Julio the Artist

@lacerdajulio.bsky.social

🇧🇷 Listens to lofi and draws long-gone beings • he/him 🖼️ All my art on #artbyjulio 🔗: linktr.ee/julio.lacerda

You're looking at an "Upside Down Jellyfish" (genus Cassiopea) & I think you can guess how they got their name. This is them most of the time: Not only tentacles up, but on the sea floor. But that's not the interesting thing. The interesting thing is they have no brain, but still can sleep.

A juvenile Diplodocus is slipping out post-bedtime for a late #FossilFriday post. Like other Mesozoic dinosaurs, young diplodocids were proportioned differently than adults, bearing shorter necks, faces and tails. The mottled skin pattern is based on (very tentative) palaeocolour data. #paleoart

Vignette of a green juvenile long-necked dinosaur striding down a dusty, rocky and cycady slope. "Cycady" is not a word recognised in any modern dictionary, but it was widely used in the Jurassic. It's OK, therefore, to use it in this context.