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Jay
@kakapojay.bsky.social
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Assistant producer for factual TV (Earth, Walking with Dinosaurs 2025, Evolution), science communicator, paleoartist, paleontology enthusiast (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · Oct 18
Hello new (and old) friends! I'm Jay and I'm an assistant producer for science documentaries (currently working on Walking with Dinosaurs 2025 & Evolution), a science communicator, and a paleoartist! Please do give me profile a look if that sounds like it's up your alley!

#sciart #paleoart
Me looking vaguely cute A profile illustration of a dodo Illustration of two tyrannosaurs doing a courtship dance through a burnt out forest Illustration of a Shantungosaurus coming across a parade of baby sauropods
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The Kem Kem was home to a few terrestrial crocodylomorphs, and the 2m-long predator Hamadasuchus is one of the more intimidating ones!

Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart
A brown running Hamadasuchus
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
kakapojay.bsky.social
Will be going to see the Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Lightroom event after all! 🥳
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Greater Apes
Tension rises between the neighboring erectus family and a court of Gigantopithecus. Two weeks ago the cunning fleet-footed hunters managed to kill one of the young ponginae. This particularly huge dominant male won’t let it happen again. Illustration for Ben G Thomas.
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
kakapojay.bsky.social
I LOVE a thematically appropriate aspect ratio change in a movie
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Can't wait to read this!!
stevebrusatte.bsky.social Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 4d
🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds!

Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social

Preorder 👇
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
kakapojay.bsky.social
A small but sturdy Kem Kem critter - the side-necked turtle, Galianemys! I've opted to illustrate a generic member of the wider genus, as there are actually two species in the region.

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#sciart #paleoart
Brown and green side-necked turtle Galianemys.
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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My three sons: Ike, kitchen roll, and Dante
Ike the royal python, a paper towel roll, and Dante the Havanese dog
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
Garfield Minott at microphone, holding sauropod model. Photo from Simcoe Muskoka Family Connections Black History Month event. Carcharodontosaurus head model by Minott, as used in technical paper by Kent Stevens. Minott Carcharodontosaurus head model from Paul Sereno lab website.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Beautiful
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
kakapojay.bsky.social
One of my favourite memories of working on WWD was having my weekly chats with @arctomet.bsky.social - and on Tuesday we finally got to meet in person!
Myself and Thomas Holtz at a cafe
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩

🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳

The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
kakapojay.bsky.social
Back to the skies of the Kem Kem, we find one of the many toothed pterosaurs of the region, Siroccopteryx! This critter has somewhat modestly sized teeth compared to it's cousins, and I've illustrated it here with a speculative crest.

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Blue, white, gold, and red Siroccopteryx pterosaur
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
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November 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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An odd bony fish from the Kem Kem, Concavotectum. I'm still very out of my element with illustrating fish, but this fella had some very fun shapes to work with.

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Green striped Concavotectum fish with red-yellow fins.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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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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Pteranodon Ptwins.
A new portrait of perhaps the most iconic pterosaur.
#SciArt
A digital portrait of Pteranodon longiceps, a prehistoric flying reptile with long, toothless beak and an almost equally long, slender crest on its head. It is shown with a brightly coloured head and throat pouch, and a covering of black, feather-like fibres on its neck. A second out-of-focus individual is in the foreground.
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
They bolt together in the final episode to form a megamachairodont
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The 6-ish metre long Kem Kem crocodylomorph Laganosuchus represents a bizarre lineage known primarily from their elongated, flattened, U-shaped heads.

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A dark striped Laganosuchus
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mushbeast.bsky.social
i ❤️ kakapos
a sticker sheet design of 3 kakapos. top left is standing cutely with their big feet. top right is a 3/4” portrait of a kakapo in a red heart. bottom is eating berries off of a mossy log.
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
Prehistoric Planet Smilodon populator. Prehistoric Planet Gigantopithecus. Prehistoric Planet Megaloceros as seen from a cave interior. Prehistoric Planet giant adjutant stork.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.
FIGURE 2. Petroglyphs, PMA/MR/2656, on a slab of Zagaje Formation sandstone from Kontrewers, Poland.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age!

I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together!
#PrehistoricPlanet

youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
Nice way to start the day:

www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-...
Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems
Mesozoic dinosaurs and Cenozoic mammals are often regarded as broadly ecologically equivalent, as they included the majority of medium-to-large-bodied terrestrial vertebrates of their respective eras....
www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
kakapojay.bsky.social
Help! I can't decide which critter to illustrate next for the Kem Kem series - suggestions welcome!
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM