Liz Furman
@loamlizzard.bsky.social
I draw extinct and extant creatures, make clay minis, and post neat photos!
Instagram: @loam_lizzard
She/her
UConn 2025 B.S. Earth Science
Instagram: @loam_lizzard
She/her
UConn 2025 B.S. Earth Science
Absolutely thrilled to have seen the new Chicago Archaeopteryx exhibit. This specimen never ceases to amaze me. Featuring my fanart of said dead bird.
#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum
#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum
January 29, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have seen the new Chicago Archaeopteryx exhibit. This specimen never ceases to amaze me. Featuring my fanart of said dead bird.
#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum
#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum
January 29, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This is one of the most absurd things I've ever seen in a crystal shop. Top tier impulse purchase.
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is one of the most absurd things I've ever seen in a crystal shop. Top tier impulse purchase.
Reptiles doing the reptile things (Burpee museum)
January 26, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Reptiles doing the reptile things (Burpee museum)
Got to pet a sturgeon at the Burpee museum, my life has peaked
January 26, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Got to pet a sturgeon at the Burpee museum, my life has peaked
Mahjong in Chicago with friends and my Therizinosaurus son named Chad Kroger
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Mahjong in Chicago with friends and my Therizinosaurus son named Chad Kroger
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Flags with extinct animals on them:
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
January 16, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Flags with extinct animals on them:
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
Listening to Limp Bizkit while drawing fish skeletals. Not sure if this is making me feel more or less sane tbh
January 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Listening to Limp Bizkit while drawing fish skeletals. Not sure if this is making me feel more or less sane tbh
Gaze upon this magnificent artifact I found at the local thrift store the other day
January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Gaze upon this magnificent artifact I found at the local thrift store the other day
I also checked out the new Impact exhibit at the AMNH yesterday. I didn't have too much time for an in depth look, but first impressions were good! Mixed reviews on the models and illustrations. Looking forward to more thoroughly reading through everything next time I'm there.
December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I also checked out the new Impact exhibit at the AMNH yesterday. I didn't have too much time for an in depth look, but first impressions were good! Mixed reviews on the models and illustrations. Looking forward to more thoroughly reading through everything next time I'm there.
Practicing skeletal sketches with Stegosaurus at the AMNH yesterday!
December 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Practicing skeletal sketches with Stegosaurus at the AMNH yesterday!
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We are NOMINATED‼️
This gonna be the LAST CHANCE for anime adaptation, and I believe we have the power to make it happen!
Please VOTE for Dinosaur Sanctuary from the link below▼
anime-japan.jp/activities/a...
I'll show you how to vote in the replay below.
This gonna be the LAST CHANCE for anime adaptation, and I believe we have the power to make it happen!
Please VOTE for Dinosaur Sanctuary from the link below▼
anime-japan.jp/activities/a...
I'll show you how to vote in the replay below.
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We are NOMINATED‼️
This gonna be the LAST CHANCE for anime adaptation, and I believe we have the power to make it happen!
Please VOTE for Dinosaur Sanctuary from the link below▼
anime-japan.jp/activities/a...
I'll show you how to vote in the replay below.
This gonna be the LAST CHANCE for anime adaptation, and I believe we have the power to make it happen!
Please VOTE for Dinosaur Sanctuary from the link below▼
anime-japan.jp/activities/a...
I'll show you how to vote in the replay below.
Cimolichthys nepaholica was a Late Cretaceous Big Ol' Fish™. A lot of our well-known Mesozoic ray-finned fish represent early-diverging groups that have no modern close relatives, but not this guy! Cimolichthys belongs to the order Aulopiformes, which is still around today in the form of...
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Cimolichthys nepaholica was a Late Cretaceous Big Ol' Fish™. A lot of our well-known Mesozoic ray-finned fish represent early-diverging groups that have no modern close relatives, but not this guy! Cimolichthys belongs to the order Aulopiformes, which is still around today in the form of...
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I painted a Jurassic classic, #Stegosaurus. 💚
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I painted a Jurassic classic, #Stegosaurus. 💚
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Result from the Mammoth Site #paleostream! This has been our first mammoth steppe formation stream, dwelling into some the classic giants of the Pleistocene. This site in South Dakota offered a unique opportunity is that is has so much stuff preserved in situ that we can...
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Result from the Mammoth Site #paleostream! This has been our first mammoth steppe formation stream, dwelling into some the classic giants of the Pleistocene. This site in South Dakota offered a unique opportunity is that is has so much stuff preserved in situ that we can...
I can't get over how cool this cover is!!!
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I can't get over how cool this cover is!!!
Regretting multiple life decisions right now but we persevere.
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Regretting multiple life decisions right now but we persevere.
In related news, working on this guy! If any of you lovely fish people know anything about Arapaima hyoids please do let me know if I got this remotely correct.
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In related news, working on this guy! If any of you lovely fish people know anything about Arapaima hyoids please do let me know if I got this remotely correct.
Surely Arapaima skulls will at least somewhat resemble a standard fish skull... oops all infraorbitals.
Never get complacent.
Never get complacent.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Surely Arapaima skulls will at least somewhat resemble a standard fish skull... oops all infraorbitals.
Never get complacent.
Never get complacent.
Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
Last year I made a Xiphactinus pecan pie for Thanksgiving. What prehistoric fish should I do this year?
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Last year I made a Xiphactinus pecan pie for Thanksgiving. What prehistoric fish should I do this year?
Two Denversaurus meet at sunset. Referenced from a photo I took in Montana this summer.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Two Denversaurus meet at sunset. Referenced from a photo I took in Montana this summer.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.