paleoillustration:

Tenontosaurus vs Deinonychus, by Alain Beneteau

fuckyeahdinoart:

quiet by ~kenpuren

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog.

I feel like I’ve been preparing for this image all my life.

The internet is over, everyone can go home

The internet is over, everyone can go home

THE INTERNET IS OVER, EVERYONE CAN GO HOME

girlontheinterblargon:

DOOF kid

that is cute

also i want to go to door

natalieillustrates:

Vulpes.

Dark sepia and sanguine ink drawing.

vwatson:

Analog Photoshop.

…complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost - they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was socially determined behaviour. That behaviour required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

Chimpanzees taught their young to collect termites with a stick. Such actions implied at least the rudiments of a culture. A structured social life. But animals raised in isolation, without parents, without guidance, were not fully functional. Zoo animals frequently could not care for their offspring, because they had never seen it done. They would ignore their infants, or roll over and crush them, or simply become annoyed with them and kill them.

The velociraptors were among the most intelligent dinosaurs, and the most ferocious. Both traits demanded behavioural control. Tens of millions of years ago, in the now-vanished Cretaceous world, their behaviour would have been socially determined, passed on from older to younger animals. Genes controlled the capacity to make such patterns, but not the patterns themselves. Adaptive behaviour was a kind of morality; it was behaviour that had evolved over many generations because it was found to succeed - behaviour that allowed members of the species to cooperate, to live together, to hunt, to raise young.

But on this island, the velociraptors had been re-created in a genetics laboratory. Although their physical bodies were genetically determined, their behaviour was not. These newly created raptors came into the world with no older animals to guide them, to show them proper raptor behaviour. They were on their own, and that was just how they behaved - in a society without structure, without rules, without cooperation. They lived in an uncontrolled, every-creature-for-himself world where the meanest and the nastiest survived, and all the others died.

fuckyeahdinoart:

Duckbill dinosaurs by Steve Kirk

compendium-of-beasts:

Wing of a Blue Roller, 1512, Albrecht Durer

Five hundred years ago.

You wondered what it would be like to step into another life, one with no baggage, into the life of someone without a care in the world, someone new. You’d remember everything they did, you’d know everything they knew, but you wouldn’t have your baggage or fuckups or feared future. Your anxiety would be eased, you imagined, by becoming someone else in one sudden moment of escape, relief, and freedom.

But, so I tried to remind you, you are not the person you were five days ago, let alone the person you were five minutes ago. You already carry someone else’s memories, and remembered all they knew. At first you misunderstood like you always had before, and then you saw it wasn’t you who misunderstood, but it was who you used to be who didn’t want to understand.

So you slipped the shackles of belonging to yourself, and we smiled because the street was noisy and the day was uncomfortably hot like we’ll soon smile because of green, or tired, or vinegar.

We are, and by Being, we are Love.

dino-files:

Name: Deinonychus
Pronounced: Die-Non-E-Cuss
Classification: Theropod
Sub-family: Dromaeosaurid
Temporal Range: Early Cretaceou (115-108 Mya)
Length: 3.2 metres
Height: 1.1 metres
Weight: 70kg
Movement: Bipedal
Feeding Type: Carnivore

My original fave dinosaur. <3.

fuckyeahdinoart:

Tyrannosaurus Rex and Brachiosaurs by Alain Beneteau

shoofle:

… I love you. 

animalstalkinginallcaps:

ALAN, HAVE YOU SEEN MY EXPERIMENTAL SYNTHETIC MESCALINE? IT WAS CLEVERLY DISGUISED AS A PACK OF DENTYNE CHEWING GUM IN CASE JOHN LAW COMES POKING AROUND AGAIN. ONE “PIECE” IS SO CONCENTRATED IT CAN BE DISSOLVED TO YIELD OVER 200 DOSES. I MIGHT HAVE A MASTER’S DEGREE IN CHEMISTRY BUT THAT INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MINOR REALLY COMES IN HANDY. I’M BASICALLY THE TOTAL PACKAGE.

ALAN?

ALAN I’M TALKING TO YOU. DON’T IGNORE ME. WE HAD THAT TALK LAST MONTH ABOUT RESPECTING ONE ANOTHER AS ROOMMATES. YOU’RE HURTING MY FEELINGS.

Stop chasing pain.

theartofanimation:

Nyx567