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A lil something for World Whale Day!!

Perucetus, Spectacled Porpoise, Shepherd’s and Andrews’ Beaked Whales.
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#dolphin #animals #ocean #cetacea #paleoart
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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A lil something for World Whale Day!!

Perucetus, Spectacled Porpoise, Shepherd’s and Andrews’ Beaked Whales.
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#dolphin #animals #ocean #cetacea #paleoart
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Ok one more Valentine’s post! (Mainly because the salsa version of “Die with a Smile” has been glued to my brain from the superbowl lol).

Perucetus & Dromornis.

#paleoart
A Dromornis couple, a female with flowers and a male with a rock, and a Perucetus couple dancing together for valentines.
February 15, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Here’s a selection of some incredible prehistoric beaked whales you’ve never heard of!

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January 24, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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Assortment of creatures - extinct & extant- flat style (Approximately to scale)!

#paleoart
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Happy Love Day from the Luv-ayatans!

#paleoart #livyatan #art
February 14, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Happy Love Day from the Luv-ayatans!

#paleoart #livyatan #art
February 14, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Whale of Ur World.

#ocean #squid #shark
A four-panel comic featuring a friend pod of 3 Arnoux's Beaked Whales encountering a Southern Sleeper Shark feeding on an immature Colossal Squid thousands of feet below the surface in the waters of Antarctica.
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Whale of Ur World.

#ocean #squid #shark
A four-panel comic featuring a friend pod of 3 Arnoux's Beaked Whales encountering a Southern Sleeper Shark feeding on an immature Colossal Squid thousands of feet below the surface in the waters of Antarctica.
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Assortment of creatures - extinct & extant- flat style (Approximately to scale)!

#paleoart
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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⭑ PALEOFAUNA ⭑ of ⭑ NEW ⭑ CALEDONIA⭑ 🧵

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December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Porpoise in need of Therapy.

Spectacled Porpoise ft. Orca.

#art #ocean #dolphin
A comic featuring a Spectacled Porpoise pair, one missing its dorsal fin. The other asks it “what happened to your fin?”. The other has a quick traumatic memory of a red orca, presumably the cause. He then says, “I don’t wanna talk about it…”
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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Porpoise in need of Therapy.

Spectacled Porpoise ft. Orca.

#art #ocean #dolphin
A comic featuring a Spectacled Porpoise pair, one missing its dorsal fin. The other asks it “what happened to your fin?”. The other has a quick traumatic memory of a red orca, presumably the cause. He then says, “I don’t wanna talk about it…”
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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What’s the science behind super specific skin patterns in cetaceans? Obviously I know counter shading, but like… look at that Atlantic White-sided Dolphin. How is the skin yellow in that specific area?

#whales #dolphin #ocean #art
Art showcasing a variety of whales, dolphins & porpoises to ask the question: What’s the science behind Cetacean skin patterns? Included are: Southern Right whale, Atlantic white sided dolphin, spade-toothed beaked whale, hourglass dolphin, spectacled porpoise, Ramari’s beaked whale, Dall’s Porpoise, Narwhal, Type-D Killer Whale, and Dwarf Minke Whale.
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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What’s the science behind super specific skin patterns in cetaceans? Obviously I know counter shading, but like… look at that Atlantic White-sided Dolphin. How is the skin yellow in that specific area?

#whales #dolphin #ocean #art
Art showcasing a variety of whales, dolphins & porpoises to ask the question: What’s the science behind Cetacean skin patterns? Included are: Southern Right whale, Atlantic white sided dolphin, spade-toothed beaked whale, hourglass dolphin, spectacled porpoise, Ramari’s beaked whale, Dall’s Porpoise, Narwhal, Type-D Killer Whale, and Dwarf Minke Whale.
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Some more sloth requests for #slothszn:

⭑ Paramylodon (~1.5 tons, North America, Pleistocene)

⭑ and a Spec-Evo sloth I call the “Snow Sloth” of most of arctic to subarctic Eurasia & North America (2-4 tons).

#paleoart
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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Some Spade-toothed Whale drawings for a friend.

#ocean #animals #art
February 10, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Some Spade-toothed Whale drawings for a friend.

#ocean #animals #art
February 10, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Sloth of the Day: Does he even need an introduction? Like you already know who this is…

Sid the Sloth for the uninitiated!

#slothszn #paleoart #iceage
February 7, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Sloth of the Day: Does he even need an introduction? Like you already know who this is…

Sid the Sloth for the uninitiated!

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February 7, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Here’s a selection of Sloths to funk up your day!

Pliomegatherium (Late Miocene-Early Pliocene), Glossotherium (Pleistocene), & Diabolotherium (Pleistocene) (also featured on Prehistoric Planet!).

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Three extinct, brown to grayish ground sloths - Pliomegatherium (an older relative of Megatherium weighing about 2 tons), Glossotherium (a 1 ton Brazilian grassland sloth with built-in armor in the form of osteoderms) and Diabolotherium (a very small sloth of the Andes adapted to climbing rocky terrain).
February 5, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Here’s a selection of Sloths to funk up your day!

Pliomegatherium (Late Miocene-Early Pliocene), Glossotherium (Pleistocene), & Diabolotherium (Pleistocene) (also featured on Prehistoric Planet!).

#slothszn #paleoart
Three extinct, brown to grayish ground sloths - Pliomegatherium (an older relative of Megatherium weighing about 2 tons), Glossotherium (a 1 ton Brazilian grassland sloth with built-in armor in the form of osteoderms) and Diabolotherium (a very small sloth of the Andes adapted to climbing rocky terrain).
February 5, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Welcome to Sloth Szn! The Sloth of the Day:

Glossotherium phoenesis of Pleistocene SA.

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February 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Welcome to Sloth Szn! The Sloth of the Day:

Glossotherium phoenesis of Pleistocene SA.

#paleoart
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Ernestine, a 29-year-old Pan-American Ground Sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi) residing at the Houston Zoo in an alternate universe.

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An adult giant ground sloth - Eremotherium - named Ernestine that lives in an alternate universe at the Houston Zoo.
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM