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i-draws-dinosaurs · 12 hours

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To a friend I never met

I know this might seem like a place of death And maybe it’s true Shelves lined with remnants of a time Not just forgotten, but before memory There is sadness here too Every fossil is a miracle and a tragedy in one But how can this place hold only sadness when you are here with me?

Your form is scattered Tumbled by the tides of the earth I will find its parts

Your hands are bare Stripped of strength and power I will hold them gently

Your bones are brittle Broken by unthinkable age I will make them whole

Your story is hidden Stifled by rock and clay I will make it seen

I could not be there To love you in your time I will love you in mine

#paleontology #fossils #science

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 24 hours

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To a friend I never met

I know this might seem like a place of death And maybe it’s true Shelves lined with remnants of a time Not just forgotten, but before memory There is sadness here too Every fossil is a miracle and a tragedy in one But how can this place hold only sadness when you are here with me?

Your form is scattered Tumbled by the tides of the earth I will find its parts

Your hands are bare Stripped of strength and power I will hold them gently

Your bones are brittle Broken by unthinkable age I will make them whole

Your story is hidden Stifled by rock and clay I will make it seen

I could not be there To love you in your time I will love you in mine

#got emotional in the fossil lab today lads #wrote a poem about it #paleontology #fossils #science

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 3 days

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Ok maybe I'm going crazy here but,, do "can-opener" and Chaenophryne look kinda similar to anyone else? like for such a seemingly random common name I could conceivably believe that Chaenophryne could go through several layers of mispronunciation and come out as "can-opener"?

is it possible McAllister just picked an English word that sounds vaguely similar?

I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never meant to be read.

You've probably heard of "can-opener smoothdream", right? It's practically a meme by now.

But the thing is, it's a deep-sea fish. And deep-sea fish have historically not had English names because nobody drops them into the conversation over a hot cuppa. Sure, there's generic stuff like hatchetfish and barreleye, but when you want to refer to the actual fish you're probably saying such euphonious phrases as Diretmus argenteus, Sternoptyx diaphana, or maybe even Opisthoproctus soleatus.

So whence "can-opener smoothdream"? Certainly no non-ichthyologist has ever used that name. It's not even a direct translation of the scientific name Chaenophryne longiceps - that would be "long-headed gape-toad". Which to me is even cooler than "can-opener smoothdream".

But I digress. The "dream" bit comes from the anglerfish family Oneirodidae, from oneiros, "dream", because those marvelous fishes look like they came out of a dream (Pietsch, 2009).

Note that Pietsch (2009), more or less the anglerfish bible, uses English names at the genus level only. So Chaenophryne is the smoothhead dreamers genus but no mention is made of "can-opener smoothdreams". So no luck there.

Wikipedia, root cause of a lot of misinformation, has this to say.

"Longhead dreamer" is a far more accurate name. And in fact, despite Wikipedia prioritizing "can-opener smoothdream" (because it's funny?), the links listed use "longhead dreamer" and "smoothhead dreamer" as the name and "can-opener smoothdream" as an alternative.

So. Again. Where did "can-opener smoothdream" come from?

The answer, as it turns out, lies with McAllister (1990).

In the book A List of the Fishes of Canada, ichthyologist D. E. McAllister sought out to list every single fish known to Canadian waters, providing both an English and a French name.

And when there wasn't an English name, like for most deep-sea fishes, he arbitrarily gave them a name. And his names "differ in many instances from the widely accepted names" (Holm, 1998)

This had varying results. This is his name for one of the netdevil anglerfishes.

The humpback anglerfish or blackdevil anglerfish becomes a werewolf (????).

This one is just confusing.

The white-spotted lanternfish or Rafinesque's lanternfish instead becomes...

And most embarrassingly, the Mediterranean spiderfish gets saddled with something that "violates the tenet of good taste" (Holm, 1998).

This then is the original source of "can-opener smoothdream". It was invented by an ichthyologist in 1990, and has seen little to no use outside of how bizarre the name is.

Maybe McAllister's goofier names will catch on. Who knows? They certainly aren't very popular in the scientific community though.

References

Holm, E. (1998) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (review). The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 112, p. 174-175.

McAllister, D. E. (1990) A List of the Fishes of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.

Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 9 days

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Ilustraciones digitales

#dinosaurs #paleoart #sick as hell art this rules

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 17 days

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no dinosaurs with boop in the name on this hell earth,,,,, I'll do it myself then

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 18 days

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no dinosaurs with boop in the name on this hell earth,,,,, I'll do it myself then

#boop

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 18 days

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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 18 days

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XKCD #2823: Boop

#boop

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 28 days

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Hi there! 👋

I am Julio (he/him), a brazilian illustrator and paleoartist, focused on extinct vertebrates 🦕

You can check all my relevant links through my Linktree but here are some cool ones:

🔗 Bluesky • Instagram • Patreon • Redbubble

Some of my ongoing series are the naturalistic Pokémon posters and the Extended Family portraits, but you can go through my tag directory to find all my content easily!

📧 For licensing and commissions, please contact me at [email protected]

Thanks for stopping by!

#reminder that one of the best palaeoartists ever is on tumblr #straight up looks like nature photography #julio lacerda #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 29 days

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Collab by Tas and @cheetahtrout

#oh wow blast from the past #this might be the oldest art of mine on here #posted before I even had a tumblr #looking back with love but oh boy is that ceratopsian rough

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 1 month

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I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna start posting to tumblr!!!!

#paleoart #dinosaurs #THE EGG

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 1 month

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The Ides of March: How To More Effectively Confront a Sith Lord

ID: A painting by William Holmes Sullivan of the assassination of Julius Caesar, with the conspirators’ swords edited into blue and green lightsabers with one man in the foreground holding a purple lightsaber. Force lightning has been added coming from Caesar’s hand.

#ides of march #oh hey I forgot I made that one

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 1 month

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Spinosaurus drama is cool and things, but do you know what's even cooler? Better fossils of animals that lived with Spinosaurus!

There is a new specimen of Concavotectum currently on display in Tuscon. BigSkyFossils took some photos of it and I had to doodle it! It's been a while since I did a tselfatiform and now we have finally an idea how the postcranium looked like!

So far we only had a few fragments and this pretty good skull. As some people noted though, the eye is reconstructed in the wrong corner.

#paleoart #paleontology #fossils #man I need to draw more fish

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 2 months

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That would actually be Vastatosaurus rex, a fictional species of tyrannosaur from Peter Jackson's film King Kong (2005)!

Stevie Nicks (1976)

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 2 months

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ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

#the poses were too perfect I'm sorry

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i-draws-dinosaurs · 2 months

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I would like to clarify for people in the notes that the platypus in the video is a baby and the adults are bigger:

I mean. they're still not huge but they're a little bigger! I could not tell you off the top of my head how big a beaver is though so fair enough to you northern hemisphere folks.

Also the guy in the last photo is a wildlife ecologist and the platypus is fine, they have a massive slab of a tail it's not gonna damage them.

They are just like me forreal

#platypus #love these guys

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