Marble is porous and stainable, coating of sculptures with untinted wax for protection goes way back. As does encaustic painting; nothing much is preserved from classical easel painting, save for the fayum mummy portraits.

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I'm just thinking about NMS pterosaur - I love how some pterosaurs are nicely preserved with wings neatly tucked, and some look like they've been taken out of washing machine and driven over by 4x4 truck.

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Amberite is a new breakable mineral that contains perfectly-preserved mosquitoes.

They're so perfectly preserved, they're still alive!

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A Yokai a Day 18: Waniguchi(鰐口)
They are what shrine gongs become if it's carefully preserved and maintained. That's how a majority of tsukumogami, like this one, came to be. Its namesake and form might have been the gong itself resembling a crocodile's mouth.

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Befitting a Scottish research group, presents the first peak at our stunning 3D preserved Middle Jurassic pterosaur from the Isle of Skye! https://t.co/flN0bAHt66

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is almost complete. The blue bones are the preserved elements. The skull is amazing and resembles very much that of Rugops.

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Bloodmarket Cave is used by a number of groups to trade with a group of mysterious grey-robed humans that are assumed to be slaves / operatives for an unknown mind flayer colony. They offer black adamantine coins in trade for preserved sapient brains...

https://t.co/HW4Kkygdm8

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巨乳化コラを久しぶりに保存しました。
誰か…こういうコラ画像が集まる場所を教えて下さい,,,

Long time no see,,,
I preserved big tits Photoshop image.
Someone,please tell me where many such Photoshop images are gathered!

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my undead Kaldorei, Billie Fairchyld. The first one is what they look like dead, the second is alive. They've only recently were turned undead and have been fairly well preserved.

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The Kitchen Garden in October, by Eric Ravilious. In: Ambrose Heath, "The Country Life cookery book: with a few hints and reminders about the kitchen garden", London: Country Life, 1937.

I wonder what is preserved in the jars - pIckled fruits or vegetables?

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Improved vertex group selection for Now you can select multiple mesh vertex groups and put them into matching GP vertex goups as you wish. Weights are also preserved, and you can choose to use 0/1 or smooth weight for adjusting your lines :D

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🐸It’s from N’kai that frightful Tsathoggua came—you know, the amorphous, toad-like god-creature mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts & the Necronomicon & the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton🎨Mark Kelly (grimventures)🐸#ClarkAshtonSmith

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Sinopterus

Related to tapejara and surprisingly well preserved compared to the other members of its family, it was also the first one discovered outside of Brazil

ALT: as the other members of its family it was likely an omnivore, eating small animals, seeds, probably even fruit

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"Would you accept my confession?"

Who did you give your preserved flower to in the game?

Naomi from Story of Seasons:Friends of Mineral Town

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St. Januarius, Bishop of Beneventum, and his Companions

St. Januarius, his deacons, and others were beheaded at Puteoli during the persecution of Diocletian in 305. Some of the blood of St. Januarius, preserved in a phial, liquefies each year when placed near the martyrs head.

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Octomedusa

A jellyfish that grew to 2 cm of diameter, its named after the number of tentacles it has, its rare that this type of animal gets preserved at all

ALT: depending on preservation, 8 tentacles, an irregular edge and even a mouth opening might be marked on the fossil

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Encaustic mummy portraits from Egypt, 1st and 2nd century AD. These soulful portraits of Egyptians from the Roman Empire were painted on wood and affixed to the mummies of upper class citizens. Due to the climate of Egypt, many of these portraits are very well preserved.

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Erratum: due to poor quality of references I got the number of toes on mara hind legs wrong, and I had to go back and change the painting. This one fits the real tridactyl condition of these animals which logically would be preserved in the Maraffee.

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Natalia Polosmak, one of the leading experts of Pazyryk nomads speaks abt this unique Iron Age culture for New Archaeology. In 1993 she found 'Ukok Princess', a mummy of tattooed Pazyryk woman with the world’s best preserved & most elaborate body artwork https://t.co/GzZmYHRF8m

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Congrats on the (slight) recovery, here's to a full one!

I'm Reuben and I paint fantasy stuff; here's some of my stuff! As for my fave toppings, I like preserved artichokes, mild sausage, and ricotta, apart from the usual stuff.

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