The recently re-described Palaeocama anthrax is by far one of the weirdest lobopodians discovered yet! This Carboniferous worm was not only was it covered in hundreds of poisonous spines, but it's also the only freshwater non-Tardigrade lobopodian known! #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Meet Palaeocampa anthrax, a newly discovered Carboniferous lobopodian, and 150 year old mystery fossil! Palaeocampa is an exceptional lobopodian - it lived in rivers and lakes, bristled with thousands of poisonous spines, and more. 🧵 Open access: nature.com/articles/s42...

Pseudogygites latimarginata #paleoart #art #sciart

A small community of Selkirkia, a tube dwelling cambrian priapulid, in the peritidal Pika formation in Alberta Canada. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Keurbos susanae, a newly described giant arthropod from the Ordovician-age Soom Shale of South Africa.

Peytoia nathorsti #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

I definitely did not forget to post my Opabinia regalis here. I've been very busy with things so sorry for the lack of activity. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Olenoides serratus is probably one of the most famous trilobites. These little trilobites would have been voracious little hunters feasting on worms like these unfortunate Spartobranchus. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Paucipodia inermis was an unarmored, 15 centimetre long lobopodian from the shallow seas of the Chengjiang biota. Formations that encompass the Chengjiang biota can all be found in Yunnan, China. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Next is Timorebestia kopri, a nearly 30 centimetre long stem-group Chaetognath from the Cambrian of Northern Greenland. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Reposting some of my stuff here for people to see, starting with Nectocaris pteryx. A relativity famous 10 centimetre long creature from the Burgess shale formation in British Columbia, Canada. #paleoart #art #sciart

i drew Shucaris again! now properly showing off the GLS's and other masticatory elements + properly drawing the strengthening rays and frontal appendages big thanks to @/prehistorica.bsky.social for the help with this

maybe tagging #SciArt will help boost this? im super happy with it and it's only one of like, 5(?) good representations of radiodont GLSs in a life reconstruction