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BIG NEWS: Apex is now on view at the Museum! Thought to be the largest and one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens ever found, this 150-million-year-old fossil can now be seen in the Museum’s Griffin Exploration Atrium.
Apex will be studied as part of a new research initiative by scientists in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology focused on Stegosaurus biology, including the unique ornithischian dinosaur’s growth and life history. This work will require taking a small sample from a thigh bone of the specimen, which will become part of the Museum’s permanent scientific collection. All resulting 3D digital models, including the internal structures of its skull from new CT scans taken at the Museum, will be made available as a scientific resource for the wider community of researchers.
Photo: Alvaro Keding & Daniel Kim/ © AMNH
i made a beaste. basically bunch of ahamkara obsessed vex sacrifice themselves to become an "ahamkara" themselves but it rly ends up being this very flawed vex amalgam approximation of an ahamkara ..... like and subscribe
find me in my cave going insane over the design potential of a half-formed human-hive godling. the way her mouth moves makes me think she can open the plates and really honestly she deserves a proboscis. and bug wings. and the concept of metamorphosis
So uh. Human engineer Ratchet finding a half dead decepticon. Anyone?
I got bored so I made this little thingie haha. With all the cool fics we have about Ratchlock in mecha au I felt like they need at least something for a starting point:D
AU idea: Tarn got injured during a mission and lost his memories, returning him to pre-empurata Damus... (I just want to draw him with a big smile 😭)
Bonus DJD reaction:
sourpuss.
either mental health or still life. (and apparently we're drawing fruits now.)
i drew a misraaks a few days ago. look at this crepe of an individual.
some thoughts
i don't know why i never regarded the eliksni as being lizard-like. i always thought of them as insectoid, but they can be lizardy too. i imagine they have little hard whiskers on their snouts for feeling and social gestures (they're very social creatures that enjoy physical touch) and scutes that shed as they grow older, growing larger and more vibrant in color until they reach their adult form. they molt through their entire life, slowing as they age. similar to lobsters, a lack of energy and difficulty molting can end their otherwise extraordinarily long lifespans. shed scutes are often used in things such as jewelry and the making of small household tools. after being introduced to the idea of the tooth fairy by pre-golden-age records, eliksni sometimes keep their hatchlings' first shed scutes as tokens, or leave small gifts in exchange for them.
they are cold-blooded creatures, who prefer warmth and basking in direct sunlight. when available, they prefer open-air architecture that allows them to stay in the sun, and otherwise use windows and basking bulbs when the sun is unavailable. sometimes mirrors are used to direct its rays into otherwise unreachable areas. their armor probably contains heating mechanisms for colder environments. they enjoy basking as a social activity, and will bask in large groups, utilizing dark materials in floors and furniture to absorb heat.
anyway, just food for thought.
by Mauro Belfiore
My cards! Color tinted, in-game, and also the base version without the tint.
The theme for each is: Hearts = medics, Clubs = Ops/intelligence, Diamonds = Justice/law, Spades = science. The suits are mostly arbitrary, I assigned the sets to suits after I picked the characters for each set.
transformers one but it’s in the shattered glass universe so it’s basically just d-16 watching his three best friends descend into madness
had to redraw a few scenes
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Wanted to make another one of my ‘hydrozoan city’ leviathans (after fighting the divine beast in elden ring).
I imagine this one is much older and therefore has more conjoining colonies piloted by several ‘crowns’ (a term I made up for the piloting creatures in the head section) as well as far more complicated mimicry. Him big.
I feel like I should make a little info post showing its individual crown critters when they aren’t fused together? Idk
Festive Hellmouth Viper
Another giant spectral resident of Hellmouth, Depth Charge 7 🎊
Titan Drift and city speaker Ratchet. Because why not :)
aHhh okay so the discussions of Titan!Megatron on @callsign-relic's blog have fully. FULLY taken over my brain and ive been drawing stuff for it for like the last few days nonstop
the tl;dr of this is AU is pretty much "what if Megatron got turned into a titan/cityformer as a form of penance/imprisonment and now roams the empty wasteland of Cybertron forever" plus "IDW Megatron has really fucked up internals so... what if that, but as a City?"
and of course since he's a Titan, that also means he has a cityspeaker... or three. One per sub-AU thing. Theres 3 options. 3 flavours of AU.
i have so much art to make. but in the meantime, for more info! check out the #titan au tag on Relic's blog :]!! (also uhh potential ns//fw warning for the link shfjbdkd)
Hi. My battery is running out once again so design and art notes get chucked here instead of an image.
The cuffs and collar are hardwired into Megatron, so I made the lights the same colour as his biolights!
I imagine that on the tops of his shoulders there are solar panels, even if you can't see them here lol.
I really wanted to keep the swirly bits on Megatron's chest from IDW
Other art notes:
The second picture with the seekers is (loosely) inspired by a discussion about whether or not Megatron gets visitors or not. I thought about who would visit him and well... I think this is as close as Starscream realistically gets to visiting him.
Extra detail about that piece is that Thundercracker and Skywarp are keeping watch from above! Also drawing Megatron took me like 8 hours because I was struggling with his legs really badly kshffkbfkdsbdk,, the background went much faster, funnily enough.
Optimus specifically isn't wearing his Autobot badge any more.
This isn't relevant in this series of images, but Ultra Magnus's eye markings are only on the Magnus armour. His other two forms do not have them :] (... until he begins to discard the armour, that is.)
Megatron is roughly 3200m/2 miles tall. Technically he could have clouds around his knees, but I thought this looked a little bit cooler lol.
Also, height chart! Him big. I didn't even attempt to put a human for scale because that'd be. near impossible with this scale.