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a lil sneak peak on what i'm working on now 👀

alt: Camera (shallow focus distance) pans from right to left, close up to an approximately 2cm long trilobite slightly moving forward while its antenna and butt jiggles (palaeolenus) among a tight cluster of Neobolus brachiopods (not mollusks but they have a similar bivalved shell that resembles clams except the top and bottom shells are not exactly the same, but the left and right is symmetrical unlike in clams). on some of the brachiopod shells are even smaller parasitic organisms of unclear affinity, only recognizable from their conical pointy tubes

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Taco night

(alt: Video render of Isoxys minor, Middle cambrian bivalved arthropods shown here in orange with a dark aquarium background

Isoxys has a taco shaped carapace enveloping it's entire body like a copepod, the open part of the 'taco' pointing down, its segmented body is completely hidden inside the 'taco' with tiny swimming legs reminiscent of those found in Triops, barely visible poking out of it. and two front appendages that look somewhat like an anomalocaris' claws but pointing up although they are not closely related to anomalocaris. It also has two eyes visible on the front, poking out of the carapace

Tl;Dr a swimming taco with segmented 'tusks' on the front and shrimp like legs poking out the bottom.

The video depicts them flitting around the aquarium from a close-up view with a short focus distance since they are typically only 1 cm long)

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Late Ordovician, Laurentian warm water reef

From top left: archaeocrinus, diestoceras(Oncocerid), isorthoceras, armenoceras

Middle left: tcherskidium and proconchidium brachiopod

From bottom left: aulacerid 2 meter tall sponges, Deloprosopus, phacelloid corals

Top right: uncolored sketch of stromatoporoid and aulacerid sponge reef

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Guanshan biota sketch studies

Neobolus wulongqingensis, Palaeoscolecidan, Vetulicolia longbaoshanensis, Palaeolenus sp.

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A couple of Yunnanosaurus huangi enjoying their Saturday morning walk in China during the Early Jurassic

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Anyone here who's into Trilobites, i got a video for you

Based on the new trilobite soft tissues discovered in a Middle cambrian Morrocan specimen that's been buried in a volcano.

Full video on my youtube channel!

https://scitechdaily.com/truly-astonishing-discovery-of-500-million-year-old-pompeii-trilobite-fossils-shake-up-scientific-understanding-of-the-long-extinct-group/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381772319_Rapid_volcanic_ash_entombment_reveals_the_3D_anatomy_of_Cambrian_trilobites

Sources ^

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sketch ¿¿¿

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Bunga widuri, Calotropis gigantea on the side of a road.

I took some seeds, hoping they'll grow in my neighborhood. There were lots of Carpenter bees and I think those are red fire bug nymphs?

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Enjoy some spooky-coded lads for spook day🎃✨

Acherontia atropos - African death's-head hawkmoth Alaus oculatus - Eyed Elater Beetle Cyclocosmia - Ravine Trapdoor Spider

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Based and Pillbugged

Had a dream that I saw this ad in a paper

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Deep sea stroll finally done with this ^^ a little animation inspired from all the deepsea animal footages from  @mbari_news

also on Youtube:

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ZO9Hsu1lc

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Moodeng

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Haven't drawn 2D art in a while. Bristolia insolens from the Lower Cambrian 520 million years ago😊

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Unfortunately the Pentecopterus had taken a liking to my camera and ran off with it. So that's all for #HotAmmoniteAugust folks! And thanks for tuning in! Thanks to

@ddinodan for coming up with this art prompt, it ended up being super fun to do!

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Lituites (not Ammonites! Nautiloids) hiding behind some crinoids from a roaming Pentecopterus

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Under the cover of darkness, Nipponites come out to feed. Their shells contorting into Ox-bow bends make them clumsy swimmers

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Ouf of the way! The fast bois, Placenticeras are moving. These underwater frisbees and similarly shelled ammonites experience less drag during higher speeds underwater as their shell shape is more streamlined