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Blue Appaloosa
@blueappaloosa.bsky.social
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3d printing for SciComm (and fun) Animal Anatomy Sometimes GameDev Former adjunct Too many pets 3d Prints (from USA): blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com Merch: blueappaloosa.threadless.com Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa Links: blueappaloosa.neocities.org
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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!

Etsy: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa

#PaleoArt #BSNM #ArtShop #Invertebrates
Two 3d printed tiktaalik skulls. On the left, smaller, white colored, mouth closed, facing camera. On the right, larger, tan colored, mouth propped open with a stick, facing right-ish. A 3d printed model for demonstrating the cranial kinesis (movement) of a hawk skull, with different parts in different colors. A musk deer (a deer-like animal with large upper fangs) skull, tan colored, facing left. Two 3d printed Lined Earwig designs. The earwig is an insect with a reddish head and thorax, a dark abdomen with pincers on the end, tan legs and a pair of tan stripes down the back. Each earwig has a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring though the abdomen. The left design is facing upish, the right design is facing down. In between them is a US penny for scale.
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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 1d
Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads
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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 10h
My first four creatures made for my Monster Mashtober. Do you have a favorite so far? I really like the Harpy myself!

Prints and stickers are releasing soon to those signed up to the newsletter and those who are patrons at my Patreon😉
www.samanthamash.com/newsletter
www.patreon.com/samanthamash
An illustration of a pink harpy (a mythical creature that is a combination of a woman in this case and a bird) with pale tipped wings in profile. She has turned her face to the viewer and looks surprised/frustrated as she holds a wriggling red snake in her mouth. The background is a light peachy pink An illustration of a walking wingless sphinx in profile moving to the right. She has bright red fur with a slightly darker spotted pattern on her back. Her face is pale with dark scleras and bright irises. She has a patch of light fur on her chest and tail An illustration of a red Hippocampus (a mythical creature half horse and half fish) with a pale strip down its body, pale fins, and a pale mane. It is in profile with its neck tucked in towards its body and mouth open. The background is a light peachy pink An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink
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風目艮彡 @kamikiririp.bsky.social · 13h
好久没有画
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neb @nebquerna.bsky.social · 21h
daily snek why not
illustration of a thin snake with tiny wings. its head is entirely red and its body covered with red spotted scales. its eye is an even darker shade of red.
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Shadowind @shadowind.bsky.social · 5h
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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 11h
A new portrait of Monolophosaurus. The crest here is more voluminous than most reconstructions, exploring the idea that the underlying bone might have been anchoring a larger pneumatised casque.
#SciArt
A digital portrait of a large carnivorous dinosaur in a forest setting. The dinosaur has a large boney crest above its snout and eyes, and large folds of skin hanging around its neck and jaws. The dinosaur is mostly earthy brown, but with brighter blues and pinks around the eyes and throat.
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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 4h
Helping my awesome creatures artists pals since the times are difficults to get commissions. So check them out and give them a ko-fi, patreon or a little commissions. Anything helps 💖

The list is complete so I can't add anyone anymore.

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PrairieGh0st @prairiegh0st.bsky.social · 5h
for @growlbeast.art
Everyone make sure you go tell Growl HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! 🎉🎉🎉
ooh this dhole is walking towards ya gonna get ya
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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 4h
Boosting to #SciArt #Invertebrates #BlueSkyNightMarket #BugSky
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h
MY FALL DROP IS NOW LIVE! NEW PINS (DID SOMEONE SAY WHALE FALL?!!), STICKERS, AND MORE!!!

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art
A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras. A photograph of a shiny gold metal-plated jewel weevil enamel pin. It is a green weevil with yellow and pink highlights, and large dark eyes. It is photographed on a lichen-covered rock. A photo of a tiny fruit fly enamel pin, with large red eyes and brown markings! Also photographed on a lichen-covered rock A photo of two leafcutter ant pins carrying large green leaves. The ants are small and reddish-brownish. They are photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock.
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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 18h
#paleoctober2025 day 10 & #fossilfriday : Mourasuchus !

Crocs really are the underdogs of extinct reptiles, with species you couldn't even imagine. Mourasuchus is a giant caiman from the miocene of south america equiped with a flat head and could have "gently" engulfered small invertebrates.
A drawing of Mourasuchus, a giant caiman looking like a crocodile with flat head and an hypothetical pouch under its neck Skull of Moourasuchus, showing the flat-elongated head morphology
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Filippo Nicolini 🧬 @filonico.bsky.social · 15h
Name one of your biggest fears as a biologist. I start: misspelling species names on public docs! Clearly it happens so often to ppl that NCBI includes misspelled names in its records. Hilarious.

Was so🤏close to publish Day 10 #invertober2025 (the common earthworm) with a typo💀 Lubrimcus terrestris
A vectorial digital drawing of an Lumbricus terrestris, known as the Common Earthworm, set against a pale blue background. The segmented worm is coiled into an S-shape. The rear end is a pale, slightly pinkish-tan color, while the front end, which includes the clitellum (the band used for reproduction), is a darker reddish-brown color. The clitellum itself is a distinct maroon/red band. The text "invertobter2025 - Day 10" is in the bottom right corner. ​A screenshot of a search box within the NCBI BLAST interface. The user has typed "homo s" into the search field under a section labeled "Organism" The search box is returning several suggested results in red text, showing common misspellings of the scientific name for humans, Homo sapiens, along with the correct taxonomy ID: · ​Homo sampiens (taxid:9606) · ​Homo sapeins (taxid:9606) · ​Homo sapian (taxid:9606) · ​Homo sapians (taxid:9606) · ​Homo sapien (taxid:9606) · ​Homo sapience (taxid:9606)
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 12h
Happy #Invertober Day 10!

Common earthworm (lumbricus terrestris)

Went for a different style as I wasn't sure how to make an earthworm aesthetically pleasing 😅

#Invertober2025
Black and white drawing of an earthworm in an S-shape on its side. The words would you still love me follow the curve on the left and the words if I was a worm follow the curve on the right. The background is an elaborate symmetrical doodle of teardrop shapes of varying sizes.
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Janosch H. Irrlichtwinter @irrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 12h
Day nine of #invertober
Flamboyant Cuttlefish

forgot to post these guys yesterday. Anyway, flamboyant cuttlefish are among my favourite critters!

#invertober2025
drawing of three flamboyant cuttlefish. they are very colourful, pink purple and yellow with white accents, and they look kind of like orchids.
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Hyrax Tefora | Spacetober @hyraxtefora.bsky.social · 9h
Spacetober Day 9: Spaceship
Have some blueprints of my spaceship •throw at your face* #art #digitalart #inktober2025 #spaceship #blueprints #spacetober #sketch
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Eliza Stein @elizastein.bsky.social · 8h
today's #invertober animal is the Common Earthworm and i haven't seen many drawings for it yet, so here are two! 🪱🪱 #invertober2025 #invertebrates #sciart
seamless repeating pattern of worms tangled with one another seamless repeating pattern of earthworms and compost scraps of fruits and vegetables
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Vanessa K. Nickel @vanessa-k-nickel.bsky.social · 7h
I’m a bit late for this one, but here it is: the flamboyant cuttlefish/Ascarosepion pfefferi for #Invertober2025 🎨

#Invertober #SciArt #art #kleinekunstklasse #wattiskunst
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Ashanti @artshanti.bsky.social · 13h
My sweetest girl @katara suggested some acrylic markers and that’s how the test painting turned out :D

A Microraptor hiding between some jungle leafs. 🌿

#sciart #paleoart #furryart
A microraptor hiding between different kind of leafs, another raptor is seen in the background. Done with Acrylic markers.
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 12h
Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?
Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2025. The bodies of the adults have large blocks of colour, without prominent stripes. Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2019. The body of the stag has a dark stripe extending from the shoulder to the thigh.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11h
Insect art by Jennifer Angus #sciart
Beautiful Bugs: An Infestation of Insect Art | Art & Object
Usually, this many bugs in an art museum would result in an urgent call to the exterminator. But when Canadian artist Jennifer Angus is in town, an infestation becomes a thing of incredible beauty.
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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 11h
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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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 8h
Atlantic weasel shark

(Swim On 8, 2022) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈
Illustration of an Atlantic weasel shark in a muted cool grey ocean showing off the distinct yellow stripes that extend lengthwise along its body from a point on their snout. Light streams in through the water's surface, causing caustic refractions along the back of the shark and seafloor.
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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 8h
And here we have the original Dead Darwin, which was just a relatively quick pen sketch! #paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs #jurassic #sciart #FossilFriday
A pen sketch of a dead Darwinopterus with its wings partially folded and its head and tail curved up and back over its body.
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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 7h
#Paleoctober2025 day 9 paleoart sketch of the ancient mollusk Protobalanus spinicoronatus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Mollusk #Protobalanusspinicoronatus
The spiked mollusk on the ocean floor with large grains of sand surrounding it.
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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 7h
shop update is live! so pleased with the new stuff this go around - check it out if you’re able!
www.microbiomearts.com
#bsnm 🐡🦑 #bugsky
arched sticker with a black background. text reads “NATURE IS QUEER” in a rainbow gradient and various marine animals swim above the text hand holding a transparent maple leaf shaped red pin. a rosy maple moth illustration sits in the center of the pin. hand holding a sticker of a mom and three baby opossums. Their eyes are holographic and look like they’re shining. hand holding a heart shaped white sticker that says “I ❤️ kelp” and kelp fills out the negative space in the heart shape.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6h
Day 10 #Invertober2025 - Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 🪱

#SciArt #invertebrates
semi-realistic drawing of an earthworm, wiggly and soft pink, on a black background. semi-realistic drawing of an earthworm, wiggly and soft pink, on a white background.
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