As if the first fish couldn’t get any more interesting! Our earliest vertebrate ancestors had FOUR eyes! I can’t wait to give this a read later! Why were we stuck with two boring old eyes and a hidden third one?

The uploader of this image, Kcx36, has responded to my inquiry. They state that it was photographed at the Chengjiang Fossil Site World Natural Heritage Museum, where it is exhibited. This means that this specimen was properly assessed and is indeed our nosy possible ancestor, Zhongjianichthys!

🇬🇱🗡️👹🔪🇻🇪 🇲🇽💬 🇩🇰💦💩 🩸 🇨🇺💬 💢🇪🇺🇨🇦💢 🇮🇷💬 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌 <(MAGA!) “A ‘Friend’ Turned Menace” #EmojiArt

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

GET OUT OF HERE!!! When I checked on Wikipedia the article for Zhongjianichthys, an early fish from the Cambrian, I was utterly stunned to see this image! Look at this! It looks practically alive! Enough that a skilled veterinarian could still save it, as Gordon Ramsay would say! #FossilFriday

I maintain from nearly a decade ago to this day: You can either be a decent human being or a Trump supporter. Not both. And if that offends you, FUCK YOU — GOODBYE! You can be outwardly nice while voting for an Orwellian world of cruelty, inhumanity, anti-intellectualism, destruction and chaos.

This is a gift commission I made for my friend @kret.bsky.social for his enduring support on Patreon these past few years, for which he requested a domesticated breed from @cmkosemen.bsky.social's Snaiad. This is Jak's Hag-Apple, a domesticated triggerback breed.

There are things today we can't do. Stop worrying about them for now. Not forever; just for now. There are things today we can do. Focus on that. There are people who need help -- let's focus on them. Each morrow, we take what we can do, and do it. With what we can't, put them aside. Breathe.

I maintain from nearly a decade ago to this day: You can either be a decent human being or a Trump supporter. Not both. And if that offends you, FUCK YOU — GOODBYE! You can be outwardly nice while voting for an Orwellian world of cruelty, inhumanity, anti-intellectualism, destruction and chaos.

YEAH!!!! DESTROYING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWLEDGE BASE!!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I forgot to remind #Invertefest that this feed is a thing!

Velvet worme.

70 ℉. On December 28th. At this latitude. But sure — climate change isn't real, nor is it caused by humans if it is, and there's no point in trying to stop it regardless. 🙄

Huh... Well, I'm glad you think it's that big! ;3

The released Epstein files:

Buccaspinea cooperi, a hurdiid radiodont from the Cambrian of Utah, known for its large oral-cone mouth that makes up nearly a quarter of its body length.

A long update on my long-neglected Patreon page.

Microsoft Sam has an important message. #MicrosoftSam #SAPI5

I remember drawing a cartoon like this at the local pizzeria. This is more complete and pointed!

They say today is World Anteater Day... so here is a standalone picture of Giant Blue Anteater, made in 2020! #WorldAnteaterDay

🌐 #art

Sharing my realistic Tamatoa around again for no particular reason. #moana

If people ate up the How to Train Your Dragon remake... what confidence is there to have that people wouldn't also eat this redundant slop up?

Lol, this reminds me of “Demonic Furby”!

Somebody shared with me on Discord my most popular post on Twitter before I left there in November last year, preserved in an Instagram post. It's about volar pads in human fetal development and their apparent homology with toe beans in other mammals.

DO NOT SHARE THIS INSIGHT

When I first saw this, it HAD to be fake. It HAD to be some kind of joke, or even satire unhelpfully passed as truth as is common on social media. Then I read up... I... fucking... 😶

Prepare to be amazed when people aren’t aware that generative AI scrapes other people’s stuff — writing, art, photography — and believe that it’s some magic, self-contained machination rather than a statistical bullshit generator.

Abolish the damn Senate. Uncap and vastly expand the House.

An Ode to The Jellyfish: Thicker skin than autocrat Trump, More spine than Democrat chumps.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

CHUCK SCHUMER, TAR AND FEATHER!!!

Happy publication day to @cmkosemen.bsky.social, whose extraordinary book All Tomorrows is officially out today, in the first-ever print edition in English. This has been a long time coming but we hope it has been worth the wait for all the book’s supporters and fans (1/3)

I just preordered two copies of All Tomorrows through Barnes & Noble. If you are in the United States, click below and order as many copies as you can afford! For you, your friends and family, for your local libraries... Order it now! Order it today! And seize your copy of All Tomorrows!

Per the latest Infernals dev diary, Mycons have hope yet. This portrait, the best fit for the Mycon, can adopt the Volcanic Nesting civic, allowing their homeworld to be a volcanic world as proper even while not being of the Infernal species type. Now let's see if they can do Hyperthermia...

Robby's Retort #microsoftagent #msagent

This lizard waved at my general direction. I wanted to think he waved at me — but he may have been waving at his reflection instead. Incidentally, he later laid a large droplet of lizard urine that immediately absorbed into the concrete before taking off.

I had an acquaintance ask me how I was able to find all the insect fauna I was photographing years ago. You just have to keep an open eye with a curiosity for the natural world up close around you, and you’ll find all sorts of interesting little critters. 😉

Some more good news, the vaquita have been seen having babies! www.tumblr.com/alphynix/799...

Uranus completes its revolution around the Sun every 84 years. So too has this massive asshole. Rest in depleted uranium, you vile sack of scum. Your legacy of a million dead Iraqis, horrible birth defects in Fallujah, and the ultimate creation of ISIS will never be forgotten.

Oh shit, it's happening. 🤦‍♂️ It was only a matter of time. This bubble can't pop soon enough!!! 🤬

The very first thing I did when I started playing Stellaris was recreating the Mycon from Star Control. With the Infernals DLC: "Finally! The Mycon will get the lore-accurate treatment they deserve!" But not only can this portrait not get infernal traits, they did not make a fungoid infernal...

A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors. The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.

THE WRATH OF URAKU, BY KYRE FISKROF -- coming to a bookstore near you! #scifiart

New Tira video dropped! You know, I've thought about what term would be a suitable extraterrestrial analog for "anthropology", since 𝘢́𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰̄𝘱𝘰𝘴 strictly means "human being"... I've thought "xenthropology" as one candidate. Then I looked up words and saw "xeno-", "exo-" and "astroanthropology"...

Launch these people into the Sun. Now.

After I created the username "Giant Blue Anteater" on Wikipedia in 2006, I searched to see if anybody came up with a similar concept; I found a website called "Blue Anteater" featuring a blue anteater in business attire. I would learn today that it was a recoloring of one of UC Irvine's anteaters.

I've spent the past two days and nights revisiting these guys on my Windows 10 computer, after about 15 years... #msagent #microsoftagent