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Michael Tripoli

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Illustrator and Graphic Designer | He/They | Natural History, Scicomm and Creature Design #paleoart

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Michael Tripoli @triloboii.bsky.social · Sep 20

Hey everyone, I'm Mike and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator interested in paleoart! Follow for obscure Paleogene ungulates and ~vibes~

Volaticotherium, a small gliding mammal from the Jurassic, clings tightly to a tree branch.

Vector illustration of Rodhocetus, an early protocetid whale, swimming through the water

A digital painting of a pair of Hexaprotodon hippos in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka strolling across the bottom of a mangrove forest under murky water, followed by a small school of masheer. On their way they disturb a pair of softshell turtles and an asian water monitor

Digital illustration of Numidotherium, a very strange dome headed elephant relative, staring awkwardly at the viewer

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 2d

To cool off we leave the tropics and enter the Temperate Pluvial Forests to the south of Lemuria. Between ancient trees we come across a fantastic sight, as a mixed herd of noasaurids and large multituberculates come to the shore of a small stream to drink.

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 6d

Manouria morla. A new tortoise from Early Miocene Czechia. Link to paper below

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orsomoretti.bsky.social @orsomoretti.bsky.social · 9d

Qilin tungurensis- A newly identified new genus of giraffe from the Miocene of Inner Mongolia, China.

An extinct giraffe from the Miocene of Inner Mongolia stands in a clearing among trees and bushes.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 9d

Better late than never! The tropical rainforest is our most diverse as well as one of the most challenging environments of Lemuria. A complex tangle of flora and fauna that got more than 500 submissions! i am still not 100% happy with this but at some point you have to let go...

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Salotum @salotumofficial.bsky.social · Sep 8

The domestic Mabanwo bapu (commonly known by its English mondegreens “lobapu” and “lofafu”) is a breed of fowl-sized Alektoriid. Commonly kept for meat and eggs, it represents an ancient Columbimorph lineage endemic to Salotum, where it is seen everywhere from backyard gardens to industrial farms.

A paim drops feed pellets into a bowl as some large large, mottled ground birds called domestic bapu emerge from a coop. Half of the flock is already out foraging or resting. Both sexes have crests emerging from their reddish-pink beak. The flocks keeper knows giving them extra food this time of year will promote egg laying.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · Sep 4

#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!

Ink-like digital illustration of an otter-like animal standing on a riverbank. The animal - a giant otter shrew - is coloured, while the background is lineart.

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Salotum @salotumofficial.bsky.social · Sep 1

A aum sits down on the steps of his apartment to take a smoke break away from his family. He looks across the street at a pair of teenage boys making a ruckus and scratches his neck in annoyance. He’s told them off a hundred times before in his mind, but they’re asking for another telling off…

A aum sits on some concrete stairs and looks into the distance with a rough expression. In his mouth he smokes a cigarette. He wears a white tank top, blue jeans, and a gold wristwatch. The short fur on his horn is starting to fall off with age, leaving the tip bald and with thick skin.

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Koristocetus
#paleoart

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☆ Astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s time to move it-move it yall.

Aepyornis maximus and Pachylemur jullyi for an upcoming piece… 👀
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#paleoart #madagascar #lemur #bird #pleistocene #megafauna

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · Aug 28

A Thylacoleo and Her Joey

A Thylacoleo carnifex rests with her young joey in a cave, the joey lying with its head on its mother's arm. Some light shines on the cave floor through an opening somewhere.
Thylacoleo was a carnivorous marsupial (sometimes known as the marsupial lion) that once lived in Australia.

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☆ Astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · Aug 26

Somewhere in late Miocene Australia, a pair of Dromornis stirtoni renew their bond by dancing and gifting each other in the rain.
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#paleoart #ink #art #extinct #bird #duck #megafauna

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Aug 26

steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis giganteus)

I recently read Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen that recounts in dramatic fashion the voyage of Steller, the discovery, subsequent extinction, and the discovery of the skeleton of one and how it ended up In Helsinki. A wonderful book you should read.

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · Aug 18

The herd

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Douglass S Rovinsky, PhD @dsrovinsky.bsky.social · Aug 19

Five years ago, my second PhD paper came out: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
In it, I looked at the body mass of the recently extinct thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger) & found that it was only about half as big as popularly thought.

Let's revisit the paper, & see where we are today.

🧪🧵 #evobio #Mammals

Did the thylacine violate the costs of carnivory? Body mass and sexual dimorphism of an iconic Australian marsupial | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The relative body masses of predators and their prey strongly affect the predators' ecology. An accurate estimate of the mass of an extinct predator is therefore key to revealing its biology and the s...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · Aug 18

An imposing Langstonia scavenges a Xenastrapotherium carcass, in the Miocene of Colombia #paleoart

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ekembo nyanzae or as it was used to be called,Proconsul #Sciart

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Aug 15

Red painted woman. A depiction of paleolithic homo sapiens inspired by the mammoth ivory figure from Dolni Vestonice

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Lewis LaRosa (he/him) @lewislarosa.bsky.social · Jul 31

Cover to my first art book collection Carbon Based. Hoping people will dig it & hoping it’ll allow me to catch up on some things & hopefully seek relief for my back problems I’m always whining about. Thanks guys! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

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☆ Astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · Aug 13

Archaeoindris sketchesss.
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#paleoart #madagascar #lemur

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Tom Björklund @tombjorklundart.bsky.social · Aug 13

One of the illustrations I made for the article by Tommaso Mori et al. on cranial modification in stone age Italy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The event takes place in north-western Italy near the Arene Candide cave over twelve thousand years ago. A young girl holds a toddler firmly in her arms while an adult woman tightly binds the child’s head with the aim of influencing how the child’s skull will develop.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Manmoth hunter

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Aug 13

Australopithecus anamensis #sciart

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R k r n (Shiva) @rkrn.me · Aug 11

x6ud.github.io#/
Very cool site where you can look up animal skull reference angles and pair that with pictures of the animal at that angle

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Aug 11

Australopithecus afarensis in fear. I often wonder how we would react seeing a living australopithecine would we feel amused or would they fall even deeper in to uncanny valley and evoke tremendous unease in us. #sciart

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Narwhaler @narwhaler.bsky.social · Aug 11

bjorr

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