Photograph of a fossil fish skull in right lateral view. The bone is dark brown/black against a gray matrix.
Out now in Contributions from me and @gilespalaeo.bsky.social, a deep dive into an early member of the sturgeon and paddlefish lineage. Bear with me, but there’s a long backstory highlighting uncertainty about the anatomy of living species and how well-studied fossils can still yield new insights.
Beautiful sunrise
Mola mola often lay on their side at the water surface to sun themselves and warm up their bodies, earning them the common name "sunfish". I was thinking about them a lot at 2 am the other night which spawned whatever this is.
#molamola #sunfish #fish
Dark, shallow underwater scene showing three Astraspis, yellow, finless, jawless fish with armored head swimming to the right, surrounded by some algae and rocks. 3D artwork.
Murky underwater scene with two Eriptychius, dark brownish, finless, jawless fish facing each other, half buried in the soft sediment, with rocks in the background. 3D artwork.
Top view of a shallow marine environment with Eriptychius and Astraspis, two different species of jawless fishes, loitering around the soft sediment and rocks. 3D artwork.
Look at my fesh
#Art #SciArt
Another brilliant example that nature has never been limited by the strict human definitions of "male and female". Fish especially show a mind-blowing variety of reproductive strategies!
Thrissops formosus JME Ett 3111 on display at MHNH
feesh
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
I'm making a fish-core playlist! What songs should I add?
-looking for fish related lyrics or just vibes
-no soundtracks please, unless you feel strongly about one particular song (I know subnautica exists, love it, not what I'm looking for here)
Who up deciphering they taphonomic processes
Disc-shaped fossils with concentric grooves scattered through a limestone block.
Image of the apex of the Great Pyramid, taken from the base of the southeast corner. The layers of massive blocks of limestone composing the pyramid are clearly visible. The pyramid is set against a sunny blue sky.
I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
Thank you! Glad I got the expert approval.
Absolutely thrilled to have seen the new Chicago Archaeopteryx exhibit. This specimen never ceases to amaze me. Featuring my fanart of said dead bird.
#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum
SUE looking delightfully green
#fieldmuseum #trex
This is one of the most absurd things I've ever seen in a crystal shop. Top tier impulse purchase.
I think they were more concerned with trying to suck on the tank wall lol
Tomorrow :D
Reptiles doing the reptile things (Burpee museum)
Got to pet a sturgeon at the Burpee museum, my life has peaked
Hi Jane
Mahjong in Chicago with friends and my Therizinosaurus son named Chad Kroger
Flag of California. It features a grizzly bear walking atop a grassy field, a red star on the upper left, a red bar at the bottom, and the words "California Republic" all on a white background
Flag of Chernyshevsky District. It features blue and green regions on the background, white lines dividing them, and atop them, a golden flower(?) and an illustration of the dinosaur Kulindadromeus
Flag of Dornogovi. It features horizontal blue, yellow, and green stripes. On the top left is a blue-and-orange emblem with a white silhouette of a sauropod in it
Flag of Srednekolymsk. It features a red sun on the top right, a stylized river, and a red mammoth
Flags with extinct animals on them:
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
Hell nah no chondrichthyes in this house 😤
Listening to Limp Bizkit while drawing fish skeletals. Not sure if this is making me feel more or less sane tbh
Gaze upon this magnificent artifact I found at the local thrift store the other day
I try to get a skeleton sketch or two done any time I go to the AMNH. It's a great opportunity to practice life drawings.
The trike's head is also very triangular, narrow towards the front and rly thick at the back. Bit of a strange model for sure.
I also checked out the new Impact exhibit at the AMNH yesterday. I didn't have too much time for an in depth look, but first impressions were good! Mixed reviews on the models and illustrations. Looking forward to more thoroughly reading through everything next time I'm there.
Practicing skeletal sketches with Stegosaurus at the AMNH yesterday!
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Disclaimer: this skeletal is far from perfect. Good reconstructions for most fish, especially extinct ones, are few and far between, so I tried my best to piece it together from the few references I had. That being said, I'm quite happy with how it turned out!
lizardfish and lancetfish. Here I depicted the fish's skull, specifically highlighting its jaw bones. Aulopiforms, both extinct and extant, have very diverse arrangements of these gape-forming bones. They tell us a lot about the evolutionary development of their feeding methods.
