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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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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 2h

#invertober 12, pacific razor clam :p

#invertober2025

thick lined art of a pacific razor clam sticking its siphon out. it is drawn in blue and white, on an orange background with "RAZOR!" written above it in stylized yellow block lettering. there are jagged patterns in the same yellow filling in negative space

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 2h

#daily 38 unicorn | cursed tome

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Ambrox @ambrox.bsky.social · 1h

A mischievous archaeopteryx has appeared!

An abstract looking archaeopteryx on a plain green background

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 5h

In the middle of a dozen other projects, I've been working on a life-sized, 3D-printed vaquita porpoise for @kaseysnow.bsky.social to show off at #TwitchCon 🐬

🤞🏽 Cross your fingers I have enough time to paint it properly before I fly out on Wednesday 🤞🏽

Photo of me holding a life-sized vaquita porpoise 3D print in my arms. It's still unpainted, so the bright white-colored plastic filament makes it look almost like a tiny, 1-meter-long beluga

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 3h

If it's for non-specialist, I would suggest at least having a "key" or something with all the species to scale with each other (and maybe include a common item in addition to a scale bar, if possible).

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 5h

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 3h

I will definitely post pics if/when it happens! Here's one from a few years ago (the last time I did a costume for my horse).

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · Oct 31

Happy Halloween!

Didn't have time/energy to make a horse costume this year with my recent health issues (I had plans!), but here's some pics from last year's horse costume.

A humanoid figure riding a perlino horse, cropped to head/body of horse and most of rider. The horse is wearing a skull-like mask, with green kelp. The rider is wearing a brown cloak and a canid-skull mask.

A humanoid figure riding a perlino horse, walking towards the camera. The horse is wearing a skull-like mask, with green kelp. The rider is wearing a brown cloak and a canid-skull mask.

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SHESTERRNI @shesterrni.bsky.social · 17h

#PathOfTitans
Quetzalcoatlus in its natural habitat🐟

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 6h

Telling myself that I don't have time to make a costume for my horse before Halloween.

(This year, at least. I could start on something for *next*year.)

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Asmo @asmogrimae.bsky.social · Aug 11

My online store is closing at the end of this year.
If you're interested in my artbook, prints, or patches, this is me giving a heads up that the store will be taken offline in a few months.
asmogrimae.com/collections/...

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Kelley Whitley @kelleywelley.bsky.social · 9h

Pen and ink drawing of a Coleman shrimp, Periclimenes colemani
#Inktober #inktober2025 #sciart #coralreefs #crustacians #marinelife

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Bugs Need Heroes Podcast @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social · 10h

Coming up, an episode about house centipedes (thanks to listener Laura for the request).

Send your house centipede questions here or via e-mail at [email protected]! Let us know if you'd like us to read them on the podcast or keep it anonymous.

Art by FreeDesignFlie

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Rachel Quinlan @rachelquinlan.bsky.social · 8h

A new seamless repeat - Star Crinoids.

These fossils can be found worldwide, especially in areas where there is limestone and shale. And in the UK, they are sometimes called fairy coins. 🧚

Http://spoonflower.com/profiles/rachelquinlan?sort=new

#pattern #fossil #sciart #sew #craft #fabric

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13h

Fungal Wall, hand-tufted rug by Lizan Freijsen #sciart

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Janosch H. Irrlichtwinter @irrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 1d

Day eleven of #invertober
Dark Fishing Spider

just a li'l guy...

#invertober2025

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 20h

day 12 of #paleoctober2025 - nyctosaurus, a mid-sized pterosaur. currently the consensus is that nyctosaurus didn't have a sail connecting the struts of its crests, but I took some artistic liberty

#paleoart

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Situldis @situldis.bsky.social · 19h

#Paleoctober2025 Day 12
Nyctosaurus

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 19h

#paleoctober2025 day 12 : Nyctosaurus gracilis !

A classic among pterosaurs, this relative of Pteranodon had likewise no digits on its hand and a crest, althought here the crest was gigantic. It was most of the time soaring over the cretaceous seas with elongated wings like modern seabirds.

A drawing of Nyctosaurus gracilis in flight, a pterossaur/flying reptile with a really long, fin and straight crest

A reconstruction of a Nyctosauruss gracilis skull

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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 9h

10 for 10! here's my #nearbynature2025 entry for october! the cormorants are returning to falls lake. they leave a few sentries during the year, but winter is really their time to shine here. this one stayed very still for a long time and let me get some great photos! i used this one as a reference

an acrylic painting of a cormorant perched on a dead tree. its mouth is open

a photograph of a cormorant perched on a dead tree. its mouth is open

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Kelley Whitley @kelleywelley.bsky.social · 9h

My next art give-away and virtual gallery will be sharks and rays. In preparation, I’ve been combing through my photos and sketchbooks for inspiration. Here is a repost of one of my old watercolors.
#sundayfishsketch #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #sharks

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🏳️‍⚧️ Revolutionary Transgirl Yuritza 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilihellagay.bsky.social · 8h

Invertober Day 12: Pacific Razor Clam

Trying to get back into consistent uploads, now that the worst, most soul sucking period of my job is over for the month.

Have: Clam.

#Yurizart #invertober #invertober2025

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Theo 🔪 @notidee.bsky.social · 18h

Scariest thing of spooky season : bills

Taxes and vet bills are getting the better of my savings and since it’s October, I’m opening a new batch of nightmare companions

You answer a few questions and get a spooky creature designed from scratch just for you 🎃

ko-fi.com/c/d56f2159b4

Digital commission of a nightmare companion creature : a green dog sitting down, its head is a floating skull. In its hollow neck, an eye.

Digital commission of a nightmare companion creature : A pink bear with partially visible insides.

Digital commission of a nightmare companion creature : A small four legged creature with a bushy tail, no eyes and its maw taking half of its body.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14h

Happy #Invertober day 12!

Pacific razor clam (siliqua patula)

Just the shell from a reference photo by theresephillips on inaturalist

#SciArt #Invertober2025

Digital painting of a Pacific razor clam shell on sand with water running over the opened butterfly wing shape forming lovely highlights and shadows from light reflecting off the water. The shell has subtle stripes of brown, beige, cream, and pale orange.

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JennyUncensored @jennyuncensored.bsky.social · 1d

Another autumnal moth for October 11 🦋

#digitalart #spookyseason #halloween #spooky

An orange, black and white moth over a beige background with white line art of various leaves.

#digitalart #spookyseason #halloween #spooky #art

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Omar Rayyan @omarrayyanart.bsky.social · 12h

"Isilu, Carrier of Twilight"
An illustration I did for the upcoming Magic the Gathering set, Lorwyn Eclipsed.
The original art is being auctioned on the MTG Art Market FB page. www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...
🌙 #mtg #art #watercolor #lorwyn

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