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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · Oct 17

To all who find this page, hello!

I’m an aspiring independently trained artist and writer. Mainly I draw paleoart (dinosaurs and such), but also kaiju, some specevo stuff, cartoon and retro anime/manga fan art, and general sci-fi & fantasy stuff. Feel free to follow me if any of that interests you.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 2d

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 2d

So this AMNH Andrewsarchus display from the 60s is sick as hell, allowing for the outdated reconstruction and all that.

Museum display with a long-snouted, toothy skull in front of a mural of an awkward, dog-like creature.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about some lesser known Steve Kirk dinosaur artwork today. His work shaped my childhood perception of prehistoric life more than any other artist and I have an endless appreciation for his ability to decorate his animals in eye-catchingly beautiful patterns that look painted from life.

The dome-nosed head of Giraffatitan, a huge sauropod dinosaur, looms into frame. The scaly, lightly wrinkled skin is splotched with a blend of greens, grey, and yellows in a pattern reminiscent of crocodylians.

A group of vibrantly patterned "hypsilophodonts" forage amid the misty fern-coated floor of a Jurassic prairie. A herd of massive Diplodocus, sporting crests of iguana-like spines, pass in the middle distance. Far off, a brachiosaurid browses from towering conifers.

A sandy-toned, subtly striped Allosaurus with blue crests charges through a dusty clearing, jaws agape and hands flexing.

Portraits of Corythosaurus, Lambeosaurus, and Parasaurolophus, shown with earthy green, brown, and reddish tones in complex mottled patterns. Their keratin-sheathed crests are richly detailed, as are their scaly hides.

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 1d

Sobek 🐊

#paleoart #berensart2025

a black and white drawing of a spinosaurus perching on a stone plinth shrine. He wears atef crown and the markings on his sailed spine resemble ankh.

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Matt Frank @mattzilla85.bsky.social · 3d

HE'S HERE!
The first of my Godzilla Neo REMONSTERED SERIES!
Celebrating (almost) 20 years of Godzilla Neo, if you want to see more progress on which kaiju I'm remastering, check my Patreon!
Bios are being updated on my ol' Deviantart, kaijusamurai!

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 2d

Of course I still love you man. You’re my friend and I care about you, always.

a black and white dog are looking at each other .

ALT: a black and white dog are looking at each other .

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 4d

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows.

Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

Screenshot of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock summary on October 7. The closing price is $1,191.06 USD, up +27.75 (2.39%) for the day. The day’s trading range shows a low of $1,177.46 and a high of $1,201.36. Previous close was $1,163.31. Market cap is $506.11B, P/E ratio is 50.75, with no dividend yield. The 52-week high is $1,341.15 and the 52-week low is $677.88. A line graph shows intraday stock price movement, peaking above $1,190 before settling at the closing price.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d

"I'm not the story, don't lose focus"

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5d

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 4d

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they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 7d

hap hal

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 5d

Forget King Kong, forget Spinosaurus. In honor of the 120th anniversary of the naming of Tyrannosaurus rex...we’re going to bash our cheap plastic dinosaur toys together and talk about a fight between T. rex and Triceratops.

(Artist credits in alt-text)

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 6d

On this day, in 1905, the Prize Fighter of Antiquity, the Absolute Warlord of the Earth, the King Of The Dinosaurs, was revealed to the world.

Happy 120th anniversary to the one and only King of the Tyrant Lizards: Tyrannosaurus rex!
#paleoart #dinosaur #dinosaurs #dinosaurart #Tyrannosaurus

Redesign and facial studies (plus sketch of the teeth) of the T.rex for "The Savage Planet", my upcoming re-write of the dinosaur film 65 (2023).

Scene of a spotted brown and beige/tan-colored male Tyrannosaurus rex watching over three hatchlings with roaming the shore of the Western Interior seaway of North America.

Designs based on Prehistoric Planet (2022-)

Scene of Sue, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, striding through a forest with dead Edmontosaurus calf in their jaws while looking at a smaller juvenile T.rex passing by. A swarm of blue-colored stem-butterflies flutter away, disturbed by the larger dinosaur.

Scene of a T.rex silhouetted in black roaring at the sky against a blood-red sky at sunset, with a flock of primitive Late Cretaceous birds flying away in the background.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 7d

Happy 120th birthday to Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus, two of the most iconic of all predatory dinosaurs! Here’s some vintage and modern artwork of the two to celebrate how far we’ve come.

(James E Allen 1934, Beth Zaiken 2024, Paul Geraghty 1965, Joschua Knüppe 2025)

A bronze-orangeish Tyrannosaurus with a striking green eye prowls down a sandy riverside. Its dragging tail kicks up dust as it goes, and its jaws drip with streams of saliva. Its arms are curled beneath the chest, held at odd angles that further the strange and almost unnatural menace it exudes.

The imposing form of a green-grey Tyrannosaurus strides into frame, moving across a sandy shore as its path converges with a Triceratops. The two animals acknowledge each other with measured aggression, subtle but clear.

A hefty, amphibian-like tyrannosaur with a boxy, squared off snout. It stands with its back to the viewer, head turned back with a disdainful expression. The tail coils into a tight curve behind it.

A lightly coloured Albertosaurus with simple but striking red and black markings on the face moves through a wet, oily shore. Its body is stained with oil, and it had a displeased demeanour. A swirl of clouds in the sky behind it suggests early morning or late evening, casting the scene in a dim reddish hue.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 7d

Tyrannosaurus rex was named 120 years ago today on 4th October, 1905.

I would do things a little differently now, but this drawing is from 2020.

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Emma LeRae @emmalerae.bsky.social · 6d

Check out these really cool pins on Kickstarter by Andy Cruz!

Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Prehistoric Enamel Pins

A hard enamel pin set showcasing scenes right before the end of the dinosaurs!

www.kickstarter.com

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite paleoart pieces featuring the Tyrant Lizard King itself, Tyrannosaurus rex, in honor of the 120 anniversary of its description day!

- Charles R. Knight (1940)
- "Awakening of Hunger" by Mark Hallett (1985)
- John Gurche (2000)
- Mark P. Witton (2017)

Monochrome pencil and graphite sketch of two Tyrannosaurus rex fighting each other. The rex on the left arches forward on its tail and one leg to kick at its opponent on the right, which reels away.

Drawn by Charles R. Knight, circa. 1940.

Painting featuring two Tyrannosaurus rex striding out in search of prey as morning mist rolls over palmettos and ferns on an open plain. The bones of a long dead Triceratops (possibly the rex's last victim) lie strewn over the ground. Above the two rexes, a flock of Pteranodons soar away into the sky.

Created by Mark Hallett, circa. 1985.

Scene of a life restoration of the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen named Sue standing over the body of a slain hadrosaurid on an open clearing covered in ferns and herb-like plants on a forested floodplain beneath an overcast sky.

Painted by John Gurche, circa. 2000

Scene of a scaly adult Tyrannosaurus rex striding through a red-tinted autumnal forest with its two feathered juveniles against an ominous overcast sky.

Painted by Mark P. Witton, circa. 2017.

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Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 8d

It literally costs nothing to be a good person in life. It's not that hard and honestly, I don't think anyone should want to be mean and nasty all the time. What's the fun in that?

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · Dec 8

A lil' piece of fanart for #TheAmazingDigitalCircus I made a while back. Gummigoo as a dinosaur, more specifically a Suchomimus, with Pomni riding on his back.

Inspired by an idea my buddy @dinofang127.bsky.social shared with me.

#TADC #fanart #Pomni #Gummigoo #dinosaur #dinosaurart

Color sketch of Gummigoo from The Amazing Digital Circus as a candy Suchomimus, with Pomni riding on his back.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 10d

I’m sure I speak for everyone with a lifelong history in nature in saying just how big of an influence Goodall had on me as a child, she was one of the people who formed my earliest idea of what a zoologist should be. She will be dearly missed.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Mesozoic Mind @mesozoicmind.bsky.social · 8d

More of this.

Orange retro spino fron When Dinosaurs Ruled, in prodile view; has a round blunt head.

An orange quadrupedal Spinosaurus barely looking like one.
https://chasmosaurs.com/2024/07/13/vintage-dinosaur-art-maybe-de-dinosauriers-kennis-compact/

An upright standing Spinosaurus statue with tiny arms.
https://chasmosaurs.com/2023/03/28/roarr/

https://chasmosaurs.com/2021/01/04/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaurs-at-your-fingertips/

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 8d

Spinosaurus! You know! The one with the sail!

A green, tail-dragging Spinosaurus with a fishy fin running down its back. It stands in a squat with a happy looking open mouth, arms curled to its chest.

A lizard-like Spinosaurus with sprawling limbs slips down a rocky riverbank towards the water.

A 3D modeled mint-green Spinosaurus with a short, broad head stands in a neutral pose in a lightly vegetated shoreline.

A quadrupedal, lime-green Spinosaurus stands in a hunched pose, looking back at the viewer with a disgruntled expression.

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 8d

#IStandWithHamishSteele

Still haven’t seen Dead End: Paranormal Park, but I fully stand by its creator and his to tell the stories he wants. Especially when they let vulnerable LGBTQ+ youth feel seen. And hypocritical conservative trash like Musk and LibsOfTikTok are completely full of shit.

Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 11d

#IStandWithHamishSteele

Hamish Steele, the creator of Dead End: Paranormal Park has done absolutely nothing wrong other than daring to use his 1st Amendment rights against the unconstitutional ideology of Charlie Kirk.

He is beloved by his colleagues in the animation industry and deserves better.

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ALT: a cartoon of a boy and a girl standing in front of a house

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 9d

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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