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much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today
In a monumental discovery for paleontology and the first of its kind "Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia"
Abstract The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia. The study of the specimen appearance showed its significant differences from a modern lion cub of similar age (three weeks) in the unusual shape of the muzzle with a large mouth opening and small ears, the very massive neck region, the elongated forelimbs, and the dark coat color. Tomographic analysis of the mummy skull revealed the features characteristic of Machairodontinae and of the genus Homotherium. For the first time in the history of paleontology, the appearance of an extinct mammal that has no analogues in the modern fauna has been studied. For more read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1
I always knew it was possible, but I never dared to hope.
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Available here : https://bisonrimant.fr/produit/trepide-le-kobold-ecuyer
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All but one of these are illustrating scenes from the world of Lord of the Rings. Try to spot the odd one out, and then read my newsletter about McBride to see the answer.
I'm realizing now that I should have clarified in my original post that it's not art just from the Lord of the Rings books themselves - it's all from the MERP - the Middle Earth Role Playing game.
It was officially licensed, but expanded a lot on Tolkien's world, and often in ways that Tolkien himself wouldn't have. Basically what I'm saying is that all the women here actually are from MERP!
In fact, here's another Angus McBride illustration depicting some ringwraiths that includes a witch queen:
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SUPERPOSE UPDATE! 2 pages
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▮ SUPERPOSE is a dark and sweeping trans + queer sci-fi comic from 198X about glitches, black holes, and love. In seaside Port City, three desperate and struggling young trans adults stake everything on a physics-breaking machine, altering their future forever ✶
a prism-winning, ignatz-nominated 🔞 comic by Seosamh & Anka
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All but one of these are illustrating scenes from the world of Lord of the Rings. Try to spot the odd one out, and then read my newsletter about McBride to see the answer.
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New horse head necklace, carved from river pebbles.
Remembered a thing from my childhood - when I was a kid I was obsessed with a NatGeo documentary 'Ballad of the Irish Horse' (autistic kid obsessed with horses, hey), and there was a single frame of a bone-carved horse head, maybe an amulet or just a figurine. And it hypnotized me for some reason. Good thing I didn't have access to grandpa's tools back then, I was already drawing horses on every available surface 😁
Two playing Coastal wolves in British Columbia by Lyman Creek Photography
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Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳
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Horse figure of the day: Castagna "Lovers" (1997)
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South China Tiger for a $15 Ko-fi supporter
Why is trying to get my routine blood test results back from this hospital turning in to a Labyrinthine nightmare
Przewalski's Horse Equus ferus ssp. przewalskii 吐尔洪乡, 阿勒泰地区, 新疆维吾尔自治区 Turhong Township, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China 45.271788, 88.766909 by almaatai
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May I offer you Humankind by Rutger Bregman, Hope in the Darkness by Rebecca Solnit, Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie, Factfullness by Hans Rosling, or Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer in these trying times? Or the backlog of Yes! magazine? Or Fix the News? Especially today, your newsfeed is going to be tilted towards anti-humanist despair. Balance it out intentionally.
sources? a little birdie, et al (2024)
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Hans Smidth, Illustration til St. St. Blicher: "Mowns". Helhesten og Mowns; f.n.: dans i bondestue, 1884-1885, Statens Museum for Kunst, open.smk.dk, public domain.