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Karim Zanaty @extinctfineart.bsky.social · May 8

Virtual #Paleoart Gallery Participants (4/5)

Just about one more week to go with artwork from
@fossillad123.bsky.social
@haiderjaffri.bsky.social
@wargonopsid.bsky.social
@palaeonavix.bsky.social
@spinojp.bsky.social

Get your tickets here tinyurl.com/4zw5m89e, spread the word & join the event!

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Apr 12

Put some initial colors on it

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · Apr 13

Orchids in the rain today (names in alt text) 🌸🌧️
#botany

Limodorum abortivum/limodore à feuilles avortées/violet limodore;
Orchis anthropophora/homme-pendu/(hanged) man orchid;
Ophrys lutea/ophrys jaune/yellow bee-orchid;
Orchis purpurea/Orchis pourpre/ lady orchid.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Apr 12

Baby joe Parasaurolophus juvenile with Denazinemys turtle and some Kaiparowits fm flora

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · Apr 8

ICB free read
Show Me Your #Teeth And I Will Tell You What You Eat: Differences in Tooth Enamel in #Snakes with Different Diets

by Dumont, Milgram, Herrel, Shahar, Shacham, Houssin, Delapré, Cornette, @marionsegall.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#morphology #ecology #science #biology

Fig. 3Variation in enamel general morphology. Differences in enamel surface morphology with (A) corrugated enamel surface from Acrochordus javanicus (B) worn surface of Boiga cynodon, and crenellated surface of Eirenis decemlineatus (C); both enamel outer surface and DEJ (dentino-enamel junction) are highlight in yellow to emphasize the different enamel surface. Different enamel thickness from different snake teeth of different sizes with a small-sized tooth with a thick enamel layer in Liodytes rigida (D), a small-sized tooth with a thin enamel layer in Micrurus psyches (E), a large-sized tooth with a thin enamel layer in Boa constrictor (F), a medium-sized tooth with a medium thick enamel layer in Naja annulata (G). Fractured and detached enamel observed in Fordonia leucobalia in SEM and in CT longitudinal sections (H), and enamel layer observed on the anterior facet of a Clelia clelia tooth (I) compared to the enamel present in all tooth facets in Atractaspis engaddensis in the microscopic image and virtual section

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Feb 8

Wowsers! Thank you for all the new follows 😃 I really appreciate each and everyone of you. I'm hoping 2025 will offer me more time to post personal art. I've also been busy taking the Vancouver Master Gardeners course, which is through the Van Dusen Botanical Garden. It's been a nice distraction 💚🌿

In the foreground are the green glossy leaves of an evergreen Magnolia with a pink seed head in the middle. In the background there is the head of Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur in the shadows with a golden highlight.

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binary sunrise @clarascintilla.bsky.social · Feb 2

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · Jan 29

To celebrate #YearOfTheSnake, here's my reconstruction of a Hell Creek boid preying on Cimolestes. These 2 lived alongside Tyrannosaurus & Triceratops, and were reconstructed for the Cretaceous Creatures project
#paleoart #sciart

Digital painting of a boa constrictor-like snake with orange, green & white coloration coiled on a tree limb as it swallows a small mammal

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · Jan 29

Year of the Snake 🐍

A variety of extinct snakes are arranged on a plain background. The snakes depicted are 1. Pterosphenus 2. Archaeophis 3. Eupodophis 4. Sanajeh 5. Wonambi 6. Najash 7. Titanoboa

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jan 27

Remarkably,this little mammoth carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago was recovered from the excavation spoil at Vogelherd Cave, some 70 years after the original excavations (Tübingen Museum)

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Álvaro Belinchón García @inkabg.bsky.social · Jan 10

The huge beached Parapuzosia is done! I hope you like it!

#paleoarte#paleoart#pterosaur#art#digitalart#ilustracion

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🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓 @spinojp.bsky.social · Jan 28

Amazing rendition !!

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · Jan 27

Paleoart speedpaint of the Wonambi genus of madtsoiid snake from Australia that went extinct within the last 50,000 years. #paleoart

Colorful horizontal striped constrictor with kangaroo prey in the shade next to a watering hole.

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cory @corycatte.crowcouncil.art · Jan 24

I drew this line as sea snakes a few years back and had decided to revisit the concept!

#art #pokemon #dragonite #dratini #dragonair

The pokemon line of dratini, dragonair, and dragonite, redesigned in the artist's own style with inspiration taken from sea snakes and axolotls.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jan 23

Olorotitan watercolor portrait

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Paschalis Dougalis @dougalisart.bsky.social · Dec 29

A triple portrait of Thylacines I`ve just finished. Painted in watercolours and is based on the well known videos from Hobart zoo.

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Dec 27

also today i bring you... very-fast-and-not-anatomically-good sketches from museums. they all were done almost two years ago, i think. not a good research, but good practice anyway
#paleoart #sciart

A digital drawing; few sketches of extinct animal skeletons on the page, done in the museum right on the spot. No, i did not count the ribs for it, my apologies.

A digital drawing; few sketches of extinct animal skeletons on the page, done in the museum right on the spot. Again no ribs and teeth were counted. Yeah.

A digital drawing; few sketches of extinct animal skeletons (and other stuff) on the page, done in the museum right on the spot. Even less detailed. It was done in the museum of siberian ice age, and there was nothing to sit on and the ipad is heavy, and the lady there was complaining that i stand in front of things too much. Whoops.

A digital drawing; few sketches of extinct animal skeletons on the page, done in the museum right on the spot. Did not count anything for that drawing too and it was even faster than previous ones were done... I feel bad for that tarbosaur on the right.

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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · Dec 27

For #FossilFriday and #InverteFest, extant Campanile symbolicum on the left and extinct Campanile giganteum on the right

On the left, a specimen of a tall pointy snail about 20cm long (Campanile symbolicum) and on the right, a very similar snail three times as large (Campanile giganteum)

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · Dec 2

"King of Meadows" - Prospective printmaking design. I'm not sure how large this would need to be nor if I'd need to do woodcut or linocut. Or if it'd be better off being screenprinted.

But...whatever I decide in the far flung future here's the art for it. #art #printmaking #megaloceros #pleistocene

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · Nov 26

Sketch to final- a painting of the iconic giant deer, Megaloceros! #paleoart #paleosky #iceageart #pleistocene

Pencil sketch of Megaloceros, the view is a down shot from behind and the deer’s giant antlers are most clearly visible.

The final painting inspired by the sketch- the view is a wide shot of the mammoth steppe, and Megaloceros’ giant antlers are spotlit as the animal looks away from the viewer towards the horizon.

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🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓 @spinojp.bsky.social · Nov 25

I'm part of a team of researchers digging there and the local fossils display exceptional levels of conservation, with skin and scales preserved (we also find 🌱plant remains and 🐠Aeduellidae fish)

🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓 @spinojp.bsky.social · Nov 25

Smoll #paleoart of #Permian life from the lagerstätte of Franchesse, in central France🇨🇵, depicting 🦎Discosauriscus vibing in shallow waters (see #fossils below⬇️)

Three Discosauriscus sp. are swimming around a horserail-like plant

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🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓 @spinojp.bsky.social · Nov 25

I'm part of a team of researchers digging there and the local fossils display exceptional levels of conservation, with skin and scales preserved (we also find 🌱plant remains and 🐠Aeduellidae fish)

🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓 @spinojp.bsky.social · Nov 25

Smoll #paleoart of #Permian life from the lagerstätte of Franchesse, in central France🇨🇵, depicting 🦎Discosauriscus vibing in shallow waters (see #fossils below⬇️)

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🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓 @spinojp.bsky.social · Nov 23

Ok first post here! Hi, I study fossil snakes 🐍 and also produce paleoart!... sometimes... 👀

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