Cassandra 🦕🖌
@tenontosaurus.bsky.social
she/her, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, 25, hobbyist paleoartist, occasional shitposter
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'You're adopted'
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
'You're adopted'
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...
saurolophus study
October 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
saurolophus study
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Probably the best anurognathus model I've seen so far (Shenzen Dinosaur Museum)!
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Probably the best anurognathus model I've seen so far (Shenzen Dinosaur Museum)!
a bunch of sketches to get out of comfort zone: plateosaurus, pulmonoscorpius mother, diplocaulus
October 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
a bunch of sketches to get out of comfort zone: plateosaurus, pulmonoscorpius mother, diplocaulus
Haldanodon exspectatus, a docodont mammaliaform from late jurassic portugal, it may have been a semi-aquatic burrowing insectivore
September 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Haldanodon exspectatus, a docodont mammaliaform from late jurassic portugal, it may have been a semi-aquatic burrowing insectivore
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Day 9 #SciArtSeptember prompt is vanishing. This #linocut print rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is handprinted on Japanese white and yellow papers. The rusty-patched bumble is a pollinator native to North America and was common here in Ontario as recently as the 1980s. 🐡🧪 #printmaking 🧵
September 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Day 9 #SciArtSeptember prompt is vanishing. This #linocut print rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is handprinted on Japanese white and yellow papers. The rusty-patched bumble is a pollinator native to North America and was common here in Ontario as recently as the 1980s. 🐡🧪 #printmaking 🧵
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Throwback #illustrations (while I make new art)
#ProjectAnimalia Day 87: Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
A vampire that sucks up falling poop particles, not blood.
#sciart #dailyart #animals #scientificillustration #medart #sciviz #vampiresquid #biodiversity #animals
#ProjectAnimalia Day 87: Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
A vampire that sucks up falling poop particles, not blood.
#sciart #dailyart #animals #scientificillustration #medart #sciviz #vampiresquid #biodiversity #animals
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Throwback #illustrations (while I make new art)
#ProjectAnimalia Day 87: Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
A vampire that sucks up falling poop particles, not blood.
#sciart #dailyart #animals #scientificillustration #medart #sciviz #vampiresquid #biodiversity #animals
#ProjectAnimalia Day 87: Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
A vampire that sucks up falling poop particles, not blood.
#sciart #dailyart #animals #scientificillustration #medart #sciviz #vampiresquid #biodiversity #animals
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140 million year old baby, flattened and unflattering
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
140 million year old baby, flattened and unflattering
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following yesterday's incident I now just draw spiders here is a little jumpy friend for your timeline
September 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
following yesterday's incident I now just draw spiders here is a little jumpy friend for your timeline
moschops capensis with speculative folds of fat on its neck that jiggle when the males headbutt, making the spectacle all the more attractive to the onlooking females
September 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
moschops capensis with speculative folds of fat on its neck that jiggle when the males headbutt, making the spectacle all the more attractive to the onlooking females
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Hatchling vs lightning, here’s illustration I made for the paper “Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage” by Smyth et al., 2025. Paper below👇
September 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hatchling vs lightning, here’s illustration I made for the paper “Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage” by Smyth et al., 2025. Paper below👇
Leggy from Primeval: New World
September 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Leggy from Primeval: New World
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We have new stock! To be on sale at our online shop.... tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We have new stock! To be on sale at our online shop.... tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com
Two saurischians, a redraw of a photo taken by @arminreindl.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Two saurischians, a redraw of a photo taken by @arminreindl.bsky.social
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!
Here we have three pterodaustros (pterosaurs from the early cretaceous period, about 105 million years ago) sitting on a gingko tree watching the sun rise.
🌐 gordywright.com
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#kidlitart #illustration #childrensbooks #sciart #paleoart
Here we have three pterodaustros (pterosaurs from the early cretaceous period, about 105 million years ago) sitting on a gingko tree watching the sun rise.
🌐 gordywright.com
📚 Rep’d by The Bright Agency
#kidlitart #illustration #childrensbooks #sciart #paleoart
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!
Here we have three pterodaustros (pterosaurs from the early cretaceous period, about 105 million years ago) sitting on a gingko tree watching the sun rise.
🌐 gordywright.com
📚 Rep’d by The Bright Agency
#kidlitart #illustration #childrensbooks #sciart #paleoart
Here we have three pterodaustros (pterosaurs from the early cretaceous period, about 105 million years ago) sitting on a gingko tree watching the sun rise.
🌐 gordywright.com
📚 Rep’d by The Bright Agency
#kidlitart #illustration #childrensbooks #sciart #paleoart
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#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank
Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox).
Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!
Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox).
Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!
September 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank
Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox).
Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!
Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox).
Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!
Tyrannosaurus rex lineart
September 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Tyrannosaurus rex lineart
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Huge azhdarchoid paper, at long last, ACCEPTED!!!! Prepare for some BIG insights!!!
September 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Huge azhdarchoid paper, at long last, ACCEPTED!!!! Prepare for some BIG insights!!!
Late Silurian/Early Devonian landscape + Pterygotus, sketches inspired by redesign of serbian dinar by Milos Zlatanovic
September 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Late Silurian/Early Devonian landscape + Pterygotus, sketches inspired by redesign of serbian dinar by Milos Zlatanovic
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The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
September 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
Megatherium americanum sketch
September 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Megatherium americanum sketch
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Results from the #paleostream!
Jaggermeryx, Kostensuchus, Rubidgea and Francocaris.
Jaggermeryx, Kostensuchus, Rubidgea and Francocaris.
September 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Results from the #paleostream!
Jaggermeryx, Kostensuchus, Rubidgea and Francocaris.
Jaggermeryx, Kostensuchus, Rubidgea and Francocaris.