Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Hallucigenia | Pikaia

Opabinia | Leanchoilia

Nectocaris

Metaspriggina | Anomalocaris | Sanctacaris

Very old critters in new colours

Dickinsonia | Orthrozanclus

Burgessia

Wiwaxia | generic Trilobite

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more liverpool pigeons :)

my friends: what’s up

me: I can’t stop thinking about how birds don’t remember a time before roads. Like, birds have no written history or oral tradition. As far as any bird is concerned, This is how the world has Always been and they’re just tryin’ to make it like the rest of us. They just keep on keepin’ on. Birds have no idea there used to be so much more for them. So much forest and food abundant, so they just live in this era the best they can without the burdensome knowledge of the life they could have lived and I find that both fortunate and sad.

my friends: Why Are You Like This.

Archaeopteryx lithographica

Great Auk Pinguinus impennis

† 1852

Réunion Ibis Threskiornis solitarius

† 18th century

Hawai'i Mamo Moho nobilis

† 1930s

Spix's Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii

extinct in the wild since ~2000

Rodrigues Solitaire Pezophaps solitaria

† middle of the 18the century

Tahiti Sandpiper / Toromē Prosobonia leucoptera

† end of the 18th century or beginning of the 19th

Spotted Green Pigeon / Liverpool Pigeon

Caloenas maculata

† 19th century

Dusky Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima nigrescens

† 1987

Endling: Orange Band