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Published: 2017-12-01 00:47:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 11833; Favourites: 525; Downloads: 75
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And now this beauty, oh, we are just entering the rabbit hole...Related content
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Speaking of that, check this out:Β www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yhTEβ¦
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love your drawing on these fossilized fish they look something out of hallucination drug or jim henson except their realΒ
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Man, never heard of Pcynodontiformes till now and there still so weird to imagine once alive.
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Β Would you look at all the vivid colors on that fish?! It looks wonderful!
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This clade of fish sure are funny and beautiful!
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I love the vibrant colors. They really give it a sense of being a living animal that fit into a larger ecosystem. Do you know if this fish lived in tropical or temperate waters?
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Lebanon, not hell
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why are these so werid'?
why they developped this armro'
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Evolution got drunk, stuff happensΒ
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I actually once wrote an story with that premissse
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Woah. That's so cool! Wait, this was a real fossil?
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Woah! Thank you for the depiction!
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These look so coolΒ Β I have one question. Where do you find these animals? Do you have a database-site where you do your research or something?
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There is never one way, over time you learn to find the good stuff, here, there, online, through friends, by listening to experts.
In this case I met an expert on this years TetZooCon who introduced me to these animals.
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Okay, thanks for the info^^
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Colorful like a bird and I bet it's very fast too!! 
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With all this armor... hard to tell.
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I was thinking of a "vacuum armor" just like the birds' bones
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Man, that would make an interesting steak
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Are these all paleoart fish?
I would never have thought our ancient past would have hold all these amazing fish! I think I like the most out of them all
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Yes, all real 
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Yeah, it sure is! Never ceases to surpirses me
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I love all these weird pycnodonts youΒ΄re doing lately. Fish diversity is kind of underrated.
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The Pinocchio fish that stole a penguin's hide for its pompadour. 
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The earliest penguins may have been late Cretaceous, which roughly coincides with this fish, wrong hemisphere though.
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Would that depend on which penguins?Β Today's penguins were so named from their resemblance to the (now extinct) great auks of the North Atlantic which were themselves sometimes called "penguins".Β Did the ancestral auks evolved by the late Cretaceous too and inhabit the Northern Hemisphere at the time?
But I imagine Stenoprotome would have ganked the hide of some ur-penguin, such as an aquatic toothed bird, almost-bird, or regular bird that didn't make it into the Tertiary.
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I think Cenomanian (early late Cretaceous) is a little too early for any kind of penguins 
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You are undoubtedly right.Β We should be talking about fish anyway.
Which segues into a question, how big was Stenoprotome and the previous two pycnodonts, Gladiopycnodus and Rostropycnodus?
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Lol, the top one looks so happy! Such a pretty and interesting looking fish.
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