slapandstipple:

A mixed troop of fungal fruit bodies.

Acrylic

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rhamphotheca:

Stensioella heintzi was an enigmatic placoderm fish of arcane affinity. It is only known from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück slates of Germany, where the only specimens have been found.

In life, it was a blocky-looking fish that resembled either a squat, pug-nosed combination chimaera-stargazer, or an uncompressed Gemuendina (Gemuendina also happened to be its contemporary in Hunsrück), with broad, wing-like pectoral fins. Like Gemuendina, it had armor made up of a complex mosaic of tubercles.

It is tentatively placed within Placodermi as being among the most primitive of all placoderms, as from what can be discerned from the few whole specimens found, the shoulder joints of its armor appear to be very similar to other placoderms…

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anineillustration:

Stag beetle and his pals are ready to be mounted!

Awesome

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throatazoa:drtartuticcthulhu / mcqueenadillo

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