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Published: 2019-02-24 13:01:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 21797; Favourites: 603; Downloads: 50
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one of the oldest creatures to have roamed the silurian oceans that despite all the odds, has survived to the present day alongside the horseshoe crabs, taking a massive hit during the permian great dying and later cretaceous paleogene extinction, but miraculously bounced back into the seas sometime near the end of the latest ice age.however now these eurypterids are facing a danger greater than what Earth has thrown at them since the dawn of time. As ocean acidification increases at a rate never before seen, their exoskeleton get more and more brittle with every generation without leaving them with enough time to adapt, and overfishing to meet the demands of the global seafood market has caused their size to slowly shrink throughout the century.
(it's been months yet again, and i have feeling it will be months again before i even upload something, and it seems college will only get even more and more intense going forward, still i always find time to do something outside of school to keep my sanity and not burn-out on art in general)
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kurosakisthebest [2023-12-11 04:59:15 +0000 UTC]
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Cerberus-Chaos [2023-06-01 20:31:49 +0000 UTC]
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asari13 [2023-03-28 21:21:15 +0000 UTC]
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theperson7 [2022-05-26 00:54:03 +0000 UTC]
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Icehawkstone [2022-05-03 19:58:22 +0000 UTC]
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djd4199 [2021-11-15 16:04:11 +0000 UTC]
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killmepleaseijust [2021-09-01 09:15:49 +0000 UTC]
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bowserforssbu [2021-04-06 12:55:25 +0000 UTC]
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SavaAlienFish [2019-09-08 18:41:34 +0000 UTC]
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Sengita [2019-06-28 07:41:02 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for that slice of history... and these sad news. I am not too deep into marine life so that I didn't think about the influence of what is going on on Earth on these creatures. Ehh.
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Anothercrappyuser [2019-06-09 23:18:53 +0000 UTC]
All I can say is this: youtu.be/Sxi-zbIHBjs?t=17
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Exo-Spectral [2019-05-29 14:49:42 +0000 UTC]
I love these little slices into other worlds and alternate histories of Earth. This is beautifully painted, and probably a believable outcome for these creatures if they survived to this day.
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littleloomex [2019-03-09 20:43:18 +0000 UTC]
lifesbiggestquestions did a video similar to this idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxOFH_…
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Kiabugboy In reply to littleloomex [2019-03-09 22:08:07 +0000 UTC]
interesting video, i don't really buy humans breeding jaekelopterus as a replacement for beef, or as a staple diet for humans, they're essentially just giant lobster-like creatures.
haven't done much research into insect food, but my guess is the reason they are becoming a viable option is because of how small they are and how little space is needed to breed or feed them to yield enough harvest. The requirements to breed a jaekelopterus might be similar to or perhaps even much harder than lobsters, especially the gigantic ones. you'd need a space for all the water, maintain its quality/salinity/PH, etc. we already know that its closest relative the horsehoe crabs are hard to breed in captivity, so that's more reason for me to suspect that jaekelopterus won't be a reliable food source
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Selkra [2019-03-02 17:07:20 +0000 UTC]
Your paint style is so good! Very detailed and realistic.
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Fargusno [2019-02-28 16:57:55 +0000 UTC]
Not sure if I'm hungry, or I'm crying....I don't want to find out how Eurypterids taste like. I'll stick to modern Dendrobranchiata
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FuryQuantmin [2019-02-26 05:45:10 +0000 UTC]
They'll rise eventually- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzzim…
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Starfieldhouses In reply to YellowPanda2001 [2019-02-28 14:48:19 +0000 UTC]
I imagine they're similar to horseshoe crabs. That said I don't know what horseshoe crabs taste like.
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GiovaniHydraliskCorp [2019-02-25 00:15:43 +0000 UTC]
ah yes, the once-per-millenia bugboy upload, a masterpiece to modern times from an ancient entity
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hans-sniekers-art [2019-02-24 19:12:54 +0000 UTC]
This is a very intriguing and beautiful concept you have here! Also one with a sad edge but one that works in today's society :3 Thanks for taking your limited time to develop this concept for us to see <3
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Timoshauru5-VII [2019-02-24 14:25:21 +0000 UTC]
Delicious looking but really sad.
Now I'm, I'm sad now.
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Hyrotrioskjan In reply to Kiabugboy [2019-02-26 21:43:49 +0000 UTC]
It was actually just featured today in our new facebook group "Beyond the Paleo"
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Kiabugboy In reply to Hyrotrioskjan [2019-02-27 12:30:49 +0000 UTC]
Oh, wow, I'm really flattered with Liam's description of my artworks, haha
If a person asked me to describe them myself I'd just answer "bad stuffs humans do to animals, but like with dinos"
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