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Xiphactinus: A Groundbreaking Multimedia Experience Debuts at SXSW 2026 #USA #Austin #TooFar_Media #Rich_Shapero #Xiphactinus
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#FishyFriday #FossilFriday A fossil of an 82-million-year-old Cretaceous fish called Xiphactinus showed that it swallowed another large fish called Gillicus whole!
#FishArt #Xiphactinus #Gillicus #Cretaceous #PrehistoricPlanet #Fish #BskyArt #ArtShare #ArtYear #Art
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Hesperornis catching fish from baitball, Prehistoric Planet.
Hesperornis pursuing fish from baitball, Prehistoric Planet.
#Xiphactinus is famous for its swallowing of large items, so it's only natural that this is focused on in the sequence. We reasoned that hesperornithines were more manoeuvrable than giant fish, but not faster, but this is speculative and inferred from living analogues.
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Anthony Maltese at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, with Xiphactinus skeleton above.
Xiphactinus skeleton on show at aquarium in Toronto.
I owe thanks to Anthony Maltese @mosasaurologist.bsky.social (the world's Number 1 fan of #Xiphactinus; shown here) and especially Lionel Cavin, both of whom provided extensive info on the kinesis that likely happened in these animals...
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Complete fossil skeleton of Xiphactinus from technical paper.
Prehistoric Planet Xiphactinus passing close to camera operator, showing silvery body scales and dark vertical stripes.
The other main character in the sequence is the big predatory #Xiphactinus. Tons of work on getting the scalation right, deciding on a colour scheme (it went from silvery shiny to striped), and figuring out the teeth and look of the fins.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here are photos of the Xiphactinus half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The yellow blurs are animated Caproberyx, using my ZBrush model.
#PaleoArt #Xiphactinus #Mosasaurus #JurassicWorld #FossilFriday
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A closer look at the school of Caproberyx, from the fish half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Xiphactinus #Tylosaurus #Mosasaurus #Ammonites #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's the fish half of my Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Featured are a Xiphactinus, Apsopelix, Caproberyx, & ammonites.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Xiphactinus #Tylosaurus #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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This morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, is a mural featuring #Xiphactinus, a school of Caproberyx around a dead #Mosasaur, and some Inoceramus.
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Xiphactinus! First time seeing one on Ark Survival Acended!
Thankyou to Xbox for making me a PC Games Pass Partner and gifting me the PC Games Pass!
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A silly idea I had a while ago but this one is Auda, a mermaid based on a Xiphactinus that has only two neurons in its brain but hates mosaurs.
She may look cuddly (sorta), but she has a nasty bite.🐟🦈
#xiphactinus #mermaid #paleoart #dinosaur #artwork #OC #BRart #fish
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Day 26: Xiphactinus
Xiphactinus mermaids were a genus of predatory fish-merfolk that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 85 million years ago.
#mermay2024
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Fossilized fish tooth of a Xiphactinus or X-fish.
A fossilized fish tooth of a Xiphactinus vetus or X-fish from the Blufftown Formation in Barbour County, Alabama, USA. The species of X-fish was originally misidentified as a mosasaur under the species, Polygonodon vetus.
#fish #fossil #paleontology #xiphactinus #polygonodon
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