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trigonotarbida.bsky.social
Gen
@trigonotarbida.bsky.social
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Palaeoart & various other biology art. Palaeontology student (3rd year) and into a range of hiking and nature stuff (though I particularly like strange arachnids and crustaceans).
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Gen @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · Apr 8
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
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aliceduke.bsky.social
Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?
digital painting of a dunnock
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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decassette.bsky.social
lil dragon
iguana type dragon in flight
June 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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martynwarren.bsky.social
Another #ArtAdventCalendar offering, this time Goliathus orientalis. One of my earliest pieces, I drew this using Rebelle on my PC.
Drawing of a large cream and black goliath beetle with spread, black iridescent wings. A close up showing bright cyan highlights where the light caught the beetle's wing.
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Placodonts are so fun #sciart
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
A pair of Stegosaurus leisurely walking while a group of Hesperornithoides bicker in the foreground

I just think everyone needs to see Stegosaurus every now and then. Makes everyone happier 😊 This is an illustration of my licensing library and is available for non exclusive licensing.

#paleoart
Illustration of a pair of Stegosaurus in a Jurassic landscape composed of ferns and conifers, a group of the small theropod Hesperonithoides is in the foreground.
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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greyauk.bsky.social
I will have time for more deep sea sketches later this month.
For now, here are some old paintings/sketches.
#DeepSeaDecember 🐡
tiny painting of a bumpy snailfish behind the round cut out of a black passepartou. The fish is looking ahead and looks very kind and like its smiling. It is light pink. The background is blue. a watercolour sketch of a blobfish guarding its eggs. The fish looks kind and is sitting on a light blue and green abstract gound. In front are its eggs with little pink hearts around them. ink sketch of a lantern fish - sideview. the background are black ink splodges. Not visible here, but the fish glows in the dark. photo of a water colour sketch books with a pencil for size reference. The painting is the frontal view of Chaunacops. A very round red fish with fins that look as if it had tiny legs. It looks cute and like it is smiling.
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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renecampbellart.bsky.social
Added in the shiny reflections and he is pretty much done. I'd like to touch up certain areas after resting for a bit, but I may as well show him off early.

This is "Regal", a male Australian blue swimmer crab that took nearly 250 hours to paint, spanning over 3 years

#sciart #crustmas 🦀
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
On the second day of #Crustmas, my true love gave to me
Two Telamonocarcinus, Cretaceous leggy bois from Lebanon
crab illustration seen from above. the body is rounded in the rear, three pronged like a crown in the front. the claws are short and robust. most importantly, two pairs of its legs are obnoxiously oversized, maybe 3 times the length of the body. the other 2 leg pairs are weirdly shorter than the body.
December 3, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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kakapojay.bsky.social
Another one of those scary wet things (fish artists, I don't know how you do it) from the Kem Kem waterways - Aidachar. While not very well known, it is part of the same order as the much more famous Xiphactinus.

Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart
A scary grey and red fish - Aidachar.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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onlyscarcelyscaly.bsky.social
version with alt-text:
my acrylic painting "Uncertain Landing", featuring the small heterodontosaurid Tianyulong gathered in a group of five fluffy individuals turning their attention toward the similarly sized pterosaur Pterorhynchus,which has just awkwardly landed with a torn wingtip in the undergrowth of a somewhat open forest. This scene is viewed from above such that the nadir is at the bottom of the frame and the convex, crowded horizon is a bit above the top of the frame, as if we're perched on the thin branch of one of the pale brown, straight-trunked, lichen-spotted trees.
September 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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lacerdajulio.bsky.social
POV: you're in the museum's Ice Age dioramas hall

#SciArt #artbyjulio
A Homotherium stands by the downed body of a Megaloceros, its huge antlers standing out against the drab colored grassland landscape framed by snowy hills in the background.
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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vitor-silva.bsky.social
Coastal Feast - Pisco Formation

New art for Tales from the Phanerozoic, a project by João Macêdo. Check the Late Miocene chapter here, with detailed information about its backstory, environment and creatures: sites.google.com/view/talesfr...

Quick description in the -big- Alt

#SciArt #Paleoart
Pico Formation, Peru during the Late Miocene. A female Odobenocetops and her calf feed on Anadara bivalves on the seafloor. This odd cetacean, related to modern belugas and narwhals, had the shortest snout among whales and backward-facing tusks (males bore a single very long one). Though known only from incomplete skeletons, vertebrae suggest a length of about 3 m. The mother shields her calf as if sensing nearby danger. Their presence also startles swimming Chlamys scallops. Sharing the bottom, the semiaquatic ground sloths Thalassocnus graze on Zosteraceae seagrass, showing an unusual niche compared to today’s small arboreal sloths. Nearby, Luidia starfish prey on Loxechinus urchins, Myliobatis rays search for buried bivalves, and Isostichopus sea cucumbers partly bury themselves while others cling to rocks beside a camouflaged Octopus. Farther away grow Lessonia algae, and above them drifts a weakened Architeuthis, speculatively depicted in this Period. Both Odobenocetops and Thalassocnus are in the sight of an Acrophyseter group, ~4.5 m macropredatory sperm whales with powerful teeth adapted to hunt large marine animals. The main action centers on a dense school of Sardinops. These 40 cm fish rely on safety in numbers but face multiple attacks at once. Two penguin species, the smaller Spheniscus humboldti and the larger, long-beaked Spheniscus megarhampus, attack in their groups. Piscobalaena attempt to filter-feed on the school, though at only 4–5 m long they are "small whales". An Isurus mako shark appears but retreats when a massive Piscogavialis crocodilian approaches from below. A swift Acrophoca snatches an isolated Sardinops, while overhead big Pelagornis birds (6 m wingspan) wait to seize any fish that reaches the surface.
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New at #Patreon: an illustrated review of what we know, and some of what we don't, about the colours and patterns of ancient marine invertebrates (ft. trilobites, orthoceratoids, ammonites and Cambrian critters). Check it out at www.patreon.com/c/markwitton #paleoart #fossils #paleontology #sciart
The orthoceratoid Michelinoceras anguliferum, sporting a natty set of zigzags along its shelll, is probably better dressed than most of us today. Here, it's inflicting a fashion attack on a buried worm. Cambrian polychaete Canadia spinosa is shiny, thanks to structural colouration. A minor pile up between three migrating trilobites, Eldredgeops rana. The red dots on these animals are strange translucent lenses that might, it's speculated, be windows for pigmentation through their carapaces. Two Dieneroceras subquadratum conversing about life as drifters in Triassic plankton. The banding pattern on their shells is fossil accurate, although the exact colours are unknown.
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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mariolanzas.bsky.social
PTEROSAURIA, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncta... I dedicated to these flying reptiles of the mesozoic 🪁 This art is now also available for Prints and other items at Redbubble/people/mariolanzas 🪁 #pterosauria #quetzalcoatlus #paleoart #pteranodon #sizechart
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Corythosaurus #sciart
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
thrips
flat color cartoon drawings of several thrips, small insects which may have four wings or none. clockwise from top left: a thrips with very complex fringed wings, a thrips with large crab claws, two drawings of thrips with no wings and a dark brown front end and tan back, and a long and thin black thrips with red legs photos of the real animals that are drawn in the previous image; Arachisothrips has large and complex wings, Stephanothrips is wingless with a dark brown head and thorax, Idolothrips is very long and thin, and Carcinothrips has very large crab claw-like forearms
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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trigonotarbida.bsky.social
Anaspides, an unusual #crustacean from the superorder #syncarida. These animals are really cool and are frequently found in alpine pools in Tasmania, though syncaridans are also found in streams in cave systems and groundwater elsewhere.
#ArthropodArt
A green syncaridan crustacean walks along the bottom of a pond towards the viewer
February 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
trigonotarbida.bsky.social
me and a very friendly syncaridan in mt field national park. okay probably it was just trying to work out if it could eat me.
photograph of a crustacean with many long head appendages putting its head on a person's finger
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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ultraluther.bsky.social
I’ve made a diagrammatic reconstruction of one of my favorite prehistoric animals, Aquilonifer spinosis.
I’ve noticed many of the reconstructions of this animal appear to be based solely on the fossil model, resulting in some errors that contradict the actual description.

#paleoart #sciart
A diagram showing the anatomy of Aquilonifer spinosis from a dorsal, ventral, and lateral view. Text 1: Appendages 1 (green) are estimated to have about 25 podomeres. It is unclear whether the distal half of the appendages had spines. They were about the same length as the body (9.5 mm). Text 2: Appendages 2 (red) had a poorly preserved projection that may be an exopod. Left head appendage 3, anterior view: Similar morphology to the trunk appendages, but with a possible gnathobase and a long, laterally projecting exopod that may be segmented distally. Head shield and trunk, dorsal view: The 11th tergite only possesses 1 pair of short, posteriorly projecting spines. Left trunk appendage 2, ventral and anterior view: This structure is the same in all trunk appendages except for 11, which lacks an exopod. The exopod's structure is unknown, but it may be filamentous. The basis of trunk appendage 1 may have a gnathobase. Head appendage 4 (yellow) is similar to the trunk appendages, but with a short, incompletely preserved exopod.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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sauriancyh.bsky.social
Voay, 1 AD
#paleostream #paleoart #sciart
Voay with its head lifted out of a lake, the dusk sky is orange and dark purple.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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doedryadart.bsky.social
It turns out I have one print left of each of these, and a low number of others.
If you're shopping this week for a nature lover, consider supporting a human artist :)

Shop: lostthicket.etsy.com
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Photo of a print of my oil painting featuring a Barred Owl Oil painting of Scaly Vase mushrooms on a forest floor, backlit by the sun causing an orange glow. Oil painting of a Painted Turtle sunbathing on a log in a wetland, with another turtle in the background.
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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kmagnacca.bsky.social
Oh damn I actually saw these and didn't even realize they were special! Waterproof camera ftw.
Tasmanian mountain shrimp, Anaspides richardsoni, in a pond at Mt. Field. Tasmanian mountain shrimp, Anaspides richardsoni, in a pond at Mt. Field. Tasmanian mountain shrimp, Anaspides richardsoni, in a pond at Mt. Field.
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
there's an entire superorder (very big category) of crustaceans called Syncarids, and like 99% of them are tiny white eyeless sub-millimeter things living in cavewater, except in Tasmania, where they just casually live on the surface world like regular shrimp. infuriating
photo of Tasmanian mountain shrimp by joeysantore on iNaturalist. It is dark brown and a few cm long, similar to a crayfish but lacking chelae photo of syncarids by beschwar on iNaturalist. they are tiny white eyeless creatures with long bodies.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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greybriar.art
The poofening continues. Arctic/Northern Fulmar -Fulmarus glacialis
#birdart #seabirds #animalart #sciart
A drawing of a very puffy northern fulmar chick against a light grey background.
February 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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artkokay.bsky.social
Spotted Sandpiper, watercolour on paper. Inspired during my Artists for Nature Foundation & Native Conservancy trip to Alaska this May. We had some Yellow-eyed Snapper for dinner, the remnants were left by the lake, mainly for Bald Eagles, but these sandpipers also came for the smaller bits.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM