easel painting, from after a print on the same theme by Martin Schongauer

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1916 fashion plate of a very unique seaside ensemble. Have you ever seen a similar extant version? https://t.co/0gookiQv6A

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I also do illustrations of extant dinosaurs (AKA birds)

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Steve is having fun with his sextant today. How has your day been?

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Imagine how heavy an extant version of this 1896 dress would be- & it was meant for summer!

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National Bird Day came, went, and no one told me! My belated pic here, for those who ask if I ever paint Extant life

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1874 evening gowns. An extant version of the floral one would be extraordinary!

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With a logo like mine you'd think I'd be watching the biput no its extant for me time

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