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Guillotine Half-Life vox announcer| adult he\him it\its| falconeer. i work with all sort of birds| Same name on Tumblr. Npc_crow on lambdagen Speculative biology and concept artist mostly Not human- Least bittern I PLAY COMPUTER
Results from the #paleostream! Arctobatrachus, Austronaga, Carnufex (plus Rutiodon) and Palaeochiropteryx.
Btw. yes I wanted from the start the two lineages of large flightless marine birds to meet here and yes, these are whales, ambulocetids, not seal lions, which never evolved in this time line.
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Today's #birdoftheday theme is #waders This is probably my favorite wader photo, a great egret chasing a cattle egret with a vole. What characters they are!🪶
This is Nigel the Eastern Screech-Owl at the Avian Behavior Conservancy in Escondido, CA. Screech-owls have fairly complex vocalizations & Nigel has specific mews & trills he uses with humans to direct them to give him mealworms. It's =highly effective=. Meaning: He's domesticated his humans.
Updated some general references for Simius cause i wasnt happy with the previous one #myart
Little pterosaurs being rescued by a fishing vessel deep in open water. Poor guy was exhausted #myart
Among the most bizarre creatures gathered here is the Brachiataur, a brachiating gondwanather that evolved from vaguely chalicother looking ancestors. Their family groups are great indicators for the forests health as these animals need large amounts of fresh vegetation daily.
60 Meters above ground the rainforest of Lemuria reveals a very different world. It might not look like it but much of these tree giants are relative newcomers, evolving from much smaller forms after the rainforests in the south collapsed. Up here you have be able to climb...
Atlas Obscura has a nice human interest angle on this story, including how the death of the original 'Satanas' (that Roberto found on his hike) led to the establishment of the new provisional species. In the end, the Satan Spider turned out to be a teddy bear & was much beloved by his humans. 🕷️❤️
This 'Satan' Spider Turned Out to Be a Real Teddy Bear
In Ecuador, Satanas the tarantula—named for his feisty attitude—became both teacher and friend to researchers.
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In fact, the other fuzzy-wuzzy tarantula they named "P. chronoarachne" which means 'time-counted spider' in reference to the declining populations resulting from poaching for the pet trade. ⌛🕷️☠️ As scary as these guys are to some people, we pose a greater threat to them than they pose to us.
excited spider
Alt: A spider of unknown taxonomy showing erratic behavior. legs and thorax are moving up and down like it's throwing a fit, or tapping something out. Behind it is an enclosure full of webbing and beneath it another.
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It's #fossilfriday! Meet Hatzegopteryx, a predatory, ground-stalking pterosaur the size of a small giraffe, found on the islands of Cretaceous Eastern Europe. Survival Verdict: lol good luck HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY. Out April 27, 2027. Preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w agoThe smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.
