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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · 1d

#RadioStatic is my OTP

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Aug 5

Gynandromorphic Ceratosaurus

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Jul 31

Yes I'm alive

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Jul 31

A stylized Allosaurus for the timeline

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 22

My gratitudes regardless

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 22

(This is a repost, I changed the colors a little bit)

shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 22

Is there a paper to this??
I need it for my purposes

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 11

Creatures in bound for a little world I call "Laramidiaterra"

A planet seeded with flora and fauna from the entirety of Campanian Laramidia, and Laramidia only

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Sina(COMISSIONS OPEN !!!) @sinasinasina.bsky.social · Feb 7

Carnivores style gigantoraptor and megatherium

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 9

The fearsome underdog of the Panmezo Ring, the diablorn holds fast as one of the most successful byrds of its caliber. Proving once and for all that generalists more often than not pull through against all odds

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Antrorhynchids, though most renowned for their most derived members, those with reduced forelimbs and incredibly well developed hollow nasal crests (called nasal towers), still bear some of their more basal number in their ranks. Though overwhelmingly outnumbered, they still play a substantial role in any ecosystem they inhabit.

Meet the diablorn. The most widespread macropredatory antrorhynchid on Paradoxia.

As a rule, most of the giants of the clade such as the lornirex and the lornidor are restricted to Allun, but the diablorn breaks this convention in colonizing three of the four continents that make up the Panmezo Ring. Only Kaltun is spared from their ravagings, as the island chain that connects it to Allun is of a climate too cold for the byrds to bear.

Diablorns are pack hunters. As they are on average smaller than their neighboring apex predators, only reaching 40 or 50 feet in large females, this incentives them to group together for mutual protection. Their social structure is unlike that of their derived cousins, inspite of their basal position, as they employ a polyandrous mating strategy. A clan is comprised of a dominant matriarch, her male partners, and her offspring. The offspring of both sexes always disperse upon maturity, and travel far and wide before settling down and founding clans of their own. This behavior is likely what allowed for their massive range across the three continents.

This drive to disperse is bolstered by the fact that diablorns are territorial, and a clan may hold an enormously vast territory. Young males may join an already established clan, but the females always found their own. A matriarch never tolerates a competitor that is reproductively active.

Genetic admixture is common, though a given region may have it's own distinct morph of diablorns. The female individual pictured above hails from the Spire Savannahs, with a lighter coat of plumage and a more extensive undercarriage.

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Sina(COMISSIONS OPEN !!!) @sinasinasina.bsky.social · Feb 3

Old 2023 art of Ibirania.
#paleoart

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 2

The following is a scene depicting a great battle in the Towertree Forests.
A white-faced malleorn, the peak of predatory thescelornid might.
A blue gorn, the greatest of ceratornid majesty.

Two enormous byrds locked in a conflict as old as time immemorial

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The calm melodic morning chatter of dozens of little creatures is soon overwhelmed by loud roars and cracking tree trunks. The source of it all, two titanic animals locked in ferocious combat.

A male white-faced malleorn has mounted an ambitious predation attempt on an adult blue gorn. Such a choice is unlike anything a predator even this great would dare consider, yet the reason why is irrelevant as the fight escalates further.

As the malleorn flanks to land a bite, the gorn catches him in the attempt and throws him against the side of a tree. Disorientated, the malleorn gathers himself right before he falls over to his side, now staring down at his quarry.

Both animals circle each other in a tense moment before closing in once again. If neither of them throws off the fight, only one will leave with their lives.

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 1

Of fucking course

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 1

You're ma man

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Feb 1

The striped lacerorn is the largest species of the Temnorhynchornis genus. A native to the Towertree Forests and the lower reaches of the Assendion Forests, they dominate the arboreal environment as the apex predator.

The Towertree Forests are one the most expansive habitats in the Panmezo Ring. With the towertrees themselves being the only "tree" plants within these forests, with their immense size and structure, they create an environment especially condusive for giant arboreal animals to inhabit.
The striped lacerorn, largest of its genus, resides here. They are powerful and agile predators, being more than capable of punching above their weight class and subduing prey up to four times their size. And yet despite this, they are unique amongst their relatives for a near strict preference for targetting small game. Even their sympatric sister species, the smaller cackling lacerorn, regularly preys upon larger animals up in the trees.
The reason they do this is perhaps to avoid competition with the larger predators on ground level, and possibly with their cousins as well.
A monogamous species, they pair up for the remainder of their eight decades long lives. A clutch of 4 eggs is laid every six to seven years, with the hatched young being cared for extensively.
A curious aspect of the striped lacerorns is the tendency for older individuals to assist their blood relatives, mostly children and grandchildren, in raising their own offspring. It's unknown why this sudden altruistic behavior arises in their twilight years. It could simply be the instinct to preserve their own bloodlines expanding over to their continued descendants, or maybe, just maybe, a look into a level of intelligence higher than what was previously expected.

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Jan 31

The loasognire is the largest herbivore roaming the tundras of southern most Mezzem. Here in these frigid cold stretches, far too cold for any guttur competition, they've held their niche unimpeded

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The tundras of southern Mezzem are held within the embrace of the continent's mountain range, which loops around and below Mezzem back again up north. Temperatures even at spring and summers are far colder than any guttur could handle. In place of these reptyls, a paramniote of gargantuan proportions has filled for the vacancy.
A herd of 60 ton behemoths trudge through the cold wastes, wrapped in coarse dark shaggy hair, stark against their bone white faces. The loasognire is the largest animal anywhere on this vast biome.
Most apparent and impressive of their features are the pair of jaw horns. These horns are formed by extensions of their jaw bones and covered within thick layers of keratin and other soft tissue. Strong and flexible, they are largest in the males, which use them to joust against each other to assert themselves in the dominance hierarchy. The most aggressive males control harems with the most females in the herd, which could number in the hundreds.
Females are also endowed with these horns, but are far shorter and more strongly curved than the males. At a smaller two thirds of the size, they employ these weapons against predators far more often.

A female loasognire has been isolated from her herd following a snowstorm. As she passes through a rocky gorge, a thescelornid predator has her sights on her.
This snow lacerorn dame skillfully clambers across the broken terrain with incredible stealth. Her goal is to leap atop the loasognire's back and grapple with her massive talons, and then to tear apart the neck with her fearsome beak. Not a particularly easy task, as the loasognire is covered in a shaggy coat, as well as tough hide and fat up to a foot thick

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Sep 5

More new-ish #paleoart (I'm basically posting stuff here that has been buried on Twitter - thanks, Elon): speculative Cenozoic tyrannosaurs; one adapted for grasslands, another adapted for extreme cold. I wrote about each of them at #Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/childr... #dinosaurs #sciart 🧪

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Jan 9

A giant semi-aquatic basal remipterosaur, a living fossil if you will, just one of many outlandish reptyls of Paradoxia
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By the sandy shores of the Insulassia ocean, on a beach the Allun and Mezzem land bridge outside the verdant jungle of Edenia, a bizarre looking creature waddles lethargically.
A most curious and dazzling animal, meet the malachite scowtcher. It is among the most abundant creatures of the beaches it resides in. A benthic specialist of burrowing animals, it plucks it's prey out of the sands with it's large front teeth. Shelled animals would then be crushed against the palatal teeth and ossified tongue, while softer bodied prey are sliced apart by the teeth on the jaws.
Despite being a large animal at 40 ft long, it is still prey to many predators including the colossal greater coastal kraken. To deter such fearsome threats, they posses a stinger at the end of a dexterous tail.
This tail is a heavily modified salt secreting organ. Excess salt from their diet is condensed and crystalized within the stinger, and injected into would be aggressors.
Males form leks from which they display their fitness, signified by the vibrancy of their scales. Although physical confrontations are rare, they can get quite bloody, as their jaws can be put to use for more than just feeding

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DinoTazz Arts @artsdinotazz.bsky.social · Dec 1

Dracovita:
Bugfish and Tweezerfish
#digitalart #worldbuilding #fish #Dracovita

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Dec 10

I cast a shadow in your presence

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · Oct 17

To all who find this page, hello!

I’m an aspiring independently trained artist and writer. Mainly I draw paleoart (dinosaurs and such), but also kaiju, some specevo stuff, cartoon and retro anime/manga fan art, and general sci-fi & fantasy stuff. Feel free to follow me if any of that interests you.

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Dec 3

These guys are literal soulless demons yet act like regular ass people.
What significance does a soul even have in the Hellaverse when the so called infernal beings from the endless dark don't even act like how they "should"?
SO MANY QUESTIONS

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Dec 3

ostensibly rewarded for perpetuating the cycle of abuse they endure"

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Dec 3

This perfectly ties in to the fandom's honestly overused argument of "They live in HELL"
Which isn't wrong, just people don't bother to elaborate beyond that. Really, we should start saying "They live in a world where acting abrasive and aggressive ensures their survival, and they are therefore—

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shinygander.bsky.social @shinygander.bsky.social · Nov 30

I love them, to the last atom in my being, I love them. SO MUCH

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