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dmdog · 2 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 · 1 month

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what if the cambrian period was in hazbin hotel

#anomalocaris #anomalopost #hallucigenia #opabinia #trilobite #why did i make this #cambrian period #cambrian #paleo

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knuppitalism-with-ue · 20 days

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Cambrian critters are actually spaceships, their battles where epic.

Here an Anomalocaris cruiser is attacked by the hit and run tactics of an Opabinia.

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream #palaeoblr #cambrian #spaceship #animalocaris #opabinia #space

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momopatchi · 5 months

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Various Paleobido character designs and doodles

#ms paint art #mspaint #ms paint #digital art #paleobido #smilodon #dunkleosteus #carnotaurus #opabinia #coelacanth #paleoart #digital drawing #original characters #momopatchiocs #oc art #character design

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foxsnails · 8 days

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Remember these guys? I had the whole collection back in 538 Million BC 💜🦑

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bogleech · 1 year

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holy SHIT please read the whole thread and many more of these images right here, this artist put together an updated Opabinia reconstruction where every single one of these minute details (except coloration, obviously) are fully sourced making this most likely the first depiction factoring in 100% of current knowledge about it. Even I didn’t know it had little feet like a velvet worm and could have walked around on them! I never knew exactly how the trunk is oriented or how many “teeth” it is! I especially didn’t know the mouth was that weird! And I kind of assumed this since it’s a lobopod and all, but the whole animal was soft and squishy except for the eyes and the teeth. It did not have armor plates or a jointed exoskeleton like a lot of people portray. This also means all five of the eyes would have been able to bend and look around independently! The eye structure in fossils also indicates that they would have PSEUDOPUPILS! That’s the pupil-like dot in the eyes of insects like mantises!

#biology #opabinia

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featherboabear · 1 year

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