Thagomizers

photograph by Ian Breland

MutualArt

Let's ambush mama! 😼

"Pallas kittens."

Cerrejonisuchus, Parabos, Argentinonectes and Bayanoteuthis

Pronghorns don't jump fences -- so they say...

This was my part of a paleoartist collab! Based the layout off of Leyendecker's beautiful work - genuinely had so much fun with this one <3

let’s get on mama’s last nerve

cave lion from prehistoric planet compared to neolithic cave lion art

Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus

photograph by Megh Roy Choudhury

The Fuller's eagle is the largest eagle known to man. Potentially double the weight of the harpy eagle, its large claws were able to penetrate down to a moa's pelvis while hunting. It had proportionally small wings for forest manuverability, chasing, toppling and ripping at the moa until it died. Its prey was so proportionally large compared to it, in fact, that the Fuller's eagle had a bill more like a vulture because it was effectively doing the same thing and shoving its head into giant carcasses - that it made. Both of these animals went extinct in the 1400s, shortly after the Maori settled South Island. They hunted the moa; and their introduced rats would have destroyed their eggs. When the moa died out, so did the giant eagles.

Start appreciating her 😡

I can go upside down.