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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't have the time or energy to write full threads today, but here's some animals from A New Age of Reptiles that are just waiting for a detailed thread! (Artwork by @fabioaleromero.bsky.social, @manusuchus.bsky.social, and Wyatt Andrews!)

A yellowish shark with curling barbels and a huge, knotched caudal fin. It has a small blueish streak behind the spiracle. Art by @fabioaleromero.bsky.social

Size comparison between two leopard-spotted, slender-snouted crocodiles and the silhouette of a waving man. The larger crocodile is labelled as male, the smaller as female. The male is about twice the length of the female. Art by @manusuchus

A towering, sauropod-like simosuchian with a beaky snout, rusty orange-brown scales, and large clawed hands and feet. It is shown beside a waving man's silhouette, showing it to be a little over four meters in height.

A shaggy-furred mammal with hoofed limbs and a head halfway between a rodent and a horse flees from two robustly built, long-nosed predatory mammals with dog-like builds. The fleeing mammal bounds desperately, its viscera visibly spilling from under its long fur. Art by Wyatt Andrews.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Dodons and Dragons Southeast Asia, as in our timeline, is a tremendous biodiversity hotspot. A nearly impenetrable tangle of endless jungle, sweltering swamps, and salty mangroves extend for more than a million square miles, hosting a riotous diversity of organisms. (1/13)

A Scimitar-horned Dodon, a hoofed, big-headed reptile with a scute-covered body and recurved horn nasal horn. Its broad head is superfically hippo-like in shape, ending in a beaky margin of large, tough scales. It has single-hoofed hands and three-toed feet. Its long, drooping tail nearly reaches the ground, ending in a dense cluster of scutes. A size comparison with a man's silhouette shows it to be just over two meters tall at the hip and around six meters in total length.

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A Giant Allosaurops monitor, a huge, long-necked varanid with a splotchy, lace monitor-like pattern of deep blue-grey and sandy tones. It has a loose, baggy throat and two prominent, rounded horns above the eye. Its forked tongue flicks from the mouth, giving it a draconic visage. A size comparison with a man's silhouette shows it to be nearly seven meters in total length.

Art by @manusuchus

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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don't recall if I ever posted these on Bluesky, but here's a set of illustrations I made for the Meiolaniidae wikipedia page back when I expanded the information for those animals The goal was to showcase the overall diversity in cranial ornamentation #sciart

An illustration featuring four species of meiolaniid turtles. Niolamia has large, frill-like horns, Ninjemys smaller horns with a very pointed nose. Warkalania is shown with a knobby but ultimately much more reduced cranial ornamentation while Meiolania has short, recurved horns resembling a cow

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Paleostream flocking wont be back for a while as Josch will be doing the final Lemuria streams!! in the meantime have a recent piece i was commissioned to draw by @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social, it's of an animal in her speculative evolution setting called a sengi-deer

a trail camera-style image shows the following scene: during the afternoon in a South American rainforest, two sengi-deer of a smaller species forage amongst a somewhat open forest clearing, a glasswing butterfly of the species Greta excellens is seen in the foreground just infront of the sengi-deer individual closest to the trail camera

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thinking about an old spec project and how much I liked this frogwhale concept. I should revisit it at some point!

A huge, whisker-lipped tadpole-like amphibian with a complex webbed pattern of yellows on the upper lobe of its tail fin.

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Bixels @bixels.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My contributions to Splatoon worldbuilding.

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eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In lieu of actual project updates, here’s a few previews of A New Age Of Reptiles stuff I’ve yet to publicly share. Art courtesy of @manusuchus.bsky.social, Wyatt Andrews, and @astrapionte.bsky.social!

Arms and neck of a splotchy-patterned blue-grey and yellow monitor lizard. Art by Manusuchus

Portrait of a slender-jawed sebecid with a deep throat pouch hanging off a long, slim neck. Art by Manusuchus

Close up of the fanged, fearsome mouth of a primate-like mammal. Art by Wyatt Andrews

Partial views of various giant birds, each with varied feather density and patterns. One is nearly bare skinned, with a grey, splotchy hide. One has brown feathers covering its rump, and is raising its robust foot as it runs. Another is extensively feathered and has a wing ending in a single long, crescent-shaped claw.

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Holly @sparrowlucero.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

art fight attack on Golldfish!

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Srutis 🔞 @srutis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Me if you even care

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In the woods near Nashville this morning:

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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Evening Nap 🌿

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Bristly Surf Shrew In the New Age of Reptiles, placentals are just one among many lineages of eutherians. Surf Shrews, initially misidentified as eulipotyphlans, are members of a large clade of mostly invertivorous mammals common in the Northern Hemisphere. (1/7)

A Bristly Surf Shrew, a chunky, desman-like mammal with a thick and roughly scaled tail and widely flaring nose. It has a grizzly fur pattern and a yellowish patch of skin surrounding the nostrils. A size comparison with a human hand shows it to be roughly the size of a hand with extended fingers. Text above reads "Bristly Surf Shrew"

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

To celebrate the announcement of my #specevo #dinosaur book this #FossilFriday, here's my giant Olymposaurus, a modern-day abelisaur. The proportions were predicted using real abelisaur scaling regimes: that short, upturned face, enormous thigh etc. are expected features of a 13 m abelisaur. #sciart

A huge carnivorous dinosaur with a short, deep face, tiny, handless arms and enormous muscled legs pins a juvenile long-necked dinosaur in a South American grassland. A large, deep gash on the constrained dinosaur hints at a wound on its abdomen, and blood on the snout of the carnivore suggests predatory activity. Other long-necks are visible in the distance, in front of a bank of clouds.

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Rough-sketched idea of how these non-mammalian cynodonts may acquire a trunk-lip, through increasingly specialized browsing with a hardened, then lengthened upper lip that gets increasingly grippy and muscular. A bit of #specevo for my personal Kerguelen project. #worldbuilding #illustration

A rough black-and-white pencil sketch of a sequence of snout illustrations, all of non-mammal cynodonts with increasingly long and trunk-like upper lips, showcasing how Tritylodonts with non-flexible lips may develop something that looks like an elephant trunk (although the nostrils remain up near the base of the trunk).

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

On a scale of 1 - 10, how evil would it be to make several lineages of Enantiornithean birds diversify throughout the Cenozoic on Kerguelen, only to all be wiped out (plus or minus one small survivor) by cats and rats in the 1700s? #specevo #worldbuilding

Simple black-and-white pencil sketches of three fictional Enantiornithean birds in lateral view, for my spec-evo project of Kerguelen. The first is a hawk-like form with fully feathered legs, the second is a tiny fluffy orb that acts like a wren, and the third is a sort of upright-quail looking thing with a rounded head fully covered in fluffy feathers such that the beak isn’t visible (like cock-of-the-rock birds).

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Major announcement posted at #Patreon yesterday: I'm producing a big #specevo #dinosaur book devoted to a "no K/Pg impact" scenario over the next 18 months. I'll be sharing updates on the project at Patreon throughout development, so sign up if you want previews! www.patreon.com/markwitton #sciart

A montage of speculative dinosaurs produced thus far for my "Dinosaurs Evolved" project. Clockwise from top left: the green crookedbill; the magnificent fissurefrill; the berk; the grand field titan; the short-faced olymposaur; the steppe fissurefrill, and the ferocious slaughter king. Want to know more about these guys? Set your controls for the heart of Patreon!

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A lineup of the big cats of Sukaya, the Africa-equivalent continent in the world of Tyrannoc (a spec-evo and worldbuilding project made by a friend of mine). Three are extant African big cats, the others are based on extinct sabertooths from the Pliocene, and Pleistocene. #specevo #art #Tyrannoc

A lineup of eight colored-pencil-drawn big cats, all based on real living and extinct big cats from Africa, for the continent of Sukaya in the fictional world of Tyrannoc. From left to right, the species are: African Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Sabre-toothed Lion (based on Adeilosmilus), Sukayan Scimitar Cat (based on Homotherium), Kisu (based on Metailurus), Kitisho (based on Dinofelis), and Punhal (based on Megantereon).

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Bornulhu @bornulhu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What if... bizzarre and goofy Backrooms "spec evo". (Not tied to any previous Backrooms canon)

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Lemuria Phase 3 has officially started! Over the next months people on Discord will be able to submit ideas for animals and plants that could live on this hypothetical landmass during the Pleistocene. 🧵

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Omar Rayyan @omarrayyanart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've got a bunch of new followers suddenly, so I thought I'd roll this out again as a bit of an introduction... Hi, I'm the artist that painted this, "The Favorite". Perhaps you've seen it around? 😊

Oil painting of a young girl holding a monster like a favorite pet. they are wearing matching ribbons. 🎀
Painted by Omar Rayyan.

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Titan @titanartwork01.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

wats bro doing here ? #paleoart #backrooms

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Torpedo Crocs Marine reptile diversity in the New Age of Reptiles eclipses any time in Earth's history, with thousands of species documented to date across dozens of lineages. The crocodylids, early colonisers of the Cenozoic seas, are among the most spectacular. (1/14)

A Sawsnout Torpedo, a gigantic coastal sea crocodile in a tightly curled posture. Its long, green-banded hide is covered in rows of scute-ridges. The deep, hypocercal tail is packed with powerful muscles. The head rapidly narrows to a thin, sawfish-like snout lined with laterally projecting teeth. A human silhouette beside shows it to be about seven meters long.

A Weeping Cr'orca, a massive sea crocodile. It has a deep, wedge-shaped snout lined with conical interlocking teeth. Its diamond-shaped forelimbs have a single claw, and its hide is a subtly countershaded purplish hue marked with scars and little injuries. A streak of white and yellow run down from the eye, breaking up the uniformity of its colouration. A size comparison with a human silhouette shows it to be about 13 meters in length.

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The White-Cheeked Seagrinder, a fictional galloanseran I was commissioned to illustrate for @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/06/2026

Did you know Israel is the only state to have legalised torture through a Supreme Court ruling? There was no accountability after a Palestinian detainee was filmed being raped by a dog at Sde Teiman in 2024. Watch the Al Jazeera original now: youtu.be/e3pApprHfrY

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Triassic archosauromorph lips onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A selection of Triassic archosauromorphs, reconstructed with lips closing the mouth and covering all teeth.
Top right: Prestosuchus in right lateral view (with closed mouth) and frontal view with an open mouth (scale bar 300 mm).
Three images underneath, from left to right: Venetoraptor (scale bar 10 mm); 'Hyperodapedon' (scale bar 100 mm); Silesaurus (scale bar 20 mm).
Dark blue rectangle in lower left corner is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.
Artwork copyright Matheus F. Gadelha.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The New Age of Reptiles: Grapplewhips Oceania, like in our timeline, is a hotspot of squamate diversity. Scincomorphan lizards are among the biggest success stories of the region. One lineage, the long-bodied predatory grapplewhips, have taken forms unlike anything in our world. (1/6)

A chunky, mossy-coloured scincomorphan lizard with short, pad-like clawed feet and wide mitten-like hands ending in recurved talons. Art by Wyatt Andrews.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Book 8 contract SIGNED. Am pretty excited for this one! I'll be sharing teasers and previews while I write and illustrate it over the next 18 months (especially at Patreon: www.patreon.com/markwitton). That's all for no - hey, what's this weirdly-proportioned sauropod doing here?

So big as to eclipse the rising full moon, a gargantuan sauropod grazes in what looks like a modern grassland. Say, is that a short tail with a club? Whatever, dog; it's Friday afternoon, no one cares.

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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026

bisexual final boss

Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Results from the #paleostream! Cerrejonisuchus, Parabos, Argentinonectes and Bayanoteuthis

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My submission for Sawyer Lee’s #codexcontest, wherein much of the bones belong to a titanic terrestrial cetacean (descended from something Ambulocetid/Protocetid-like that went back to land). This beast would have been an all-consuming omnivorous browser, living in dense forests and swamps. #specevo

A black-and-white infographic of a fictional prehistoric animal, which is my submission for Sawyer Lee’s codex-contest featuring a jumble of very large fossils that need reconstructing. I’ve depicted it as a huge terrestrial basal cetacean, with long, columnar limbs and somewhat sauropod-like feet. The head is proportionately small and pointed and the neck and tail are both quite short. On the left side of the image are a skeletal reconstruction and life reconstruction, both in the same walking pose. On the right side are two smaller sketches, one showing the evolution of such a lineage and the other showing a predatory encounter between this land-whale and a similarly massive dragon.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

T. rex vs. T. rex.

Single-panel comic, drawn in pencil. A Tylosaurus rex in a cowboy hat faces a Tyrannosaurus rex. The caption reads: 'This town ain't big enough for the two of us.'

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Departing for Thrax.

An illustration inspired by Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun-- Severian, wearing a black cloak made of Fuligin, is walking toward a set of stairs, behind him a ruinous city littered with remnants of an ancient missile launchpad.

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삶은레몬 @boiledlemon.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

사모예드

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: East Asian Temperate Forests At the forest edge, a Googly-Eye Grindergoose catches the attention of a pod of Little Spiny Grindergeese. Above, a flock of Bluenoose Beepers flit between perches. Behind, two towering sicklestriches amble about in the springtime sun. (1/8)

At the edge of a forest, a diverse assortment of birds go about their daily business. In the foreground, a black-feathered Googly-eye Grindergoose plucks a seed from the ground. Its large white eyespot gives the illusion of a huge, cartoonish eye. A group of Little Spiny Grindergeese pass by, briefly acknowledging their larger relative. In the middle distance, a flock of passerine-like Beepers flit between stands of trees. Behind, two huge Sicklestriches enjoy the heat of the spring sun.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This might be my favorite New York Post headline ever

A picture of the New York Post June 1 edition, with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on a bicycle with the caption "Cycle Of Hate: Zo snubs Israel Parade, goes on bike ride instead"

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Results from the Flocking #paleostream Kank, Velociraptor, Plumadraco and Chloridops regiskongi

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jackosaur.bsky.social @jackosaur.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

WIP of the dry Bushlands mural for my personal spec project I’m getting back on the stove to cook with

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Unicorn Bristlecat Much as in our timeline, northern South America is dominated by a great sprawl of waterways. This colossal expanse of flooded forest, rivers and streams, lakes and the like host an unimaginable variety of life. (1/6)

A Unicorn Bristlecat, a chunky catfish with a projecting horn-like spike formed from the first ray of its dorsal fin. The spike is lined with hairlike projections. It is a countershaded purplish white, with an amber-hued eye. A comparison with a human hand shows it to be about 60cm in length.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Terracotta Pig, East Java, 15th century

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yesterday I started on #paleostream a new series: #PocketPrehistry, in which I draw extinct animals in life size on postcard formats, meaning the animals can't be much longer than 15 cm max! Here the first 3 results Scalacurvichthys, Arcticodactylus, Iberomesornis with Eoalulavis, Kreischeria...

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JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Failed pocket prehistory piece 1: Yuripopovina #Sciart #Paleoart

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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Realis—the moon-hopping TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—lands on Kickstarter April 2026! Featuring 55 classes, 150+ NPCs, 100+ illustrations, expanded GM & homebrew guidance, and much more, bookmark the campaign today at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | teaser art: @decassette.bsky.social

"Realis by Austin Walker on Kickstarter April 2026" is layered over a science-fantasy image of four adventures.

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Behold, a non-mammalian shovel-tusker: (Trunk-lipped Tritylodont concept for my Kerguelen spec-evo project) #specevo #creaturedesign #synapsid

Quick pencil sketch of a very concerned/frightened stick figure person side-eyeing the head of a large gomphothere-like tritylodont (close cousin of mammals) from my personal speculative-evolution project.

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MarvellousMemento @marvmemento.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My entry for a local paleoart contest. It depicts some of the fauna from the Khok Kruat Formation of early Cretaceous, Thailand. #paleoart

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Courtesty of @manusuchus.bsky.social, a trio of sea monsters from the New Age of Reptiles are emerging from the depths. Expect a thread tomorrow!

The hypocercal, green and white striped tail of a marine reptile.

Close-up of the conically-toothed, scarred jaws of a giant marine reptile. A streak of white and yellow cuts through a background of deep purplish scales.

A longirostrine crocodylian snout lined with numerous laterally projecting teeth. It is banded with varying shades of green, and two nostrils sit midway down the snout.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

apparently a new pterosaur dropped? Laueropterus

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨PTEROSAUR NEWS🚨 in today's headlines, we have the first evidence of possible iridescence in pterosaurian integument, courtesy of a pre-print by wu et al. focusing on the melanosomes of the herbivorous pterosaur sinopterus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (art by zhao chuang)

art of two sinopterus - crested, herbivorous pterosaurs from early cretaceous china - depicted with deep green iridescent plumage

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

On the day the horseshoe crabs came.

Color illustration of several horseshoe crabs climbing a brutalist wall with air conditioning units on it.

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