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Our group is for supporters of the theory of evolution and the scientific method. We accept art related to evolution, anti-creationism, anti-intelligent design, Charles Darwin, biology, genetics, dinosaurs, and other paleontology subjects. In addition to artwork, we encourage discussion and debate on our monthly topics. We do not oppose religion in general unless it interferes with science.
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Rules and submission guidelines

:bulletblack: Update October 2017: After 11 years of activity, our Paleoart folder is now full to capacity. I have closed this folder to submission attempts and have created a new folder for paleoart, Paleoart II, so please direct all artworks of prehistoric life to this folder and this folder only. Any paleoart submissions to the General folder will be declined without comment!

:bulletblack: Group conduct rules
  • Coming here to debate is fine, but please refrain from personal insults against the other members. A little more leeway is allowed when dealing with creationists who troll here (which happens occasionally), but still please avoid saying anything that would give this group a bad reputation.
  • As stated here, although this group opposes creationism, it has a neutral position with regard to religion in general. Attacking other members for their religion (or lack of religion) is not acceptable.
  • Please keep comments on group's journal entries and submissions on-topic.
  • Don't attempt to import drama from outside this community.

:bulletblack: Submission guidelines

1/30/14: Please read this!

The most basic rule for submissions here is that they need to be relevant to the subject of evolution. However, we receive a lot of submissions where it's not easy to determine whether or not they're relevant enough, so we also have some more specific guidelines about this.
  • Paleoart (reconstructions of prehistoric creatures) is always acceptable, as long as it's reasonably accurate.
  • Fanart from dinosaur-themed fiction, such as Jurassic Park or Primal Rage, is sometimes acceptable. Whether or not we'll accept it depends on whether it's accurate enough to be considered normal paleoart.
  • Speculative evolutionary scenarios (such as the evolution of an alien species) are acceptable, as long as enough emphasis is placed on the process by which they've evolved.
  • We'll accept submissions with either a pro-religious or anti-religious theme, as long as their focus is on evolution and/or anti-creationism.
  • Art of people who are important figures in the study of evolution is acceptable, as long as it focuses their work related to evolution more than their work in other areas.
  • There's no limit to how many total submissions a single user can have in the group, but users are limited to a maximum of five submissions per day.
  • We do not accept sketch submissions that have not been cleaned up in Photoshop or a similar program, and we also do not accept anything on lined notebook paper or graphing paper.
  • Please only submit artwork that you created yourself, or that you uploaded with the permission of the person who created it.

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Precambrian Rabbit by anatotitan
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Second Navajodactylus commission by Inmyarmsinmyarms
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The Fern Prarie: fact or myth?In paleoart, “fern praries” are a type of biome frequently depicted. After all, if there was no grass in the Mesozoic (until the very end, at least), what else carpetted the ground?A lot, actually. Seed-ferns, horsetails, moss…The idea that ferns specifically formed the Jurassic savannas is not without merit. Modern ferns are the most common carpetting plants after grass, dominating forest undergrowth and even forming small plains in clearings. Some species can live in desert environments, so even places with little moisture could hypothetically boast seasonal fern steppes.But the thing is, why ferns when there were so many other plant groups that could fill the grass niche? Notably, seed-ferns and small gymnosperms would be equally if not more fitting in more arid conditions. Perhaps some areas were carpetted by herb-like early angiosperms, not quite grass but almost there.Remember that most fossil assemblages are biased towards riparian environments, where ferns surely excell. But there is little evidence for small flora in drier pre-Cenozoic environments, and as such the fern prairie must be questioned as an environment. It most likely existed, but I doubt it dominated the Mesozoic open spaces.
Life On Our Planet reviewPrehistoric Planet seems to indeed have heralded a new age of prehistoric documentaries, and some like this one take new creative insights. Rather than being something akin to a David Attenborough documentary, Life On Our Planet jumps around between different eras, explaining the various principles of evolution and even cutting to modern wildlife scenes to illustrate the point.Unfortunately, it falls rather short on two main ways:The animation and animal depictions just aren’t up to par. Maybe this is an unfair critique given that it probably didn’t have the budget of Prehistoric Planet, but many of the extinct taxa don’t have the same level of care put into them and either look cartoony or like outdated depictions.It has way too many inaccuracies. The first episode, for instance, boasts that sharks are living fossils (something long understood to not be the case), that terror birds were outcompeted by sabertoothed cats (also long understood to not be the case) and that mammals “were a footnote” in the time of the dinosaurs (Repenomamus and others disagree)That said, the series has a few redeeming moments, like the accurate orthoceratids and focus on Permian life forms. Just wish they would fully cancel the shortcomings.
Pterosaurs on Life On Our PlanetAs my previous review showed, Life On Our Planet has issues. One of the issues is how it portrays pterosaurs, in the episode In Cold Blood (which you already know by the title is a doozy.Here, the sole direct depiction of pterosaurs portrays Pterodactylus (not identified as such but clearly meant to be it based on its anatomy and time period) hunting baby turtles from the sky. Anatomically, the animal is alright: fuzzy body covering, appropriate wing structure, even lips covering the teeth (a novelty only recently considered by paleoartists). Where it falls short is in the behaviour: it is seen attacking baby turtles from the sky, when the actual animal foraged on aquatic invertebrates by swimming or wading.In other words, like a duck being portrayed acting like a frigatebird.This is the only significant appearence of pterosaurs in the series. They brief appear in the asteroid episode (using the same model; bold to suggest ctenochasmatoids were around in the KT event…) and that’s it. They’re essentially treated as footnote in the show, and their greatest achievement, being the first vertebrates to ever fly, is given to birds instead.An all around disappointing depiction.
A different take on fire-breathingWhen designing "realistic" dragons many people seem to default to chemical explosions in the mouth to produce streams of flame. While there is a precedent among animals, the bombardier beetle, vertebrates have more complex tissues, and a common issue that's rarely addressed is how these animals don't burn their mouths.Here, I propose a solution that I'm surprised is not used more often, and with basis on medieval bestiary depictions of dragons. There, a common emphasis is how dragons shine or glow, sometimes even as a symbolism for the fall of Lucifer. Fire-breathing as a main dragon weapon is comparatively recent, but bioluminescence apparently is now.Few land animals developed bioluminescence (most notably fireflies), but this seems to be more of a consequence of their habitats not really favouring it as well as complex tissues making light harder to pass rather than a deathly constraint, as evidence by lab mice with jellyfish-derived bioluminescence genes. Perhaps to make it slightly more plausible this hypothetical dragon (which is an enantiornithean bird for funzies) could have sacks full of light-emiting bacteria as anglerfish, but for my personal indulgence these dragons have produced their own luciferase and luciferin autogenically, perhaps as a consequence of powered flight.The luminous patches are located throught the mouth and throat. Initially they likely developed for display or attracting insect prey in low light conditions, essentially a glowier version of the colourful mouths of many birds. But at some point a series of cornea-like lenses began to form adjacently in the back of the tongue; much like antlers, these are possibly "domesticated" tumours, specifically eye teratomas. Mobile, these structures can overlap one another, increasingly focusing the beams of light as they move and adjust until the beam strong enough to set things on fire, or potentially even energized enough to directly cause radiation burns.Due to this light being focused on a single laser, there is potential for the animal to burn its mouth. Likewise, the series of steps (acquiring bioluminescence, then lenses, then muscles to control the lenses to focus beams, then enough fine control to make cleansing rays) is clear enough instead of the surely more complicated series of steps to acquire chemical firebreathing.
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Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin [shot of copy of my drawing] by artbyrichy
Charles Darwin
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Carcharodontosaurus Skeletal Reconstruction by Paleonerd01
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God's Word or Human Reason? 2nd edition available

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A little over three years ago, Emily Willoughby and I released our book criticizing the creationist movement: God's Word or Human Reason?: An Inside Perspective on Creationism. Our book has received a good amount of recognition, with positive reviews from Darren Naish's Scientific American blog, Paleontologica Electronica, and the Journal of Cognitive Historiography. Predictably, our book also received a negative review in the Journal of Creation by one of the creationists criticized in our book, to which I wrote a response here.
This month, Emily and I are pleased to announce the publication of our book's second edition, which is available to buy here:
If you already own a copy of this book, you won't notice any major changes between the first and second editions. There are no entirely new chapters or diagrams, but astute readers may notice a number of more subtle changes throughout the book. A few of the changes are as follows:
  • A few of the diagrams and illustrations have been updated for clarity or accuracy. The most noticeable update is to Emily's illustration of Epidexipteryx, which has been modified to reflect the fact that scansioropterygids are now known to have bat-like wing membranes.
  • Several printing errors that were present in the first print run have been corrected. These include a footnote in chapter 5 that the first print run accidentally omitted, and a misprint in a quote in chapter 4 that garbled the quote's meaning.
  • The text has been slightly reorganized in a few places for improved clarity.
  • Several typos have been fixed throughout the book.
  • The cover has been updated in several ways, including the addition of a new quote on the rear cover (from Phil Senter's review in Paleontologica Electronica).
Due to the various corrections, the book's second edition is the version that should be read by anyone else who intends to review it from now on. However, our supply of the book's first edition has nearly sold out, so if you wish to own both versions, I recommend buying a copy of the first version while it's still available.
I also should mention that our book's publisher, Inkwater Press, is getting out of the book distribution business, so the second edition can't be bought from Amazon directly. The second edition is being sold by myself and Emily under the name "Kane & Willoughby books", under the Amazon listing's buying options.
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Evolution means we have potential!
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Champsosaurs apparently had nasal conchae to allow them to regulate their body temperature in cold waters. Warm blooded river dolphin analogues it is, then: curve.carleton.ca/system/files…
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Is this group active anymore? My submissions have been waiting for a week with no sign of any movement.
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Eocene antarctic dryolestoids!

www.aps-polar.org/paper/2019/3…
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:happybounce: HeartHello, DeviantArtists! I'm deviantARTDasGnomo, the new Community Volunteer of the Design and Interfaces gallery. I'm currently open for DD suggestions in that area and Official Guidelines have been already uploaded to this journal:  Design And Interfaces DD Guidelines💪😎✌️ Powerful hellos to everyone! I'm @DasGnomo and I'm the Design & Interfaces Community Volunteer at @communityrelations, I'm in charge to bring to your awesome attention amazing DeviantART works via: features, articles and Daily Deviations! I'm a humble illustrator and graphic designer from Chile living in the US. I've been working on these areas for 13 years now, I'm happy and honored to have these new responsibilities (thanks to @ekud @Moonbeam13 and @JenFruzz for trusting in me for this). I'll work hard to do my best for the community! I'm extremely grateful in advance for all the DD suggestions you'll be sending me from this day on 🙏 however there are certain objective parameters that I'll take into account at the moment of featuring a Daily Deviation.I can only take suggestions from the Designs & Interfaces gallery and all associated sub-galleries/categories.Make sure that the deviant hasn't already received a Daily Deviation within the past 6 months. FAQ #313:How can I find out if someone already has a Daily Deviation? Please send me ONE note per suggestion/artist/deviationThe artist/designer is still active on DeviantART (must be active for more than 30 days)The piece you are suggesting is not part of an ongoing contest (in such case, you should wait for the contest to end, in order to suggest it)The piece you are suggesting is not infringing DeviantART Copyright PoliciesPlease, let me know if you want to remain anonymous as a suggester; if you don't specify I will assume that you want your name listed on the DD feature.Please only send your suggestion to ONE community volunteer. Here is the list of all the CV's and the galleries they are in charge to feature.You can self suggest (explaining why you deserve to be featured in your note. Also, avoid the spam) and try to give preference to other artists as well.I'll list here some objective characteristics of a DD worthy Design & Interfaces deviation: High QualityOriginality/UniquenessFunctionality/Problem SolvingExcellent use of the basic elements of Design and InterfacesSend me a note with the Title: "DD SUGGESTION" with ONE suggestion only. Don't suggest by comments.Include the deviation's :Thumbcode: in the noteClick SEND. And that's it! 👍I won't necessarily answer to all the DD suggestion notes since sometimes they are too many to keep count, so featuring your suggested DD will remain as a surprise.Any suggested deviation can also be feature in futured journals, being a DD or not. So keep suggesting deviations, please.Remember to check today's Daily Deviations!Fav, comment and share this journal with your friends! 😘

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I Challenge You: 2019 EditionDear all,
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I used to believe in creation much more than evolution. I used to think evolution was just some dumb theory. But now that I’ve faced the evidence, evolution is more than just “a theory.” It’s beautiful and outstanding and it explains how life came to be in all of its glory. I am very interested in this group. Would you mind if I joined?
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so this place has gotten attacked by a religious zealot, a "biologist" who doesn't understand biology, and quite a few people who just didn't do research

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