this is an approximation but if anyone has the original or know who made it i'd be happy to have it
Kremling Krew! Kremling Krew!
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
Results from the Nanotyrannus #Paleostream!
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
I had a go at drawing steppe #lions chasing a European bison recently, based on Palaeolithic artworks. I'm unsure about the markings around the lions' eyes but my main reference, which seems to otherwise give good data about colour distribution, suggests _something_ was there. #paleoart
they're just like little cartoon mouths sitting on the ground among the pine needles, like the things that eat that guy in the Dark Crystal miniseries
yes! completely correct. P incarnata is also edible though and also weirdly hard to find for sale here
there is a distinction to be made here though, that what we understand as culinary passionfruit "passiflora edulis" is native to South America, while the purple passionvine native to the US is "passiflora incarnata." there are hundreds of species of passionflower but passionfruit is a lil different
similar thing happens with passiflora. enjoy the tropical and mysterious passionfruit, from the steamy, exotic jungles of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
the main reason they don't last very long as houseplants is because they're adapted to weather the harsh and deadly North Carolina winters, so they get sick unless you put them in the fridge
still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina
Sometimes I remember this, and I think about how funny it is that its original context is the complete opposite of how it’s used as a meme.
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
#DinoConUK @grahancock.bsky.social: How to hide a T. rex
The thing about swallowing dinosaurs as real animals is that it’s not just about getting past popular myths. It’s about having as wide an understanding of real animals as possible to properly judge what is realistic and what’s not.
A friend of mine shared a series of photos on Twitter of a lone spotted hyena bringing down an injured white rhinoceros by constantly biting its rear.
Has anyone else noticed the Peteinosaurus and Plateosaurus in Walking with Dinosaurs have the exact same head? I’ve been thinking about this for far longer than any person should and I can’t keep it to myself any longer.
But wait there’s more!
Summary of Ichinose, Inuzuka and Uno discussing the design of Stonefist Hermitaur in Monster Hunter: Principles of Creativity 2.
Machine translated the comic things
And it could hang onto trees with its tail, and it had barbed claws, like fish hooks.
Forgot to mention some stuff in previous sections. It would prefer to attack lone hunters, and would run in a zig-zag pattern. Also it would pretend to not see you, call another Kepu, and then flee if you attacked it so the other one could deal with you.
3rd image. Nothing too special, just showing attacks.
Also just realized the fourth image is a crop of the first image.
It also shows it saying there mushrooms in an area, mimicking player B. One of the hunters goes to investigate, and the comic splits. One scenario where there really are mushrooms, another where two Keputosu are waiting for him.
One scenario has it jumping out of a bush to drag you to a different area. It, mimicking “A” says he’s in one area, but the actual “A” hunter says he’s somewhere else. The other scenario is it having a burrow, being like a trapdoor spider.
Second image: Described as a “(cheat) clever wyvern”
Would “ignore” traps
It’s also a vocal mimic. Conceptualized as either pulling a Qurupeco, or MIMICKING HUNTERS IN THE CHAT. It would re-say things people already said and it would show in the chat. It also could grab you, 2 versions shown…
First image: Keputosu would call with its crest and you would be able to decode the calls to predict where they’re going. Also it hunts in pairs and breaks eggs on rocks and throws rocks.
Ok so someone on a discord server I’m in posted some concept of Keputosu and I did some google translating and… WOW! Keputosu is very complex and has lots of tricks for what turned into a very simple monster.
