#tylosaur

I’ve been challenging myself to do something new for every drawing this year. Today? Edge highlighting, and fan art!

I loved Lula’s arc from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. So I decided to try drawing her today. Just... Mermaid. I’d recommend the show, but warn heavily for blood and gore. Like, every episode something gets a limb ripped off.

Miners digging for gemstones found something entirely different last month; rather than uncovering the shiny and iridescent gemstone known as ammolite, they discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster.

Paleontologists could barely contain their glee. The ancient sea monster was the nearly complete skeleton of a marine reptile known as a mosasaur, likely of the genus Tylosaurus, that lived during the dinosaur age about 70 million years ago.

I know faeries were morally ambiguous, often outright evil dicks by human standards, but we're often portrayed too alien in thought process to be outright evil. It's my favorite interpretation of them.

Wasn't sure about them generally being human sized. To my knowledge, fey were portrayed in all shapes and sizes, and I've heard of pixies, goblins, gnomes, elves, dwarves and trolls all being catagorized as "faeries" (though I think elves, dwarves and trolls were more a Scandinavia thing than a England / British isles thing.)

I only vaguely remember those theories, but generally don't believe in faeries goblins or dragons being real though. Faeries and goblins are simply too far fetched, and I don't think anything as big as a dragons, or at least land dwelling dragons could exist without us knowing. (though I definitely think dinosaur bones / fossils played a big role in ancient people believing and developing the myths.)

That said I could believe maybe some sort of prehistoric aquatic creature surviving could have potentially caused rumors of sea serpents or something similar - the ocean is huge, and we know plenty of cases where something scientists thought was extinct like coelacanth or giant squid were found alive, or freshly dead. The main problem is a lot the aquatic prehistoric creatures WE KNOW OF that resemble dragons, such as tylosaurs and plesiosaurs, are only semi-aquatic and would have to come up for air regularly, so there's no way theyed be alive NOW, with satellite imagery and all that, but I could see them hypothetically having still been around in more ancient times when humans were also around.

As for stuff that could exist now, if giant squids are real, I don't see how large, long fully aquatic fish, resembling a sea serpents (like a really big scary looking eel) would be at all outside the realm of possibility, but it'd have to be living pretty deep underwater for no one to have seen it.