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🍉🌻Carlota Forte🌻🍉
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Scientific illustrator and paleoartist from 🇵🇹 | She/Her | Masters Degree in Biology | Bachelors Degree in Arts | Nature and outdoors lover | Occasionally a writer, full-time nerd.
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🍉🌻Carlota Forte🌻🍉 @corvuserpens.bsky.social · 23d
#PortfolioDay
Still haven't got much in terms of new material, but hi! I'm Carlota, a startout scientific illustrator and paleoartist from 🇵🇹
with a bachelor degree in Arts and a Masters in Biology. I love nature and to draw her in all her forms, with a preference for animals.
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eleth-art.bsky.social
Finally some quality content to start posting on Bsky
February 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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emilyart.bsky.social
Ordovician illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.

#Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Ordovician
Underwater painterly illustration of an Ordovician seafloor with various animals including crinoids, coral, trilobites, and nautiloids.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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psalidodont.bsky.social
deadlands reef fishes and what not. whilst most of this project's aesthetic isnt that colorful, i like to think in places such as most tropical seas there's a pop of color here and there.
#intothedeadlands #creature #art #fish #fantasy #worldbuilding
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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gabrielbruh.bsky.social
Microraptor has gotten so much cooler with the recent papers, i mean look at those HINDWIGS, they are so large! and the long tibia feathers makes it look like pants
February 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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heitoresco.bsky.social
Deinotherium: Vintage X Contemporâneo
February 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers...
Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...
Old portrait of a woman sotting in a frilled mop cap, and impressive Victorian skirt with lacy collar and sleeves and wide ribbons on her chest. She looks in mature age, and her expression is serious and fpcused, with a slight frown.
February 2, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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themeeplord.bsky.social
Sone vent art featuring a Majungasaurus.
#majungasaurus #art #dinosaur
An illustration of a majungasaurus in a distressed pose on a white background. The majungasaurus is turned to the viewer, its body and tail is twisting into an S shape and its legs are stretched out underneath it. Its head is facing the left, its mouth and eyes are wide open in a distressed expression. Around the majungasaurus are big red letters that spell out "EVERYTHING SCARES ME"
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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berensreverie.bsky.social
Indosinosuchus, with alternate backgrounds!

#paleoart #berensart2026
an indosinosuchus (a crocodile-like marine reptile) swiming down the water. this one is swimming in a shallow brackish water, with sandy floor dotted with rocks and weed. an indosinosuchus (a crocodile-like marine reptile) swiming down the water. this one is swimming in a freshwater environment
February 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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jonathanslaght.com
I went to a camel festival in the Gobi Desert this morning, a celebration of nomadic life, and it was absolutely amazing
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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goatburgler.bsky.social
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This image is a meme using characters from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to express a strong opinion on labor strikes within the video game industry. The first character asks if game developers should strike. The second character responds that all exploited workers should strike. The first asks if this is true even if it disrupts the industry. The second emphasizes that it should happen especially if it causes disruption.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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kayas-kosmos.bsky.social
The beautiful Mizzitfly - a creature with the wings of a butterfly and the sting of a wasp. Its venom is so potent that it can paralyse mighty dragons, but its honey is seen as worth the risk.

#Art #Flowerpunk
A drawing of a creature known as a mizzitfly. It is a very large insect that looks like a cross between a wasp, a butterfly and a mayfly. It has a striking colour scheme with a blue, red and orange body with black stripes. It has multiple wings, a set of blue and red underwings with yellow eye markings and a set of upper wings with yellow, brown and orange colours.
January 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Barred hamlets rise up together in a coital embrace. Rare amongst vertebrates, hamlets are simultaneous hermaphrodites, meaning pairs take turns mating with each other as male and female! Thank you for your service #coralcitycamera
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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birdhism.com
🌎 Imagine a world where we listened to conservationists and environmentalists.
Cute Ruby-throated Hummingbird Illustration “We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.” Steve Irwin
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
European goldfinch
Watercolour on silk mounted on paper, 84 × 118 mm.

Referenced from a photograph by Paul Fisher.
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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berensreverie.bsky.social
Eohippus for horse year :')

#berensart2026
an eohippus, a prehistoric horse, rearing up while looking backward
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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sauriancyh.bsky.social
I'm so bad at keeping quick sketches quick
Black and white sketch of a flock of Rhamphorhynchus flying over the ocean.
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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bheanilla.bsky.social
The power outages and freezing conditions in Ukraine right now are insane. Greenland news and war “coverage fatigue” not giving it the presence in headlines it deserves. The humanitarian impact is absolutely staggering.
January 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
How to get into nature.
A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
European goldfinch. Watercolour on silk mounted on paper.

I had to wash out and repaint the scapulars and marginal coverts three times. Hugely relieved it worked out in the end. 🥲

I'll post the full piece when it will be available at auction next week. 🙏
Detail from a painting of the head and upper body of a European goldfinch, photographed with a penny and a traditional Chinese brush. The piece is small and delicate. The bird's head is roughly comparable in size to the penny, only slightly larger.
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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dpulera.bsky.social
It’s Penguin Awareness Day! Here’s a diving Emperor Penguin showing off some of its amazing anatomical adaptations that allow it to survive and thrive extreme frigid environments. These birds are super cool aquatic avian dinosaurs!
#sciart,  #penguin, #PenguinAwarenessDay #anatomy #AnimalAnatomy
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Melancholy-2025
Digital art, my work. A women with a red crane tattoo on her back walks through dying lilies with blue flowers
January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Two more amazing Triassic reptiles. In this case from the Late Triassic Keuper Group of Europe. The huge phytosaur Nicrosaurus kapfii and one of the earliest plesiosaurs, Rhaeticosaurus mertensi

Part of my book of Triassic Tetrapods (currently in preparation)

#paleoart #sciart #reptiles
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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alexarrelia.bsky.social
Today I got to see a mummified ankylosaur name Zuul and I love him.
Wide shot of the top of an ankylosaur fossil with visibly bumpy skin and spikes, about 20 feet long Close up texture with bony osteoderms and spikes, and bumpy, reptilian skin Close up of head (about two feet wide) with visible bumpy texture and horns on top Wide shot with mummified head in foreground, and an articulated ankylosaur skeleton in the background.
January 18, 2026 at 11:13 PM