click click …

Deep and Cold.

Funny how the brightest light could go in a few *clicks*….

Gonatus antarcticus btw.

#comic #art #squid #animals

Deep and Cold.

Funny how the brightest light could go in a few *clicks*….

Gonatus antarcticus btw.

#comic #art #squid #animals

Moa paperrrrrrr!!

Two sketches to unwind from my day b4 bed. Nighty night, ppls!

- Tasmacetus mating
- Eschatornis

#paleoart

Two sketches to unwind from my day b4 bed. Nighty night, ppls!

- Tasmacetus mating
- Eschatornis

#paleoart

— “The Hidden Spade” —

[Dive Log — Chatham Rise]
978.5 m below the surface off New Zealand 🇳🇿, a male Spade-toothed Whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is filmed alive for the first time ever, pursuing Bathyteuthis abyssicola in the deep sea.

The team has named him Hōhonu.
[End Log] //

— “The Hidden Spade” —

I’m so glad!

Trying to plan out some color patterns for extinct beaked whales… I don’t wanna go too too crazy but I still wanna make em unique .

Choneziphius, Dagonodum, Nenga, Mesoplodon slangkopi, & Globicetus.
#paleoart

Trying to plan out some color patterns for extinct beaked whales… I don’t wanna go too too crazy but I still wanna make em unique .

Choneziphius, Dagonodum, Nenga, Mesoplodon slangkopi, & Globicetus.
#paleoart

Meet my pod of Shepherd’s Beaked Whales (Tasmacetus shepherdi) !!

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- Tika (17), formerly a member of a different pod (including her mate and calf) that was killed by a mega pod of Orcas.

- and Tá (9), a young male learning from Tazmo and is for some reason the most attractive to cookiecutter sharks, hence the many bite marks.

- Tazmo (34 years old), the dominant senior bull.
- Tati (27), the oldest female.
- Taziki (10)
- Eko (15), the newest mate of Tazmo.
- Echo (<1 year old), the calf of Tazmo and Eko.

Meet my pod of Shepherd’s Beaked Whales (Tasmacetus shepherdi) !!

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Introducing: the BEAKED WHALES!!

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Introducing: the BEAKED WHALES!!

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Oh yeah! This is the second largest family of cetaceans, yet unmistakably the least known!

Precisely - abelisaurs because of a space rock and Moa because of… a naked ape. 😅

*9 more to go 😅

8 more beaked whales to go!!

#whales #ocean #sealife #cetacea #dolphin

8 more beaked whales to go!!

#whales #ocean #sealife #cetacea #dolphin

BERARDIUS ⭑

- Baird’s Beaked Whale (B. bairdii): N Pacific, 32-42’ long and 5-13 tons.

- Sato’s BW (B. minimus): N Pacific, up to 23’ and 3+ tons.

- Arnoux’s BW (B. arnuxii): S Hemisphere, including Antarctica, up to 31’ and 6-10 tons.

#ocean #sea #cetacea #whales #dolphin #squid

A huge, heavily built helodermatid lizard with a thick tail and curved claws. It has blue and black scales, decorated with vertical bands of creamy white. Its huge, partially bifurcated tongue hangs from its open mouth. A size comparison shows it to be larger than a human, around 3 meters in total length.

A giant monstroderm lizard swallows a spike-covered phrynosomatid lizard called a thorntail. The thorntail is mostly dark with a complex camouflaged pattern of earthy brown, grey, and whites. Its feet and hands are covered in vivid blue, red, yellow, and green. The surrounding desert is full of flower-filled bushes and cacti, and the sky is scene is bathed in the orange hues of sunset.

A New Age of Reptiles: The Monstroderm

One might think the vast deserts and arid scrubland of the American west are too desolate for giant predators, but that assumption could could cost a field researcher their life.

Monstroderms prowl these lands, and everything that moves is on the menu. (1/11)

This is your annual reminder that Moa are the ONLY dinosaurs to completely lose their forelimbs!

They only had a tiny shoulder remnant.

#paleoart #bird

Which is absolutely insane!

Not completely - they were extremely reduced, but not absent.

BERARDIUS ⭑

- Baird’s Beaked Whale (B. bairdii): N Pacific, 32-42’ long and 5-13 tons.

- Sato’s BW (B. minimus): N Pacific, up to 23’ and 3+ tons.

- Arnoux’s BW (B. arnuxii): S Hemisphere, including Antarctica, up to 31’ and 6-10 tons.

#ocean #sea #cetacea #whales #dolphin #squid

Glad!