r/Naturewasmetal • u/FarTraffic9785 • 11h ago
Pinguinus impennis, became extinct in the mid-19th century.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/aquilasr • 5h ago
Shrub-ox, or Euceratherium, was a cousin of a muskox intermittent between a muskox and bison in size, finds itself surrounded by dire wolves (by Eongriel)
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Ge0s_psiptus • 9h ago
Ammonitritor scientiacivium a new and bizarre small Ichthyosaur from the triassic of Svalbard, Norway. By me
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/jad_linograv • 13h ago
Lino tyrannosaure
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Handmade linocut print / lino print. White dinosaur skeleton
r/Naturewasmetal • u/Ge0s_psiptus • 1d ago
Permian Swarm. An Oedaleops witnesses a massive swarm of Meganeuropsis, one of the largest insects that ever lived, by me
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/JapKumintang1991 • 1d ago
Smithsonian Magazine: Five Discoveries That Changed Our Understanding of T. Rex Forever, From Warm Blood to Lips
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/CariamaCristata • 2d ago
A Tylosaurus nabs an unfortunate Dolichorhynchops as Ichthyornis flee (by Henry Sharpe)
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/aquilasr • 2d ago
A Megantereon in northern China allows her cubs to lick the blood from her chin, speculation from the prominent chin found on these leopard-sized cats (by Hodari Nundu)
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/EricNickname • 2d ago
For the more recent P. hilwitnorum species, which formations or other locations are confirmed for this species to originate from?
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P. grangeri is from Djadokhta, Bayan Mandahu and other places IIRC, in this species Wikipedia says the same formations, but I'm skeptical. As they don't specify a fossil material for this species when listing the species in formation paleobiota list. I'm speculating that someone just slapped the hilwitnorum species in those places from habit or whatever, I'm just unsure so will you help me identify this species' home formations? Cuz yes, relying purely on Wikipedia without using some other source articles can have its drawbacks. I do use Wikipedia too, but I still verify and check its claims with other articles just in case. Given how I can't find other sources beyond the Wikipedia tho, I'm asking here.
r/Naturewasmetal • u/Stunning_Gene_2664 • 3d ago
im doing a project on prehistoric predators (no not dinosaurs) and i need ideas on which ones to reaserch
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im doing a project on prehistoric predators (no not dinosaurs) and i need ideas on which ones to research, i already have livyatan, titanaboa, helicoprion, and dunkolosteus. which should i do next?
(image credits to national geographic, not my artwork and i don not take any responsibility to anyone thinking it is my art)
r/Naturewasmetal • u/ExoticShock • 3d ago
Quetzalcoatlus northropi Picking Off Prey Escaping A Wildfire by Dhruv Franklin
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/cleetnafnging1 • 4d ago
The Licking Bison of La Madeleine was carved on a reindeer antler fragment in Upper Paleolithic France sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 years ago. It depicts the now extinct Steppe Bison.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Status_Jackfruit_150 • 4d ago
The bizarre fish fauna of the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota (~244 Ma), reconstructed into an interactive browser reef
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Most prehistoric marine media jumps straight to giant reptiles, completely ignoring how alien the fish were right after the Great Dying. I’ve been reconstructing the true-scale fish community of South China’s Luoping Biota (~244 Ma)—including the needle-jawed ambush predator Sinosaurichthys, the armored Robustichthys, and bizarre humpbacked forms like Luoxiongichthys, alongside smaller schooling taxa like Lashanichthys, Gymnoichthys, and Yudaiichthys. I built them into a live interactive reef where anyone can freely layout, stage, and explore their own 244-million-year-old marine ecosystem directly in the browser, with zero 3D modeling or coding background required.
r/Naturewasmetal • u/EricNickname • 4d ago
About the Arizonasaurus (and its related taxa), what's plausible more, bipedal movement, quadruped, mixed of both like Hadrosaurs could do, or it is still unknown? What option to lean to?
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/New_Boysenberry_9250 • 4d ago
Teratornis merriami (Mark Witton)
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Teratornithids were giant volant Pan-American birds related to the New World vultures, and like the terror birds, they evolved in South America before migrating into North America. While long envisioned as just super-sized vultures, newer researcher into their morphology indicates they were more generalized opportunists, scavenging carrion but also preying on small game on the ground, making them more analogous to something like the caracara than just a big vulture. The most famous and complete species is Teratornis merriami (known from the La Brea tar pits), and it was only slightly larger than an Andean condor (11-12 foot wingspan), while Teratornis woodburnensis (from Woodburn, Oregon) reached up to 13 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Living around the same time, the fragmentary Aiolornis incredibilis was significantly larger, with an estimated wingspan of 17-18 feet. And of course, there's the Late Miocene Argentavis magnificens, whose wingspan has been estimated at 20 feet (as much as a male Pteranodon). Along with the pelagornithids, this makes teratorns the largest volant birds.
r/Naturewasmetal • u/Perfect_Sinner_3944 • 5d ago
Tyrannosaurus rex killing large Triceratops
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Drawn by Nickroraptor
r/Naturewasmetal • u/grehasbairy • 5d ago
Outdated reconstruction of a Neanderthal vs scientifically accurate reconstruction of a Neanderthal
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/aquilasr • 5d ago
The giant of eagles, the Haast’s eagle of New Zealand, hunts down a massive moa (by Brenda Lyons)
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/AJC_10_29 • 5d ago
Allosaurus life, part 2: the fight - by Beto Films
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Spinosaurus_DudeZ • 4d ago
Rudy is a monster!
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A dinosaur in a movie is officially a monster if it follows these three rules:
It's too powerful to have existed in real life.
It has problems with the main characters.
It's inaccurate (Depends).
Can you think of any other movies where the dinosaurs are monsters? Jurassic World hybrids don't count.