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Zoologist loading… 🦥🦑🐋🦣 Texas-based, Mississippi-raised Artist 🇺🇸 Enjoy my niche animal art and obsessions. Right now it’s: Beaked Whales & Sloths Commissions Open! Send me a DM to get started!
I think I’ll call this commission “Turla Munchersss”!
Millions of years ago during the Miocene, somewhere off the Pacific coast of SA, a gigantic Purussaurus sp. cautiously passes by a titanic female Otodus megalodon, each with freshly caught sea turtles.
#paleoart
OMG!!!!
03.03.2026 02:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Iirc, only the Mylodontid sloths like Lestodon, Paramylodon, and Glossotherium are known to have had them. I don’t think the Megatheres spotted them!
02.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stylized depiction of a Megatherium americanum.
Stylized depiction of a Southern Elephant Seal.
Who wins in a fight? 👀
Megatherium or an Elephant Seal?
#paleoart #animals #procrete #sloth
Stylized depiction of a Megatherium americanum.
Stylized depiction of a Southern Elephant Seal.
Who wins in a fight? 👀
Megatherium or an Elephant Seal?
#paleoart #animals #procrete #sloth
Oh!! 🤣
01.03.2026 18:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wait - bikini?! What?!
01.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yep!
01.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Comic depicting Big-billed Banded Penguins upset at a sudden slothy smell in their colony.
Stank Neighbors.
What's that smell on the beach?!
#paleoart #penguin #miocene
Comic depicting Big-billed Banded Penguins upset at a sudden slothy smell in their colony.
Stank Neighbors.
What's that smell on the beach?!
#paleoart #penguin #miocene
ft. Spheniscus megaramphus, Thalassocnus natans, a cormorant species, and Pelagornis - all in the Pisco Formation.
01.03.2026 08:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An adult Spinosaurus mirabilis feeds on a fish, blocking the sun from four basking turtles in a marshy environment 95 million years ago in what now is Niger.
Unicorn Sunblock!
A Spinosaurus mirabilis annoyingly blocks the sun from four turtles sunbathing while eating a fishy meal 95 million years ago in what today is Niger, Africa.
They just wanna sunbathe, man...
___
#paleoart #spinosaurus #dinosaur
Depiction of the giant ground sloth Megatherium walking towards a 5’11 human for size comparison.
Megatherium americanum !!
#paleoart #sloth #iceage
Depiction of the giant ground sloth Megatherium walking towards a 5’11 human for size comparison.
Megatherium americanum !!
#paleoart #sloth #iceage
An adult Spinosaurus mirabilis feeds on a fish, blocking the sun from four basking turtles in a marshy environment 95 million years ago in what now is Niger.
Unicorn Sunblock!
A Spinosaurus mirabilis annoyingly blocks the sun from four turtles sunbathing while eating a fishy meal 95 million years ago in what today is Niger, Africa.
They just wanna sunbathe, man...
___
#paleoart #spinosaurus #dinosaur
Three sketches of the extinct ground sloth, Ahytherium: a side profile, a sloth eating Jua leaves, and a sloth with its mouth open facing the viewer.
Bonus Ahytherium sketches for you guys!
💛🦥
#sloth #iceage #paleoart #slothszn
Three sketches of the extinct ground sloth, Ahytherium: a side profile, a sloth eating Jua leaves, and a sloth with its mouth open facing the viewer.
Bonus Ahytherium sketches for you guys!
💛🦥
#sloth #iceage #paleoart #slothszn
it should be "they had 5 fingers, with the "thumb", "pointer", "middle" and "ring" fingers having sharp claws on them. The "pinkie" was reduced to somewhat of a stub."!!!
27.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Portrait of an extinct ground sloth, Ahytherium aureum.
Ahytherium aureum was a medium-sized, 600-800+ lb Megalonychid sloth from Late Pleistocene Bahía, Brazil 🇧🇷, disappearing some 11-12,000 years or so ago.
#paleoart #megafauna #art #slothszn
Their habitat included open woodland, cerrado, caatinga, montane grasslands, and gallery forests.
Another fun fact is that at least juveniles were a prey item for Jaguars; Smilodon populator may have hunted them as well.
Ahytherium was a mixed-feeder, meaning it engaged in browsing and grazing behavior. Some plants it might have fed on include shrubs like Caesalpinia pyramidalis, grasses, leaves and fruits like Ficus figs.
27.02.2026 05:38 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This sloth's hind feet were plantigrade, meaning they walked on its soles (like us!) as opposed to most other ground sloths walking on the sides of their hind feet; they had 5 fingers, with the "thumb", "pointer" and "middle" fingers having sharp claws on them.
27.02.2026 05:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Portrait of an extinct ground sloth, Ahytherium aureum.
Ahytherium aureum was a medium-sized, 600-800+ lb Megalonychid sloth from Late Pleistocene Bahía, Brazil 🇧🇷, disappearing some 11-12,000 years or so ago.
#paleoart #megafauna #art #slothszn
Lol.
27.02.2026 04:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some Spade-toothed Whale drawings for a friend.
#ocean #animals #art
Three-panel comic depicting a Pakicetus (whale ancestor) threatening a dismissive Waimanu (ancient basal penguin); 50 million years in the future, the Orca now dominated the seas and the penguin lineage!
“Look at Me Now” - warmup comic.
#paleoart
ft. Pakicetus sp., Waimanu, type b Orca/Killer Whale and Emperor Penguin.
*note: Paki and Waimanu were not contemporaries, so treat this like the timeline in Ice Age movies lol.
Three-panel comic depicting a Pakicetus (whale ancestor) threatening a dismissive Waimanu (ancient basal penguin); 50 million years in the future, the Orca now dominated the seas and the penguin lineage!
“Look at Me Now” - warmup comic.
#paleoart