If I type “A large priapulid worm living on the seafloor” to try and get a picture of Ottoia, it completely loses its mind. Whereas an artist can look at fossils, and look at images of living animals, and actually depict an animal. AI will never be able to do that.

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I prefer the idea of four Badges, but I thought I'd play around and see if I could make four more based on some of my

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[Anteaters excavating fossils. isometric. miniature.]
化石を発掘するアリクイたち。
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黒っぽいの色が盗掘感をだしてしまっているような。
左下、恐竜がコソッといるの可愛い。

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A-shu the Qianzhousaurus is a tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were discovered in Jiangxi, China. It was about 9 meters long and different from most tyrannosaurs of its time.

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And yet more! This is the Cambrian Sanctacaris uncata ("claw of saintly crab").

Discord: https://t.co/ccLCnOYrgq
Mod: https://t.co/Y6NJDxbpgZ

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The Jurassic 1m long otter-rat-lizard-mammal, Kayentatherium, coming soon to the mod.

Discord: https://t.co/ccLCnOYZ5Y
Mod: https://t.co/Y6NJDxbX6x

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Day 23 of is Wiwaxia! This is a handprinted Wiwaxia, a half billion year old soft-bodied animal covered in scales & spines. These animals lived in the early and middle Cambrian period & fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada's Burgess Shale.

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Galar fossils pokemons my beloved

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At first, I didn’t think much of the Baxcalibur line, but then I found out they were inspired by Concavenator, that also had a back spike thing, arm quills, and its fossils were found in SPAIN-

I love that they turned an obscure dinosaur into a Pokémon~

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which lived about 115 million years ago, is a genus of well-known ankylosaurs because their fossils are well preserved, including intact skeletal fossils and many scales preserved in situ. 

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-based on the known fossils, it's likely a basal coelurosaur of some kind, possibly an early tyrannosauroid! If so, it probably had many of the traits basal tyrannosauroids typically had, such as long arms with 3-fingered hands and a slim body build! (2/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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The Mosasaur and Dickinsonia fakemon I designed for 's Alolan Fossils video!
These were a lot of fun to design as always! In the video he talks about what inspired him on these designs but I'll go into detail on what I added to them:

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the oc vs the inspiration is trending sauuurrr heres vains crystal alt! it was just a regular alt palette at first but i decided to turn mineralized tissue (teeth/horns/etc) into opal after remembering that opalized fossils exist (img from timothy frauenfelder)

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Animal skull, ammonite, trilobite, fossilized coral. A of

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Fragments of the past, preserved over millions of years~

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The Lagerstätten of Lebanon have provided some truly beautiful fossils. This is of one of the more charismatic species: Mimodactylus libanensis. It had Strikingly long wings and teeth only in the front of the snout. Images from Kellner et al., art by

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