art share!!! I like to draw horses and dogs and creatures in general #ludsart

If things had gone differently. Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, one of the several elephants that used to live on Mediterranean islands, greeting a baby in an Ancient Greek vase. Small island elephants around the world went extinct around the time of human arrival, but I wonder, what if they didn’t.

As an extra- I originally set out to do Brine Shrimp, but after much more struggle than I'd anticipated with the animal I ended up tossing the drawing in the end and replacing the prompt. For anyone who enjoys pink-colored brine shrimp, enjoy Brine Shrimp (Artemia monica)

What did Carolingian kings know about the Roman army? A new blog post. blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2024/...

drawing inspired by cave paintings and #zooarcheology #ludsart

The Observatory 🐋🌟

Landback is about governance and stewardship, not European and capitalist notions of ownership. Comparing it to Naziism is the height of settler anxiety, propaganda, and bullshit. Nobody wants to sink to your level guys. Stop projecting.

#horsehistory www.medievalists.net/2024/11/buy-...

tower of blue horses - Franz Marc 1913 #horseart

Anyway. An archaeology break with a thread ! I want you to look at this lovely photo which belongs to the National Museums Northern Ireland. It's a turf travois up in 19th c Glendun. Now zoom on the harness ( welcome to my life ). Notice anything ? It's all straw

The smallest of horses...and the biggest. Left: Holotype lower jaw of Minippus index. Right: Holotype of of Equus giganteus, a single upper molar nearly 4cm across(!!). Pictured with skulls of their (less extreme) relatives. #FossilFriday

Well, don't think I already had enough coffee this morning to comment on Neolithic Snake Wrestling™, but these loincloths (side note: among the figurines known from GöbekliTepe & vicinity, mostly male individuals seem depicted wearing belts) may well be inspired by those #Catalyhöyük murals, fwiw. 🏺

This one never gets old 🏺 #archaeology

A two headed calf skull, part of the baker and brothwell collection held at the University of York The condition is known as polycephaly and is incredibly rare. 🦴🐮 #zooarchaeology

#Archaeology🏺 isn't about dusty old objects in museum showcases - it's about reconstructing and understanding the past people's lives. But to really bring those people back to life, sometimes it takes the pencil, the brush and the virtuosity of a real illustrator.

Pole Pair with a Trace Horse at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, 1852 #horseart

Foal (1903) Nils Kreuger (Swedish, 1858-1930) #horseart

yippeeee

Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

had an amazing 4-hour lecture about food archeology today!

will you run with me

rocket and jerome just being bros ! #gingadesentsuweed #silverfang #gdw #ludsart

David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (Swedish, 1628–1698), "Karl XI's Lifeguard Horse Pegasus", 1684 #horseart

even here I can’t escape arcane spoilers :/

India has the greatest units the rest of the world doesnt hear enough about. Nilgai is nice, but the great grand daddy of the genre is the scariest cow on the planet. meet the Gaur. It rhymes with power and it rhymes with sour. Yes that is a full sized tourist bus.

Leaping Balaur bondoc #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This image follows the interpretation that Balaur was an omnivorous bird, not a "double-clawed" dromaeosaur. The skull is unknown, so the head is based on Sapeornis. Originally created for the first @palaeogames.bsky.social book. #sciart

Oh look at the time, it's #FossilFriday. This week it's Dimetrodon milleri at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. With a stout skull and relatively large orbits, D. milleri is considered the most basal Dimetrodon species and adorable. #paleontology #paleoart #fossil 🧪

From the #friesian horse breeeders meeting last weekend!

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

#FossilFriday The extraordinary preserved skeleton of Navaornis hestiae from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/n...

Ferocity

The fact that most of us (speaking as a latino myself) don't usually learn in-depth about the majesty of south and mesoamerican pre-columbian cultures in school is depressing. Reading that Tenochtitlan had more people than Paris or London in the 1500's blew my mind as an adult.

#dogs #dogsofbluesky #akc #fci #purebreeddogs #borzoi

hey! I made a list for purebred dog breeders and enthusiasts. Still updating! Consider checking it! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Ichtyotitan commission for @juniperw.bsky.social through VGen! Hopefully the compression doesn't mess this up ^^'

Paard uit Friesland sec XVI #horseart

last discussion made me think a lot about the ethics of some breed preservations

New discovery: The discovery of a horse cemetery of the #Roman cavalry fort in Bad Cannstatt has been made public. The horses were buried northeast of the fort. via Instagram denkmalpflege_bw Photo: S. Roth/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

by theodore gericault #horseart

The rhinos we have and the ones we lost. In the late Pleistocene, about two thirds of the worlds terrestrial megafauna went extinct. Rhinos fared better than average, but still, all the temperate and cold climate species are gone. Those that remain are endangered and in dire need of protection.

King Laios #dungeonmeshi #dungeonmeshispoilers

A pair of Deinonychus 🤍

Salish wool dog and yakutian laika

Salish Wool dog news indiginews.com/arts/long-af...

Should spirits need a little lift, try turning to a joyous medieval flying hooved doggo/dragon for #TilesOnTuesday. And he's a very good boy. Among riches of MOLA's 2021 Blossom St site north of Spitalfields - Iron Age horse remains, Roman burials, medieval walls, Tudor ovens + more.

@adammarkham.bsky.social hey! Can I be added to the zooarch list? I’m researching domestic mammals in Brazil :)

YESS! ZOOARCH LIST!!