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Liz Furman

@loamlizzard.bsky.social

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I draw extinct and extant creatures, make clay minis, and post neat photos! Instagram: @loam_lizzard She/her UConn 2025 B.S. Earth Science

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Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · 2d

Homotherium and Smilodon were the last known surviving members of this lineage, going extinct in the late Pleistocene.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · 2d

Homotherium belongs to the cat subfamily Machairodontinae, which split from the lineage of all living cats about 20 million years ago. Another well-known Machairodont is Smilodon, the saber-toothed cat (not a tiger!)

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · 2d

Homotherium labeled skull diagram. I made this for an online vertebrate anatomy illustration class I'm taking right now, where we were assigned to draw a labeled felid skull.

#homotherium #cat #skull #paleontology #paleoart

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · 23d

Bring home this hand-made, one of a kind clay mini Eyespots Anurognathus!

Price: $15 + shipping

DM me to claim!

#pterosaur #anurognathus #dinosaur #paleontology #claymini

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · 25d

Hand-made, one of a kind clay mini Dreadnoughtus up for adoption! Colors based on the Prehistoric Planet Dreadnoughtus.

Price: $30 + shipping.

DM me to claim!

#dinosaur #dreadnoughtus #paleontology #claymini #prehistoricplanet

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · Sep 3

Kostensuchus, a terrestrial hypercarnivore distantly related to modern crocodilians.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Aug 25

Another pipe cleaner pterosaur commission - Thalassodromeus! If you would like to commission your own pterosaur, shoot me a DM! Starting at $15 + shipping.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Aug 13

The colors are based on the Field Museum's exhibit illustration. It's one of my favorite Archaeopteryx colorations!

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Aug 13

But I've had this idea in my head since the Chicago specimen was first revealed so I'm going off of announced order.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Aug 13

While this specimen is technically not the 13th to be formally described, it was #13 at the time it was announced by the Field Museum. Before it could be published, another very fragmentary specimen was described that took the #13 spot.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, one of the most well-preserved #Archaeopteryx specimens found to date!

#paleontology #dinosaurs #birds

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Aug 13

You're welcome, glad you like him!! I'm glad he arrived safe!

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · Jul 29

Phalacroichthys stellaris, Neojohn hirsutus, and Scyllaricoralis crypta, fictional marine non-tetrapods and my second entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · Jul 24

Chaohusaurus geishanensis
#Ichthyursday week 2

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · Jul 26

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, Mirasaura

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · Jul 24

Its finally out! Please Welcome Mirasaura! A new drepanosaur from the Middle Triassic of France.
@serpenillus.bsky.social made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time... =)

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thank you!!

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hatzegopteryx joins the party! And will now be leaving to its new home since its a commission. If you'd like to order your own custom pipe cleaner pterosaur, shoot me a DM! I can do any pterosaur, not just azhdarchids.

#pterosaur #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs

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Curtis Lanaghan @clanaghan.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Good merchants makes the best of unexpected situations. For instance, a prolonged heat wave will likely mean an increase in families heading to the beach to escape the heat, many of whom will be in need of a refreshing beverage..."

#iguanodon #dinosaur #paleoart #illustration #procreate

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · Jul 17

Temnodontosaurus trigonodon
#Ichthyursday week 1

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 17

In addition to the chondroderms, the flipper also has horizontal ridges and a flexible "winglet" on its tip. Together these adaptations would have reduced acoustic and hydrodynamic disturbance, making Temnodontosaurus a stealthy deep-water predator.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 17

Narrow cartilaginous structures called chondroderms line the trailing edge of the flipper. In life, these would have greatly reduced the fluid turbulence produced as the ichthyosaur moved, very similarly to the adaptations owl feathers have for silent flight!

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congrats to Lindgren et al. on their article "Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur". A remarkable fossil preserving soft tissue of the flipper of ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus revealed never before seen traits.

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 17

One of the coolest cases of convergent evolution was just published yesterday, so I was inspired to draw them together - Temnodontosaurus trigonodon and Tyto alba.

#paleoart #paleontology #ichthyosaurs #owls

Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · Jul 17

In addition to the chondroderms, the flipper also has horizontal ridges and a flexible "winglet" on its tip. Together these adaptations would have reduced acoustic and hydrodynamic disturbance, making Temnodontosaurus a stealthy deep-water predator.