Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.

*Wiwaxia* had a tiny body covered in overlapping defensive **sclerites**. The hidden, lower surface consisted of a muscular foot and mouthparts for scraping food, like algae, off the sea floor. Wiwixia would have crawled slowly over the sea floor in search of food, as many similar molluscs do today.

First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Wiwaxia papilio

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Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.

<i>Vetulicola</i> had a large **body** with triangular **pouches** on either side and a segmented **tail** for swimming. The pouches may be gill slits opening into an internal body chamber, as found in modern tunicates, such as sea squirts and salps. It is thought that <i>Vetulicola</i> fed by drawing water in through the wide frontal opening to internally filter microscopic food particles suspended in water, with waste water expelled through the side pouches.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Vetulicola cuneata

Namibia, Southwest Africa, ~543 million years old.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Namacalathus hermanastes

Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.

*Cotyledion* lived on the sea floor, using **tentacles** to feed on particles suspended in the water. Some individuals have been found attached to small fragment of trilobites. The overall body shape, presence of tentacles surrounding the mouth and U-shaped gut, are characters that unite *Cotyledion* with entoprocts – a modern group of animals that measure less than a centimetre across.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Cotyledion tylodes

Crane modeled after traditional origami.
 This model is part of my Chinese Zodiac inspired model collection, read more about it here: https://runemarkstudio.com/unity-assets/origami-animals/

Origami Crane

A quick experiment (edit: now a WIP for the [mechanimal challenge](https://blog.sketchfab.com/sketchfab-3d-modeling-challenge-mechanical-animals/) I just discovered!) with hard-surface, and I still have a long way to go !

This model is (more than) based on ["The Timber Beneath"](http://www.scoobasteve.co.nz/2013/01/the-timber-beneath.html), a wonderful sculpture by **Stephen Lambert**.

The different "organs" as well as textures were just randomly thrown around, but with some more practicing, I definitely think I'll start enjoying this style and find a nice designing/modeling/texturing workflow, to hopefully design original models some day.

Also, none of the mechanisms make any "mechanical sense", which is why I did not animate the model. As before, that could change with some more attention brought to details, and a little bit of thinking before acting :D

![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lw3hJS-2rVk/UQEH9xQEHQI/AAAAAAAAAYg/Vr3p9L4T5bE/s1600/Shark_SLambert_03.jpg)

Mechanical Shark

This is an animation of an subadult Atlantic Sturgeon.

This 3D model is a composite of images from a subadult Atlantic Sturgeon  (Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus) housed at the Maymont Nature Center (https://maymont.org/animals/nature-center/), and a scan from a preserved Atlantic Sturgeon from the Natural History Collection at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (https://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/nhc/home).

CG artists Jer Bot, Johnson Martin and Robert Gutierrez used Blender to reconstruct the full fish from these scans and images, as well as animate the movements. Thanks to the Maymont Nature Center, the Richard Lewis Media Group (http://rlmg.com/), and the Natural History Collection for facilitating the work.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 66A - Atlantic Sturgeon

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The elephant in the rotunda at the National Museum of Natural History: 

"The new installation incorporates the latest scientific information about these magnificent but endangered animals. Explore the evolution of elephants, discover insights into elephant behavior, and learn about the conservation challenges that threaten today's wild elephants. A new visitor information desk has also been incorporated to make visits to the museum easier and more enjoyable. Come see the new installation now open to the public."

Processed with 74 photos via Agisoft Photoscan.  There is a slight mesh issue with the ears and tail. 

** Check out the Autodesk Memento version run by @elephantskull at https://sketchfab.com/models/c8ee769b02054d0f94aee76a6e0c8c2d

Elephant in the Rotunda

This is a tweaked version of an orignal model by Stu Pond made for Manchester university along with outher great reconstructions can be found here
http://www.animalsimulation.org/files/84eab05587dbe0bdcd72eb098a692afe-7.html
The amends were based on skeletans by Gregory Paul and Scott Hartman, and skull photos by Witmer Lab 
 http://www.ohio.edu/people/witmerl/collections/Theropods/tyrannosaurusstan.htm
as well as two great resources found right here:
https://sketchfab.com/models/8bb05194fb6d4c8a9afa3c61a58d47c7
https://sketchfab.com/models/8ead7e1ec1c5401ba8cbc06727d6e7e8

This is a sculpture fit for my purpose but by no means completely scientific correct and could do with more tweaking, so feel free to download, tweak and re-share

Cheers

Tyrannosaurus rex Stan skeleton

A race track (or "racetrack", "racing track" or "racing circuit") is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Racetracks are also used in the study of animal locomotion. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.

Info link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_track

Starting Line

Whenever I think of futuristic worlds and holograms, I always think of simulated nature--whether that be animals or plants. For the "Holograms of the Future" Challenge I decided on fish...because fish seemed sensibly fluid (and elegant) mixed with some harder edges meant to vaguely represent loose digital pixel sets and a center column to give the fish a central anchor.

Model made and animated in Maya LT, textured in Substance Painter.

Fish Hologram

The potto (*Perodicticus potto*) is a small (30–40cm) species of primate closely related to lorises and lemurs that inhabits the rainforest canopies of tropical Africa. The potto is nocturnal and feeds mostly on fruit, but has strong jaws that enable it to eat tree gums that are too tough for many other animals; around 10% of its diet consists of insects. 

Whilst moving it is usually very quiet, but has few natural predators as large carnivorous mammals cannot reach the forest canopy, and co-occurring birds of prey hunt during the day. If threatened, the potto can use its specially sharpened and elongated neck vertebrae to butt at an opponent. 

This specimen forms part of the Lapworth’s Humphreys Collection. Digitisation was carried out using an Artec Spider 3D scanner by Rachel Kruft Welton.

Potto Skull BIRUG 18612

3D scan of an original fossilized skeleton of a giant deer (*Megaloceros giganteus*) found in Ireland from the Late Pleistocene (ca. 12,000 years old). The males had a shoulder height of around 2.1 meters and their antlers are the largest known in any deer with a width up to 4 meters. The giant deer disappeared around 11,700 years ago in Europe, like many other animals from the Ice Age.

The skeleton of the giant deer can be found in Hall 16 at the NHM Vienna. 

**Specimen**: Giant deer or Irish elk, *Megaloceros giganteus* (Blumenbach, 1799) 

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-1876/0030/0003

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Giant Deer (NHMW-GEO-1876/0030/0003)

The giant isopod (*Bathynomus giganteus*) is a species of aquatic crustacean and a cousin to terrestrial "pill bugs" or "roly polies" that are commonly found under logs. These animals are found in cold waters with a depth between 310 to 2140 meters (1,020–7,020 ft) in the West Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. The unusually large size of these isopods has been attributed to an effect called deep-sea gigantism, where invertebrates living in cold deep waters tend to grow larger and have longer lifespans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod).

More info here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/giant-isopods-curious-crustaceans-on-the-ocean-floor.html

Accession #: 93.16

Captured with Artec Spider 3D Scanner
https://www.artec3d.com/portable-3d-scanners/artec-spider-v2

Giant Isopod

Also today, we have **Sea Creatures.**

Something really useful for the 300 subs benchmark.. stock animals for all. 

Yaaaaaay... *high fives all around.*

Check out my other upload **Animals of the Land** for more free stuff and/or their terrestrial bretheren-sis..

Animals Of The Sea

#There was a starfish

Sometime, moving starfish. It taken near Sarcophyton in a shallow area. And here were many different kinds of animals within a few meters.

On 6/21/2021, I discovered this around a maximum depth of 4.9 meters to an average depth of 2.3 meters.

Found at the Dive Site “Makiminato”, Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan

From 325 images of 60MP. This was taken underwater.

## Processors

* CPU: Core i7 6700K
* 64GB of RAM
* GTX1080

## Equipments

* Camera: Sony α7R IV
* Lens: Sony SEL1635GM
* Underwater Housing: Sea&Sea MDXL-α7IV and Optical Dome Port II 230

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E45sJXsVUAIKVsG?format=jpg&name=medium)

Starfish & Sarcophyton - #AgisoftNatureChallenge

The lion of Goddess Ishtar, Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta.

1-3 The lshtar Gate in Babylon Nebuchadnezar (604-562 BC), the King of Babylon, started a series of ambitious building projects including the richly decorated lshtar Gate. A long processional avenue linked the sacred gate to the temple of the city god Marduk and his famous temple tower, known from the Bible as the Tower of  Babel. The facades of the lshtar Gate were decorated with reliefs in glazed tile, representing a dragon, Marduk's emblem, and a bull symbolising the weather god Adad. The processional route away
from the city was decorated with lions, the animals of Ishtar, goddess of love and war, They were to guard against advancing enemies, as is indicated by
the name ofthe gateway: Ishtar conquers its enemy.

The lion of Goddess Ishtar

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Animated version of the bronze 'Zun wine vessel in the shape of an owl,' 13th-12th century BCE, now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

From its description on artsmia.org:

*'This owl-shaped zun is divided into two sections: the removable owl’s-head lid and the bird’s hollow body. Vessels shaped like animals constitute virtually the only bronze sculpture known from the Shang period...This owl is one of the oldest and most naturalistic of the few remaining owl-shaped zun. Its form exhibits the influence of the Shang capital, Anyang, in the North, but the style and casting technique of the vessel...indicate that it is related to the bronze tradition of the middle Yangzi region in southern China.'*

More infomation about the object here:

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/827/zun-wine-vessel-in-the-shape-of-an-owl-unknown

Owl 'Zun' wine vessel, 13th-12th century BCE

This is an animation of an adult Largemouth Bass.

This 3D model is a composite of images from an adult Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) housed at the Maymont Nature Center (https://maymont.org/animals/nature-center/), and a scan from a preserved Largemouth Bass from the Natural History Collection at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (https://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/nhc/home).

CG artists Jer Bot, Johnson Martin and Robert Gutierrez used Blender to reconstruct the full fish from these scans and images, as well as animate the movements. Thanks to the Maymont Nature Center, the Richard Lewis Media Group (http://rlmg.com/), and the Natural History Collection for facilitating the work.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

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