#plains
Let’s protect ALL of Earth’s habitats and ecosystems, EVERY day.
Card for Magic the Gathering: “Streets of New Capenna”
Basic Land - Plains
I was so excited to create several cards for the new Art Deco setting Magic the Gathering.
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According to the Chinese calendar, 2022 is the Year of the Tiger.
Coincidentally, here’s something I made for PBS Eons a while back: a Sumatran tiger witnesses the massive eruption of the Toba volcano, which happened around 75,000 years ago in Indonesia. The event was so monumental that a lake (lake Toba) is what remains in the place where a mountain once stood.
Let’s hope our collective experience in 2022 is better than that tiger’s.
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Just passing by.
Doedicurus clavicaudatus was a giant armadillo from central South America, with fossils being found in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. They reached an average weight of 1,400 kg, had spiked tail clubs and may have remained around until as recently as 7,000 years ago, meaning it certainly coexisted with both humans and other South American animals like the Jaguar and seriema.
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Toxodon was a strange, large mammal endemic to South America that went extinct only about 11,000 years ago. It superficially resembled hippos and (hornless) rhinos, and was in fact very distantly related to horses. Alongside this mamma and her calf are rheas and a termite mound, common features of central South America that remain to this day.
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ASpectrovenator watches as two sauropods march in the direction of the forest, during the Early Cretaceous of what is now Brazil.
The only remains of Spectrovenator found so far were recovered from underneath the skeleton of a sauropod, possibly having being crushed to death.
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Two Neanderthal brothers surround a bull Megaloceros with spears 100,000-50,000 years ago near Germany’s Unicorn Cave. Artifacts attributed to Neanderthals, including a carved knuckle bone from the giant deer, have been found in the cave and suggest our cousins were also capable of producing artwork.
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One of the many things that distinguish us from other primates, and all animals for that matter, is a very marked preference for the use of one hand/limb over the other. While some other species show signs of individual preference, around 95% of humans are right-handed.
But handedness goes beyond simply preferring one hand over another, and there is a very interesting story behind how we developed that trait. Check out PBS Eons’ episode on the subject to find out more.
Shown here is a right-handed Neanderthal craftsman using stone tools to butcher a carcass and clean the animal’s skin.
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