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First post! I'm Yee, wildlife, paleo and creature artist. My tumblr is yee-qi.tumblr.com. My website is yeeqi.neocities.org.

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mmmmmm yummy
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November 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
today's repost: Early Cambrian archaeocyathan reef

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Archaeocyathans (the sponges) really do feel Seussian to me. This followed. Also present are Australohalkieria and Turcutheca.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
today’s repost: garden of Ediacara

i had no idea how to color these
guys, given they existed in a pre-eyes world, so I just went with pale reds and yellows that “felt right” tbh, no intricate patterns n stuff

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An assortment of Ediacaran life. Kimberella, Tribrachidum and Dickinsonia.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
today's repost: a buncha bizarre forms of primitive life that never got anywhere! (alas)

a few hundred million years later the region would turn into the world's only known natural nuclear reactor

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The Francevillian Biota were a weird bunch of eukaryotes evolving to be macroscopic over a billion years before it happened again! I wonder how it would be if they never died out...

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November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The first Perspectives art is gaining traction, so here is the second!

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Part of my "Perspectives" series, which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles.

This one is "Color of Royalty," depicting some of the first stromatolites in a purple sea, just before the GOE.

#sciart #paleontology #paleoart
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hydrapple, for @pokeearthcollab.bsky.social's Applin collab! Had a lot of fun with this guy, although five heads is a lot lmao

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November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
today's repost:

I have no fear of anyone

I'm dumb and wild and free

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The beginning of the end for the dodo bird.

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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
oh no
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
today's repost: a tribute to the ecosystems of northern California

#sciart #nature #originalart #artistonbluesky
California watersheds. I really like how rivers can connect different locations and ecosystems, so this is both a tribute to watersheds themselves as well as California biodiversity. This was another experiment in a new style.
#ecology #sciart #nature
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ostriches. Inspired by a visit to an ostrich farm.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Amazing and Congrats!! just a year ago it feels like you woulda been met with heavy skepticism (me included) so its pretty incredible to see the pendulum swing the other way
My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:

Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
banger!!!! look at all these good cats

#pokemon
In Memory of James Carter Cathcart, we present the community driven Meowth Collab.
50+ artists came together to show their love for this scratch cat Pokemon, as well as their appreciation for James' voice work on Meowth and so many other characters.

(credits and more in replies)
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I made this some three years ago? and it's still one of my proudest works. Inspired by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social's #MonkeyCruise, it was intended to depict Anachlysictis and Cebupithecia in the vein of Le Lion de Florence (depicted to the right).
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
you gotta be squidding me!

inspired by @montereybayaquarium.org's Into the Deep exhibit and the good work they do shining a light into the darkness.
October 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
are you feeling more like a tom tom or a shmeevus today?
October 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
reposting this large lad for today

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Indosuchus encounters a titan in the mist. (Bruhathkayosaurus)

Proud of the plants in this one, it was a big step forward for my plant rendering.

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October 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Old art of Livyatan and some Pelagornis. Still proud of the overall vibe, even if it's not technically perfect.

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October 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm low on free time these days...take this repost for the road
I made this some three years ago? and it's still one of my proudest works. Inspired by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social's #MonkeyCruise, it was intended to depict Anachlysictis and Cebupithecia in the vein of Le Lion de Florence (depicted to the right).
October 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
October 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted
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October 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The pocket monsters I used in my nuzlocke of Pokemon White 2.

#pokemon #art #originalart #fanart
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
there's something about this video that gets me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIh3...
Gerbils eating a pokemon card.mpg
YouTube video by RodentRealm
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Pokemon White nuzlocke team going into the champion (from around 2 years back, continued from previous post)! Scraw was the only survivor of Ghetsis, but died at Alder.

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September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Loxolophus and Baculites. Comparatively large (raccoon sized) mammals emerged some 300k years after the K-Pg extinction, and ammonites fully died out some 500k years, so for a brief window of time they may have met.

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September 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
[wip] inspired by some of the...interesting timeframes relating to the K-Pg extinction

mammals were getting big only 300k years after the asteroid, and ammonites died off fully around 500k years later. the last ammonite probably could have met one of the Cenozoic New Gens, nature is crazy
September 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM