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Megalodon my boy
#illustration#digital art#art#aesthetic#illustrators on tumblr#animals#character design#dinosaur#paleoart#paleontology#paleoblr#paleomedia#artists on tumblr#dinosaurs#paleoposting#paleo tag#paleobiology#megalodon#i love sharks#shark#ancient shark#neogene
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would this be considered paleoart
helicoprion anthro
#art#my art#shark#anthro shark#anthro#design#helicoprion#buzzsaw#buzzsaw shark#shark furry#furry shark#character design#furry design#anthro design#im willing to sell this btw#paleoart#ancient shark#prehistoric shark#prehistoric#permian-triassic
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What group of animals should come next??
#paleontology#paleoart#shark#ancient shark#megalodon#helicoprion#xenacanthus#stethacanthus#mosasaurus#dunkleosteus#paleontologist#my art#my stickers#stickers#sticker art
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Scientists Discover Shark Graveyard at the Bottom of the Ocean
Australian researchers discovered 750 shark teeth deep in the Indian Ocean.
A graveyard studded with thousands of shark teeth is lurking nearly 3.5 miles (5.400 kilometers) beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean.
Researchers made the shocking discovery in October during a month-long expedition along the southern tip of Indonesia aboard the RV Investigator (opens in new tab), a 308-foot-long (94 meters) research vessel operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency. On the final day of the voyage, and after 26 previous attempts, the researchers sank a trawling net into the deep water hoping to catch fish as part of an ongoing biodiversity survey. Instead, they pulled up a net's worth of hundreds of shark teeth, according to a statement (opens in new tab).
"It was our very last sample of the trip before heading back to Australia," Dianne Bray (opens in new tab), senior collections manager at the Museums Victoria Research Institute, said. "I was a little disappointed at first when we hauled up the net because it was filled with mud and I knew that there wasn't going to be many fish specimens. And even if there were, they would be rumbled and damaged from all the mud."
"We tipped the contents out on the deck of the boat and as we went through everything, we found shark tooth after shark tooth," Bray said. "We were finding teeth from [modern] mako and [great] white sharks, but also fossilized teeth from ancient sharks like the immediate ancestor of the giant megalodon shark."
In total, researchers collected more than 750 teeth ranging in size from 0.39 inch (1 centimeter) to a single tooth from the megalodon ancestor measuring 4 inches (10 cm).
The researchers noticed deposits of black manganese nodules growing on many of the teeth, which were the result of the teeth sitting on the ocean floor for so long. Otherwise, the teeth were all in good condition.
"It's quite remarkable," Bray said. "The teeth weren't weathered, rumbled or tumbled. Bacteria consumed all of the organic matter from the teeth and the roots were gone, but otherwise the enamel was left."
Researchers aren't entirely sure why so many teeth accumulated in this swath of the ocean but they don't think that hundreds of sharks died there, Bray said. Unlike humans, who are born with one set of baby teeth and replace them with one set of adult teeth during their lifetimes, sharks have an endless supply of teeth that are replaced "like a conveyor belt," Gareth J. Fraser, lecturer in Evolutionary Developmental Biology at University of Sheffield in the U.K., wrote in The Conversation (opens in new tab).
The area where the teeth were found likely hosted a community of ancient sharks.
"The teeth were found on an abyssal plain and not out in the open ocean," Bray said. "This area was part of an ancient reef covered with seamounts and we think a community of sharks swam around this area long ago."
As they swam, they likely dropped their used-up teeth.
Bray said that the shark tooth haul barely "scraped the surface" of what was buried there.
By Jennifer Nalewicki.
#Scientists Discover Shark Graveyard at the Bottom of the Ocean#indian ocean#shark#ancient shark#ancient artifacts#giant megalodon shark#mako shark#great white shark#biology#biologist#fossil
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Shark News!! Fossil of an ancient shark that swam in the age of dinosaurs solves centuries-long mystery
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Because it is Mermay:
Originally did this art for one of @radiance1 prompts/story ideas, which also gives an idea of colors so.
#dcxdp#dpxdc#my art#prompts#if you wanna use this for inspiration do it#mermay#adult danny#THIS IS NOT SHIPPING#Vlad and Danny are simply fellow eldritch space creatures after leaving their destroyed dimension behind#I am blaming the GIW as they're so stupid that they were planning to nuke the Zone like that is Not a Good Idea#Yes Danny's lower face & throat splits open into a maw that is as dark as a black hole#I wonder if they change to merfolk forms over thousands of years & it results in outsider pov thinking they're evolving or something#but probably not#I like to think that sometimes they appear as unfathomable creatures#other times akin to beautiful animals of the very cosmos#and other times as something between humanoid and creature and something Other#humanoid forms may be smaller than their less humanoid forms but they're still like the size of a moon#If Ellie & Dan were also a thing in this au#I feel like Dan would be some sort of space sun shark- the inside of its maw like a supernova & flames trailing from its fins#and Ellie would be some sort of space-aurora eel (fin-frill like an aurora & body like a galaxy similar to Danny's)#I feel like they'd be at least the size of the Watchtower if they're any smaller than the other two#Very much ancient manifestations of space itself sort of vibes#Void Octopus Vlad#Space Whale Danny#he's not technically an octopus but closest thing he looks like lol#go wild
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Torpedo torpedo, better known as the common torpedo, common torpedo ray, ocellate torpedo, or eyed electric ray, is a species of electric ray in the family Torpedinidae which is endemic to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. These rays typically dwell in coastal and nearshore waters but can occasionally be at depths up to 1,300ft (400m), however they tend to prefer warm sandy flats and sea grass beds. Torpedo rays are generally solitary and nocturnal ambush predators which feed on a variety of fish, crustaceans, and worms. They are themselves preyed upon by seals, sharks, and large boney fish. As with other members of its family, the common torpedo can subdue both prey and predator with strong electric shocks of up to 200 volts which are generated from a pair of large kidney-shaped electric organs which are visible beneath the skin on either side of the head. The electrogenic properties of this species led it to be used in medicine for the treatment of pain and diseases such as gout by various cultures in antiquity such as the Greeks, Egyptians, and Carthaginians. The Romans in particular used the common torpedo to treat headaches. Reaching around 12 to 24 inches (30 to 61cms) in length and 7 to 16inches (18 to 41cms) in width, with females being slightly larger than males, the common torpedo has a nearly circular pectoral fin disc and a short, thick tail with two dorsal fins of nearly equal size and a large caudal fin. The eyes are small and followed by spiracles of comparable size. The dorsal coloration of the common torpedo is rusty orange to reddish brown which is adorned with prominent blue spots on its back, which usually number five but may vary from zero to nine. The underside is cream-colored, with dark disc margins. Breeding typically occurs from December to February. Common torpedos are aplacental viviparous, with the developing embryos nourished by yolk and histotroph ("uterine milk") produced by the mother. Females produce litters of up to 28 after a gestation period of 4–8 months depending on the geographical region. Common torpedo reach sexual maturity at around 10in ( 25cms) in length and may live upwards of 10 years.
#pleistocene pride#pliestocene pride#pleistocene#pliestocene#ocean#sea#animal#marine#marine life#shark week#ray#electric ray#electricity#common torpedo#animal facts#ancient history#torpedo
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Pando - The Largest Single Organism by Mass and 14,000 years old, and some perspective on just how old that is.
A random thought came to my head last night...
This is Pando.
All of this? Is a single male aspen tree. This entire thing is a single tree with multiple stems sharing a single root system.
It is the largest tree by mass, and the heaviest single organism, weighing in at 6000 metric tons. For perspective, that's 20 blue whales in mass.
But what also intrigues me is that... well. It's an old tree.
Established in 12,000 BCE, meaning it would be 14000 years old by 2023.
By the the last Smilodons died out in 10,000 BCE, it would have already been 2000 years old.
And Pando is still a youngster compared to the high estimate age of this clonal colony of sea grass estimated to be 100,000 years old.
For perspective, when the last Neanderthal died in 40,000 BCE?
This sea grass would have already been 60,000 years old.
If human civilization (as in, the kind of organized polity that can be identified with things as "states" and "urbanization" among a plethora of other things) was established during 5000 BCE, and thus 7000 years old:
Pando would have already been 5000 years old.
The Sea grass colony would have already been 93,000 years old.
And considering that the oldest vertebrate, that is the Greenland Shark can live for 500 years?
All of human civilization encompasses the lifespans of just 14 Greenland Sharks.
I dunno... it just really shows that we pretty are a tiny blip in the grand scheme of Earth's geological history.
A very humbling thought if you ask me.
#paleontology#anthropology#history#ancient history#botany#science#human history#life on earth#pando#greenland sharks#shower thoughts
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You? My boyfriend? No, sweetheart, though it's really cute that you think so highly of yourself.
You're my boytoy.
#text post#image#adding the banner to this post like an ancient ward to keep spirits (cis men) away#shark thoughts
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I personally think that Catholic-in-life Phantom Ghoul has the best curse alternatives. See below:
Stubs toe: "Lucifer's taint!"
Annoyed: "For the love of Satan's sack."
Angry or surprised: "Son of a six-winged-harlot!"
Disappointed: "You muppet."
Instead of the fuck word in pleasure, has been caught saying:
glorious
dazzling
sensational
Dew had to take 5 the first time Phantom called his cock splendiferous. Rain and Swiss wouldn't have believed him if they weren't in the room to hear it.
Will also unironically use movie/pop culture/vine references instead of expletives ie:
You hamster!
Eat my shorts -
Will never say christ, only Chrysler
You are ✨️StIlL A PiEcE oF gArBAgE✨️
You're killing me, Smalls. (Dew hates this in particular)
Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow.
Way to go, Paul. (Aether is so confused, no one in the entire ministry is named Paul)
#adding lucifers taint to my daily vocab thank you#phantom was born in 1989 and died in 2015 change my mind -#permanently trapped with 90s and vine references#dew is ancient and does not understand the shark boy/lava girl nicknames phantom has bestowed upon him and rain#rain is slightly less ancient and still confused but much more enthusiastic about the whole thing#i think i need to go to bed bye lol#phantom ghoul#aeon ghoul#phantom aeon midas pheonix joffrey ghoul the third (that's his full catholic name; ask me tomorrow it'll be different)#the band ghost headcanons#shitghosting#gonst
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For when it’s still #FintasticFriday but #Baturday is just around the corner…
Jade pendant, bat with shark wings
Costa Rica, Central Caribbean Region, 500 BCE - 800 CE
Jade, H 15.5 x W 3 cm
Museo del Jade, Costa Rica
#animals in art#animal holiday#Museo del Jade#Costa Rican art#Central American art#ancient art#Indigenous art#jade#carving#precious stones#pendant#bat#shark#Baturday#Fintastic Friday#Fish Friday#composite creature#chimera
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Normal people: Man, their sin devil triggers are so cool
Me: Yes, but have you considered…
#dmc#devil may cry#Dante's a flipping pine cone#a massive pizza-eradicating pine cone#Vergil's a hammer shark#an ancient predator with a big mouth full of pretentious words#now you can't unsee it#you're welcome
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Stethacanthus
#art#my art#stethacanthus#shark#shark furry#furry#anthro#shark anthro#design#shark design#ancient#ancient shark#paleo art#paleoart#prehistoric#prehistoric shark
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New Leaf!Au
Danny successfully completed his training to ascend to the throne and is taking a well earned vacation to celebrate. The time for said vacation time is a surprisingly long, long vacation but one he was happy to take one nonetheless! So he decided to travel the multiverse and found one that had heroes!
Surely he could finally kick back, relax and watch them handle things without his help, right? Especially after aiding them in taking down the guy with funny lazer eyes (he tore Darkseid to pieces in front of said heroes for them).
...Right?
After much gaslighting, feigning innocence, and speaking half-truths on his part, Danny is able to convince them that he's an alien that was the last of his kind with very few memories left of who he was. Thankfully, Martian ManHunter's mind reading abilities don't work on ghosts, so it made him sell his pitch all the more easily.
"I cannot sense them anymore...I am alone...Will I die alone too?"
So now the league of heroes with a bleeding heart take him in and give him a place to stay as a reserve member. After being told that his kind age rather slowly and that he's still considered a youngling, Dinah thinks socializing with younger people will do wonders for Phantom.
And for a while, things are going good until a certain Hellblazer comes rushing to the Leauge to inform the Leauge that the Infinite Realms has been ruined by Pariah Dark and freaks out when he sees Phantom wearing the Ring of Rage.
Something only one Ghost Royalty can wield. Pariah Dark was the last known King of the Realms.
However, due to a lack of knowledge from on the Infinite Realms' practices and culture, they can only speculate what the happened before Phantom found himself wandering around the place. This causes everyone to go crazy with several conspiracy theories.
The most popular ones are as follows, not in any specific tank or order:
1) Phantom has the Ring of Rage on his ring finger. Specifically, on his left ring finger.
Which has some speculating that he was the husband/consort/favored concubine to the king and was offered it to become Pariah's beloved. With all of his injuries, it's assumed Dark's enemy's tortured Phantom to the point of memory regression and so the enraged monarch sacked the Realms to either find him or enact revenge.
Phantom did mentioned he probably had children (Dan and Dani) and that his 'kind' don't need to be male and female exclusively to have offspring.
(He used Box Ghost and Lunch Lady as reference.)
2) Constantine with the knowledge of how one becomes king.
It's possible that Phantom took the title of King after challenging Pariah Dark to one on one combat and suffered a serious blow to his head in the fight to usurp the Tyrant, causing his amnesia.
Medical scans revealed a healed scar on the side of his head under his hair, giving some support to the theory. If that's the case, then their friend is a potential warrior king lost in the Land of the Living!
3) Constantine is taken at face value.
Phantom is Pariah Dark. When his subjects made a move to kill him, they failed and somehow banished him to the realm of the living in exile. If Phantom regained these old memories and truly was the old warlord standing before them, the Leauge would have to make contingency plans to eliminate him, as he laid one of the afterlives to near irreparable ruin.
(Batman's infamous paranoia makes things worse to the point where Danny may flee the universe if he were to use a contingency on him...everyone disliked that!)
4) A Victim of unjust Betrayal?
During his talks with Martian ManHunter, Phantom talked about pieces of memories of ungrateful people and how they saw him as a menace, even though he did everything possible to keep them safe. Everything became a blur after his last encounter with his enemies but couldn't recall what happened next. When he came to, the place was in ruin.
(So it's possible he pulled a Lobo, lashed out in his panicked state and damaged the realms under extreme stress after being harmed by the denizens of the Realms before running away to escape.)
5) Regressed through other means?
Constantine knows that some ghosts have an initial form after death, so he believes that there's a chance that Phantom is Pariah Dark just before he used his powers to become the Evil King, his amnesia making him regress back to the moment before he makes a final decision.
• Some Leaguers believe he's a ticking time bomb if he regained his old memories. One that they probably can't stop, as Constantine and the other magic users can sense some serious God-like power emanating from the Phantom and who definitely has legions of undead armies at his command with forgotten knowledge that would make Apokolips look tame in comparison.
• The others who are more compassionate believe that this could be a chance to help nudge Pariah Dark onto a better path to avoid becoming evil again. Better to help walk a just path and not give him a reason to believe the Leauge would harm him.
One things for certain; everyone believes Phantom is at the critical moment on the crossroad again that could very well make or break the safety of the both the Infinite Realms and Multiverse.
So they'll help him go down the path of Justice.
#danny phantom#justice league#dc x dp#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dp x dc prompt#He just wanted a break from being a hero ={#Danny is mentally screaming into a pillow#Clockwork and the Ancients are laughing their asses off at the notion of Danny being Dark's boytoy#The fact they think he's Pariah Dark's husband is making him want to die again#Ghosts in the DC multiverse rarely make it to Infinite Realms and are in Limbo#One contracted to Constantine finally made it through the veil and was horrified to see the state of the Infinite Realms#Said ghost couldn't find anyone because the piece of Constantine's soul is repels them#It's like when an orca kills a shark and every single shark for miles scatters#They don't want to be around something that so mangled#Constantine's informant is really late on news and thinks it's recent#The Leauge has outdated information#Everyone thinks Danny is Pariah Dark!au
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fun fact, did you know that sharks existed before the North Star even formed? they also existed before TREES!
i love sharks
#shark facts#shark#shark thoughts#i love sharks#biology#marine biology#marine animals#marine life#history#paleontology#fossils#ancient history#evolution#life#fun facts#facts#interesting facts#random facts#animal facts#trees
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Honestly, I'm really grateful that my brain isn't wired to jump from hyperfixation to hyperfixation. It has its own unique drawbacks, sure, but I've always found it really comforting that I know what to expect from myself.
#falling out of love with my own projects is something I find really oddly horrifying#but the only time I really ever stop loving something is if the thing itself gives me a reason not to like it#the only reason I ever really stopped doing VOH fanart is because the fandom for it dried up completely and my my job at the time demanded#all of my art attention#i've still drawn the characters a few times since then tho#I still love them with all of my heart lol#same with slayers and sailor moon#and ofc my love for dmc revs back up into action every time a new game comes out#(looking at the reboot) not you#been hyperfixated on resident evil since 1996 lol#killer instinct since 1994#god now that's a thing why have I never done modern killer instinct fanart? Sabrewulf's new design is a chef kiss#I've got my ancient KI fanart from the 90s have I ever posted it for you guys lmao it's amazing. all the love a 10 year old can pour#as we speak I have some of my voh doujin [hush you they're clean/story driven ones] on my desk bc I was reading through them again#anyway my point is... there's a few things I fell out of love with ofc#but those were all for actual 'story jumped the shark/tied to a bad experience' reasons#I'm thankful that my exact form of audhd doesn't come with jumping hyperfixations#ofc this means you're stuck with soli#stuck with it forever#(villainous thunderclash)#I love tumblr's post culture most of this post is in the goddamn tags
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