Extinct Animals - Tumblr Posts

Sometimes, people underestimate my love for this one, specific extinct bird. I, of course, remind them.

The cutest non-penguin not around!

If you ask me___

Extinction of other species won't stop until humans get extinct.

I mean duh.........literally

Because we aasholes are so fucking selfish

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.

On this day in 1914, Martha, the last-known living Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her death at age 29 after a lifetime in captivity marked the disappearance of her once-abundant species from the world. And it made her name synonymous with species extinction at human hands. But what happened?

Before the second half of the nineteenth century, the Passenger Pigeon was the most common bird in the United States, with a population numbering in the billions. Flocks of pigeons flying overhead were so dense that they could darken the skies. But a combination of overhunting and habitat destruction sent this species into decline, and by the turn of the century, it was considered extinct in the wild.

Photo: Enno Meyer, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons

I want to believe I was one of these in a past life

i hope i never ever ever see this image while im high or it will also straight up kill me. it would make me so scared my skeleton would run away And id be a boneless scared heap on the ground

If you asked me to envision a burdenbeast, my first guess would have been cow. Then horse; after all, people milk horses. Afterwards, I’d have started wracking my brain, trying to think of all the different animals people have used for pulling heavy loads, riding, and dairy, with the assumption that maybe we didn’t use them for all three of those tasks but the people of Terra did. Then I’d imagine some sort of fantasy animal.

Needless to say…

…megacerops was not in my list of possibilities. In fact, if you sat me down and told me I had to guess what a burdenbeast was to leave, I’d probably die in that seat.

Definitely not complaining, though. It’s a wonderful idea.

Beach rex :]

It's the Cambrian Explosion!! ~ 🎶

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Recently, I have been very interested in these small ancient creatures because of my current college project. And since I'm proud of these arts (it's been so long since my last traditional artwork -w-"), I decided to post them here, even though they aren't very related to my main content X"D.

It's the Cambrian Explosion!! ~ 🎶

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Opabinia:

Anomalocaris:

Trilobite:

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Recently, I have been very interested in these small ancient creatures because of my current college project. And since I'm proud of these arts (it's been so long since my last traditional artwork -w-"), I decided to post them here, even though they aren't very related to my main content X"D.

I believe this to be some sort of Cooperoceras

I may be wrong… if I am wrong can some one please correct me thank you

Can someone help me know which marine organism this necklace is?? i was thinking it’s an Ammonit Euaspidoceras perarmatum mit bedienung, but I’m not sure since it doesn’t look as similar. (I’d appreciate the help since I’m not quite knowledgeable about marine biology.)

Illustrations Show Size Difference Between Prehistoric Animals and Modern Descendants

EXTINCT STICKY NOTE FRIENDS MASTERPOST because I can’t find what I tagged all of these fellas with when I posted them the first time ;w;

The first of these go all the way back to 2020, when I started at my current office job and needed colors in my cubicle that weren’t just Greige (Grey-Beige); these were almost exclusively drawn from memory, and a lot of them are pretty doofy as a result. Others I took a bit of creative liberty on. Proportions and perspective tend to be weird on most of these… but they all still ended up holding a special place in my heart. ^w^

Pt. 1

"Soon my love we will join the others under the museum lights, but for now, under the starlight, you are glowing"

The last Passenger Pigeon and last Carolina Parakeet on earth both died at the Cincinnati zoo in the early 1900s.

Just some art of my third sona, FerelBasta

Something simple to test out how I'd want them to look, I'll be going into detail on them later on, but for right now heres something to start out with <:

Oh, extinct birds, how I love you and miss you.

In order:

White swamphen (Porphyrio albus), native to Lord Howe Island

Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris), native to Aotearoa New Zealand

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), native to Mauritius

Laughing owl (Ninox albifacies), native to Aotearoa New Zealand

Mysterious starling (Aplonis mavornata), native to Mauke

North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae), native to Aotearoa New Zealand

O'ahu 'ō'ō (Moho apicalis), native to O'ahu

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Thylacine in day now

Sadly they are dead :'(

It's me !

New favorite fish

Fuckin sacabambaspis

Sacabambaspis