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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪

@literallymiguel.bsky.social

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18/yo Paleo-art nerd aiming to be a paleontologist, my blood is replaced by ink. I'm really a fan of pseudosuchians, playing the piano, FNaF, anything Fujimoto writes and draws, and many other things. Btw: GET ME OUT OF VENEZUELA

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 1d

Saw these guys eating my platanos (during a 6-hour power outage) and claude identified them from a shitty artistic rendition lol

Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1d

who's that pokemon? it's stilpnia vitriolina aka the scrub tanager 🎉 sighted and sketched by @literallymiguel.bsky.social

two scrub tanagers on some plants. the most beautiful art you'll ever see

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1d

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is ichthyotitan, a gigantic ichthyosaur from the late triassic. estimated at over 20 metres in length, ichthyotitan may have been the largest marine reptile to ever live
(art by caxela)

a pod of ichthyotitan swimming in dark waters

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1d

hello gorgeous 😍 a warm welcome to xiphodracon goldencapensis, a new ichthyosaur described from the uk's famous jurassic coast by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, massare and maxwell! the holotype is absolutely stunning, congrats to the team 🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

a photograph of the xiphodracon holotype, a nearly complete skeleton preserved three-dimensionally

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 2d

shuvosaur..... o.O?

Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 2d

Quick/sketchy commission

Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 2d

Mahajangasuchus crunch

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 2d

the polytomy lol

Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 4d

Modern euphractine armadillos sometimes hunt vertebrates as big or even bigger than them, this is taken to an extreme in Macroeuphractus

(TW: Paleoart gore)

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 5d

insane thread

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 5d

of course, as i’ve mentioned previously, opportunistic carnivory is widespread among herbivorous mammals; fellow ground sloth mylodon, for instance, was found to likely be omnivorous in a 2021 study
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Isotope data from amino acids indicate Darwin’s ground sloth was not an herbivore - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Isotope data from amino acids indicate Darwin’s ground sloth was not an herbivore

www.nature.com

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 7d

happy 120th birthday to tyrannosaurus rex, aka manospondylus, aka dynamosaurus 🦖 t. rex is the most-studied dinosaur in the history of palaeontology, but there are still some things we don't know about the creature in spite of this
(art by @literallymiguel.bsky.social)

art of a t. rex in the darkness of hell creek, holding a dead leptoceratops in their jaws

a photo of the life-sized model of the tyrannosaurus specimen nicknamed 'sue' in the chicago field museum

a still from 'prehistoric planet' of a male t. rex bellowing next a dead triceratops

t. rex as depicted in 'walking with dinosaurs 2025'

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 7d

(tho the 10% of the holotype doesn't account for mirrored bones!, if we don't count mirrored bones in sue she gets to about 73%)

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 8d

happy #fossilfriday! this is abyssosaurus, a deep-sea plesiosaur from early cretaceous russia. like many other vertebrates that live in the bathypelagic zone, this animal retained juvenile traits well into its adulthood, a condition called paedomorphis
(art by carlostsapiens)

a group of abyssosaurus shrouded in darkness, their large eyes glowing with eerie light

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Big congratulations to Chunk for taking the crown as this year's #FatBearWeek winner! Today feels like as good a day as any to tell you all about a little trick that bears have to ensure pregnancy takes place during OPTIMAL FATNESS.

A very fat bear standing in a river. He is brown and furry, with a broken jaw which makes his tongue stick out.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 9d

Therizinosaurs are, without a doubt, some of the most interesting groups of theropod dinosaurs

Here you have a selection of a few species that I reconstructed for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan for their 25th Anniversary Special Exhibition

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Various therizinosaurs on a blank background and at scale. From left to right: Fukuivenator, Falcarius, Beipiaosaurus, Alxasaurus and Therizinosaurus

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 10d

Only if you're unresponsive for a very prolongued period of time

Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 10d

are you aware they would each feast from your ribcage if it was within their possibility right

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 10d

nothing scarier than a big triassic ichthyosaur

shionisaurus maybe?

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 10d

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma

( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 10d

Ok so this was a commission done for "Darknix" on youtube before it came to light how much of a fucking creep he was towards a 16 year-old girl so i'm now sharing it anyways despite his previous wishes