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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

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2022-05-13

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.

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2022-05-12

Verneuil's masterful touch with pen and ink inspires my own work with dinosaurs - he made the "ugly" and "creepy" world of invertebrates into beautiful objects of art.

"Dragonflies and Reeds"
"Mushroom and Two Snails/Ladybugs and Ginkgo Leaves"
"Snails"

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2022-05-02

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

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

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2022-04-29

I have some invertebrates art too

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2022-04-29

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

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2022-04-27



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.

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2022-04-23

And from the vault iconic future critters the Ocean Flish from TFIW stands remarkable, these constitute a bizarre new radiation of vertebrates from the ocean after tetrapods were wipe out of the face of earth, becoming one of the many recovering animals on 200 m.y.

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2022-04-20

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

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2022-04-17


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

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2022-04-01

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

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2022-03-31

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.

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2022-03-31

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.

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2022-03-26

Ichthyornis has a peculiar sternum with highly crossed coracoid sulci. Skeletal asymmetry, while uncommon in vertebrates, it is challenging for retrodeformation. However, using our new workflow we were able to reconstruct the complete sternum including the asymmetrical parts 10/n

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2022-03-25

“All Creatures Great & Small” Limited edition print, celebrating colour, texture, shape & diversity in the wonderful world of invertebrates. https://t.co/of3Wdgrgmo

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2022-03-03

Pycnosteus

A relatively large 80 cm long jawless fish, his body was heavily armored and looked similar to that of a ray, it likely searched trough vegetation for small invertebrates

ALT: It was originally believed to be a new species of Ganosteus, another armored jawless fish

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2022-02-25

“Burying beetles are true to their name—they bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and rodents as a food source for their larvae.”

https://t.co/Ne4IWeAm7N

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2022-02-21

“All Creatures Great & Small”. Limited edition print of incredible invertebrates - Living treasures. 💚#MHHSBD https://t.co/Z2fRJ6m5qa

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2022-02-16

Did you know that among vertebrates, only chameleons are known to have a bony airborne sound receiver? Learn more about research on the chameleon atympanic middle ear by here:
https://t.co/9YuQvrjby5

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2022-02-15