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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 2d

Bunny demon boy night
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 15d

And if you want details about my NSL talk, I'm speaking on Sunday 19th of October, 11:15. See live.newscientist.com/speakers/mar...

Mark Witton

live.newscientist.com

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 22d

Don’t miss this interview with @markwitton.bsky.social demystifying the world of dinosaurs! Read his full interview here: www.express.co.uk/news/science... and don’t miss his talk at New Scientist Live on 19 October! @express.co.uk #KingTyrant #NewScientistLive

I’m a dinosaur expert – this is what Hollywood always gets wrong

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Witton also believes dinosaurs "may have been much smarter animals than we have given them credit for".

www.express.co.uk

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 13d

I forgot about this #paleoart of Deinocheirus I produced back in 2019 until this morning. Having not looked at it for years, I think it holds up pretty well. And no, it's not got the "feather mountain" look because D. was a big animal in a temperate climate.
#dinosaurs #fossil #paleontology #sciart

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 13d

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-...
#fossil #sciart

A herd of mammoths, with three large individuals up front, and lots of smaller, more distant individuals in the background, surrounding a shallow Pleistocene lake. They stand on browning, yellowing grass in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky. The mammoths are variable in colour, some being dark, some pale. A juvenile mammoth, blonde all over, has broken ranks and started chasing mallards around a pond. He has made a little grebe nervous. Why has this baby mammoth started attacking other species? Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 13d

What's in MESOZOIC ART II, our new, outstandingly gorgeous #palaeoart-themed giant book? Check it out ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/... #art #books #dinosaurs #paleoart

Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s — Tetrapod Zoology

Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art , edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bl...

tetzoo.com

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 13d

It's marine reptile Wednesday!
Here's an acrylic painting from 2021, depicting a #Cretoxyrhina (top left), Squalicorax (#sharks, bottom right), & two #Tylosaurus (juvenile left, adult right). This was a private commission.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Mosasaurus #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld

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Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 13d

A flower beetle in baltic amber. We hope to raise money for a museum microscope so kids can examine insect specimens like this one!

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 13d

i felt like drawing a placoderm last month, so i drew Gorgonichthys. it's been sitting in my wips pile for ages now, not tooo happy with this but that's the nature of art i guess :]

#placoderm #fishart #sciart

a Gorgonichthys has caught and bitten a Cladoselache, blood and flesh escapes from the open wound, including out of the Gorgonichthys' spiracle and gill slit. one Kentuchia takes a bite from the carcass while two others swim around the Gorgonichthys. two iceburgs float along in the backround, dropstones can be seen falling out of the one closest to the camera

Gorgonichthys is a large placoderm (jawed armoured fish) with a boxy head which lived in the same formation as Dunkleosteus.

Cladoselache is a cartilaginous fish that appeared like a shark with a flat boxy head, males had a curved spine on their primary dorsal fin, while females lacked them.

Kentuchia is an early rayfinned fish that had very forward placed eyes, giving it a very silly appearance

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 13d

Xericeps is another fragmentary Kem Kem pterosaur, known from a distinctively curved lower beak, complete with interesting protrusions on the inside, much like Alanqa - this speculative reconstruction is based loosely on the modern openbill stork!

Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

A Xericeps, covered in light hues of blues, greens, and purples.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 13d

Here’s a sneak peek! This is one of my favorites! I looked at a lot of photos of lions eating elephants for this drawing and let me tell you: it was gross.

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PrairieGh0st @prairiegh0st.bsky.social · 13d

for @saberdani.bsky.social <33333 big heart
thanks for letting me draw your dinosaur C: ilu

illustration of a pretty utahraptor named Fennel

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Emi the Chordate @emichordate.bsky.social · 13d

Great exhibition, closing soon ! A lot of effort was put into this project ! Here are some pictures from my visit some time ago :

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 13d

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma

( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 13d

bunny boy Salem (WIP)

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 19d

We will look back at the 2020s as a pivotal time in how prehistoric life is portrayed, mark my words! The ultimate guide to #palaeoart / #paleoart of our age ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s — Tetrapod Zoology

Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art , edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bl...

tetzoo.com

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Paulo Leite @thek560.bsky.social · 14d

Suchomimus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. Background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #suchomimus #paleoart #paleontology #3dart #3d

3D render of a suchomimus standing in some rocks. The dinosaur does not have it's right hand.

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 17d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Revueltosaurus spp.

From Late Triassic North America, "Revuelto lizard" is a genus of meter-long pseudosuchian whose species were once thought to be ornithischian dinosaurs. One species, R. callenderi, seems to feature a "tube" of club-like tail armor

Art by Miguelisaurusptor

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 17d

@marabrownwd.bsky.social Protoceratops design. Still some dinosaurs in the backlog I need to post. #Dinosaur #Protoceratops #SciFi

Digital sketch of a Protoceratops facing right with colors and quills inspired by a tenrec.

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Stella Angelika Ludwig @stellaludwig.bsky.social · 18d

This week, a new megaraptor was described—found with its final meal still in its mouth!

The discovery of Joaquinraptor sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology 🧪🦖

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

#science #paleontology #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #megaraptor #joaquinraptor

New megaraptor discovered—with its final meal still in its mouth

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly its last feast.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Ksepka Lab @ksepkalab.bsky.social · 18d

On #FossilFriday I am proud to share a new discovery - a skull of a large extinct relative of king and emperor penguins.

@atennyson.bsky.social, Daniel Thomas, Felix Marx,
and I report this magnificent skull in Journal of Paleontology:
https://
bit.ly/4ne3HQV

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus) @mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 18d

#FossilFriday
The second paper about the Chicago Archaeopteryx!
www.cell.com/the-innovati...

Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight

Powered flight, as the most physically demanding form of vertebrate locomotion, involves elevated energetic demands. The appearance of dinosaurian flight should therefore be associated with novel feat...

www.cell.com

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 18d

Back to the Kem Kem series! Taking to the air once more with Anhanguera - a piscivore with a 4-5m wingspan, and the first toothed pterosaur in the lineup. Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

A reddy-brown-white Anhanguera with a stripey nasal crest.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 18d

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 18d

Sinosaurus triassicus para o Card Game ZOIC

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