American Crow - ML201955231, Daniel Jimenez

the truth about snail.

This was an old idea. I wanted to do a better animation with it.

playing with bright colors

I almost forgot 😅 American Crow scribbled real fast, feather shapes are wrong and proportions are wack but it’s already tomorrow and I’m behind as is haha.

Inktober 09

rb to give the person you reblogged this from a little scoop of iced cream

Sabiá-laranjeira/Rufous-bellied Thrush 

Turdus rufiventris

Emily Sutton

Bipedal running has convergently evolved multiple times in squamate reptiles, known in over 50 modern species – and fossil evidence shows this is nothing new, with lizards repeatedly developing the ability to sprint on their hind legs for well over 100 million years.

Huehuecuetzpalli mixtecus here lived in east-central Mexico during the mid-Cretaceous, about 105 million years ago. About 25cm long (10"), it was part of an early branch of the iguanomorph lineage, related to the ancestors of modern lizards like iguanas, chameleons, and agamids.

Its limb proportions indicate it would have been a bipedal runner, making it one of the earliest known examples of this type of locomotion in lizards. Its skull also had some features convergent with varanids, suggesting it may have had a similar sort of active-pursuit-hunting ecology.

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