40 million kinorhynchs/AMT

It's been a while! But I’m back with some massive 🧪 news: 15 papers on the Cabrières Biota have been accepted in Lethaia.

They show the incredible complexity of life 470 million years ago (e.g., sponges, algae, worms🪱, arthropods🦐) and will be rolling out soon!

🎨 by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

Sorry for the late reply but happy birthday!

enbie

utterly unserious creature

Pterograptus didn't send so I posted it here

The Soom Shale, a late Ordovician lagerstätte

Larva of Platypeltoides magrebiensis, an early Ordovician trilobite

Pterograptus scanicus, a middle Ordovician graptolite

Congrats for 18K and thank you for hosting!

I'm an amateur paleoartist who primarily draws invertebrates. I post rather rarely but I'm working on drawing more.

(Pieces in chronological order, Pterograptus is the newest)

投票箱に投票する三葉虫（アサフス・コワレウスキー）のイラスト。 「I voted!」とコメントが書かれている。

期日前投票に行ってきました。

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

The undomitable unpredictability of nature
vs
"Ventrolateral edge of palatine medial to suborbital fenestra: sharp, palatine does not curve dorsally (0), or smooth, palatine curves dorsally (1)."

this paper is certainly... interesting

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

However, this shows us in my view how little we actually know about these beautiful animals. I really enjoyed making this piece and am proud of how it turned out (for now at least)

Hope you enjoy it!

This piece was highly speculative and inspired by the deep-sea habitat this graptolite likely inhabited. I chose to make its zooids bioluminescent and also depicted it eating the unfortunate larva of a Caryocaris phyllocarid, which also lived in the same strata.

A large, winglike graptolite Pterograptus scanicus, floats in dark water. The right side is closer to the camera and illuminated by light, while the left side fades into the darkness. There are a regular series of glowing cyan lights along the branch-like 'feathers' of the graptolite. Close to the camera, a gray, transparent larval Caryocaris (a genus of phyllocarid) is ensnared in the graptolite's tentacles.

'Satan's Lyre' #graptolite #paleoart #sciart

I've been trying to learn more about graptolites as of late and for my first piece in a while, I chose to draw the large graptolite Pterograptus scanicus.

atomized 3D kangaroos...

nature is wonderful!

please explain more

An Abstract (?) Expressionist #FossilFriday: Essence of a Graptolite (2014) by Sue Purcell. It 'was inspired by a fossil I found during a field trip with the fossil club at the Lower Llanfawr Quarry, Llandrindod Wells, Powys. Mid-Wales' (www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting...)

lmao what the fuck

whats your problem with aglaspis huh?

THEY HIT THE SECOND SAUROPOSEIDON

it had to happen some time

real

A digital drawing of an underwater hydrothermal vent with an octopus riding a giant scaly foot gastropod with some sick-ass turbines in the distance

Was not actively participating in #invertober this year but I do have this old drawing of a scaly-food gastropod that I simply must share

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

*chanting*
ALL HAIL THE GREAT INVERTEBRATE
NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH BACK PAIN
OH GREAT INVERTEBRATE GRANT ME THE SAME

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston shut its doors, one of many presidential libraries forced to close as the government shutdown continues.

meme of two muscular people locking arms, duplicated 8 times. arms are labeled 'spider' and 'octopus'

Paging @aptshadow.bsky.social

These colors are really nice!

Plesiosiro, an obscure arachnid from the carboniferous period. Designed by me in 2011. Structure based on a 48 by 48 unit grid. This little critter caught my attention because of the segments split in half.

Goniotarbus, an obscure arachnid from the carboniferous period. Designed by me in 2011. Structure based on a 48 by 48 unit grid. This model is no longer accurate, The interpretative reference image I had used to produce this model is now out of date.

Pleophrynus, a Trigonotarbid from the carboniferous period. Designed by me in 2020. The structure is based on a 64 by 64 unit diagonal grid. I've had a Trigonotarbid in my sights for a long time as a subject but I was eyeing Palaeocharinus originally. The complex segmentation of the abdomen was simultaneously what piqued my interest in the first place but a daunting task all the same, which hampered any progress. Many years have passed and that dream model has yet to materialize. Then one day a friend approached with an inquiry for a commission to recreate a different Trigonotarbid altogether and I jumped at the opportunity. This is the result. I'm still seeing opportunities for improvement but it really was the best I could do three years ago.

An origami model of a hooded tick spider. Designed by me in 2011, based on a 48 by 48 unit grid. These really are funky little oddballs. I still have the struggle it was to try and find usable reference images in vivid memory. Thankfully, if and when I deem this one is due for a redo, I'm going to have much better references to compare against. :)

More ancient chelicerates for #InverteFest!
These are:
Plesiosiro (Haptopoda), Goniotarbus (Phalangiotarbida), Pleophrynus (Trigonotarbida) and the still surviving hooded tick spider (Ricinulei), which were discovered in the fossil record first and only then also found in the wild.

oh I forgot I made this too...Rare venture to invertebrates. but who doesnt like nice Trigonotarbid