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THE NOODLE

@onebadnoodle.bsky.social

ok look i couldn't not draw them in their angel outfits lol

January 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM

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Paulo Leite

@pauloleiteart.bsky.social

Coelophysis bauri for Fact: Dinosaurs. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance Painter and rendered in Blender.
#paleoart #art #dinosaur #3d

April 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM

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Chris DeRose

@scratchyderose.bsky.social

Best news I’ve heard all day.

January 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM

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shivana

@heyshivana.bsky.social

quick draw what ur wearing, 5 min max lessgooooooo

self portrait in a robe with drapey pants and steaming mug of tea, black sweatshirt reads "surviving purely out of spite"

January 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis

@yutytyrant.bsky.social

Ready to Walk With Dinosaurs again... 🦖

January 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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🩷✨ NiceCarito✨🩷

@nicecarito.bsky.social

Someone asked me if William would give a chance to a woman.
Sorry but he's to gay xddd, Mr.Café would take the offer instead #art #comic #sketch #ocs #myocs

December 7, 2024 at 6:48 PM

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Shazzoir

@shazzoir.bsky.social

The most adorable baby king #crab, accidentally collected by NOAA researchers in the Gulf of Mexico, has become an instant online sensation. Collected by a research boat while scientists were collecting coral samples, the tiny stowaway is suspected to be a juvenile Neolithodes agassizii.
#CrabSky

A pink, blob with spines (a crablet) on a person's purple-gloved hand. Image by NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

A pink and white adult king crab Neolithodes agassizii, a major predator at Gulf of Mexico cold seeps. (NOAA)

"As if king crablets aren't cute enough already, some are known to take rides on pudgy little sea pigs (Scotoplanes).

That's because their habitat includes vast, muddy plains that provide little obstacles to hide behind, so the vulnerable baby crustaceans have resorted to using other animals for shelter instead.

Sea pigs provide the perfect cover. As harmless scavengers, these translucent creatures spend their days languidly snuffling their way across the sea floor for tasty bits of dead animals, poop, and mucus to devour.

In 2016, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute checked out about 2,600 sea cucumbers and found almost a quarter of them were playing mount to the juvenile king crab, Neolithodes diomedeae."

"King crabs are just one of many non-related species that have arrived at a crab shape, thanks to similar selection pressures molding their evolution. This phenomenon is called convergent evolution, where the same trait can develop in species that aren't related.

It has happened so often with crab shapes it's been named carcinization.

King crabs evolved from hermit crabs, and lost the need for a shell home up to 25 million years ago.

Unlike true crabs that have eight walking legs, king crabs only have six legs for walking. They also have a large attacking claw and and a smaller feeding claw up front, as the baby king crab so obligingly displays while sitting pink and pretty on a giant alien's purple glove."

January 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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🧁Cessy Janea🧁

@cessyjanea.bsky.social

First kofi request for the year 2025! Thank you for the support 🫶
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Also, rewr~ 🦌🌈🌹
#hazbinhotel #charlastor #radiorose #radiobelle #radiobellerose #rosiexcharlie

January 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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MIMIR 🌐🪽

@yumemimir.art

emilia is a biiiiit of a clingy cuddler gf. just a bit. juuuuust a bit. #oc #art

January 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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Dr Matt Dempsey

@sketchy-raptor.bsky.social

So I was watching Dan Olson's excellent "Mantracks" video and was struck by something. There is a shot of a T. rex animatronic at the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History, a Creatonist Museum. I googled some pics of it, as it struck me as remarkably familiar...(1/3)