#terror claw

[templeofskelegod]

My apologies to all Cosmic Terror Skeletor and green Ghost Skeletor fans, I could not fit them in the options.

[sicktwistedlimpwristed]

He's like the stage 4 terminal level of old man fuckers like this man looks like a bulldog and is the most bitter miserable old bastard and yet every time I hear him talk in that Irish accent I get it. God id do anything to be on that boat and have him bark orders at me

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

So it turns out Terror Birds/Cariamiformes are, in every possible sense, "Dromaeosaurs 2: The Quickening"

[filmbroandy]

just now realizing that terror ep 9 contains not just 3 but 4 instances of characters being ushered into death by someone they're basically married to if you count blanky and the beast considering his comments about being engaged to it following the attack in ep 5.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i think. i need to go for a drive and get myself a tasty beverage

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price

Tales of Terror; Morella (1962) dir. Roger Corman

[nigesakis]

[bug-slappy]

keychain mayhaps?? what do u guys think

[alphynix]

April Fools 2023: How Titanis Lost The Right To Bear Arms

Huge, flightless, and carnivorous, the phorusrhacids (or terror birds) were some of the largest apex predators in South America during its Cenozoic "splendid isolation" as an island continent – and they were possibly the closest that birds ever came to reclaiming the ecological roles of their extinct non-avian theropod dinosaur relatives. 

And for a while in the late 1990s and early 2000s there was a hypothesis that they'd even re-evolved clawed hands.

This idea was based on the wing bones of Titanis walleri, the only terror bird known to have dispersed northwards during the Great American Biotic Interchange when North and South America became connected via the Isthmus of Panama.

Living during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in Florida and Texas, between about 5 and 1.8 million years ago, Titanis stood around 1.5-1.8m tall (~5-6') and was heavily built, with long strong legs and a massive hooked beak. Remains of its small wings were incomplete and fragmentary but had seemingly unusual joints, with what looked like a stiffer wrist and more flexible "fingers" than other birds, which led paleontologist Robert Chandler to propose in 1994 that this terror bird species had modified its wings into clawed grasping arms similar to those of dromaeosaurs, used to restrain prey animals while its beak tore them apart.

But the idea of a giant murder-bird with added meathook-hands only lasted about a decade. Further investigation in 2005 showed that Titanis' arms weren't that weird after all – the same sort of joints are found in terror birds' closest living relatives, the seriemas, and so Titanis really had the same sort of small vestigial wings as many other large flightless birds.

…However, there still could have been some claws on there. Many modern birds actually have one or two small claws on their hands that aren't visible under their feathers, and terror birds like Titanis having something like that going on is completely plausible – they just wouldn't have been using them for any sort of specalized predatory function.

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[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

Chasm: Curse of Kaine (Vol. 1/2024), #2.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler and Inker: Andrea Broccardo; Colorist: Brian Reber; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

[doctorwhogirlie]

[aut2imagineart]

A few years ago I designed an ultimate alien that was a combination of the Xenomorphs (Alien franchise), Death Angels (A Quiet Place), and the White Spikes (The Tomorrow War). Since the Xenomorphs and White Spikes had queens I figured I'd design a queen of the ultimate aliens. The end result is a lot more terrifying than I anticipated. Perfect for the Halloween season.

Alien, A Quiet Place, and The Tomorrow War belong to Disney, Paramount pictures, and Amazon Studios respectively.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

Side note: I reused the background from my original ultimate alien piece with some modifications.

[riwooga]

You see this started out as me just wanting to draw Riley cuddling with Great Hawk,,, but then I stumbled upon a brush set and got carried away playing around with that.

So, I decided to take it as good practice for backgrounds as I very much avoid those usually 🤧💕

Also a little messy bonus Riley that was for me to figure out his transformation 🥲

[micahdotgov]

before i'd watched classic who whenever i'd watch tooth and claw and the doctor says his name is dr james mcrimmon i just thought it was a fun throwback but now its like oh god. after all those hundreds of years jamie was the first person he thought of when he realised he was in scotland. there was no hesitation he never forgot him not for a second. jamie might have had his memories taken from him but the doctor will never forget him.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - Tales of Terror; Morella (1962)

[feralphoenix]

also yo while im on the blue nightmare for 5 minutes please allow me to will smith hands my favorite gaza esims fund, https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

ive donated to it and if you have a few dollar's burning a hole in your pocket maybe you should too...