Your favorite weirdest prehistoric animals

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>>2358134
Ekorus, Leopard sized mustelid
Commissioned it from WSnyder myself, actually

>>2358140
Is their bank for prehistoric illustrations? Even the shittiest artists on DA seem to get a lot of attention but there's piles of drama.
Been wanting to illustration bird guides and I like prehistoric animals a lot.

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>>2358134
I have a fondness for Eurypterids, particularly Pterygotus.

>>2359113
Yes, though he mainly does mammals.

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>>2358134
*sigh*
Read this, please.

>>2359245
Bait

>>2359245
This b8?

>>2359245

hoping you're not serious

>>2359226
I remember some Discovery channel program about ancient sea life and one section was about eurypterids. Only they rendered them in CGI exactly like giant land scorpions. Somehow nobody vetted the artists' representations with an actual paleontologist and it aired.

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The Quetzalcoatlus

just imagine flying on the back of this thing.

>>2359589
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4oTU0srt2I

>>2359596
>not Dinotopia

One job.

>>2360050
>being a pleb

>>2359596
I have that game for my Saturn. I never could get more than halfway through it though.

>>2360071
I had the same problem with Zwei on the level with the bridge.
The only Panzer Dragon I could complete were Saga and Orta.

>>2360076
It's like they sat down and designed a game that you can play for 25 years and never come close to winning.

>>2360095
I miss Spore

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Stomatopods are some of my favorite organisms. In 'spearer' species, they possess mantis-like forelimbs for seizing prey, but in 'smasher' species [like in my picture] the last two forelimb segments are fused to form bulbous, spring-loaded hammers. They can strike with the force of a .22 calibre round, the resultant impact can produce cavitation bubbles, light, and heat. 'Smashers' use these limbs to shatter hard-shelled prey, defense, and burrowing into solid coral and stone.

What I find even-more impressive is their visual range. We humans only see three spectra of visible light: red, green, and blue. Those three make up all the colors we see. Stomatopods see 12 different spectra of light and each independently-functioning eye creates a trinocular image.

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>>2360197
Example of a 'spearer'.

>>2360197
>>2360199
meme animal, and it's not even prehistoric

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>>2359570
There were some actual Sea Scorpions that looked failry similar to land scorpions, however these were only distantly related to Eurypterids

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>>2360203
>it's not even prehistoric
Stomatopoda has a temporal range of 400 million years, dating back to the Devonian. Examples of mantis shrimp resembling modern species can be found from the Cretaceous period.

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Continuing from: >>2360491
However, if it must be extinct to meet requirements, then I choose the humble Opabinia. They don't get much more bizarre than that.

>>2359589
So those big bird evolved into giraffes?

>>2360495
>Opabinia
The barreleye is the only other sea critter I can think of that orients its vision upwards like that. Pretty neat.