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22 🇮🇪🇵🇰 An Artist/Paleoartist, as well as a dental student. Enthusiastic about all life living or extinct! #paleoart #paleontology

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HJ_arts02 @haiderjaffri.bsky.social · Nov 7

A piece of mine from 2022!

A leucistic Livyatan calf with her mother, off the coast of New Zealand. Circa 4 million years ago.

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Karim Zanaty @extinctfineart.bsky.social · May 8

Virtual #Paleoart Gallery Participants (4/5)

Just about one more week to go with artwork from
@fossillad123.bsky.social
@haiderjaffri.bsky.social
@wargonopsid.bsky.social
@palaeonavix.bsky.social
@spinojp.bsky.social

Get your tickets here tinyurl.com/4zw5m89e, spread the word & join the event!

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Apr 24

I missed Velociraptor apreciation day but its always s good day to appreciate velociraptor

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HJ_arts02 @haiderjaffri.bsky.social · Apr 29

"Giant of the Andes"
Featuring Megatherium. Argentina circa 20,000 years ago.

About time I posted one of the 2 pieces I did for this Amazing study by @slothfultyrant.bsky.social , here on Bluesky!

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HJ_arts02 @haiderjaffri.bsky.social · Apr 21

"A local river giant"

A revamp of a piece i did 2 years ago. Featuring Baryonyx circa 125 million years ago. England.

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Michael Deak @slothfultyrant.bsky.social · Apr 11

Looks like the New York Times article on our research just got a rerun in Brazil's leading newspaper! This time featuring the artwork by @haiderjaffri.bsky.social.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2025...

www1.folha.uol.com.br

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Gabriel Bertoja (commissions open) @gabrielbruh.bsky.social · Feb 27

An old buck Estemmenosuchus scratches itself on a dead tree with all sorts of little guys!

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Mar 18

Spinosaurus comm

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Feb 3

Parapithecus grangeris and some fruit from oligocene fayum egypt. Not to scale

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Feb 22

Dragon in watercolor

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Feb 13

neck details

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Feb 5

Maternal Needs

A stand off between human and Homotherium. Both are mothers and both will do whatever necessary for their offspring’s survival.

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Feb 2

Meganthropus palaeojavanicus of Sangiran, Central Java, Indonesia. A hominid that lived during the early-middle Pleistocene.

Brush test from last year. The fur brush is by Ville Sinkkonen, which you can get from his gumroad. Easily my top 5 brushpacks.

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Jan 18

More than a dog

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Jan 28

Homo sapiens

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Everett Mancke @everett1107.bsky.social · Jan 29

Saichania chulsanensis

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jan 10

Dread snek

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jan 24

Apidium from oligocene of Fayum, Egypt

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jan 25

Citipati osmolskae, watercolor

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Oct 7

Microsyops fur brush demo. Quick one. Brushes now available here villes.gumroad.com/l/rkrac

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Fang (Commission's Open) @fangg.bsky.social · Jan 16

#Commissions Open!
Updated commission board.

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · Nov 27

Portrait of a Kestrel
I met this fluffed up little guy out in the fields of Friesland in the Netherlands, observing me observing him, from his safe perch atop a lamp post.
Acrylics on board
26 x 26 cm

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jan 16

Devonion fishies Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) and couple of bothriolepis swimming by. Needs updating but still thinking this is one of my better paintings I have done

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Dec 30

Work of Margret Flinch should get more attention and be named along the Knight and Christman as the great paleoartists. Illustrator and sculptor among other things she made life reconstructions to Osborns massive two part monograph series on proboscideans. I’m particularly fond of these ink drawings

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HJ_arts02 @haiderjaffri.bsky.social · Jan 14

It was a massive pleasure to work with you!!

Michael Deak @slothfultyrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

Also, HUGE shout-out to @haiderjaffri.bsky.social for doing not one, but two excellent pieces of art for the paper!

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Michael Deak @slothfultyrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

Words cannot describe how excited I am to announce the publication of my first peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution! Here's a big, fancy thread summarizing everything: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry - Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Remains of megatheres have been known since the 18th -century and were among the first megafaunal vertebrates to be studied. While several examples of preserved integument show a thick coverage of fur...

link.springer.com

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