#prehistoric

[yeetums1917]

One of my life mottos is to give aid to people when it is not fair. Happy to say that even though this is an unfair event for the museum I have purchased the dunkleosteus SO fast and I hope others will too.

Museum SOS

I just saw the news that the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY is facing foreclosure after a group of donors failed to produce about $30 million USD that they had promised.

The museum is run by the Paleontological Research Institution, whose collection has about 7 million fossil specimens—one of the largest in the US—and is one of only a few natural history museums in upstate NY. PRI runs both the Museum and the Cayuga Nature Center, which is also dealing with the budget shortfall.

The organization is working on restructuring (namely downsizing) to improve their financial sustainability but they still need funds, and one thing they've said could help is if people shop at their store!

The foreclosure news broke like two days ago and their shop is already selling fast (testament to how many people want them to survive!) but there are a few items left in stock, including some prehistoric plushies. If you want to make a purchase to help maybe keep them afloat, their online gift shop is here and is honestly extremely reasonably priced.

so how about a FOOT LONG TULLY MONSTER

OR A DUNKLEOSTEUS

OR SOME

TRILOBITE SLIPPERS

They've also got some books, shirts, toys, etc. and I'm sure those sales numbers will help the authors/artists as well.

(Regular donations are also welcomed)

[boobookittenartblog]

Dromaeosaurus by Jonathan Kuo

[thesilicontribesman]

Ancient Auroch Skull, Bos primigenius, Perth Museum, Scotland

Aurochs are the wild ancestor of domestic cattle. Destruction of forests and hunting over thousands of years led to their extinction. The species survived in Britain until the Bronze Age.

This skull was found at Chapleton Moss, east of Forfar, Angus in 1790.

[dinodanicus]

Here is the process for my illustration of Thyla. It took for ever to get the lighting and fur just right.

[fennec-greyy]

SINOSAUROPTERYX!!! 🫵

OMG ITS,, THE SILLY !! SUCH A PERFECT CREATION !!! AUGH

Gingko (they/she)

A sinosauropteryx I sewed in September 2024, just in time to bring her with me to Tetzoocon.

I'd been so tempted to keep one of the ones I made for my shop, but resisting the temptation meant I got to make myself a special one! I really enjoy the gradient I managed with her tail stripes.

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from Friday's Flocking Paleostream featuring Han solo, Tameryraptor, Rhizodus, and Dinornis.

[fluffysheeps]

Prehistoric 🦖🦕✨

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[scuddlez]

They turned him into a shaboingboing

Edit: I keep seeing this photo being reposted in places outside of Tumblr, and it surprises me every time.

[srlgemstone]

Potamon sp. Crab Fossil; Pleistocene Epoch (2.58 - 0.012 MYA)

[samarajethwa]

Inspired by that gorgeous Chauvet bear cave painting and also Djungelskog

[boobookittenartblog]

Dimorphodon by Harrison Keller Pyle

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This plush bird was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

[thesilicontribesman]

Ancient Red Deer Antlers, Cervus elephas, Perth Museum, Scotland

The red deer of the ancient forests were large animals with thick heavy antlers.

Over the last 9,000 years, the species have become smaller as forest habitats have been lost. These large antlers were found beneath a thick peat layer at Loch Rescobie, near Forfar, Angus in the late eighteenth century.

[samkuchingdraws]

Pool Day

Cooling off for the summer~

Art Prints | RedBubble Shop