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🦈🇵🇸🐍Buster🦣🇵🇸🦕 @tappingsnurtle.bsky.social · Sep 10
Spicomellus afer (2025)

This one’s a panorama so you guys might wanna open this one up

#paleoart #paleontology #sciart #spicomellus #dinosaurs #ankylosauria
A pair of Spicomellus, a recently described basal ankylosaur, meet up on a beach in Jurassic Morocco. One is shaded by a rock face, while the other lies down, soaking up the sun.
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theaga.bsky.social
The northern elephant seal, once near extinction with just a few survivors, is now a conservation success story! Thanks to the California Conservation Genomics Project, scientists have generated a high-quality reference genome to study its resilience, genetic diversity, and recovery.
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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loamlizzard.bsky.social
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.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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astrapionte.bsky.social
PREHISTORIC PLANET : ICE AGE OUT NOV 26 only on Apple TV!
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#paleoart #pleistocene #megafauna
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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palaeonavix.bsky.social
they just don't stay so small and cute
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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palaeonavix.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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stavrossk.bsky.social
A couple of Nebulasaurus taito enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake in China during the Middle #Jurassic. 🦕🦕🏝️

(Just a regular lake, nothing to do with #dinosaur reproduction… 😏)
#paleoart #sciart #sauropod
A couple of sauropods, Nebulasaurus taito, enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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aberrantologist.bsky.social
Xiphodracon breaches towards a golden sky.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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aberrantologist.bsky.social
Akidostropheus, a uniquely ornamented reptile from Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park.
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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ppaleoartist.bsky.social
i felt like drawing a placoderm last month, so i drew Gorgonichthys. it's been sitting in my wips pile for ages now, not tooo happy with this but that's the nature of art i guess :]

#placoderm #fishart #sciart
a Gorgonichthys has caught and bitten a Cladoselache, blood and flesh escapes from the open wound, including out of the Gorgonichthys' spiracle and gill slit. one Kentuchia takes a bite from the carcass while two others swim around the Gorgonichthys. two iceburgs float along in the backround, dropstones can be seen falling out of the one closest to the camera Gorgonichthys is a large placoderm (jawed armoured fish) with a boxy head which lived in the same formation as Dunkleosteus. Cladoselache is a cartilaginous fish that appeared like a shark with a flat boxy head, males had a curved spine on their primary dorsal fin, while females lacked them. Kentuchia is an early rayfinned fish that had very forward placed eyes, giving it a very silly appearance
October 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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tallbart.com
Full video since YouTube removed it
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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junlper.beer
all levels of media in the united states is controlled by the far right tech oligarch now
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 16
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ

$ORCL
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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bosssaurus.bsky.social
"I took this photo while wildfires were raging in rural Romania."

#paleoart #pterosaur
September 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
tappingsnurtle.bsky.social
#SciArtSeptember

Forgot this tag :/
tappingsnurtle.bsky.social 🦈🇵🇸🐍Buster🦣🇵🇸🦕 @tappingsnurtle.bsky.social · Sep 10
Spicomellus afer (2025)

This one’s a panorama so you guys might wanna open this one up

#paleoart #paleontology #sciart #spicomellus #dinosaurs #ankylosauria
A pair of Spicomellus, a recently described basal ankylosaur, meet up on a beach in Jurassic Morocco. One is shaded by a rock face, while the other lies down, soaking up the sun.
September 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
tappingsnurtle.bsky.social
Spicomellus afer (2025)

This one’s a panorama so you guys might wanna open this one up

#paleoart #paleontology #sciart #spicomellus #dinosaurs #ankylosauria
A pair of Spicomellus, a recently described basal ankylosaur, meet up on a beach in Jurassic Morocco. One is shaded by a rock face, while the other lies down, soaking up the sun.
September 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Australopithecus anamensis #sciart
August 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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caxela.bsky.social
Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️
Two juvenile giant moa (Dinornis robustus) run energetically along a beach, creating some splashes as they go. Small waves roll in behind them.
August 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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himarudolf.bsky.social
Evolutionary Arms Race
July 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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shamublackfish.bsky.social
Seaway Surf

#art #paleoart #sciart #mosasaurmonday
Platecarpus tympaniticus chasing a small school of Pentanogmius through the waves of Western North America, 82 million years ago. Accompanying the chase is a group of ammonites, Baculites, with one individual being unable to go with the flow, thus being swept by the waves. Where people of modern day surf the waves of Southern California, it could be possible for shallow water mosasaurs like platecarpus to surf the waves in an area of what will one day become the dry plains of Kansas.
August 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
July 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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ppaleoartist.bsky.social
after a brief hiatus cause Josch was at EAVP, #Paleostream flocking is back!

this week we sketched Argentinosaurus, Wulong (mine is hunting a juvenile Sinopterus), Dorudon (mine is eating an Eopelecanus), and Temnodontosaurus

#paleoart #science #sciart #scicomm #dinosaur #whale
during a foggy morning, two adult Argentinosaurus travel through the thick clouds, one is only barely visible and both have the upper portion of their necks and lower portion of their bodies obscured. they tower over the trees closer to the camera, a carcharodontosaur looks up at the towering giants. Argentinosaurus is a kind of sauropod dinosaur (typically long necked and usually large quadrupedal reptiles), it's one of a handful of species that are debated to be the largest dinosaur in both size and weight however due to fragmentary material the debate still rages on an adult Wulong is hunting on the wing, it's about to use its right leg to kick a juvenile Sinopterus out of the air. Wulong is a kind of microraptorine dromaeosaurid (bird-like theropod dinosaurs who were capable of gliding and in some instances powered flight). it's only known from a juvenile specimen but we have preserved feathers from it that show the individual had iridescent feathers on the forelimbs and hindlimbs, with grey feathers on the rest of the body. Here i speculate that the colouration was a juvenile colouration and that the adults would be visually distinct Sinopterus is a kind of tapejarid pterosaur (flying reptiles that were frugivorous and had large conspicuous crests) known from the same formation as Wulong, ive based this reconstruction on the dubious pterosaur Nemicolopterus that many - includng myself - consider a juvenile tapejarid a Dorudon swims by the camera with the corpse of an Eopelecanus in its mouth, however most of the Eopelecanus' body is obscured. the Dorudon's body is covered in scars Dorudon is a kind of basilosaurid whale (ancient whales that still had small backflippers) which was predatory and looked not too disimilar to modern cetaceans (other then its visible hindlimbs) Eopelecanus is the oldest recorded pelican, despite the fact that it's only known from a single tibiotarsus (a bird foot bone), we know that pelicans have been very conservative in their morphology throughout their evolution so it's within reason to reconstruct it broadly similarly to modern pelicans a Temnodontosaurus surfaces for a breath, its body is covered in scars from previous battles and lamprey bite marks Temnodontosaurus is a kind of large predatory ichthyosaur (ichthyosaurs are a large group of whale-like marine reptiles that lacked scales, were warm-blooded, gave birth to live young, and had thick layers of blubber among other adaptations to live entirely in the water). studies of its head anatomy show it would've had great vision and a great sense of smell, while stomach contents show it fed on mainly cephalopods like squid, but also fed on other ichthyosaurs like the contemporary Stenopterygius of which we have 3 juveniles preserved inside stomach contents. a recent study of its fins showed that it had novel spike structures on the trailing edge of its flippers and creases on the surface that reduced the noise produced when swimming like those on owl wing feathers aiding the theory that it was an ambush predator.
July 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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trigonotarbida.bsky.social
Happy #PortfolioDay!
I'm a palaeontology student and mostly draw various unusual animals (both extinct and extant), and like doing interesting vegetation and backgrounds! I also do some more technical scientific illustration.
Contact for commissions is [email protected]
Digital illustration of a syncaridan, a strange crustacean with many appendages, swimming towards the viewer Digital illustration of Phreatoicopsis raffae, an unusual isopod walking through wet moss Digital illustration of two eusthenopteron fish swimming through algae Diagram with graphite illustrations of a diprotodon vertebra compared to a koala and wombat
April 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Ok… so the cat is out of the bag and I can FINALLY start talking about this. I just confirmed with Tim I can say that I did a lot of concept art, like this baby Spinosaurus, for the new docuseries #SurvivingEarth coming out in 2026!

So excited for you guys to see this!
Concept art of baby Spinosaurus for the upcoming NBC Universal docuseries Surviving Earth
July 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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sauriancyh.bsky.social
Eyes like heaven
Infernodrakon hastacollis
#paleoart #sciart
Two Infernodrakon on an open field covered by ferns during sunset, one glides low in the air, the other chases behind on the ground.
July 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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aberrantologist.bsky.social
Temnodontosaurus trigonodon
#Ichthyursday week 1
July 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM