#extinct life

[drinkinggblood]

please, please, please forget-me-not

#carolina parakeet #this is based on the fact that the last carolina parakeet named incas and the last passenger pigeon both died within the same cage/enclosur #just made me really sad #extinct animals #extinct #birds #bird #passenger pigeon #carolina concure #columbidae #pigeon #parakeet #birb #parrot #bird art #birdblr #extinct fauna #extinct life #psittacidae #sorry if the carolina parakeet's legs are a big wonky? its kinda hard to draw their weird feetsies anatomy #i did cry for 5 mins so #anyway !!! #stress relief art #i was stressed so drawin depressed shit #the flowers in the background are forget-me-nots fyi #rip passenger pigeons i miss u sillies #n carolina parakeets.. miss u babes

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Some Definitions

Dinosaur: the Most Recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon, and all of that ancestor’s descendants. This includes birds. It does not include pterodactyls. Or cockroaches. Or sharks. Or lizards. Or tuatara. Or mammoths. Or Dimetrodon. Or-

Prehistoric Life: any living thing that existed prior to the development of agriculture. Many things around today, including people, have prehistoric counterparts.

Extinct Life: any living thing that is now extinct, ie, no longer around. This includes things that have gone extinct since agriculture.

Lizard: The Most Recent Common ancestor of modern Iguanas and Worm Lizards, and all of that ancestor’s descendants. This includes snakes. This is a completely separate group from dinosaurs, defined above. They are utterly separate.

Reptile: any animal closer to living lizards than to mammals. This includes all birds, as well as other dinosaurs, turtles, crocodilians, and tuatara. It does not include Dimetrodon.

Synapsid: any animal closer to living mammals than to lizards. This is where Dimetrodon is. Also humans. And mammoths. All mammals are synapsids.

Tada! Now you know!

#dinosaur #prehistoric life #extinct life #lizard #reptile #palaeoblr #sciblr #repblr #birblr

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

4/16/24

#paleontology #field museum #oil painting #oil on canvas #extinct life #prehistoric #natural history #reptiles #skeleton #bones #paleoart #scientific illustration #original art #art #painting #nature #not a dinosaur

[saltingthecookingwine]

Thirteen years ago today, on July 20th, 2010, I smelled the La Brea Tar Pits, started cough-laughing about how bad it smelled and tripped over my own feet.

The mildly creepy dying animal sculptures are worth the trip alone. The museum was nice too.

#science #animals #biology #fossils #tar pit #paleoblr #paleontology #pleistocene #mammoths #museums #extinction #extinct animals #extinct life

[projectnomoho]

September 1, 1914. The day the last known passenger pigeon died.

The day the immense flocks that once soared over the horizon disappeared from the clear blue skies.

The day that the oak and American chestnut trees lost one of their main pollinators and consumers.

The day that the hunters were not able to contact one another about where the flocks gathered, asking one another about the perfect place to hunt the pigeons down.

The day the world's most abundant bird became nothing but a fading memory.

Rest in peace, passenger pigeon.

#extinct birds #recently extinct #extinct animals #tumblr memes #steal his look #steal her look #original meme #low effort #shitpost #bird memes #birds #extinction #extinct species #extinct life

[eepykibben]

#big shark #sharks #extinct life #enviromental #nature #great white shark #lemon shark #shark facts #whale shark #shark thoughts #ikea shark

[autumndasher]

The idea that by 2036, a full century after they went extinct, we could see Tasmanian Tigers reintroduced to the world is very interesting, cool, exciting and scary because it reminds of Jurassic Park

#australia #thylacine #tasmania #tasmanian tiger #extinct animals #extinct life #jurassic park

[prokopetz]

Deity who's unacquainted with concept of evolution creating a world with, like, twelve different kinds of creatures, thinking "yes, that's a good number – nice and symmetrical", then going on vacation for a couple million years and being very upset at what's waiting for them when they get back.

#concepts #theology #evolution #worldbuilding #they keep throwing extinction events at the world in an effort to get a clean slate and start over #life just keeps getting weirder in response #they're practically at their wits' end #and that's a lot of wits to be at the end of

[squeeegs]

text from porter robinson's "goodbye to a world"

every single animal in this comic is extinct. it's not too late for the ones that are left.

edit: thanks @mudcrabmassacre for the correction, smilodon fatalis did not in fact go extinct in 1023 AD. the actual prediction is around 10,000 years ago - I think i may have missed a zero or two.

#comic #art #environment #conservation #animals #extinct species #fossils #climate change #dinosaurs #ancient life #endangered species #endangered animals #comics #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital comic #my-art

[eddieintheocean]

what is the obsession with people thinking the meg still exists. we would be able to see him if he was alive. hes big

#megalodon #bros extinct #marine biology #marine biology shitpost #marine animals #marine life #eddie in the ocean

[awkwardbirdsdaily]

Day 16 of extinct birds - the spotted green pigeon or Liverpool pigeon

The spotted green pigeon is only known from two specimens and a short description from 1783. One of those specimens was lost, leaving us a single study skin. It isn't even clear where the specimens were from! (The species is assumed to be a Tahitian pigeon known as tītī but this is hard to verify) Genetic studies show that they were related to the Nicobar pigeon, but that's all we know about them.

#Whoops I missed some days #Carried away by the whims of life #Hello and ty to all the people that have been seeing my art! #bird art #bird of the day #birds #extinct animals #digital illustration #bird #digital art #daily art #ornithology #columbiformes

[drinkinggblood]

One crushed their egg with his boot. Then the adults were killed. “I took him by the neck,” said one of the men of the last bird, “and he flapped his wings.”

“He made no cry. I strangled him.”

#great auk #sorry all i post is gay men broken up by sad extinct bird art #sorry #extinct life #extinct fauna #extinct #extinct animals #extinct birds #extinct species #bird #bird art #birdblr #:( great auks make me so sad

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Nature, 252 mya: LYSTROSAURUS SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

#lystrosaurus #not dinosaurs #prehistoric life #end Permian extinction #Permian triassic

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

8/29/23

#somehow it all came together #ceramics #ceramic sculpture #clay sculpting #coil building #animal art #natural history #nature #extinct life #paleontology #paleoart #art gallery

[jaycrawler]

New Alebrije!! Dodo

🦤

#mexico #art #artist artesian #handcrafted #handmade #hand painted #dodo #extinct animals #Oaxaca #colors #life

[emilyschnallart]

Funeral for a friend: decay, extinction, and saying goodbye

This paper-mache 1:1 scale allosaurus bust holds a special place in my heart, he’s one of the first sculptures I ever made. Apologies for the level of scientific accuracy here—it was 2013, I was young and naive.

The planets have aligned in an unfortunate way, and it’s time for me to send him off to the great beyond. I’ve fretted for a long time about how to do this.

I decided to let him slip away in a slow decay, rather than a blaze of glory. I’ll be documenting my buddy here slowly melt back into the earth. He’s made of paper, cardboard, and flour paste; I’ll gather up his polymer clay teeth as they shake loose during his final rest in my parents’ backyard. Big thank you to my folks for allowing me to do this weird thing.

For as long as it takes I’ll document the process of my allosaurus friend disappearing. I’ve been thinking a lot about loss and goodbyes in the past few years. Decay too. The permanence of it all makes my stomach twist, even for a silly dinosaur sculpture. Once it’s gone it can’t come back

#my art #sculpture #paper mache #dinosaur #paleoart #extinction #science art #made this piece at such a particular time in my life #and it was such a time crunch and intense process to make #have a lot of feelings