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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies
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🪡Maker of Palaeoplushies™; soft realistic extinct creatures🦖🦤 (and increasingly more extant ones🐟🪲)
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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies @palaeoplushies.com · Oct 22
🪡🧵Portfolio post🦖🐟

I'm a natural history artist who specialises in designing and hand-making realistic plushies of animals!

I focus on under-represented species, using palaeoartistic techniques to reconstruct extinct creatures.

My work can be found on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com
A realistic plush anurognathus- a species of small pterosaur. It has brown fur and striking green-orange wing membranes. Shiny dark eyes look soulfully at the camera. A realistic plush Oyster Toadfish. This fish is a mottled brown which would blend in well with it's environment. It has a fringe around it's face to break up the outline, and shining gold eyes. It looks rather grumpy. A realistic plush depiction of a blue Neocaridina shrimp. This plush looks like it is made of transparent segments, but it is actually a digitally painted pattern printed onto soft velvet fabric. It has beady eyes and cord antennae. A realistic depiction of a baby Diplodocus dinosaur. The colouration is a striped brown and deep orange. It has scales along it's tail, which is visible because the plush looks away from the camera.
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I'm thinking of taking on 3-5 custom realistic creature plush commissions over the Dec-Jan period!

If this is something you'd be interested in, here's a form to send me an enquiry for a quote:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This form also includes estimated prices of different plush options!
A Photo of a realistic plushie shrimp, realistic that is, except for the colours - This shrimp is rainbow bright! A photo of a realistic Megalosaurus in the style of the victorian statue from the Crystal Palace Park
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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how would a pleco wear pants
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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He's £450 now!!!
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Horace is still looking for a home!

I've reduced his price (now £500gbp) to try and find him a home before Christmas!

www.palaeoplushies.com
A fluffy plush boar. He has kind eyes, big white tusks, a brown nose and fluffy black ears
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Pleco plushies are in stock again over at www.palaeoplushies.com !!

Support a small business (me and my sister) this holiday season, so we can keep doing this!
A collage of 9 different realistic plush plecos- L190 Royal Pleco, L027 Xingu Royal, L046 Zebra Pleco, L200 Green Phantom, L239 Blue Panaque, L128 Blue Phantom, L114 Leopard Cactus, Common pleco and L018 Gold Nugget
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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What if the true meaning of Christmas is supporting small businesses so the oligarchs have a very shitty season?

😚
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a three quarter profile of an ancient Egyptian figurine of a leaping dog facing left. Carved from ivory, now a warm caramel brown colour with glossy surface. The dogs eyes are outlined in black, the ears are floppy, the mouth is slightly ajar (the inside of the mouth is painted red - not sen in my photo). The front and back legs are outstretched as if running at full speed. A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth so that the dog looks as if it’s barking. Dimensions: L 18.2 cm × H 6.1 cm × W 3.6 cm. Dated to Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC, reign of Amenhotep III who was Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The dog is mounted on a thin metal rod in a display case. In the background in the same display case is a ‘galloping’ brown horse, which is the handle of an ancient Egyptian fly whisk or light whip.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Almost surreal. The water really is this colour, if you don’t believe me I’ll find the video to prove it! The reflection of a small but very beautiful waterfall near Bovec, Slovenia, in the green pool at its base.

#photography #landscapephotography #photographers #slovenia
Looking into a pool of water, with autumn leaves floating on the surface and the reflection of a waterfall in the top left. Due to the limestone rock and shady location the water appears deep green.
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Happy #WorldAnteaterDay
🐾Anteaters are mammals
🦷They have no teeth
👅They use their long sticky tongues to eat 35,000 ants and termites per day!
🐜The are found in South and Central America (and London Zoo!)
#ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience #LivingThingsAndTheirHabitats #PrimaryScience
Dr Jo feeding an anteater
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Horace is still looking for a home!

I've reduced his price (now £500gbp) to try and find him a home before Christmas!

www.palaeoplushies.com
A fluffy plush boar. He has kind eyes, big white tusks, a brown nose and fluffy black ears
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I don’t normally share petitions, but good friends and colleagues are going to lose their jobs as part of the planned cuts to the geology dept at Leicester.

Consider adding your signature here:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

An excellent dept that doesn’t deserve to be decimated. 🧪⚒️🌍
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Happy #WorldAnteaterDay! This Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) #SciArt is by Édouard Traviès for Charles Dessalines d'Orbigny, Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle (1849). Contributed to BHL by @ncsulibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19538021 🧪 📖 🌎 🐜 #ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of a giant anteater, a brown and black mammal with a long snout and a huge fluffy tail held high.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the anteaters, for today is their special day!

To celebrate World Anteater Day, here is an engraving from the book 'The Illustrated Natural History' by J. G. Wood, published in 1863.

📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO

#WorldAnteaterDay #AnteaterDay #RareBooks
Engraving of an anteater from a book. The anteater is standing in side profile, with a long thin tongue protruding from its long snout. It has a black stripe running from its upper front legs toward its spine. The coat is dense, coarse, and shaggy with long hairs. It is standing on four legs, and has sharp front claws. The caption under the engraving reads: 'Tamanoir, or Ant-Bear - Myrmecophaga jubata'.
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Happy #WorldAnteaterDay to those who celebrate!
Digital painting of a giant anteater which has long fur and small head with long nose. Its fur or hair is striped in shades of cream, beige, brown, and black, and it is walking along an abstract-looking sandy hill.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Happy World Anteater Day to Gloria and McCauley!

Giant anteaters, like Zoo Boise's couple, are able to flick their two-foot-long tongues in and out 150 times per minute.

📷: Zookeeper Elsa
Two giant anteaters - one male and one female - eat fruits, eggs, and chow from a dish inside a zoo dayroom habitat.
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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like, get a load of their giant anteaters! these guys are perfect
www.etsy.com/listing/4391...
A small plushie of a giant anteater in a person's hand Three small giant anteater plushies sitting on and around a grey Singer sewing machine
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Horace is still looking for a home!
palaeoplushies.com Rebecca | Palaeoplushies @palaeoplushies.com · Oct 24
I've made two big cuddly plushie wild boars!

They're for sale over on my website; www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/sus-scr...
A photograph of a realistic plushie wild boar. It is made of assorted brown faux fur fabrics. It is labelled with the name "Hilda". She has gengle eyes and big tusks. A photo of a realistic plushie wild boar named "Horace". His ears are big, black and fluffy. His mane is luxurious and his face is shades of grey, whilst his body is brown.
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Today is #WorldAnteaterDay 🎉💙

Giant Anteater sketch study. Conservation status Vulnerable. They have a distinctive snout with a 2-foot-long tongue and no teeth, and feed almost exclusively on ants and termites.

#AnteaterDay #GiantAnteater #AnimalArt #SciArt #SketchStudy
Giant ant eater sketch studies and poses. I included a large front facing view and side vies as well as rendering the skull.
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The big news is that we're in BIRMINGHAM for 2026, July 25th-26th. It's guaranteed to be huge. Talks, events, a massive lot of vendors, costumes, art and more. Be sure to keep an eye on our website and book your accommodation now.... www.dinocon.co.uk @dinoconuk.bsky.social #DinoConUK
DinoCon
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November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I'll start: @ravenscimaven.bsky.social should share about PRI's need for donations before the end of the year because it is a center of science communication, teacher education, and science outreach, especially for Earth and climate science, and they are based in NY www.priweb.org/learn-and-te...
Learn & Teach — Paleontological Research Institution
www.priweb.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Autumn leaf 1
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 130 mm.

Suggested musical accompaniment:
youtu.be/htnXgyBbiyg?....
Watercolour painting of an autumn leaf of red and gold with dark brown spotting.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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A bit of greenery
A hill covered in mossy rocks and fallen trees in a forest
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Be nice to seagulls!!! 🤍
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Finished up some plushie Small-Spotted Catshark/Lesser-Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) this morning!

These are all printed at-home- this gives me the freedom to use different fabrics and slight colour variations!

They're for sale over here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/smallsp...
Three realistic plush catsharks lay on their side, showing their pale bellies and silly little mouths. Three plush catsharks. Their soft velvet fabric is printed with slightly different tones of dotty brown. They have grey eyes.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM