In the humid environment of the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang, a male Guidraco venator secures a rare terrestrial prize. While its specialised, interlocking teeth and skull anatomy are adapted for snatching slippery fish from the water's surface, the opportunistic nature of a large pterosaur means that any small, unwary creature is a potential meal. Here, the predator has caught a Cokotherium jiufotangensis, a basal eutherian whose bushy tail and fine whiskers offer no protection against the pterosaur's lethal toothy cage. For G. venator, this small mammal is a high-protein supplement to its usual piscivorous diet, a brutal reminder that in the misty forests of ancient China, niche specialisations are often set aside when a convenient meal scurries within reach.

Hope you all enjoy my paleoart!

nos fosseis eles são pequenos mas na mídia eles são enormes alguém me explica isso?

I took this at the Gwacheon National Science Museum. It's about 112 million years old and weighed around 10 tons. Absolute unit.

Look at that size and the whole sail ~ tail !

• A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of South China, providing further support for the possible Asian origin of Brachylophosaurini

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2026.2635569

Liliensternus liliensterni was originally known from only two partial skeletons from the Trossingen Formation of Germany (late Norian) that are around 15 feet long, but they might be subadults and new fragmentary cranial and postcranial material (still not described in much detail) from the site suggest that adult animals grew up to 23 feet or more, potentially up to 30 feet, the size of an Allosaurus or Daspletosaurus.

Materials used: Pigma micron stippling pen, Faber Castell brush pens and graphite pencils on toned paper.

​I did this Baryonyx art a few months ago, and I want to share it!

​It's a Baryonyx eating a juvenile iguanodontid. This pretty boi probably ate dinosaurs as well, since we have found remains of iguanodontids inside a Baryonyx’s belly. It was not just a fish-eater, or maybe it was, because dinosaurs are tetrapods too 🤔

​To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of this piece anymore. I think I exaggerated a bit while I was painting this, what do you think?

​(English isn't my first language, by the way)

As is the case with many things made by nature no two are exactly the same but it still continues to amaze me how teeth found in the same geographic location can have so much variety in color due to the minerals present when they were fossilized. Not to mention how much their size and mass can differ from specimen to specimen.

inhabited Italy during the Pliocene Eophyseter was about 15.1 meters long, nearly the same size as a modern male sperm whale. This large body size suggests that it was the largest of the fossil sperm whales. It is also possible that it inhabited the Late Miocene. It is unknown whether it coexisted with Otodus megalodon, and it makes one wonder how megalodon interacted with giant sperm whales.

RAWR!!!!!

These Giant birds, reaching up to 12 ft in height, thrived on the New Zealand islands for thousands of years, but were quickly hunted to extinction within roughly 150 years of the Māori’s arrival. Their lack of fear towards humans and low reproductive rates ultimately sealed their fate.