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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Finally assembled this Eugy cardboard thylacine model last night.
(spot the cute surprise hidden inside it in the first pic hehe)

Two plush thylacines 'helping' to build a small model made from stacked layers of cardboard. One is holding a glue tube in its mouth and applying it to the next layer. Inside the model is a pouch with a sleeping joey that will be hidden when complete.

The finished chibi cardboard thylacine has its jaws opened wide towards the two plushies. They look nervous.

The cardboard thylacine faces off against a cardboard Tasmanian devil. Both are cute chibi proportioned, and have wide open toothy mouths. The devil has a cartoony meat drumstick under its paw.

The thylacine has the devil's meat chunk in its mouth. The devil, though its expression is unchanged, looks distraught.

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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies @palaeoplushies.com · Aug 29

Previously only seen at Dinocon- two new Palaeoplushies make an appearance!

The famous Anomalocaris, and the jawless fish Zenaspis!

These two are available for the first time over on my website!
www.palaeoplushies.com

A realistic plush anomalocaris, made of printed fabric and plastic safety eyes. It is red and orange with blueish flippy flappers and big beadie black eyes

A realistic plush devonian jawless fish- this creature has a big horseshoe-shaped head and articulated scaled body and fins. It has two shining golden eyes staring from on top of the shield-head. it's mottled brown with a hint of blue.

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 29

WWD finger puppets yay! I assume this is a full set? Never seen the ornitholestes one before.
(I always feel kinda tempted to sew bodies for these... If I had matching fabric...)

Five plush Walking With Dinosaurs finger puppets on my right hand. From pinky to thumb: allosaurus, coelophysis, ornitholestes, leaellynasaura, torosaurus

The puppets from the side, peeking out behind one another.

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Well... sometimes, simply having an especially chuckable newt in your hand while approaching a funny house is reason enough.

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 29

(Oh I should remember to credit @palaeoplushies.com for this newt..!)

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Whoa that's a big lad!! Good luck in there beautiful stego...

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sweet dreams little meaty angel......

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh it's these cuties!! Loved these wee guys, thanks for letting me have a play with one hehe.

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MechMonster @mechmonster.bsky.social · Aug 26

Aight gonna spam more of these lil Yi Qi guys, some silly phone pics for now.

See thread below for more! The woodland pics were taken at Dinocon, found this really cool little footpath that led from the uni through a park, towards downtown

(Also I think these can be called #paleoart yeah?)

A Yi-Qi dinosaur toy painted in albino colors posed on a tree branch, over a forest background

Two Yi-Qi dinosaur toys, one in light and one in dark colors, posed to sit on a branch in a forest

A dark-colored Yi-Qi ball-jointed doll posed on a wooden porch railing

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 24

Flying newt descending upon pineapple house.

Photo of a giant newt floating in the sky above a house with a tower shaped like a massive stone pineapple. The newt is actually a realistic plushie I threw in the air.

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James Pascoe @jamespascoe.bsky.social · Aug 24

A massive thank you for quite the year of making and Scicomm. Thanks to everyone I spoke with last weekend at @dinoconuk.bsky.social

it was a joy to be with passionate, engaging, talented and kind people & am grateful for you making the event the success it was along side the events team 🥹

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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · Aug 23

Illustration of the Silurian Period based on fossils in Scotland.

The first animals to live on land were tiny arthropods, escaping predators and eating food in fields of cooksonia plants.

Art from my new book DINOSAURS preorder here: a.co/d/fGVwsX0

#sciart #paleoart #evolution #fossiladdict

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 24

Yippee!! Yeehaw!!

Tiny, bright blue Beasts of the Mesozoic velociraptor figure, posed riding a rainbow striped Schleich zebra. It's sitting down, holding onto the mane and looking up towards the camera with its mouth wide.

The velociraptor is now balanced standing on the zebra's back, surfboard style, facing the direction of travel.

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Therbis @therbis.bsky.social · Jul 31

🦖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... 🦖
Are you ready for the coziest winter ever?

Be ready to get your hands on some fluffy, weighted and heatable Microraptor plushies and fleece blankets!

Coming September 2025.
Subscribe to the pre-launch page to get notified once the campaign goes live!

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 24

Microwaveraptors... Good. Looking forward to seeing em!

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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies @palaeoplushies.com · Aug 23

Just a heads up - Royal Mail is pausing US shipping after the 26th August, so if any US American wants a Palaeoplushie please order this weekend...

I'll figure out how to post stuff again in future but for now nobody knows what's going on.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Royal Mail and DHL halt some US deliveries over tariffs

Services including Royal Mail and DHL say they are suspending deliveries until they have proper systems in place.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Saw no badgers either, but I did see a fox on campus! My photo was about as good.
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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 17

Two animals I saw today.....

An inch long, bright green bush cricket or katydid sitting on the side of a dried up flower head.

The worst, blurriest photo of a fox dashing across a path in a park lit by a streetlight. Or maybe it's a thylacine! In England!

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Aw yay, thank you and enjoy your gorglet! You got one of the last mini ones?

And I'll be back for sure! Tho part of me wants to skip vending next time and enjoy the rest haha...

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 18

(Not pictured: the unlucky tetzoo spinosaurus shirt that was severely seagull bombed at dinner... Tag's there, though...)

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 18

I may have spent most of my time at #DinoConUK in the vendor hall, but I sure had fun in there!
Thanks so much to everyone who visited my table and helped me sell out!