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Felix

@polydontid.bsky.social

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They/he/it 🦖🏳️‍⚧️🐾 Dinosaur enthusiast and Spinosaurid smoocher, gamer, lover of cute,cosy, and cryptid things alike.

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · Aug 18

I had an amazing weekend at #dinoconuk and met so many wonderful people. Here are my honorary two dino-themed outfits! I'd love to connect to more lovely paleo interested people. ♡

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 9h

Lovely. Still holding hope for the Thylacine!

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 2d

Gorgeous!

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 4d

Cricket is so cute, and your art is lovely!

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 5d

I'm really excited about this! Is there a preferential place to pre-order in the UK?

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 7d

My fringe stayed in place despite the weather! A small silly win

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 15d

Gorgeous!

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23d

Very exciting new study in PeerJ on #azhdarchids, with two new taxa (Gobiazhdarcho and Tsogtopteryx), multiple new clade names and new placements for key taxa... peerj.com/articles/197...

Azhdarchid pterosaur diversity in the Bayanshiree Formation, Upper Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Pterosaur remains are very rare in Mongolian Mesozoic deposits, in stark contrast with the great abundance of dinosaur fossils in the region. This contribution presents a reassessment of the azhdarchi...

peerj.com

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 19d

Would you study something else now if you could?

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 19d

Oh he's beautiful!

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 19d

This is so cool! I wasn't aware that sticket books existed beyond, of course, just filing a notebook with stickers. How does it work?

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 21d

This is gorgeous!

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 21d

I'd love career advice towards this. I'm a little older now (30) and worried that I missed the right educational window into Palaeontology or science comms. I'm very much from a lower-class UK background, so any advice would be appreciated! (Sorry for the wall of text!)

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 26d

In support of Science, Art, Kindness to counter my sense of malaise over the state of the world these past years, Bluesky seemed a good change: here’s a timelapse of me basecoat painting my Tiktaalik sculpture recently for a new display in Singapore!

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 21d

Amazing work!

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TheDinosaurMann @thedinosaurmann.bsky.social · 27d

Basking spinosaurus🌞

#paleoart nature illustration for an awesome client!

#TheDinosaurMann

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 26d

Oh, he's absolutely lovely!

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 29d

I re-illustrated #Anchiornis again, and it looks quite a bit different from usual!!! This still matches the known data for this #dinosaur, but I really wanted to avoid it looking copy-pasted this time. I've given a full description of it on my Patreon.
#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart

A square image with the head, neck body and wing of anchiornis visible. Is is a long thick necked bird with a grey body and ginger patches on its head and upper arm. The wing is made of many feather layers which are white with black tips.

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Tansy 🔞 🔜 Furpoc AA @tansy.bsky.social · 27d

Appeasing cis people etc by pretending to be more like them is such a fruitless endeavor. it’s ok to bark or do whatever the fuck you feel like doing. Have fun

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Sep 9

A tiny Jurassic pterosaur, Bellubrunnus, wingspan, less than a foot (its head is the size of my fingernail)

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 29d

Gorgeous!

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 29d

Big sad self doubting hours

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · 29d

PUNCHY❤️

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 29d

So, we finally have more iridescent mammals!!!

This is really useful for paleoart as it helps to show what #iridescence on monofilaments looks like, which is difficult to tell from just birds.

Now I just need to try and access the paper.
share.google/jWVQz8BtmVmY...

#paleoart #mammals

The back of a brown rat with streaks of iridescent blue and green on some hairs

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · Sep 10

A Permian series would kill me. I need to see my boy Edaphosaurus in animation!

Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · Sep 10

The book tour is exciting! Will you be keeping us up to date about it?