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The world has changed in the blink of an eye. Just a few days ago, this forest was a cathedral of greenery where this Tyrannosaurus rex reigned supreme. Today, the sky is a gray shroud and the air reeks of sulfur and death.

Yet, instinct is stronger than the apocalypse. Because it is spring, this male utters his mating call, an infrasonic roar that once made the earth tremble. But this time, the silence that answers him is final. He doesn't know it yet, but he is the last king of a broken line. In the weeks or months to come, like so many others of his kind, he will likely die of hunger or thirst. But sometimes fate has a strange way of bringing things full circle. This body, collapsing into the ash, may be buried, protected by the sediments of the disaster, only to be rediscovered 66 million years later by bipedal mammals foreign to its world. A little later, observed by them in a museum, this T. rex may finally receive the answer to its plea: it is no longer alone; it has become immortal in the imagination of these mammals.

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So I ran across these pictures and couldn't look away. It's a whole, mummified woolly rhino calf found in the Siberian permafrost. The details are mind-blowing— The facial features, the structure of its legs, it's all there.

Researchers are calling this discovery, found in the Yakutia region of Russia, an almost unique find due to its near-perfect preservation. They estimate the calf was about 3 or 4 years old when it died, and it’s been frozen in the permafrost for roughly 32,000 to 39,000 years. It froze almost immediately, keeping not only the reddish-brown fur but also soft tissues, internal organs, and even its nasal horn completely intact.

I Found this picture while reading up on permafrost discoveries today. It’s an actual 57,000-year-old gray wolf pup, not a museum replica.

She was discovered back in 2016 by a gold miner in the Yukon who was clearing mud with a water cannon. The local Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation named her Zhùr, which just means "wolf" in their language.

The most interesting part I found out is that Researchers think her den collapsed when she was about 7 weeks old, burying her instantly protecting her from Scavengers. She's the most complete wolf mummy ever found still date.

To celebrate yesterday’s Mother’s Day, I’m sharing today a piece I completed some days ago for a commission, depicting a calm moment in which an adult Tyrannosaurus tries to sleep while the hatchlings around it make a bit of a mess😅 [O.C]

I was happy to paint a scene of this great predator in a more peaceful moment, in a clearing of the Hell Creek Formation, under a beautiful, warm sunset, with the hatchlings around and some Triceratops in the background. We must not forget that, above all, it was an animal, and calmer, more “relaxed” moments like this likely happened quite often.

Note: the ground vegetation is not grass. The idea was to depict a flat, open area with low-growing vegetation composed of Equisetales (horsetails) and ferns

🎥 Check out the creation process (timelapse) of this artwork on my YouTube channel! Link below:

https://youtu.be/5vdfs0wtFK8

One of the most breathtaking and extraordinary real fossils in the world's specimen.

Instead of just a skeleton, its actual skin, scales, and those massive spikes are preserved exactly as they were when it died 110 million years ago.

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The cephalopod may be huge, but numbers win on size. In a few hours, nothing will be left of the eight-armed giant but shreds of meat and a beak

Not sure if the Smilodon is fatalis or populator.

Today I was researching about some Ice Age Extinct Species and came across Sasha, the Woolly Rhino. It is a real, frozen baby woolly rhino that lived and breathed 34,000 years ago.

She was found entirely by accident in Siberia by an Hunter back in 2014. It turns out she is the only baby woolly rhino mummy that has ever been discovered in human history, which is absolutely wild.

The Dakotaraptor's calculation was simple: eliminate a future rival while it was still vulnerable. But it underestimated the alpha predator's vigilance.

Just as the raptor was about to strike the isolated juvenile, the shadow of the parent swept across the ground. In a fraction of a second, the roles were reversed. The hunter became the prey, crushed by the power of jaws capable of pulverizing bone. For the young T-Rex, it was a traumatic life lesson; for the Dakotaraptor, it was the end of the road. In Hell Creek, attacking the offspring of a king (especially when caught in the act) is often an immediate death sentence.

I know Whales, Sauropods, Ichthyosaurs, and Sharks have multiple species that have surpassed 20 tonnes. There's also the pachycormiformes with Leedsichthys. I also know multiple other lineages had members at that 20 ton mark, namely Proboscideans, Rhinocerotoids, Hadrosaurs, and maybe Pliosaurs, but we don't have any from those lineages that reliably surpassed 20 tonnes(afaik).

Did any other lineages surpass 20 tonnes as far as we know or is it only those 5?

Steam rises, the water is at the perfect temperature, and the outside world ceases to exist. This Colombian mammoth is enjoying a hot spring to soothe its muscles and perhaps rid itself of some parasites. Far from the image of the giant battling a blizzard, here we see the "vacation" side of North American megafauna. A moment of serenity before fate transformed this haven of peace into one of the most famous paleontological sites in the world.

This depiction by Joschua Knüppe is likely based on "The Mammoth Site" located in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Around 26,000 years ago, a sinkhole fed by artesian hot springs served as a natural trap. Mammoths were drawn to the lush vegetation and warm water, but the sinkhole's slippery walls prevented some from escaping. Today, it is one of the world's largest concentrations of mammoth fossils.

https://www.tumblr.com/knuppitalism-with-ue/704493683598409728/results-from-the-snow-spream-paleostream?source=share

https://bsky.app/profile/mammutoid.bsky.social/post/3me5ecnnrrk2a

These past few days, I’ve also been reading the various suggestions in the comments, so I made some refinements to the previous reconstruction and proposed several other possibilities as well. Therefore, these are four different reconstructions of the Megalodon.