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Dynamognathus
@dynamoterror.bsky.social
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Wildlife, rewilding, spec-evo, and paleontology enthusiast/artist.
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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · Jun 1
Nearly two years here, time for a new #introduction post: I go by Dynamognathus/Dynamoterror, I like drawing, wildlife, natural history, drawing the natural history of wildlife, gardening, spec-evo, and my dear boyfriend @seismic-shrimp.bsky.social (who does amazing art and who you should follow).
Colored-pencil drawing of a cube-shaped ecosystem diorama, showcasing a slice of a steep pond bank in early Pliocene Tennessee wherein all 10 known mole and shrew species are shown, in addition to a turtle and a few birds. Black-and-white pencil sketch of a scene in an estuary channel on the edge of the Caspian Sea, showing a massive Beluga Sturgeon curling upwards beneath the surface of the water. Its mouth is extended as its head approaches one of two young tiger cubs, swimming on the surface behind their mother. The distant river banks are covered in dense, tall reeds. Colored pencil drawings of two fictional tree species from an alternate-prehistory version of the Triassic. One is a slender, roughly cone-shaped Peltaspermale with four-lobed leaves and drooping branches. The other is a tall and columnar Ginkgoale with a wide-spreading crown and small leaves. The leaves and reproductive structures of each species are drawn below them up-close. Colored-pencil drawing of a Megalonyx rearing up in front view with arms outstretched, amongst a bunch of tall grass, with the evening sky in the background being the colors of the bisexual flag.
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Yesterday’s flocking #paleostream sketches, in shadowy forms: Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, and Genyornis. No I don’t have a favorite. #paleoart #pleistocene #cretaceous #paleozoic
Black-and-white pencil sketches on a piece of paper, depicting four prehistoric animals. All are fully black, as if made of shadows. The Lepidodendron tree, Baryonyx, and Champsosaurus are all tiny and concentrated in the upper left corner, while a much larger Genyornis takes up the bottom-right half of the page while looking directly at the viewer with blank white eyes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Ecos: La Brea is free to play TODAY! Join now to unlock our new playable: The Columbian Mammoth 🦣

Other updates include… 1/4
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
“Most native Kaimeran life forms are microscopic. However-“

*slaps suction base of jiggly orb onto the table in front of you*

“-the jeezhou of the Seridic wetlands is an exception. These single-celled organisms mature around the size of a golf ball, like so.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
Four species of cetacean can be found in the Seridic wetlands. Only the Seridic river dolphin (top) is a permanent resident. The other three (estuarine dolphin, river whale, and Crescent narwhal) venture with high waters during the wet season then retreat to estuaries and the gulf during dry months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
Tuatara were mistaken for lizards when first encountered by Western naturalists. Now we know they're Earth's last rhynchocephalian: a lineage related to squamates. The clade is successful in Kaimere, though only one is found in the known world: the Shezi.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=STe_...
The Shezi: Last Rhynchocephalian of the Known World
YouTube video by Keenan Taylor's Tales of Kaimere
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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seismic-shrimp.bsky.social
Now that SVP is over, I can finally post the commission that I did for @mosasaurologist.bsky.social 's poster on a certain very cool taxon! #paleoart #sciart
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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lacerdajulio.bsky.social
Making some fresh models to sharpen my 3D skills, and what better subject to do that than our lovely brazilian Pleistocene megafauna?

#SciArt #artbyjulio
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
Deer are silly (making progress on the Toronto Subway Deer sketch)
#pleistocene #torontoceros #deer #paleoart
Rough black-and-white sketch of a bust of the Toronto Subway Deer, depicting it as a large-antlered cousin of Mule Deer as suggested by a recent paper looking at its genetics. Its body is in lateral view facing towards the left, with its head turned to face directly at the viewer. There aren’t many details yet, it’s a work-in-progress.
November 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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peternickolaus.bsky.social
My cabbages!

An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away.

This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD.

Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
Tonight’s flocking #Paleostream doodles: Vampyronassa being stalked by Dollocaris, Allodesmus just vibing, Papiliomaris (life size), and Pterodactylus doing a little cannibalism. #paleoart #sciart #prehistory
Four black-and-white pencil sketches of prehistoric animals on a piece of paper, arranged in a zig-zag horizontal row. On the far left is the vampire squid Vampyronassa, with a slightly faded Dollocaris crustacean looming behind it with spiked arms outstretched. To the right of that is the large seal Allodesmus, swimming vertically and staring directly at the viewer. To the right and below the Allodesmus is a small, life-size drawing of the strange arthropod Papiliomaris in ventral view. On the furthest right is a bust of Pterodactylus, looking slightly angled at the viewer, with the tips of its jaws clamped around the head of a still-alive hatchling of its own species.
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
If any of y’all have the chance to visit this exhibition, please go see it, it’s genuinely some of the most breathtaking art I have ever seen. In a “how is an earthly being capable of creating something like this” sort of way. #art #botany
A photograph of a part of the Harvard Glass Flowers exhibition, looking into a case at a model of reddish apples on a branch plus containers of colored powders and an explanation of the coloring process. A photograph of a part of the Harvard Glass Flowers exhibition, looking into a case at a model of a messy workbench covered in tools and supplies that were used in creating the glass plant specimens, with a descriptive card sitting on the upper right corner. A photograph of a large part of the Harvard Glass Flowers exhibition, looking at an entire wall of lots of plant specimens made from glass with accompanying anatomical diagrams and notecards, all in wooden-frame glass cases. A photograph of a part of the Harvard Glass Flowers exhibition, looking into a case at a very detailed glass model of Indonesian Pitcher Plants, with a dense bundle of large, oval-shaped leaves and several pitcher-shaped traps hanging from narrow stems.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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montanoceratops.bsky.social
I can finally share this!!! a huge Thanks to both @skyemcdavid.com and @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social for allowing me to do a Nyctosaur for this poster!!!
A pterosaur flying through a cloudy sky with a saurodont fish lurking in the waters below. The nyctosaur will soon be a meal.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
How Fridays on #paleostream feel like...
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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triloboii.bsky.social
A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️

#sciart #paleoart
Digital painting of two fuzzy, dark brown American Mastodon eating pumpkins in a small pumpkin patch. The style emulated watercolor and pencil paintings. In the foreground the larger mastodon is leaning over to crush a very large orange pumkin with its weight, while the mastodon behind it snacks on pumpkin chunks. The forest around them is mixed with tall conifers and deciduous trees in various shades of fall reds, oranges and yellows
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
While bovines have not spread far beyond the known world, within its confines, there are numerous species that are quite successful. Perhaps chief among these are the buffalos, with the Seridic wetlands being home to a massive population of water buffalo.

Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLr5...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
A growing ba'khar's bread and butter:
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
A paper was just published that looks at the genomes of all Gibbons, forming a full phylogeny and demographic history and finding the enigmatic Junzi imperialis to be the sister species of Nomascus hainanus (Junzi is a synonym of Nomascus)!!!! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #primates #science #gibbons
Genome sequences of extant and extinct gibbons reveal their phylogeny, demographic history, and conservation status
This study presents a comprehensive evolutionary history of gibbons by resolving their contentious phylogeny, reclassifying an extinct species with ancient DNA, and identifying a structural variant po...
www.cell.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Colored sketch of the newly-validated Nanotyrannus lancensis, though it’s not having a good time. This baby has found itself grappled by a particularly ambitious Didelphodon, after wandering a little too far from home. #backinhell #paleoart #sciart #cretaceous
Colored-pencil drawing of a Didelphodon in a sit-up position, grabbing onto a fluffy baby Nanotyrannus with both hands and one of its feet while its jaws completely envelop and crush the back of the small theropod’s skull. The Didelphodon is overall very dark brown in color, while the baby Nanotyrannus is a mix of olive tan and orange with thin dorsal stripes.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
A quick doodle for the final day of #GarWeek, a large melanistic Alligator Gar cruises underneath an oblivious Ocelot somewhere in the bayous of Louisiana. A scene that may have happened several times in the past, and may continue to occur if both species are valued and protected. #wildlife #sciart
Black-and-white pencil sketch of a melanistic Alligator Gar swimming underneath a much smaller Ocelot that’s paddling on the surface above it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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lacerdajulio.bsky.social
Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia.

#Art #SciArt #artbyjulio
A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Tonight’s flocking #Paleostream sketches (it’s been a hot minute): Nanotyrannus in the woods, Pteranodon over Protosphyraena, Phosphorosaurus + sturgeon lunch, and Helicoprion. #paleoart #sciart #cretaceous #permian #backinhell
Four black-and-white pencil sketches of prehistoric animals, arranged in four quadrants on a piece of paper. In the top left is a Nanotyrannus, facing angled away from the viewer between several very large trees. In the top right is a female Pteranodon flying low over the water of the open ocean, looking at a large Protosphyraena fish swimming at the surface. In the bottom left is a Phosphorosaurus swimming with a particularly large sturgeon writhing in its jaws. In the bottom right is an up-close face of Helicoprion in side view, showcasing small scars and sensory pores as it swims upwards.
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
M O N K E

#pleistocene #gigantopithecus #prehistoricplanet #prehistoricplaneticeage
A promotional image from the Apple TV website on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, showing the face, shoulders, and hand of the massive extinct ape Gigantopithecus as it pulls a small twig through its lips.
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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olessan.bsky.social
South Island giant moa my beloved

#PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
A composite meme: on the left, a screenshot from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age showing a male and female South Island giant moa; on the left, a screenshot meme from Resident Evil Village showing Heisenberg (who is a normal height) and Dimetrescu (who is 9 feet tall), used frequently as a meme about very tall women
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv... The trailer has arrived, and there are not enough words in the English language to describe the overwhelming joy that I am feeling right now, it’s beautiful!!! #pleistocene #prehistoricplaneticeage #prehistoricplanet
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
I don't post it here much, but I love photographing wildlife nearly as much as I love drawing it. Here, a Chipping Sparrow borb rests atop the neighbor's fence. #wildlife #bird #photography
A photograph of a small Chipping Sparrow sitting on the top of a tall, pale-brown wooden fence, facing towards the right. Behind it is a blurry green background of the woods. The sparrow is a deeper brown than the fence, with bars and stripes on its wings and a reddish top of its head.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM