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Wonambi naracoortensis (Giant Python) was a genus of non-venomous, constrictor snakes which acted as an ambush predator that killed its prey by constriction. It lived in modern day Australia about 23-0.01 MYA. Wonambi is the Aboriginal word for “rainbow serpent.” #FossilFriday
Is it a shrimp? Is it a jellyfish?
Nope. It's pseudo-anomalocaris! Extremely happy because of how its fossils would confuse paleontologists in the future.
Eumecichthys fiski // @franzanth
The unicorn crestfish lives in open water at around 1000 m (3300 ft) deep. Despite its slender body, fossils suggest that its early relatives looked more like their shorter, round-bodied cousin, the opah.
https://t.co/T8lXEbS5WF
Working on some images of the fossil #MesozoicMammals we've been studying from #Jurassic #IsleofSkye. This is a digital render of the jaw of #Wareolestes. I hope to share more pics in the coming weeks 🐀
Cartoonist @davpope neatly sums-up the federal Coalition government’s #drought / #ClimateChange / #coal / #FossilFuels ‘policy’ out-of-whackery.
Via @GalileeBlockade
No. 140: Kabuto
Shellfish Pokémon
Kabuto is a Pokémon that has been regenerated from a fossil. However, in extremely rare cases, living examples have been discovered. The Pokémon has not changed at all for 300 million years.
For #FossilFriday, here's #paleoart of the Triassic pterosaur Caviramus schesaplanensis, an animal with long wings, a robust skull, and densely-packed multicusped teeth. If you like this artwork, it's available from Redbubble as prints and merchandise: https://t.co/RPJDJwy4y0
new phylogeny of tetras and allies (4th largest fish family) based on huge morphological dataset: 520 characters for 473 species, including several fossils
Morphology, molecules and the phylogeny of Characidae (Teleostei, Characiformes)
https://t.co/2rANtNI2xH
We have a school in today taking part in the #DeepHistoryCoast Fossil Workshop' Students are having great fun pretending to be a T-Rex, learning about the West Runton Mammoth and belamites have been found!!
'12 drawings of Dinosaurs' by Miss Alice Bolingbroke Woodward
Remembering French paleontologist Marcellin Boule #OnThisDay. His study of Neanderthals in the early 1900s is often pointed to as the source for the creatures' brutish image https://t.co/tNohDfb21W #histsci #fossils
Spinosaurus is here to celebrate the last day of Pride Month!
#Paleoart #FossilFriday #Pride #PrideMonth #Spinosaurus #Dinosaur #JurassicJune
Personal work. A Compsognathus fossil, once thought to be discovered carrying an embryo, was later found to be housing the skeleton of a Bavarisaurus lizard that had been swallowed whole. #vectorthatfox #illustration #dinosaurs
Have some monstrous fun with some Fossil Ghoul artwork for The DynoGuard.
Aerodactyl - the Fossil Pokemon
I've been wanting to draw Aerodactyl in the style I draw my own original dragons for a while now, and I think it came out pretty neat! I've only recently come to appreciate how cool Aerodactyl is. I love prehistoric dragon dinosaurs.
Fossil Hunters soundtrack by Robby Duguay is now available https://t.co/iBYjGgYMu9
Najash Rionegrina was a basal snake from the Late Cretaceous found in modern Patagonia, Argentina. Najash was unusual because it had well-developed hind legs that extend outside the rib cage & were structural part of something resembling a hip. #FossilFriday
Morphology & phylogeny of fossil snake mackerels and cutlassfishes from Eocene London Clay Fm (Isle of Sheppey) https://t.co/CvnbrNV8mA #FossilFriday
For #FossilFriday, here's #paleoart of battling Iguanodon. We're used to the idea of igaunodonts having huge thumb spikes to fight with, but they're quite small and/or blunt in many species. Iguanodon has very large thumb spikes however, and may have used them antagonistically.