#fossilized shrimp

[shrimpin-aint-easy]

i found the perfect display for my 100,000+ year old shrimp fossil

#fishblr #shrimpblr #shrimp #shrimpy #shrimposting #fossil #fossilized shrimp #fossilized #1k #5k #10k #15k #20k #help #25k #30k #35k #40k #wtf man

[bisonwares]

❗LAST CHANCE ❗

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#small artist #small business #art #merch design #sweater #knit #ugly sweater #bee #fossils #kickstarter #snake #skull #skeleton #shrimp

[samimarkart]

new fish and shrimp fossil embroidery pieces up for grabs in my shop! i love a good shrimp. all hand embroidered and quilted into muslin and cotton batting

#my art #fiber art #queer artist #quilt #shrimp #fish #fossils #paleoart #marine biology #art

[chunkfunkgunk-offishal]

Do you rate extinct species? Anomalocaris my beloved…

Today on CHUNK! FUNK! GUNK! We rate

the ANOMALOCARIS:

0/10 Chunk

10/10 Funk

0-1/10 Gunk

As a prehistoric shrimp-thing, these guys are mostly exoskeleton, no chunk. I also couldn’t find anything on their slime or mucous secretion, which makes sense since we only have fossils to go off of. I’m left to assume that they were dry little guys. They min-maxed for maximum funk though. Look at this guy. What a creature.

Overall: 7/10

I don’t know a whole lot about fossils since I didn’t have a dinosaur phase. However, I do love a good Cambrian creechur. I want to pat its flat little head.

#chunk funk gunk #chunk #funk #gunk #anomalocaris #extinct animals #extinct species #cambrian #ocean #ocean animals #fossil #asks open #shrimp #(do I tag it as a shrimp? it’s like an ancient shrimp) #(I mean it’s name literally translates to ‘Weird Shrimp’) #shrimp is bugs

[cornofthebreads]

A reference to a little video clip I love!

#i do my best #what are you #anomalocaris #fossils #pastel #bug #shrimp #meme #cute

[ghost-carrots10]

shrimp

fossil

#fossils #shrimp #cool stuff

[barlowbarlowbarlowbarlow]

tattoo flash practice :)

#tattoo flash #practice #tattoo ideas #octopus #marine biology #fossils #my art #digital art #shrimp #trilobite #ammonite #squid

[kcamberart]

tadpole shrimp

#blender #low poly #lowpoly #low-poly #3d art #3d model #3d modeling #art #artists on tumblr #triops #tadpole shrimp #a living fossil!

[captainmvf]

Aged-Up Patrol Team designs!

Tried to stay true to their personalities in the game and even gave them parts of Joe's outfit (Rupert gets some Zongazonga influence). Pauleen was the most challenging to figure out.

#mvf art #fossil fighters #fossil fighters champions #cowboys future au #<if you're new these are what the designs are for #fossil fighters dina #fossil fighters dino #fossil fighters todd #fossil fighters pauleen #fossil fighters rupert #caliosteo patrol team #this is mainly headcanon driven (hence the Rupert and Dino ship) #also i'd say they're in their late 20's or early 30's #Todd: (at Pauleen) You tellin me a shrimp fried your rice? #Pauleen: (at Todd) Stop. #also yeah Pauleen was the hardest bc. you seen the Native Fossil Fighters characters designs??????????? #I went in a more Native direction for her. i hope to give her canon design a redesign too at some point.

[whatudottu]

Presently going insane rn:

Anyway let me talk about the one question that I have been contemplating ever since I began rotating petrosapiens in my mind. How the fuck do babies?

If you caught the reblog before this post, you might have noticed that a post about fat in aliens brought me to think about petrosapien fat, which contradicts a lot of what I've already established for them being an exoskeletal species, let alone being a hard sell in the sci-fantasy of rock crystal people of canon. Turning to one of my two animal inspirations of petrosapiens - bugs and more specifically in this case insects - I found out that insects can't build up fat, not in the way mammals or reptiles can, BUT they store the most of it in a very significant stage;

Larvae!

Then it fucking hit me, I already made some early headcanons about child development in petrosapiens (though I can't remember if I posted them or had a post ready to send) where they were already in a metamorphosing stage, though the responsibility fell solely to the layer who would use crystallokinesis to feed an 'egg'. I didn't fully like the idea though mostly in retrospect, because it felt strange in the 'pulled out of my ass' kinda way, a method of child rearing that felt more obligated to use crystallokinesis as a primary source for feeding to sorta justify at the time the inherent power petrosapiens have towards crystallokinesis.

Instead, between then and now I fully connected the idea that crystallokinesis is less of a power and more of an extension of a petrosapien's nervous system, compression of quartz through the use of a more electrical based nerve network that happens to not distinguish between person crystals and the similar crystalline structures of Petropia. With this in mind and the new idea that petrosapiens have larvae, wouldn't it be so cool if the larvae had the typical Earth-like electrochemical nervous system of humans (or I suppose bugs here) that adapts to an electrical focused nervous system through the process of metamorphosis? Where the larvae creates it's petrosapien crystal skin by building a chrysalis and melting within it to create their new body?

Unlike my old headcanon where the layer had to remain with the egg and constantly feeding them with crystallokinesis, this larvae version can feed itself when provided and so long as the chrysalis is well protected, the moment metamorphosis stage takes place the parent(s) can have momentary reprieve from child rearing and better prepare themselves for the toddler/adolescent stage for their child. The little grub probably doesn't even eat crystals in the early stages of their larvaehood since eating crystals initially marks as the materials for chrysalis building before it becomes a nutritional food source. Instead the little grub might be feed plants and potentially animal products in order for it to inherit and develop the chemicals required to build a crystallovorous stomach and the acids used to break silica down into digestible nutrition.

That does mean that early child rearing is a little bit more functionally deadly towards the very crystalline parents, who have to legitimately watch so that their fingers aren't bitten off, but holding the little grub is easy when it's covered in silicone membrane. The larvae at this stage is a little bit more resistant to any crystallovorous plant secretions due to the polymers of it's membrane, as well as the higher diversity of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon in it's body it has in comparison to adults or adolescents who've undergone metamorphosis, their innards becoming a more uniform silicone and their skin being the crystalline silicon many crystallovorous stomachs have adapted to eat.

It also means that the shape of a grub is also considered to be cute to a petrosapien. Things from caterpillars to maggots look so much more charming to a petrosapien's eyes that back on Petropia there would be a large proportion of pet owners having what would considered on Earth to have bugs for pets. In fact, a rather common form of pet Petrosapiens might have would be a large millipede/centipede like animal that would be the size approximate of a feather boa and often held that way too, because while they do not undergo metamorphosis, they look like a larval grub well into adulthood and are considered to be very cute for it. Pet owners with these pets who are also parents love to see their little larvae and their 'dog' getting along and would love telling their adolescent all the cute stories of the little grubs curled up against each other. Petrosapiens in the age of the Surface Craze might have had the opportunity to get a few baby pictures like that, and it would be considered very cute unless you were a human afraid of bugs or not personally a fan.

Petrosapiens on Earth might see the miniature bugs and explode with cuteness overload, others might fuck around and find out that they can make human-petrosapien hybrids Makarat you chupacabra you're lucky petrosapien kids aren't born with crystals pay child support to your human wife who birthed a grub-!

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#petrosapien #ben 10 #xenobiology #at this point i only think about petrosapiens as bugs rarely as reptiles- maybe i should add more reptile stuff #like leathery eggs that the grubs eat their way out of yeah let's add that #since the larvae don't have powerful enough stomachs to eat crystals yet let alone the jaw strength #which looking at a grub you can see the vague body plan of a petrosapien #the opening face- the significantly more developed rear legs (present as 'swimmerets')- #you can (mostly) tell from even the grub stage that your kid's a guy or a girl because they even have the nubs for back spines in grub stag #even if it turns out to be an excess/lack of 'testosterone' or an intersex trait #it was their grubs that petrosapiens were even able to connect themselves to old fossil records- #an extinct shrimp or prawn type thing that shares similarities to their little grub- though already with armour or even exoskeleton #also this grub thing makes the crystal twins slightly less of a hassle at least for the still unnamed human mother because i suck at names #means lucía had a grub for a twin sister for a hot while- nor did the family have much in the way for crystal for blanca to eat #so instead of crystals blanca ate bones for her chrysalis and hey look she's bone white now which- oopsie osteokinesis #no matter all the crystallokinesis that happens is with lucía and oof ouchie it's scoliosis #well- replacing keratin AND scoliosis but woopsie #that should be in an oc post

[shrimpin-aint-easy]

My partner and I went to a gem & crystal show today and they had these fossilized shrimp!!! 😍 and yes I bought one….

#shrimp #fishblr #shrimple #shrimposting #shrimpblr #fish #aquablr #shrimpy #aquarium #fossil #fossilized shrimp #1k

[bisonwares]

✨FULLY FUNDED✨

You guys are absolutely amazing, with a month still left we've been fully funded and unlocked our first stretch goal!?

I will be working hard over the weekend to finish up some more stretch goals, I can't wait to share what I've been working on!

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❤️ STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED ❤️

Here's a closer look at the core designs!

#small artist #small business #merch design #sweater #knit #art #ugly sweater #bee #fossils #ufo #Kickstarter #shrimp

[samimarkart]

new set of fish and shrimp fossil embroidery pieces up for grabs in my shop! all hand embroidered and quilted into muslin and cotton batting. the first one on this post is maybe my fave fish embroidery ever :)

#my art #fiber art #queer artist #quilt #fossils #paleoart #fish fossil #fish #marine biology #shrimp #embroidery #hand embroidery

[angry-apiary]

@samimarkart

I went to a cool fossil and mineral store today and saw these, very cool (was almost tempted to buy one of the shrimp pieces)

#was like oh yeah he would like these aha #fossils #jurassic #shrimp #also one bonus dragonfly #crazy how well the wings imprinted

[quagmatastic]

My new shrimp fossil! It's super neato, so we'll preserved! Love this little guy!

#shrimp #fossil #stone #rockhounding #rock #invertebrate #cute #nature #shrimpblr #shrimplr #crustaceans #animals #fossilization

[size-two-shrimp]

I'm being normal about rocks I'm being normal about rocks I'm being so fucking normal about them I promise

#yall you can get a fish/shrimp imprint fossil for less than $60 which is wayyy less than the $200+ i expected thats so cool #trembling and foaming at the mouth like a rabid animal right now i love rocks so much theyre so fucking cool