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dorado55.bsky.social @dorado55.bsky.social · Nov 18

ough quick messy mothpool oneshot+doodle here you go archiveofourown.org/works/60602110

[ #warriors #warriorcats #wcsky #mothwing #leafpool #mothpool ]

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 10d

malayan hell
night heron heron

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · Sep 16

Perry, a miniature donkey in Palo Alto, served as the uncredited model for Donkey in the Shrek animated film franchise for $75.

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · Sep 15

Cratoavis
#paleoart #sciart

A small bird perched on a tree with no leaves, by a river, looking up at an ornithocheirid pterosaur in the evening sky

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · Sep 15

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Balaenognathus maeuseri

From Late Jurassic Torleite Formation, Germany, "whale jaw" is a pterosaur notable for its spatula-like jaws that were toothless at the tip but sported hundreds of curved needle teeth on the sides making it impossible to fully close its mouth

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Dearc toy made from scantron test sheet thingies in middle school #paleoart #sciart

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · Sep 6

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖: Segisaurus halli

From Early Jurassic Tsegi Canyon, Arizona, the 1 meter long "Segi lizard" is a coelophysoid notable for being one of the first non-avian dinosaurs to preserve a bird-like furculae, thus strengthening the link between dinosaurs and birds

Art by Ashley Patch

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 30

More exciting news! I am now able to share with you more of the concept art I did for the amazing upcoming NBC Universal show “Surviving Earth” premiering next year! This time for a fan favorite, Dimetrodon!

I can’t say much more than this for now 🙊

Concept art for the upcoming show Surviving Earth depicting Dimetrodon in various orthographic views as well as details of the skin, the eye and the head

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Paulina Ganucheau @paulinaganucheau.bsky.social · Jul 15

some days

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jul 11

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday, to be posted to #Patreon soon: countershaded #ichthyosaur Stenopterygius spams a lagoon with uniformly dark offspring (colour schemes suggested by fossils). Some ichthyosaur specimens have been found with 11 embryos, each 25% of adult body length. Yikes. #sciart

A mother ichthyosaur swims upside down, straining with the effort of expelling the last of her eleven babies. She is darker on her upper surface and pale below, while her offspring are entirely dark. She is giving birth in a shallow lagoon with abundant, low-growing green algae and patches of phaceloid corals. The births are unlike those of mammals in being relatively bloodless, though the amniotic sacs that contained each baby float in the water. The newborn ichthyosaurs still have their yolk sacs attached, which their siblings are eating as their first meals. Some of the eleven are swimming away from their mother, already independent and able to forage for themselves.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 2

Everyone, please meet Sphenodraco! A newly described sphenodontian (a tuatara relative) from the Late Jurassic of Europe published TODAY!

#paleoart #reptiles #sciart #art

An illustration showing Sphenodraco perched on a tree trunk while a group of Rhamphorhynchus fly in the background

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Prehistoric Kingdom @prehistorickingdom.bsky.social · Jun 30

SURPRISE! Breeding is coming Update 15! 🥚🦖

Tune into this month's Dev Diary to learn more about fertility, courtship and the nesting system coming to Prehistoric Kingdom in August.

➡️Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4kmk8IW
📝Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · Jun 23

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dorado55.bsky.social @dorado55.bsky.social · Jun 7

I've made this but with Q-queso (cheese) melted ala grilled cheese and its great

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · Jun 6

BIG AL.
Allosaurus jimmadseni - a new portrait.

PS: I had to write “BIG AL” in uppercase so that it didn’t look like “AI” and result in another drama… what a time to be alive. 🙃

A digital portrait of Allosaurus, a large predatory dinosaur from the last Jurassic period. The dinosaur is shown with mostly dull, earthy colour but with brighter pinks and purples around the eyes and the two prominent bony crests that rise above them. It has long, powerful jaws with hard, lumpy scales near the tip. The dinosaur is shown against an out-of-focus background of tall trees.

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dorado55.bsky.social @dorado55.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is so true. Have a brachylophosaurus tail mummy and mostly-real-material allosaurus mount.

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Ashley Heather Quills @voice-quills.com · Jun 1

Not only is it the start of Pride, but guess what else it is?

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S DINOSAUR DAY

WANNA SEE A SICK FOSSIL? LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY, A BOREALOPELTA FOSSIL FOUND IN ALBERTA CANADA

THIS MAGNIFICENT BEAST IS INCREDIBLY WELL PRESERVED AND IF I EVER SEE IT IN PERSON I WILL CRY

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Jun 2

BREAKING NEWS:

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · Jun 1

thoughts on walking with dinosaurs ep 1 🧵

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · May 28

Another illustration from the same exhibition as the one below. And this one really is life-size. A Utahraptor stalking the waterways in search of a meal.

A large mural, approximately two metres high depicting a large, bipedal feathered dinosaur walking along a river amidst dense forest. The dinosaur has brown feathers over its body, and bright pink and purple skin around its face and throat.

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · May 28

#WWD2025
Interspecies friendship is...not as anthropomorphic as popularly assumed, but something that has its own wikipedia page and an entire page devoted to it on BBC Earth, and may be found in some modern wild archosaurs.
So perhaps it can exist in non-avian dinosaurs too?

Interspecies social bonding as portrayed by WWD2025...Compared with Dinosaur Revolution, WWD2025 chose to portray such behaviour in a more cautious way. Nevertheless, it's still great to see a representation of this aspect of nature.

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dorado55.bsky.social @dorado55.bsky.social · May 26

this is everything i think

dorado55.bsky.social @dorado55.bsky.social · May 26

ASFDGKJDFHn PEAK

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EatMoPizza @eatmopizza.bsky.social · Nov 2

Toying with Ogerpon's model in Blender, found out how to change her cloak colors.

Made Lesbian Ogerpon, otherwise known as Ogerpon.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · May 25

love that the diet section of "eastern gray squirrel" has this extensive image gallery

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · May 24

#Art style range train, show off your range!

Apart from my normal semi-scientific style, I use several other styles depending on the effect i want to give.
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@nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
@montanoceratops.bsky.social
@kakapojay.bsky.social
#paleoart #arttrain

Cartoon style done in digital. This image is of a sinosauropteryx in the assic pose on balancing on one foot with its head and tail raised in the air. This one is holding a transfem flag and has a trans coloured tail.

A 3D modle of a Darwinopterus pterosaur. It has a fluffy body and neck with naked wings and tail. It's head has a large halfa-heart shaped crest an da long toothy snout with are blue with yellow and orange teardrop shaped patterns.

An acrylic painting of a desert landscape with some winding rivers and a still pool. With sporadic plants about.

A digital painting of a biolumisecent ammonite holding a clutch of eggs. It is in the dark and illuminated only by its glowing.

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