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amybugz · 6 months

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take me back to the cambrian explosion

(featuring made-up cambrian beasts from this months drink and draw :3)

#art #fish #illustration #artists on tumblr #fish friday #wet beasts #cambrian #cambrian explosion

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dmdog · 27 days

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Little zine project for a fake park

#yea I’m implying he got eaten by the sea scorpion #art #digital art #digital illustration #comic #anomalocaris #trilobite #cambrian #cambrian explosion #paleoart #opabinia #bugs

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ravewing · 4 months

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did anomalocaris really say this

#anomalocaris #anomalopost #meme #paleo meme #paleontology #paleozoic #cambrian #cambrian period #cambrian explosion

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fer7adami · 4 months

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The cambrian period

With the lil dudes that inhabit Earth this time

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alphynix · 11 months

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The tuzoiids were an enigmatic group of Cambrian invertebrates known mostly just from their spiny bivalved carapaces. Although hundreds of fossils of these arthropods were discovered over the last century or so, only vague fragments of the rest of their bodies have been found even in sites usually known for preserving soft tissue impressions.

…Until late 2022, when several new specimens from the Canadian Burgess Shale deposits (~508 million years ago) were described showing tuzoiid anatomy in exceptional detail, finally giving us an idea of what they looked like and where they fit into the early arthropod evolutionary tree.

Tuzoiids like Tuzoia burgessensis here would have grown up to about 23cm long (~9"). They had large eyes on short stalks, a pair of simple antennae, a horizontal fluke-like tail fan, and twelve pairs of appendages along their body – with the front two pairs at the head end being significantly spinier, and most (or all) of these limbs also bearing paddle-like exopods.

The large carapace enclosed most of the body, and was ornamented with protective spines and a net-like surface pattern that probably increased the strength of the relatively thin chitinous structure.

Together all these anatomical features now indicate that tuzoiids were early mandibulates (part of the lineage including modern myriapods, crustaceans, and insects), and were probably very closely related to the hymenocarines.

Tuzoiids seem to have been active swimmers that probably cruised around just above the seafloor, with their stout legs suggesting they could also walk around if they flexed their valves open. The arrangement of their spiny front limbs wasn't suited to grabbing at fast-swimming prey, but instead may have been used to capture slower seafloor animals or to scavenge from carcasses.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #tuzoia #tuzoiidae #hymenocarina #mandibulata #arthropod #invertebrate #cambrian explosion #art #MYSTERY TACO

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linseedling · 5 months

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Kickin' it in the Cambrian

#kind of excited about trying a mixed media illustration thing...#like those pokemon cards with the sculpted art #anomalocaris #cambrian #cambrian explosion #pipe cleaners and shells from my shell collection

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bobnichollsart · 5 months

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A few draft drawings showing how I built "Cambrian Epic" for Park et al, for their paper describing Timoresestia.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #cambrian explosion #cambrian period

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kaithewhatever · 4 months

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Serfs react to Opabinia

#the best boy #also most confusing #mideval #serfs #me when I was 5 #love them weirdos #Opabinia #cambrian explosion #bug posting #i guess #paleontology #archeology #old english #shitpost

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oviraptoridae · 8 months

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a bumper sticker design to let everyone on the road know you care <3

(if you want one, let me know, i want to get this printed but i need a batch of at least 25!)

#paleoart #trilobite #cambrian explosion #paleontology #cambrian era #bumper sticker #graphics #graphic design #my art #artists on tumblr #i am finally gritting my teeth and learning how to vectors #its going okay!#btw i have a very high quality version of this; quality and size are squished bc i am actually planning on selling this so #dont want it to get scooped up by some random print on demand site before i get the chance to

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shirecorn · 14 days

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Today's..... Mermaid

It's my goal right now to create a new mermaid design every day Mermay. I thought opening up requests would be a great way to learn about new and awesome fish! Then people asked if maybe I can do other sea creatures that aren't strictly fish?

Sure! I've done selkies and cetaceans, what if somebody wants an octopus? So I can handle that! I said any aquatic animal is fair game.

I have since been challenged with an array of strange and haunting creatures that technically count as aquatic!!! And I said I'd do them so, after the frog, a cherished supporter gave me a new task.

hallucigenia

Yeah I didn't know what that was either. It's a funky noodley spiky creature from the cambrian era and TECHNICALLY IT'S AN AQUATIC CREATURE SO OK. Hallucigenia is called that due to the absolute silliness that went into its discovery and reconstruction. Scientists originally put it together upsidedown and backward, not knowing which part was for walking or waving around. So of course she proved a ridiculous challenge to adapt to mermay.

Ready to meet my cambrian nightmare?