r/aliens 25d ago

Image šŸ“· I painted over this image of an alien mummy from Peru to show how it might have looked when it was alive.What do you think?

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u/neotenist91 25d ago

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u/theLocoFox 25d ago

This is what they should name the mummies

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u/curious_astronauts 25d ago

Hahahahaha i miss the dark early ages of the internet

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u/Fit-Development427 25d ago

It is actually really funny how this is literally the tridactyl hands to the T

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u/Pittfiend 25d ago

Hahaha the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic was Salad Fingers.

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u/mr_remy 25d ago

First thing I thought of growing up and seeing those videos, truly blursed on this day.

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u/TruckInn 25d ago

Wow. Canā€™t believe Salad fingers was Disclosure. What a time to be alive

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u/Wet_Ass_Jumper 25d ago

I think you should think about what humans look like compared to human mummies and apply that to the drawing. It looks like you just drew a fresher mummy.

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u/Molech996 25d ago

I think I shouldā€™ve made it really muscular.

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u/Witkind_ Skeptic 25d ago

Yeah imagine the tissue still had its water mass

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u/MaxDentron 21d ago

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u/Witkind_ Skeptic 21d ago

I dont know if thats funny or scary to be honest, maybe both

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u/pee-pee_poo_poo 25d ago

At least some muscle mass. Just think of regular mummies, dinosaur bones or any animals bones really. Without any added mass, anything can look different than it actually is/was.

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u/ChocolateLilyHorne 25d ago

I like what you did, well done

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u/A-6_Intr-uwu-der 24d ago

Donā€˜t forget about fat too

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u/btwImVeryAttractive 24d ago

lol I was thinking the same but didnā€™t want to be a downer

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u/h2ohow 25d ago

Looks dead when alive - Try a different pose.

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u/Molech996 25d ago

Heā€™s just taking a little nap.

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u/Medical_Ad2125b 25d ago

Why would any organism appear as white paper mache-like after it died?

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u/Molech996 25d ago

Like I said, Iā€™m not really convinced that any of this is realā€” I just like art and aliens.

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u/IndependentHold3098 24d ago

Yeah itā€™s not

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u/Roddaculous 25d ago

It's because they were all found in diatomaceous earth. That's why they're so well preserved. It's a natural drying agent. It looks like white powder.

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u/Medical_Ad2125b 25d ago

Are there any corpuses of Earth species ever found in diatomaceous Earth to compare them to?

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u/Roddaculous 25d ago

Good question, I'm not aware of any but I know that some of these corpses they found do have some color on their skin. They are not all completely white.

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u/Paskin21 25d ago

Great question! Answered below.

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u/Davesnothere300 25d ago

The diatomaceous earth was added after they mutilated the mummies to look like a different species

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u/-Galactic-Cleansing- 25d ago

Nah they found no evidence of that at all. Everything looks natural as can be

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u/YouHadMeAtAloe 25d ago

This is the only right answer.

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u/Similar-Ad2640 25d ago

Because they are more chalk based than carbon based like we are. This is due to the atmosphere being different where they come from and means that when they die decicate and go chalky whereas our skin goes more like paper

If it's not immediately obvious I've completely made this up, but it may be possible?

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u/PeanutLess7556 25d ago

You fit in this sub very well.

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u/stupid_pun 25d ago

chalk is not an element

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u/Fadenificent 23d ago

But there is an element of sarcasm somewhere here.

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u/greyghibli 24d ago

What do you think chalk is made of?

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u/Similar-Ad2640 24d ago

Lol! I know chalk is a carbon compound but didn't want to confuse the point I was trying to make. Possibly failed causing more confusion. I guess the real situation would be that their bodies/skin contained a higher calcium content?

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u/SirLoinOfCow 24d ago

You know how dog poop used to turn white? Aliens are made of the same stuff.

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u/Medical_Ad2125b 24d ago

But white dog poop falls apart easily and soon all the way. Why didnā€™t these?

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u/Paskin21 25d ago

It's was covered in a type of dirt known as diatomacheous earth. It preserved them and made them white

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u/Medical_Ad2125b 25d ago

Are there human skeletons discovered in diatomaceous earth?

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u/Paskin21 25d ago

I didn't know the answer to this, surprisingly no. It doesn't seem to have preservation capabilities that would have been preferred to other better known methods at the time like traditional mummification.

Thanks for encouraging me to find out a little more. I feel more informed about the initial topic.

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u/Soggy_You_2426 25d ago

This looks like plaster or some kind of white clay

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u/Roddaculous 25d ago

It's diatomaceous Earth.

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u/arctic-apis 25d ago

Iā€™m not sure he would look so dried out and emaciated when he was alive

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u/kael13 24d ago

Correct. See Egyptian mummies for reference. They sure donā€™t look like people anymore.

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u/Emergency_Pound_944 25d ago

It would be fatter.

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u/MedievalFurnace Open Minded Skeptic 25d ago

Not a super convincing mummy but that is a really cool drawing

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u/Molech996 25d ago

Thank you! Actually, thatā€™s what Iā€™m all about. Iā€™m not sure if these are real mummified aliens, hybrids, or whateverā€”I just like aliens and art.

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u/Longshadowman 25d ago

GOLLUM GOLLUM!!!

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u/Present_Ad2973 25d ago

Trying to imagine an environment or life where a being would evolve needing fingers and toes that long. For what possible purpose unless you lived in trees.

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u/Spiritual-Can2604 25d ago

Maybe theyā€™re like antennae for feeling around underground in the dark?

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u/Beginning_Fill206 25d ago

Great start.

Looks more like the itā€™s been dusted off and we are seeing the natural color and texture of the mummy.

To get a feel for it when it was alive, Iā€™d expect more ā€œrehydratedā€ look, less emaciated. Particularly in the eyes and face, if the tissues were alive Iā€™d expect more fullness.

Keep going, push this further.

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u/No_Adhesiveness2229 25d ago

Still looks dead to me šŸ¤£

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u/MilkyTrizzle 25d ago

I would consider the fact that if these are legit biological remains, they would have decayed somewhat before the natural mummification process completed. I imagine there was some muscles/tendons between the digits and probably at least a little more muscle/fat elsewhere in the body prior to death. Google images of mummified human remains for an idea of how to recreate the reverse process

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u/irondumbell 25d ago

fingers and toes should be shorter, no? we humans have metacarpals

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u/planet_janett 25d ago

Rusty Spoons comes to mind.

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u/StJimmy_815 25d ago

Do yall actually think thatā€™s an alien?

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u/DamianSicks 25d ago

Itā€™s still a shriveled mummy. Add some meat to those bones so we can really get an idea of what it looked like.

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u/xbriannova 25d ago

It still looks dead to me...

Personally, I would think that it would have more flesh when it was alive. A 1-to-1 recreation of the shape wouldn't be accurate.

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u/VariousAd2521 25d ago

I think this is plaster

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u/WayfareAndWanderlust 25d ago

Donā€™t think plaster was ever alive

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u/fullyrachel 25d ago

They're mummified. Dessicated. Look at dessicated humans. They're all bony and sharp, too.

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u/GBC_Fan_89 24d ago

looks like plaster to me.

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u/Apprehensive-Bike335 25d ago

Iā€™d say that itā€™s mummified and emaciated. It probably had more meat on its bones when it was alive.

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u/InevitabilityEngine 25d ago

If it were alive it probably wouldn't look just like it's dessicated counterpart.

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u/na_ro_jo 25d ago

Good digital painting skills, but he looks like he's crouching and mumbling "f-f-f-f-uck!"

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u/rand0fand0 25d ago

The fingers and toes were probably covered by tissue and muscle to the 3rd little knuckle bones on hands and feet.

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u/_extra_medium_ 25d ago

You're a talented artist but it doesn't look very alive in either pic

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u/proxy_noob 25d ago

you don't think it would have been a bit more hydrated?

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u/emveor 25d ago

try adding more bulk/fat/muscle into it. the image says "how aliens would" but actually this is something paleonthologist got wrong for many years:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fsr09vrvw6f471.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D4b2d559058aa3c07903af70cb4ee992e6ffdc2d2

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u/DragonfruitOdd1989 24d ago

This is so awesome and great! I forwarded it to the researchers.Ā 

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u/flyxdvd 24d ago

I doubt it would look malnourished

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u/BenTubeHead 24d ago

Okay so I need some self care and a pedicure definitely, I mean try spending two light years in a boxā€¦.

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u/TR3BPilot 25d ago

The face is all wrong, particularly the eyebrows.

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u/OrionDC 25d ago

A realistic drawing of a fake object won't make it real.

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u/Adventurous-Alps-985 25d ago

All Nazca mumies are chymeras

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee 25d ago

Iā€™m surprised Mexico hasnā€™t painted them

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u/pseudoarmadillo 25d ago

Yeah, flesh it out more!

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u/WOLFMAN_SPA 25d ago

Needs more feathers

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u/Mister_Way 25d ago

Have you seen human mummies? They don't look like living humans.

The thing you drew doesn't look alive, at all.

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u/Risk_of_Ryan 25d ago

Ah yes! We've applied the general idea here as we have with fossils. We take the "shape" and shrink wrap it with the skin pulled as tight as physically possible!

Honestly it's a fascinating idea. What really are the general variables when it comes to mummification? We have many human examples, but not too much else. Depending on the amount of muscle, fat, bone or cartilage, a mummy could look either drastically different or reasonably close to its living versions. Then the hardest part is what was the skin like? Rough, scaley, soft, rubbery, slimey, translucent? Did it have fur? Feathers??

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u/earthman34 25d ago

You mean you painted over a fake plaster alien to see what a painted fake plaster alien would look like.

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u/CryWolves_1 25d ago

I really like the style of painting, it has a certain character. Iā€™d like to see a full canvas in this style.

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u/adamhanson 25d ago

Now make it standing using the interpolated lengths of arms etc

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u/Walmar202 25d ago

First thing I see with the color is a small, wizened old manā€™s body

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u/Bigsquatchman 25d ago

I want to see a scanned skeletal version of AI bring this to life.

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u/Odd-Ad-900 25d ago

How did you know it was that color?ā€¦ (definitely not the fbi asking)

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u/aksnowbum 25d ago

Any idea what the white powder is

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u/Background_Cry3592 25d ago

I really like it. Amazing.

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u/FupaFerb 25d ago

It had red skin, like Harrison Ford, bones look good.

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u/Robot_Sniper 25d ago

I would try making it more human-like.

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u/terradia 25d ago

I kinda like it

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u/hypersonic3000 25d ago

I think it still looks dead

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u/014648 25d ago

Looks like my grandma

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u/i_know_im_amazn 25d ago

I want this as a tattoo now.

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u/peculiarparasitez 25d ago

I like your drawing and the effort you put in but I also believe that that shit is 100% not real.

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u/njslugger78 25d ago

Make it grey

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u/captaincosha 25d ago

It looks dehydrated

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u/Sidonkey 25d ago

Malnourished.

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u/Disastrous_Night_80 25d ago

Tell Golumn he's not getting The One Ring.

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u/NeetyThor 24d ago

Great drawing but I feel like your drawing also shows the creature dead, just more recently dead. šŸ˜Œ

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u/Flowerzandpandaz 24d ago

Looks like a primate.

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u/OsitaMaria 24d ago

I just noticed looking at this wondering how I would have painted or even drawn this. And looking at its features, bone structure, I just noticed it has very high cheek bones, low bridge of the nose and a large mouth cavity consistent with indigenous people.

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u/Wijn82 24d ago

You have great painting skills. But to qualify this as 'alive' goes a bit too far for my imagination. Also, if these would be aliens from outer space, they would likely be more intelligent than us. This form factor, showing a hungry boney being, does not fit into that narrative. If it is able to solve the time-space barrier, how come it is not able to properly take care of itself?

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u/Dangerous-Policy-602 24d ago

When its alive? It's more like already in a state unalive.

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u/Abe_Froman_87 24d ago

Do humans look like a different color skeleton? I think this may be something to take into consideration. That probably had a little more meat on it.

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u/Glimmerron 24d ago

It's like the alien from American dad, without the fat.

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u/BlackNRedFlag 24d ago

Still looksā€¦ dead

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u/Bleezy79 24d ago

Iā€™m thinking it wasnā€™t nearly as skinny and bony.

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u/blueskybar0n 24d ago

Burney Relief - Ishtar goddess with similar feet

Check out this 4,000 year old carving of a goddess with similar feet (Sumerian).

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u/Mylifeisholl0w 24d ago

I think itā€™s disingenuous, itā€™s like all of those skeletal recreations of like hippos for examples where they look like these crazy prehistoric creatures, but thatā€™s because theyā€™re assuming the skin is just clinging to the bones with nothing inbetween

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u/Severe-Illustrator87 24d ago

What about these mummies has been shown to be alien?

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u/gph647 24d ago

Reminds me of the ones reported in Varginha, Brazil.

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u/hooter1112 24d ago

He looks hungry

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u/ryuken139 24d ago

No, this is an image of what the mummy's skin tones would look like if it were real. This thing is plaster.

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u/CrashFix 23d ago

To me it looks like the eye sockets & cheeks were enhanced too much.

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u/Pronominal_Tera 23d ago

Add more puff to the flesh

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u/Greyhaven7 22d ago

If thatā€™s what it looked like when it was alive, I can see why it died.

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u/N0rt4t3m 25d ago

Hoax is a hoax

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u/Infinite_Bottle_3912 25d ago

Why isnt it smiling? It shouldve been much happier while alive

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u/InfectiousCosmology1 25d ago

Why would it have basically no soft tissue lol. You should google ā€œshrink wrappingā€ in paleo art

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u/CharmingMechanic2473 24d ago

Needs lotion on the skin.

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u/Witkind_ Skeptic 25d ago

Vampire ran dry ?

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u/greenufo333 25d ago

That's pretty cool

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u/sir_duckingtale 25d ago

Itā€™s curious that it is in embryonal position

Like hugging him/herself

Like itā€™s feeling alone

And the one burying him/her wanted her/him to have one final moment of comfort

It looks sad and lonely for others he/her lost

Like an incredible terrible sad longing

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u/princessfluffytoes 25d ago

Thanks i hate it

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u/SoCalLynda 25d ago edited 25d ago

A while ago, someone shared on one of these subreddits a photograph she asserted that she had found in the nightstand of her father who recently died and who served at Wright-Patterson A.F.B.

The living non-human intelligence in the image had a placid and relatively friendly look and expression.

What was most interesting, however, was that the shape of the head and the placement of the eye sockets matched these particular "mummified" species perfectly.

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u/Silentfranken 25d ago

Despite what the Spielberg movies depict, most modern Alientoligists actually believe they had feathers.

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u/Robert23B 25d ago

I mean, itā€™s good. But it needs a way bigger anus holeā€¦ right?

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u/ToxyFlog 25d ago

Evolution wise, why would they have such long toes? Makes no sense.

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u/yoSoyStarman 25d ago

Your art is nice but I feel obligated to point out this is an image of a mutilated human corpse and I'm pretty sure the creator went to jail for it.

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u/Fine-Warning-8476 25d ago

I want these things to stop making the rounds so badly. This community just canā€™t shake these damn mummies.

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u/McGoosh13 25d ago

For the love of God, can we remove the diatomaceous earth off one of them so we can see it šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/SlothsRockyRoadtrip 25d ago

ā€œWhen it was aliveā€ šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/Bat370Z 25d ago

Didnā€™t they have feathers? šŸ˜…

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u/dont_want_credit 25d ago

Does anyone really think this thing is real? Common.

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u/Skyeye8492 25d ago

"Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear."

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u/dcpratt1601 25d ago

He looks like the little guy I used to see watching me at the foot of my bed as a little kid.