Roadside Lights by Eiji Ohashi
Another speculative radiodont/anomalocarid!
This is Geometerocaris chaaci
(Earth-measuring shrimp of Chaac, the Mayan god of rain)
These amphibious radiodonts live in pools near the mouths of caves that are fed by waterfalls and cascades. The mouth and caudal fins of these creatures have been modified into suckers that they use to climb up the slippery rocks of the waterfall inchworm-style by alternately attaching one sucker to the surface while moving the other part of the body forward. This movement gives the creatures their genus name as”geometer” refers to moths that have inchworm caterpillars, which appear to “measure the Earth” with their distinctive gait.
This radiodont also uses the spines on its Great Appendages to give it a better grip on the algae-coated rocks as it climbs. Once a Geometerocaris reaches a good spot on the rocks it turns around and, hanging solely by its caudal fin sucker, spreads its feathery Great Appendages to catch insects and debris that tumble down the waterfall.
Geometerocaris was inspired by waterfall climbing cave fish Cryptotora thamicola, a loach endemic to caves in Thailand that crawls up underground waterfalls using its pectoral and pelvic fins like legs. I originally had my speculative radiodonts moving in the same manner, but I eventually decided to give them a more inchworm or leech-like method of movement.
Surely only good things are going on here (random street view drop - Montana)
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Cat finger ring
Faïence
New Kingdom Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1390 B.C.E.
Art Institute of Chicago
#ancientEgypt #catmagick
Killdeer By: Hugh M. Halliday From: Natural History Magazine 1951
Berenice Abbott :: Lucia Joyce, Paris, 1927-1928. | src Ryerson Image Centre
Source: unregardoblique.com
Walking after Midnight - Leif Engström , 2023.
Swedish, b. 1992 -
Oil on canvas , 42 x 28.5 cm. frame
Melvyn Maxwell Smith Residence (1946) in Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA, by Frank Lloyd Wright
Source: mediacommons.unl.edu
Cliff in the Moonlight, 1880, Rufin Gavrilovich Sudkovsky (1850 -1885)
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