Renato Santos

@dracontes.bsky.social

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Portuguese. Atheist. Queer. Furry. Bachelor's in Biology, minor in Earth Sciences. Amateur at paleontology. Amateur at art. Palaeos.com custodian. DA gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes (He/Him; 42; Algarve, Portugal | 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇹 )

Digital line drawing done in MS Paint with the charcoal pencil brush. It depicts the last second worm's eye view of a marauding hexapod winged dragon, on the wing, bearing down on its (presumably) human prey. Front and center are its open jaws, toothy and foreshortened, eclipsing most of the dragon's body behind it, with the wings flanking it and the tail trailing behind.
Digital line art drawing done in MS Paint with the charcoal pencil tool. It depicts, in bold lines, a hexapodal winged dragon climbing down snowy crags, using all limbs, wings included, to assist the descent. It seems to have spotted something of interest in the direction of the viewer. The relatively short wings are pterosaur-like, though with two wing fingers instead of one. Aerofoil fins on the tail, the other limbs and head complement the impression of a fairly maneuverable flier.
A line drawing done on MS Paint with the charcoal pencil tool. It depicts, in bold lines, a hexapodal winged dragon sitting on its haunches on the ground, left wing extended. The wings are fin-like with jet pods attached to the upper arm and forearm of each wing. The dragon has a long neck and long tail. The head is wedge-shaped and crowned by back-swept horns. The sitting dragon is licking the interior of the left upper wing jep pod clean.
A digital drawing done on MS Paint with a number of its tools. It's a grayscale shaded drawing depicting a strongly foreshortened large mammal's head, reminiscent of anything from a moose to a horse, tapir, or reconstructions of extinct animals like paraceratheres or ground sloths. While the head has been rendered with detail, the neck has been left as an unfinished impression.
Line drawing done in MS Paint with the charcoal pencil tool. It depicts a monstrous shelled cephalopod, perhaps conjoined twins, that is vaguely reminiscent of a dragon's head. There are two shells looking like ram's horns. The paired siphons on the apparent top of the head taking the place of the forward-facing eyes of a winged predator, while the animal does have eyes on the side of its head with the characteristic W pupil of cuttlefish. The arms give the impression of a snout while the tentacles snake forward from between them to probe the surrounding environment.
A digital drawing done on MS Paint with the charcoal pencil brush. It's a volumetric rendering of a reptilian head, maybe a dragon. It's long and shallow, with a sharp downturn midway along the snout, reminiscent of a flamingo's profile. Four tusks protrude downward from the tip of the upper jaw, the outer pair longer. Another pair of tusks juts horizontally from the lower jaw. The eyes are set far back on the head with horizontal bar pupils. There's a pair of characteristically draconic fins or ears just behind the eyes: webs of skin stretched between bony struts.
A digital drawing done in MS Paint with the charcoal pencil tool. It's a head shot of a reptilian head, blocky in shape (short-faced), jaws closed. The short jaws have a meandering, moderately snaggletoothed jawline almost as if the jaws had been smushed back into the skull. A large fang protrudes down and slightly forward from the upper jaw, the tip reaching just below the lower jaw. There's a row of spines over the midline of the head continuing onto the neck and another shorter one on the eyebrow. The eye has a slanted slit pupil reminiscent of a gecko's. The ear is a crocodilian-like horizontal slit behind the eye.
Oil painting by Chris Rahn illustrating the Magic The Gathering card Phyrexian Dragon Engine (Source links: https://scryfall.com/card/bro/163/phyrexian-dragon-engine https://www.artofmtg.com/art/phyrexian-dragon-engine/ ). The titular creature is in the process of decapitating a humanoid mech in a smoky battlefield. The dragon is wingless and has a centaur like arrangement to its limbs. The main body is attached to two pairs of tracked treads as if those had replaced the creature's original limbs. A pair of large, slender limbs rest on the ground in front of the dragon, ready to help maneuver it. The upper torso is vaguely humanoid glowing ever redder and hotter toward the head, which sports a glowing, jagged maw and five horns. The upper torson's left arm is holding the body of the mech while the right one is pulled back at the end of the movement that rent the mech's head from its body. Green smoke billows from mech's severed head and neck hole.
Screenshot of "Pantone Birth Chart Palette Generator" ( https://pantonecolors.net/pantone-birth-chart/ ) showing the results. It reads: SUN Libra Sun Balanced Rose #D986A8 RGB 217, 134, 168 Closest Pantone match: 204 C MOON Taurus Moon Olive Velvet #7E7A48 RGB 126, 122, 72 Closest Pantone match: 7749 C RISING Cancer Rising Sea Glass Mist #A7C8C4 RGB 167, 200, 196 Closest Pantone match: 6150 C VENUS Virgo Venus Pressed Petal #D7AAA5 RGB 215, 170, 165 Closest Pantone match: 2444 C
Screenshot of a scan of Player, I.C.; Feely, J.M. 1960. A preliminary report on the square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum. Lammergeyer 1 (1): 3-23, pl. 1, maps 1-3. It reads: In eighty years it had been reduced to its present territory where it was from then on protected. This rapid extinction appears to have been the result of the low reproductive replacement rate combined with a sudden increase in mortality. Even a small increase in mortality in a species with these characteristics is sufficient to reduce its population to a point where it naturally dies out. That the mortality due to man was not negligible is made quite clear by the very few hunters who put pen to paper, recording for instance the destruction of eighty animals by two men in one hunting season alone, or the slaughter of eight at a water-hole in a single day. Ansell (op cit.) quoting Clay (in lilt.) records that one European trader in Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], on the Bechuanaland [Botswana] border, employed some 400 Native hunters in the years around 1890, and the rhinos were exterminated in a very considerable territory through his agency alone. Apart from the sheer love of killing ingrained in most Europeans there were four attractions about the species to hasten its end; it was easy to approach and kill, the flesh was highly esteemed for its tastiness, the skin was prized for the making of whips and the horns were of value overseas. How it survived at all is difficult to tell.
Partial screenshot of a scan of the title page of the monograph "A Review of the Primates", vol. II by Danial Giraud Elliot (1913) hosted by Biodiversity Heritage Library. It reads: REVIEW OF THE PRIMATES BY DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT, D. Sc, F. R. S. E., &C. Commander of the Royal Orders of the Crown of Italy, of Frederic of Wurtemburg, and of Charles the Third of Spain; Knight of the Imperial and Royal Orders of Francis Joseph of Austria, of the Dannebrog of Denmark, of the Albert Order of Saxony, of St. Maurice and St. Lazare of Italy, of Isabella the Catholic of Spain, of Christ of Portugal, of Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse, etc., etc.; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Zoological Society of London; A Founder and ex-Vice-President of the Zoological Society of France; A Founder and ex-President of the American Ornithologists' Union; Honorary Member of the Kuttall Ornithological Club; of the Linnaean Society of New York; of the New York Zoological Society ; Member of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolina Academy of Germany, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of the Academy of Sciences of New York, of the Société D'Accliraatation of Paris, of the New York Historical Society; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, of the Natural History Society of Boston, etc., etc.
Detail of the fourth image on the article "The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs" (article link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2519003-the-shocking-fossils-that-show-t-rex-wasnt-the-king-of-the-dinosaurs/ ; image link: https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/19164504/SEI_290116890.jpg?width=1674 ) This cropped image shows the partial silhouettes of Tyrannosaurus (gray), Nanotyrannus lancensis (red), and Nanotyrannus lethaeus (orange). Noteworthy is that the Nanotyrannus silhouettes have the expected two fingers on their hands but the Tyrannosaurus silhouette has three fingers on its hands.
A screenshot from the Wiktionary entry 'cdesign proponentsist' at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cdesign_proponentsist . It reads: --- Etymology From "cdesign proponentsists", a typographic splicing of design proponents into c[reation]ists, in a 1987 draft for the book Of Pandas and People when, after the US Supreme Court ruled that teaching creationism in US state schools was unconstitutional, the terms creationism and creationists were replaced by intelligent design and design proponents in an attempt to get around the ban. Pronunciation IPA(key): /ˈkədɪzaɪn pɹəˈpoʊnəntsɪst/ Audio (US): [A player widget for an audio file of someone saying the word] Rhymes: -oʊnəntsɪst Hyphenation: c‧de‧sign pro‧po‧nent‧sist
The Foundations printing of the Magic: The Gathering card Goblin Boarders, https://scryfall.com/card/fdn/87/goblin-boarders , illustrated by Filipe Pagliuso. Shown in the card illustration is a scene from the plane of Ixalan with a pair of goblins scaling the wooden side of a sailing ship with the help of daggers. The goblins have a mix of naked blue skin and white fur covering their bodies, when not obscured by clothing inspired by that of Age of Sail mariners, chiefly pirates. Notable to the discussion, are the long prehensile tail and the hand-like feet with opposable big toes.
Comparison of the mystery mammal skull with the skull of a Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata), highlighting various anatomical structures on both. The gist is that the lower jaw isn't connected to the skull via the expected temporo-mandibular jaw joint. Side view photo of a Tibetan fox skull taken in 2025-05-14 by Foxleon423 (CC-BY-SA-4.0; Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Side_view_of_a_Tibetan_Fox_skull.jpg )
Anatomical diagram of the human ear from Gray's Anatomy (1918), drawn by Henry Vandyke Carter. (Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray904.png ) A drawing human ear shaded with crosshatching as seen from the side of the head, complete description of features can be found on the auricle Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricle_(anatomy) . For this discussion, the relevant part is that 'ear lobe' or 'lobule' refers only to the non-cartilaginous bottom part of the outer ear.
Google Image search detail screenshot with the title card for the Portuguese history documentary "O Mundo de Cá" as found on the online archives of the state-owned public broadcaster RTP. The title card shows the title of the documentary in a tall font, colored in blue, with the spiral water drain I discuss on the quoted repost as the background. For those with access: https://arquivos.rtp.pt/programas/o-mundo-de-ca/
Google Trends graph of their interest metric for worldwide web searches 'Dinosaur' (blue) and 'Magic: The Gathering' (red), spanning data from 2004 to the present day. (Link: https://trends.google.com/explore?date=all&geo=Worldwide&q=Dinosaur%2CMagic%253A%2520The%2520Gathering ) Both start at a similar level of interest. The MTG line shows a fairly consistent downward trend, maybe picking up in the last two years. The Dinosaur line shows an upward trend that's more consistent since 2015, which puts it well above the MTG line.
Google Trends graph of their interest metric for worldwide web searches Google deems related to Tyrannosaurus (blue) and related to Spinosaurus (red), spanning data from 2004 to the present day. (Link: https://trends.google.com/explore?date=all&geo=Worldwide&q=%2Fm%2F07hjh%2C%2Fm%2F037yqr ) Tyrannosaurus as a topic stays well above Spinosaurus as a topic, though the latter slowly increases in interest over the time period. Noteworthy are the two sustained drops in interest for Tyrannosaurus during the Covid-19 pandemic period, spanning October 2020 to March 2021 and February 2022 to December 2023, dropping near Spinosaurus' level.
Google Trends graph of their interest metric for worldwide web searches 'Tyrannosaurus' (blue) and 'Spinosaurus' (red), spanning data from 2004 to the present day. (Link: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=Tyrannosaurus%2CSpinosaurus&date=all&geo=Worldwide ) While the average interest over that span of time still favors Tyrannosaurus, the graph shows Spinosaurus trending upward reaching the same interest level at around 2015 and then pulling a bit ahead at around 2025.
Head shot photo of a fisher (Pekania pennanti) showing its eye's horizontal slit pupil. The head has a snout about as long as the braincase and is adorned with big ears. The eye is set behind a dark brown snout with a brown iris surrounding the horizontal globe gore shape of its pupil. The rest of the head is covered in lighter brown fur. Photo taken by John Jacobson on the job for Olympic National Park (Public Domain; image link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animals_mammal_wildlife_Fisher_face_zoom_John_JacobsonxIMG_1523_(16680019574).jpg ; author profile: https://www.flickr.com/photos/olympicnps/ )
Screenshot from the game "What's My JND [Just Noticeable Difference]" at https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/ reading light text on dark background: "Your ΔEOK JND 0.0052 Better than most. You can see differences that half the population would swear don't exist. Your opinions about colour palettes are now legally binding."
A grayscale close up of a mammal's left eye, perhaps reminiscent of a big cat, in full sunlight. The shading attempts to render it realistically enough, sharp and stark in character. Done in Photoshop CS3 in 2015. First uploaded to my DA gallery, https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes/art/Feloid-Eye-555874753
Dissection diagrams of a flayed lion's forepaw in three views (side, top and front) along with smaller diagrams of the retractable claws in motion at the bottom. Notably the claws retract in such a way they rest beside the penultimate digit phalanx instead of in front of it, as one might expect. Source: Ellenberger, Wilhelm, Hermann Baum, and Hermann Dittrich. 1911-1925. Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler. Leipzig: Dieterichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Via University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/JJMSQIE7M74J38W (Public Domain).
Head shot photo of an Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) showing its eye's thin horizontal pupil. The head is short-snouted and adorned with big ears though the latter are buried to the tips in the animal's fur. Each strand of that fur is colored in bands of white and dark brown, giving an overall finely mottled effect. The eye is set behind a dark brown snout with an olive green-colored iris surrounding the thin line of its pupil. Photo taken in 2015-01-23 by מינוזיג in Ashkelon National Park, Israel (CC BY-SA 4.0; image link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38001310 ; author profile link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99%D7%92 )
Screenshot from @cred.blue's Bluesky Alt Text Rating tool, https://dame.is/ratingalttext . It shows a text entry box with an "Analyze" button below it. The analysis results for dracontes.bsky.social are as follows: "342 posts analyzed 41 contain images 26 are replies 40 posts have alt text Score: 97.56% ☺️ " A semicircular score meter is shown at the bottom. It has sectors colored in red, orange, light yellow and light green, respectively from left to right. The black dial/hand is just above the horizontal edge of the light green sector, indicating a very favorable situation.
Digital line drawing of the head of an alien planktonic filter feeder, seen from the front and side. It is reminiscent of aerodynamic/hydrodynamic design, especially air/water intakes, with a gaping mouth opening supported open by a midline vertical strut. A short, thick wing-like appendage on either side of the head trailing the mouth sports three simple eyes. The body continues eel-like, controlling its position with undulating lateral fins. The view into the mouth opening shows gill slits underlie the fins.
Line drawing of a fantasy fish, attacking unseen prey with mouth agape. It has an inverted heterocercal tail. The long lower jaw seems ill-fitting for the short upper jaw and the former sports four long foreswept barbels. #art #digitalart
Red line drawing of the side view of an alien creature's head. It has the rough head shape of Allosaurus but with a snaggletoothed jawline, a trio of eyes at the end of a foreswept horn, a large nostril just behind and above the last teeth, and a gash-like vent on the back of the head.
Screenshot of MS Paint's tool ribbon with the layer subsection highlighted at the very end at the right.
Paint sketch of a face-on view of a fantasy ruminant. It has long wavy tusks on both upper and lower jaws, large, wing-shaped ossicones above the eyes and smaller knobs on the lower jaw.
Line art head shot of a dragon done in OneNote 2007 for #Smaugust in 2017. First uploaded to my DA gallery, https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes/art/An-August-Dragon-1-701995129 A headshot of a dragon's head seen from a vantage point to the side and a bit ahead of the creature. The dragon's design gives the serendipitous impression of having been inspired by a vulture, perhaps a lammergeier: a long low head with see-through nostrils. The jaws are tipped in a flesh-rending beak and a tall crest. Just behind the beak is a pair of opposing fangs with the lower jaw one being the largest. Further behind on the lipped jaws is another pair of opposing fangs, thicker and same-sized this time. A row of spines adorns the lower jaw following a curve from the beak to just behind the eye giving the impression of a beard, while short, branched horns jut from above the eyes. The head behind the eyes widens and, besides the ear hole, featurelessly connects with the neck.
Figure 1 of Chang, Ri K., and Mark S. Okihiro. "A practical guide to necropsy of the elasmobranch chondrocranium and causes of mortality in wild and aquarium-housed California elasmobranchs." Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11 (2024): 1410332. (Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2024.1410332/full ) Head shot of a dead shark lying on its side. The colors fade from an olive brown on the top to white, lightly stained with blood, on the bottom. Digitally overlaid arrows in various styles point to different anatomical landmarks, including the spiracle, a vestigial gill opening on the side of the head just a bit behind the eye. The figure caption reads: "External landmarks for chondrocranial necropsy of a tope shark (Galeorhinus galeus): naris (black arrowhead), spiracle (black arrow), and numerous ampullae of Lorenzini and/or pores of the cephalic lateral line system (yellow arrowheads)."
Early progress messing about in Blender's sculpting mode: the starting cube molded into a wedge-like shape, excavated in one side and built up on the other.
Amid the relative chaos of a dead almond tree's light gray branches, an Eurasian blackbird perches on one of them, the thrush looking directly at the camera seemingly ready to rumble. A partially cloudy sky makes up the background. Taken 2009/04/14, uploaded to my DA gallery 2010/05/12, https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes/art/Blackbird-1-163782013 , along with three other selected photos from a series prompted by a serendipitous encounter.
A digital painting done on ArtRage of a sculptural monogram against a black background. The monogram is composed of my initials, R, F, V, and S, with the first one being the main structural component. The illustration represents a branched metal strip, one side colored leafy green, the other cobalt blue, and a red edge, bent and twisted into at least suggesting the shapes of the aforementioned letters. First uploaded to my DA gallery in 2005: https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes/art/Ex-Libris-13796802
Low resolution digital image of a speculative nebula, a cloud-like agglomeration of interstellar material, against a background field of stars. A trio of young stellar clusters carve out bubbles at the edges of the nebula's red core (hydrogen emission?). These bubbles have yellow borders and dark green centers and face in different directions. The bottom is dominated by the blue reflection from a larger nearby cluster dominated by blue dwarfs. First uploaded to my DA gallery in 2004: https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes/art/Nebula-6886846
Screencapture of the October 4 2012 Internet Archive capture of a National Geographic Daily News article (link: https://web.archive.org/web/20121004143921/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121003-new-dinosaur-species-fanged-sereno-science/ ). It reads: Title: "New Fanged Dwarf Dinosaur Found—"Would Be Nice Pet" Summary: "Odd, spiky dinosaur likely used self-sharpening teeth for self-defense." [Photo of a bust sculpture of Heterodontosaurus, a small ornithischian dinosaur. It's an animal with a boxy head, a small beak and a menacing pair of lower canine teeth. Quills cover the back of its head and neck as an unruly mane. A human hand holds the lower jaw of the sculpture as if gently holding the head of the animal it represents in place.] Photo caption (underlined in red): "Artificial skin and quills flesh out a cast of a skull from Pegomastax africanus ("thick jaw from Africa"). [This caption is in fact wrong as to the animal represented: it's Heterodontosaurus.] Photograph courtesy Tyler Keillor"
A view from the water of a fantastic castle in the sea, lit by the rising sun. Its basic structure is of a tetrahedron stood on one of its vertices supported by stilt-like towers attached at the middle of the sides of the flat top. That triangular top surface is walled off and has a tower at each corner and one in the middle. In detail, the underside of the inverted pyramid is supported by a forest of metal girders and the resulting vaulting in the brickwork gives the appearance that it's melting.
Screenshot of the taxobox for the marbled crayfish Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish , showing among other things the very short temporal range of this species expressed as very small decimal number. There's also a photo of the animal in question. It reads: "Marbled crayfish Temporal range: 0.000029–0 Ma" [A geological time scale with letters standing in for each period. At the very right end a thin line over top indicates the range of this species, made explicit in the current chronology below. If you do the math the number above the scale needs to be updated to 0.000036.] "1988 – present" [A photo of a marbled crayfish in an aquarium. It's a crustacean similar to a lobster. The body is split into an ovoid cephalothorax at the front and an articulated abdomen at the back. The cephalothorax combines the head and mid-body under a carapace and bears the legs some of which have the ends modified into pincers, the front pair grown fairly large in comparison. The abdomen tapers to the end giving the impression of a thick tail, bearing a horizontal fin-like telson at the end. It's light brown-green in color with dark mottling.] Caption: "Adult marmorkrebs"
Edited screenshot combining: - Screenshot of Google Translate's language selection dropdown menu showing, among others, two entries for Portuguese, one of them further designated "(Por...)" and marked "New". - Screenshot of the result of selecting that new "Portuguese (Por...)" option to show that it does indeed read "Portuguese (Portugal)" in full. A tooltip below that reads "Google Translate is now available in 110 new languages".
A photo of a very well-worn copy of the Portuguese early 1990s edition of Eyewitness: Dinosaur taken from a low angle. The cover has the yellowish patina you might expect from being handled by a rural kid. The spine especially shows the wear and tear of the book, with layers of adhesive tape binding the covers and spine to the book's pages. Noteworthy is the bottom part of the spine fell off and, for lack of a better fix, there's a plain paper patch replacing it with a '9' scribbled on (the volume number).
Frame from the above posted video showing a brown bear grasping a tree trunk. A red arrow points to a linear shadow on the side of the neck indicative of a collar. Another red arrow points to a markedly lighter spot on the back of the neck consistent with a metal ring to attach a leash.
Fifth Edition printing of the Magic The Gathering card Grizzly Bears. The flavor text reads: "Don’t try to outrun one of Dominaria’s grizzlies; it’ll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you’ll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you."
Screenshot of a reddit comment that reads: "I agree with you 1000%. I only made this post to point out the hypocrisy of pro choice people. The position i took was incredibly selfish, but its no different from any one who uses the excuse that they're doing their child a favor by aborting them."
An image of a faux stamp mark reading "Here Be Fuckery" with some gaussian blur on the edges.
Screenshots of YouTube thumbnail videos showing what was broadcast by default, when no programming was on, the "mira técnica" for SIC (1997, commercial TV channel) and RTP1 (2002, state TV channel). TV screens that show variations on the test image broadcast to allow adjustment of TV sets.
A screenshot of selected tweets by yours truly, which read in chronological order: "Dec 30, 2011 Dragon Ball Evolution airing tomorrow: should I ruin my teen years? Well... apparently I have a morbid curiosity so what the heck, right?" "Dec 31, 2011 I rather like watching a movie with rock-bottom expectations: it made Dragon Ball Evolution that bit more enjoyable, avoiding fanboy rage."
The Epic Handshake meme, a chalk drawing reproducing a frame from the movie The Predator (1987). It's a detail shot of the shoulders and arms of two muscular men locked in an arm-wrestle handshake, the one on the left, wearing a white shirt and black-skinned, the one on the right, wearing a red shirt and lightly tanned. The black-skinned arm is labelled "Archeologists", the lightly tanned arm is labelled "Paleontologists", and the text over the clasped hands reads "Getting confused for each other." More context for the meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-handshake Template source: https://www.deviantart.com/miloslavvonranda/art/EPIC-handshake-by-Dillon-and-Dutch-325709082
Placeholder image reading "Correct URLs for the Google Books NGram Viewer graphs seen in the screenshots shown in the parent skeet." Those URLs follow in the order of the screenshots: 1800-2022 period: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Tyrannosaurus%2CVelociraptor%2CTriceratops%2CStegosaurus%2CAllosaurus%2CIguanodon%2CSpinosaurus%2CProtoceratops%2CBrachiosaurus%2CAnkylosaurus&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=5 1920-2022 period: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Tyrannosaurus%2CVelociraptor%2CTriceratops%2CStegosaurus%2CAllosaurus%2CIguanodon%2CSpinosaurus%2CProtoceratops%2CBrachiosaurus%2CAnkylosaurus&year_start=1920&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=5 1970-2022 period: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Tyrannosaurus%2CVelociraptor%2CTriceratops%2CStegosaurus%2CAllosaurus%2CIguanodon%2CSpinosaurus%2CProtoceratops%2CBrachiosaurus%2CAnkylosaurus&year_start=1970&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=1
Trimmed screenshot of a section of the WikiProject:Dinosaurs front page as seen in June 2006. It's a list of 20 dinosaur genera ordered by a reckoning of their importance so that work is focused on them to become featured articles on Wikipedia. This was first added to the page by Spawn Man, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spawn_Man (permalink: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs&oldid=43109758#The_main_task:_The_%22Big_20%22 ), though what is shown is the finalized version three months later (permalink: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs&oldid=57290665#The_main_task:_The_%22Big_20%22 ). It reads: "The main task: The "Big 20" ● Tyrannosaurus. ● Velociraptor. ● Triceratops. ● Stegosaurus. ● Allosaurus. ● Iguanodon. ● Spinosaurus. ● Protoceratops. ● Brachiosaurus. ● Ankylosaurus. ● Diplodocus. ● Parasaurolophus. ● Archaeopteryx. ● Deinonychus. ● Compsognathus. ● Oviraptor. ● Maiasaura. ● Apatosaurus. ● Struthiomimus. ● Hadrosaurus."
A photo of a common wall gecko (Tarentola mauritanica) adhering to a painted wall with a rough finish. It's a small lizard with a relatively big head, its scaly skin roughly textured and mottled in light shades of brown. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Gecko.jpg (Public Domain) Description: Common gecko on a wall Date: 25 June 2008 Author: Francesco Bellamoli, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ironcyborg
Screenshot from Google Image Search showing several genLLM results that attempt to mimic an anatomical diagram of a lion: the animal standing as if in life with skin and organs removed as necessary to view various anatomical details. The images are a mishmash of human anatomy haphazardly shoved into a lion's silhouette and as a result less than worthless.
Screenshot of a Google image search for "lion skeleton" with various instances of generative LLM (AI) output highlighted. They are horribly, hilariously misshapen.
Cover of the Portuguese edition of Under Dragon's Wing (1990) illustrated by Larry Elmore, published in Portugal by Europa-América. Source: https://www.almedina.net/sob-as-asas-do-drag-o-1639677618.html A book cover blazoned with "Dungeons & Dragons™", a stylized linnorm-like dragon (lacking hindlimbs), a TSR logo, and "Aventura Sem Fim [Endless Quest]" for which this book is marked as the 9th volume. It's titled "Sob as Asas do Dragão". Under that title, set in a ornate frame that melds into a dragon with open wings at the top is an illustration by Larry Elmore. The illustration is a scene in a mountainous area centered around a rocky outcrop. A red dragon is menacingly perched atop the outcrop, oddly human-like arms akimbo, looking down at a man riding a horse. The horse rears as the warrior on its saddle pulls the sword he's brandishing back. Directly below the dragon, hidden under a rocky overhang is a woman, dagger in hand and travel pack by her side, warily waiting for the perilous scene to develop. The book's authorship is credited to John Kendall. The age range is given as between 8-14 years old (which is about right for the span of time I was at that school.)
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_arctos_middendorffi_qtl2.jpg (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0) Description: Kodiac Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi) in the Lüneburg Heath wildlife park, Germany. Date: 15 November 2009 Author: Quartl , https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quartl A head shot of a scruffy brown bear looking off to the left of the viewer, mouth closed and snout level, with an air of being nonplussed. The fur on the left side of its head and neck shows signs of having been bedraggled in liquid, a curly, rough texture contrasting the smoother, straighter texture on the rest of is fur.
For convenience, a screenshot comparing the results of downloading a transparent PNG uploaded to Bluesky and a transparent PNG uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. A black rectangle for the first, the image displaying as expected for the second. The Wikimedia image is found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estonian_Museum_of_Natural_History_-_Conularia.png .
Photo of a larval salamander, probably an Iberian ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl), taken 2011/03/31 in central Algarve (Barrocal ecological region), Portugal. A straight down close up photo of a shallow vernal pond. The bottom is flocculated reddish brown mud. A greenish brown larvae stretches diagonally across the field of view, big head pointing to the image's bottom right corner, its body tapering into a tail pointing in the opposite direction. Its thin, translucent limbs are barely distinguishable from the background.
Profile screenshot from a troll. They're trying random strings of letters for usernames now.
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