I’ve Been Reading Dracula For The First Time, Im About Halfway Through, Here’s My Take On It So Far

what the hell did i do

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

And here it is, our second Cambrian formation piece! This time we visited the even older Surius Passet from Greenland, our first real deep sea deposit.

As most animals down here have no or only small eyes the color palette was rather limited and most practical. A bigger challenge was however the largest animal here, Pambdelurion, an over 50 cm long panathropod. Making room for it proofed to be exceptionally tricky.

Only a day before the stream discord member Levi finally had a silly yet genius idea: we would use the opening battle from Revenge of the Sith as our our basic inspiration. It's not the first time I turned Cambrian critters into spaceships so that fit incredibly well!

In combination with this fantastic size chart by Prehistorica ( https://x.com/Prehistorica_CM ) I went to work and I think I'm quite happy with the result.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Underwater forest with tadpoles, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by Eiko Jones