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- The one pre-modern report of the Loch Ness Monster was in the "Life of St. Columba" by Adomnán (7th century CE). Supposedly, St. Columba was attacked by a huge beast in the River Ness, but he drove it off by ordering the beast to leave while St. Columba made the sign of the Cross. #WyrdWednesday
- #WyrdWednesday 'Impression' and 'The Scream' by Andrea Gatti
- There’s a theory that cave paintings such as a Lascaux May show animals with many legs because the intention was that the image would flicker in the flames, appearing to be animated. I love idea of creating immersive cinema experience in the dark 22,000 years ago #wyrdWednesday @weirdwednesday
- Gets a #wyrdwednesday tag! :-) bsky.app/profile/wyrd...
- Wyrdlings! Open the door, get on the floor - since Neanderthals were discussed for the 1st time 169 yrs ago, we give you: “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – tell us tales based on the Flintstones to Professor Challenger’s Lost World & Godzilla!
- #WyrdWednesday This also reminds me of Tony Martin in his book 'Dinosaurs without bones', who calculated how much force vomit from a Brachiosaurus with a 14 metres long neck would hit the ground with. The answer: enough force to kill you.
- #WyrdWednesday 290 million year old fossil vomit 🤮! Last week a new paper was published describing regurgitated stomach contents from Dimetrodon (an early ancestor on the way to mammals, not a dinosaur) from the early Permian of Germany. 🎨 Sophie Fernandez www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- #WyrdWednesday Prehistoric artwork on the walls of the underwater Cosquer Cave - France - include this marine creature ... a penguin, perhaps? Or a plesiosaurus?
- #WyrdWednesday 290 million year old fossil vomit 🤮! Last week a new paper was published describing regurgitated stomach contents from Dimetrodon (an early ancestor on the way to mammals, not a dinosaur) from the early Permian of Germany. 🎨 Sophie Fernandez www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Native American communities in British Columbia told myths of woolly mammoths, inspired by the discovery of mammoth fossils and other remains. As those people had never met a living mammoth, the legendary ones were savage predators, man-eaters only a great hero could defeat. #WyrdWednesday
- The Land That Time Forgot is a place of paradoxes, where wonders and terrors coexist. Edgar Rice Burroughs Pteranodon and Rhamphorhynchus Roger Payne #WyrdWednesday
- Folk art Ghanaian poster for 'Jurassic Park'. And a Polish one for 'One Million Years BC' follows. #WyrdWednesday #dinosaurs #Jurassic #filmposters #monstermovies #folkart #Ghana #Poland
- One of the first dinosaurs on screen was Gertie, an animated brontosaurus. Some historians consider Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) the first true cartoon, due to its groundbreaking use of key frames, tracing paper, film loops, and other techniques. #WyrdWednesday youtu.be/32pzHWUTcPc?...
- "As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." 'Bleak House', Charles Dickens, 1852 #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
- Lawson Wood seemed to specialise in (not very funny) cartoons of prehistoric life. Here he is illustrating a story in a 1922 edition of The Strand, which borrowed the 'Aepyornis Island' theme. (A second illustration in the following reply bit). #WyrdWednesday #dinosaur-grrrr!
- “Tackling subjects like mass extinction and resource wars, Dinosaurs vs. Aliens is a cerebral sci-fi experiment that’s far more ambitious than it sounds” — @wired.com Grant Morrison’s 2012 graphic novel DINOSAURS vs. ALIENS is a forgotten classic #WyrdWednesday liquidcomics.com/portfolio/di...
- “At last have mortal eyes gazed upon two reptiles of the great primitive ocean! I see the flaming red eyes of the Ichthyosaurus, each as big, or bigger than a man's head.” (Jules Verne “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”) 🎨 Édouard Riou (1867) #wyrdwednesday #bookillustration #booksky
- Back in 2002 I filmed model-maker Fred Pearl, whose workshop felt like a wunderkammer from a vanishing craft age. He made toys, dinosaurs, and creatures for #StarWars including the Dewback reds-kingdom.blog/2020/06/05/t... #WyrdWednesday #modelmaking #filmhistory #practicaleffects #art
- The Goblin cave drawings and alphabet that Tolkien created in 1932 for his Father Christmas's letter for his children, likely inspired by a prehistoric culture book he had. Both were drawn when he was working on "The Hobbit" and some creatures from that manuscript bled to his letters. #WyrdWednesday
- #WyrdWednesday The surface of Venus is obscured from telescopes by a dense atmosphere of thick swirling clouds. This led some writers to suggest that the planet was covered in lush tropical swamps, thick forests, and perhaps even inhabited by #dinosaurs 🦕
- Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot – doplodokosh? Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok! Did the Loch Ness Monster live alongside dinosaurs? When Morgan’s “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song” 👆 appeared in 100 POEMS ON THE UNDERGROUND in 1991, it came with this explanation: #WyrdWednesday 🦕
- Sssnnnwhuffffll? Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl? Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl. Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl… —Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...
- In 1925, S Hubbard, Curator of Archaeology at Oakland Museum, highlighted a foot-high carving in the Painted Desert, #Colorado, as 'undoubtedly' one of a #dinosaur, proving either mankind existed in the Triassic [?] or that there must be 'left-over' dinosaurs about. [2nd pic follows] #WyrdWednesday
- #WyrdWednesday The idea that ancient discoveries of Protoceratops fossils inspired tales of griffins has become popular, but in 2024 @markwitton.bsky.social and I wrote a paper examining it in detail and concluded it probably wasn't true Read all about it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- #WyrdWednesday “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” Ray Bradbury’s collection The Golden Apples of the Sun provides untimely dinos. The Foghorn - a huge monster from the deeps is attracted by the sound of a foghorn and destroys a lighthouse in frustration.
- ""The Monster of 'Partridge Creek.'" In this is related the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle...still at large in the frozen wastes of Alaska." #Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday #Dinosaur #1900s
- I've posted this before but I'll post it again for #WyrdWednesday. Prospectors in Alaska of all places claimed to have encountered a dinosaur and wrote about it in the Strand Magazine's July 1908 edition. It has a few tufts of hair to keep it warm (unless they're rudimentary feathers!?) #dinosaur
- Hihi - yet another #wyrdwednesday tag :-) bsky.app/profile/wyrd...
- Wyrdlings! Open the door, get on the floor - since Neanderthals were discussed for the 1st time 169 yrs ago, we give you: “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – tell us tales based on the Flintstones to Professor Challenger’s Lost World & Godzilla!
- "Prehistoric Bexhill. As seen by the magical eyes of the famous artist Mr Lawson Wood. "Come Out You Coward." An incident of common occurrence in the "Breezy Bexhill" of Prehistoric Days." Bexhill Chronicle, Christmas 1912. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Prehistory #Art #History #1910s #LawsonWood
- Of dead destruction, ruin within ruin! The wrecks beside of many a city vast, Whose population which the earth grew over Was mortal, but not human; see, they lie, Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons … – P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound 1819 #WyrdWednesday #booksky
- #wyrdwednesday tag - I believe we NEED a sawrian in our feed today! bsky.app/profile/wyrd...
- Wyrdlings! Open the door, get on the floor - since Neanderthals were discussed for the 1st time 169 yrs ago, we give you: “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – tell us tales based on the Flintstones to Professor Challenger’s Lost World & Godzilla!
- “Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them.” (Arthur Conan Doyle “The Lost World”) 🎨 Harry Rountree (1912) #wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky
- Wyrdlings! Open the door, get on the floor - since Neanderthals were discussed for the 1st time 169 yrs ago, we give you: “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – tell us tales based on the Flintstones to Professor Challenger’s Lost World & Godzilla!
