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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 · 10d
Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart
An advertisement/announcement for commissions, featuring several pieces of my artwork on a dark grey background, arranged by approximate difficulty and corresponding price range. Grayscale subjects without backgrounds are roughly twenty-five to fifty dollars, colored subjects without backgrounds are roughly thirty to seventy-five dollars, infographics (either colored or grayscale) featuring text and drawings are roughly fifty to two-hundred dollars, grayscale full scenes are roughly one-hundred-and-fifty to two-hundred-and-fifty dollars, and colored full scenes are roughly one-hundred-and-seventy-five dollars to three-hundred dollars. Pricing is flexible depending on the complexity and subject matter of the piece.
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I'm making a series of infographics at the moment for some school groups, and, honestly, I'm really enjoying it!!!
They're learning about paleontology, and I was asked if I could provide some images of extinct plants and animals! Here are the first few: #paleoart #scicomm #education #paleontology
An infographic of heterodontosaurus, with a lateral view I the centre surrounded by labels, and a close up of the head on the right, next to a geological time scale An infogrwphic of dimorphodon with in in lateral view, flying, in the centre, with a block of text top right and a geological timescale to the right And infograpgic of Anchiornis in lateral view, with labels surrounding it, and a block of text I the top right, next to a geological timescale.
January 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Tonight’s flocking-together #Paleostream was nothing but synapsids, three gorgonopsians in a row (Dinogorgon, Viatkogorgon, and Njalila) and then the Pleistocene South American horse Hippidion. #paleoart #sciart #permian #pleistocene
Black-and-white pencil sketches of four prehistoric synapsids: three different gorgonopsians in a column on the far left side of the page, and then a scene of two Hippidion taking up the rest of the space. The top gorgonopsian is Dinogorgon, rolling around on the ground happily. The middle gorgonopsian is the small Viatkogorgon, swimming above the viewer with a temnospondyl in its mouth. The bottom gorgonopsian is a bust of the newly named Njalila, just yawning. The two Hippidion that take up most of the paper are a pair of stallions fighting in the open habitats of the high Andes. One of them is in the process of kicking the other’s snout, likely breaking the long nasal bone characteristic of this genus. In the distance, a Spectacled Bear stands up to get a better view of the battle.
January 10, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Dynamognathus robertsoni!

#paleoart #sciart #vectorart
Vector illustration of Dynamognathus robertsoni, a large salamander from the early Pliocene of Tennessee. The long salamander is slinking along the image, with half of a tiny shrew hanging out of its mouth. It is pinkish brown in color will grey speckles along its body. Text reads: Dynamognathus robertsoni. Davis Gunnin, Blaine W. Schubert, Joshua X. Samuels et al. " A new plethodontid salamander from the Early Pliocene of northeastern Tennessee, USA, and its bearing on desmognathan evolution" Historical Biology (2025) 1-25. May 16 2025
January 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Illustration of the African middle-miocene Elasmotheriine Victoriaceros kenyensis, made for the Victoriaceros Wikipedia page. The few existing reconstructions of this rhino give it a prominent nasal horn, while I depicted it with a large callus-like growth. #miocene #paleoart #sciart
A colored-pencil drawing of the elasmotheriine rhino Victoriaceros kenyensis standing in lateral view, made for Wikipedia. It is overall brown in color with pale belly and cheek. The upper lip is hooked downwards like a Black Rhino, due to it having a similar browse-dominated diet. The end of its snout sports a callus-like pad instead of a more traditionally rhino-like horn. The presence of a nasal horn is briefly stated in V. kenyensis’s description, but not elaborated upon. This is a common theme in miocene rhino descriptions, wherein a rugosity on the nasal bones is stated to be horn-bearing without a detailed analysis of any of these structures (from what I can find at least). Therefore, I decided to be more experimental with it.
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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A scene from middle Miocene Slovakia: a Pseudocyon rears up in surprise as a defensive mother Parvorhinus charges it, protective of her clueless calf. Parvorhinus, named a few years ago, was one of the smallest rhinos of the #Miocene and makes for a fun first sketch of 2026! #paleoart #sciart
A black-and-white pencil sketch of a small rhinoceros (Parvorhinus steinheimensis) aggressively facing, with mouth open and front foot kicked back, the bear-dog Pseudocyon steinheimensis which rears up in surprise with arms spread out. The small calf of the Parvorhinus stands right behind its mother, facing the viewer derpily.
January 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵
January 8, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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Getting back into the swing of ungulates after a bit, here are four rhinos: Parvorhinus, Uintaceras, Megacanodon, Aprotodon qiui #paleoart #sciart
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
So It Begins...
January 7, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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Exhibit #SciArt 🎨 Florida Pleistocene
Paleontologists have found Pleistocene fossils in almost every county in Florida, speaking to our state’s rich biodiversity during this period.

🗝️ Check out the exhibit art + key, and fossils from our collections:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
a painting of an nature scene with a jaguar chasing small boar-like animals in the foreground and further out on the savannah are deer, elephants and other large animals a key to an illustration of a nature scene with many animals represented by yellow shapes with numbers on them match to the list in the linked post
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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The first flocking #Paleostream of 2026: speculative new discoveries that we hope to see this year. Intermediate/half-way-there pterosaur, ancestral bat, late-surviving radiodont, and arthropleura-size house centipede were the chosen prompts, which were all very fun to ponder and draw.
Four black-and-white pencil sketches of speculative prehistoric creatures, all hopeful wishes for new discoveries to be announced in the upcoming year. In the top left is a transitional/ancestral pterosaur, still rather lagerpetid-like and possessing a relatively short fourth finger, but taking off with a quad launch by the forelimbs. In the top right is a very shrew-like ancestral bat, holding a click beetle larva in its hand and jaws. In the bottom left is a vaguely horseshoe-crab-like late-surviving radiodont, crawling along the Carboniferous mud while a smaller Microsaur inspects it. In the bottom right an arthropleura-size, aquatic House Centipede rears up and to the side after being spooked by a large Sebecid, somewhere in Paleocene Africa.
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart
An advertisement/announcement for commissions, featuring several pieces of my artwork on a dark grey background, arranged by approximate difficulty and corresponding price range. Grayscale subjects without backgrounds are roughly twenty-five to fifty dollars, colored subjects without backgrounds are roughly thirty to seventy-five dollars, infographics (either colored or grayscale) featuring text and drawings are roughly fifty to two-hundred dollars, grayscale full scenes are roughly one-hundred-and-fifty to two-hundred-and-fifty dollars, and colored full scenes are roughly one-hundred-and-seventy-five dollars to three-hundred dollars. Pricing is flexible depending on the complexity and subject matter of the piece.
January 2, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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wildlifewire.bsky.social
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial
Arnold et al. present evidence that Late Pleistocene hippos from the Upper Rhine Graben show close genetic ties to modern African hippos. Although hippos have been thought to have gone extinct around ...
www.cell.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
For my last #NearbyNature2025, I’ve drawn one of the rarest birds in North America: the Whooping Crane. They are the tallest bird on the continent at nearly 5 feet, a bit taller than the more abundant Sandhill Crane. On this New Year’s Eve, I saw these magnificent birds for the first time. #alabama
A colored-pencil sketch on paper of a Whooping Crane, standing in lateral view. Nearly all of its feathered body is pure white, with dark colored legs and black mustache-like facial markings leading up to a red head-cap, and a dirt-colored beak. Its neck and beak are long and slender.
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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Gigantohierax hunting Odocoileus virginianus
December 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Megalonyx and Rangifer tarandus
December 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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How to draw Pleistocene Crossing
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December 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Macrauchenia (with Lama guanicoe, Theristicus melanopis)
December 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Castoroides and Ursus americanus
December 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Two Aenocyon and Canis latrans
December 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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seismic-shrimp.bsky.social
Haven't been as active art-wise since a lot of my time has been going into wikipedia editing since almost nobody else does ray-finned fish and early eocene mammal groups. Though some of these were done last year, most of them are from throughout 2025.
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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shunosaurus.bsky.social
Megalonyx wanders through a flock of Clark's Nutcracker as they're caching pine nuts for the long winter.
#prehistpricplaneticeage had me thinking about Megalonyx in the rockies, and I tried to extrapolate what a summer coat may look like for them. #sciart #paleoart
A large gray sloth moves through a rocky diorama with a notable pine tree on the side. Many gray and black birds are perched around it. Another angle on the sloth. Another angle on the sloth.
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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paleofeathers.bsky.social
We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄
A mounted fossil skeleton of the extinct Miocene horse, Merychippus, in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The skeleton’s heating a santa hat.
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
My reconstruction of the Toronto Subway Deer (formerly Torontoceros hypogaeus), after a paper published this October looked at its dna and found it to be within Odocoileus, potentially a more steppe-adapted cousin of Mule Deer. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #canada #deer
A colored-pencil drawing of a bust of the Toronto Subway Deer, here drawn as a mule-deer-like member of Odocoileus. Its thick neck is curved upwards and turned towards the viewer, such that its head is in front view. The body and neck are overall plain pale brown, with a white throat patch right below the head. The top of the snout is pale, but the top of the head above the eyes is much darker and nearly rusty reddish in color. The ears perked up behind the antlers are quite large. The antlers themselves are wide-spanning and have tall, curled upwards tips, in a branching pattern similar to Mule Deer.
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Young Ba'khar Honor the Terms of the Tegu-Snubnose Truce. @dynamoterror.bsky.social, 2025
December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM