Re: Eofauna Scientific Research - New for 2025

[Halichoeres]

Quoting you here, S @SidB, as it's a 2025 release:

I just received this figure and I am wondering about some oral structures that I'm observing within its mouth, upper and lower jaws. What are we seeing here? They are not painted. Could they be gums, teeth (unpainted). What do you think?

Ankylosaurus only had cheek teeth, and the front of the mouth was toothless. These ridges reflect the underlying bones (see here for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45444-1), and probably functioned to make it easier for the tongue to move food back to the cheek teeth for shearing before it was swallowed.

[SidB]

Thanks, @Halichoeres , exactly what I needed to know.

[bmathison1972]

I never canceled my BBTS order for the Columbian mammoth and got an email today it is in stock and they are preparing shipment! 

Glad I waited!

[PoptartDoodle]

Eofauna's recent proboscidean additions have been added to the herd!

I hope we either see a brevirostrine gomphothere like Anancus or early elephantid like Stegotetrabelodon.
As mentioned by others, I'd love for them to do older members like moeritheres, but I have my suspicions they're avoiding them since they'd either be too small for 1:35 or would be too out of scale with their other proboscideans (the only exception being the steppe mammoth, which was part of a 1:40 line). Barytherium and Palaeomastodon might work for 1:35, everything else would have to be 1:20 or larger.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

That is a handsome display! Congratulations.

[Carnoking]

Eofauna's recent proboscidean additions have been added to the herd!

I hope we either see a brevirostrine gomphothere like Anancus or early elephantid like Stegotetrabelodon.
As mentioned by others, I'd love for them to do older members like moeritheres, but I have my suspicions they're avoiding them since they'd either be too small for 1:35 or would be too out of scale with their other proboscideans (the only exception being the steppe mammoth, which was part of a 1:40 line). Barytherium and Palaeomastodon might work for 1:35, everything else would have to be 1:20 or larger.

Now that is one aesthetically pleasing display. Are the teeth replicas or genuine fossils? If they're the real deal then that is one impressive collection. Particularly fond of that mastodon tooth!

[Flaffy]

Lovely display. The fossils complements the figures very nicely!

[PoptartDoodle]

Now that is one aesthetically pleasing display. Are the teeth replicas or genuine fossils? If they're the real deal then that is one impressive collection. Particularly fond of that mastodon tooth!

Thank you!
Unfortunately they are only replicas, which is fine with me given the price of real complete molars.

[Carnoking]

Eofauna class of 2025!

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Naming the Columbian Archie, no question about it.

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Eofauna continues to set the curve for Prehistoric Proboscideans. Currently crossing my fingers for some sort of shovel tusker weirdo from them in the near future.

The Ankylosaurus is great too! Even if I still think PNSO's is the one to beat, I love the aggressive, dug in stance of Eofauna's!

[Joliezac]

Beautiful photos!! I still have to pick these 3 up. The Columbian mammoth is spectacular and Ankylosaurus is one of my favorite dinosaurs, so I'm very excited for that guy too!

[Concavenator]

Not figure-related, but still thought I'd share this.

Asier Larramendi said it's unclear whether a Spanish edition will be released.