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Bill Unzen. Illustrator and artist. Primarily Natural History & Paleo Art.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Oct 17

As many others have done I have renewed motivation in actively using this site.

I am primarily a natural history/paleo artist creating works that vary from stylized to realistic.

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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · 17d

Happy birthday to Mesozoic Art v.2 - on sale today from Bloomsbury Wildlife! As fine a collection of modern palaeoart as could be - 25 artists across 250 pages. Darren Naish and I could not be more proud.

Available from Bloomsbury and all other fine booksellers!

Volume one is still available!

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 19d

New at Tetrapod Zoology .... Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s 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...

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Aug 20

Received the Ceratopsian skull magnets (19 pcs) from Scaled Beast @rubrennanart.bsky.social as an early b-day present for myself.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Aug 7

Received my copy of Mesozoic Art II. It is a genuine honor to have my work be included with so many other talented paleo artists.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our 25 contributing artists have started to receive their personal copies of #MesozoicArtII, the huge and spectacular new #palaeoart-themed @chiffchat.bsky.social book by myself and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social. Truly the ultimate must-have if you're interested in representations of ancient life :)

Mesozoic Art II, the book, on a cluttered desk with dinosaur toys.

Page from within, showing art and captions.

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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · Aug 7

Coming on 25th Sept...

It really is beautiful. So proud.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Aug 7

Borneo: where Saltwater Crocodiles see elephants as fair game.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Jul 31

Yes, the original GOT dragons were designed with a bird-like sternum in the rough skeletal stage. All subsequent dragon designs are built off this base design/rig (even Caraxes).

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Jul 11

Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Jul 7

"like monkey with night visison"

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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · Jun 12

A little something arrived in the post today. Actually, it's a pretty sizeable something and hard to do a flip-through with one hand - but you'll hopefully get the gist. I think @Darren Naish and I can feel pretty pleased with how it looks and can't wait for it to be released into the wild!

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Jun 12

What I am humbly regarding as the most significant, impactful and beautiful of #books devoted to #palaeoart / #paleoart - MESOZOIC ART II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and myself, published by @chiffchat.bsky.social - has arrived here at Tet Zoo Towers. It's on general sale in September!

Cover. Big, rectangular, with dinosaurs.

Title page, spinosaurid art by Anthony Hutchings.

Contents page, showing list of artists included.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 29

Stock image sites and reddit are especially bad for labeling highland cattle as yak. I have even seen Muskox and Takin posted as yak.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 29

Not a Yak at all. Doesn't even look like a hybrid Dzo.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 20

I know Gary Gygax put a some of these creatures into his Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual book and gave them names such as Owlbear, Rust Monster, and Bulette.

Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 20

They are most commonly known as 'chinasaurs'. Very common and cheap toys I think started appearing in the 1960's and produced for decades after.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 20

It would fit in well with these guys.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 8

Attenborosaurus.

This genus of early Jurassic Pliosaurid is named after Sir David Attenborough, whose 99th birthday is today.

Piece from 2023.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 7

"See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil"

Somewhat cursed WIP with some layers off.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · May 7

Old Ed.

Edmontosaurus regalis.

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yes it is a Opossum.

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joshuapaleorojas.bsky.social @joshuapaleorojas.bsky.social · Apr 12

The first image is a beautiful illustration by the talented artist @orribec.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient northern China, during the Neogene Period. During the dry season, with no trees in sight, a single amebelodontid proboscidean called Platybelodon grangeri is searching hard for a place to

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Mar 17

This paper has a lot of nice data that does seem to indicate an overlooked distinctiveness, but to do taxonomic revisions without any genetic data on living species should not be a thing in 2025. Even if a species is so rare that such data is difficult to obtain it would seem better to wait.

Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · Mar 17

There is a recent proposal to classify the Javan rhinoceros as its own distinct genus Eurhinoceros. So five species in five genera of extant rhino.

zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1278...

A taxonomic review of the genus Rhinoceros with emphasis on the distinction of Eurhinoceros (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae)

This study examines the ecomorphological characteristics of two Asian rhinoceros species: the critically endangered Sundaic rhinoceros and the vulnerable Indian rhinoceros. Among the five living rhino...

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Orribec @orribec.bsky.social · Mar 11

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