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Tyas

@tyasmoerti93.bsky.social

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A failed aero engineer trying to rebuild his dream with photography and paleoart, likes cars but hates car-centric culture, abhors capitalists, fascists and anti-environmentalists, obsessed with aquatic and aerial chordates. All posts are my own work.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Jul 29

The beluga is cute and the ID.Buzz is cool too. Not an EV fan but ID.Buzz and new Renault 5 EV are two of my favourite EVs. Genuinely cool without trying too hard.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Apr 25

Yo. Been missing for some time but I will have an announcement in less than a week. For now, here's a speedpaint of scene you might be familiar with. Minus the tree.

#tyrannosaurus #rex #tyrannosaurusrex #paleoart #walkingwithdinosaur #paleontology #extinctanimals #animals #dinosaur #sciart

Yes. I recreated that scene from the OG Walking With Dinosaur. But without the Araucaria tree because I cannot draw plants. And the Tyrannosaurus is now more balanced and more scientifically accurate. Depicts a Tyrannosaurus making a call just before dusk.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Apr 18

As a non-American I recognise Porichthys as midshipmen. I can only apologise for that.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Mar 29

Jesus. I apologise for the laziness, the situation in Indonesia is horrific. Anyway, here's a giant shastasaurid Ichthyotitan, described by Dr. @deanrlomax.bsky.social last year

#ichthyotitan #ichthyosaur #reptile #paleoart #paleontology #extinctanimals #animals #art #nature #wildlife #sciart

There are giants, and there are giants. And then there's Ichthyotitan severnensis. The largest marine reptile to ever exist... that we know of. The remains were fragmentary, with several bones from the lower jaw surangular were discovered at Westbury Formation in UK, from Lilstock and Blue Anchor. The two specimens yielded an estimated size of between 23-25m or possibly slightly larger, but if a specimen from Aust Cliff was proven to be an Ichthyotitan, it could grow even larger, with maximum estimated length of 30 to 35m. And that's not even the end of it, for the Aust Cliff colossus showed signs that it still grows. Absolutely insane.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Mar 13

The heck. The fins are all wrong. As if it was actually cobbled together using AI crap.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Mar 5

Anyway I want to ask Dr. Hone @davehone.bsky.social if this is a misprint? Looks more like Sinornithomimus, and the cited paper does link to the Sinornithomimus bonebed...

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Mar 5

This just landed. Uncovering Dinosaur Behaviour, by @davehone.bsky.social and illustrated by the always-stunning @serpenillus.bsky.social . There goes my productivity today, gonna binge-read this tonight.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Mar 4

Technically speaking it's called casque, it varies between species or genus, some are hollow and helps with resonation, others are low and indistinct, only serves structural purposes, while Helmeted Hornbill has extremely solid bony casque for aerial jousting.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Mar 1

This March I'll be celebrating the prehistoric marine life of the Mesozoic era. To start, we have the big-headed (literally) pliosaur Megacephalosaurus eulerti.

#megacephalosaurus #pliosaur #plesiosaur #reptile #paleoart #paleontology #extinctanimals #animals #art #nature #wildlife #sciart

Megacephalosaurus eulerti, one of the last surviving member of thalassophonean pliosaurids, the so-called 'sea murderers'. Being a large brachauchenine, Megacephalosaurus had relatively short neck and rather long head, accounting to up to a quarter of its total length.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 16

Happy World Whale Day! As an appreciation, here's my take on my favourite cetacean. The almighty Balaenoptera musculus aka. Blue Whale.

#bluewhale #whale #cetacea #balaenoptera #mysticeti #mammal #animal #sciart #art #marinemammals #animal

I have tons of wishlist in my life. But to see one of this in the wild is at the absolute top of my wishlist. The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus). One of the largest animals ever to have lived.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 14

Celebrate your Paleo-Valentine by sending your other half this... card.

Hey, at least I put my heart into this. Made this because me and my girlfriend are a weird couple.

#broomistega #thrinaxodon #synapsid #temnospondyl #africa #paleontology #paleoart #sciart #prehistoric #animal #art #valentine

What could have been were the flood didn't strike 250 million years ago. The oddball pair of temnospondyl Broomistega and stem-mammal Thrinaxodon.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yep. Gonna place an order of one in April.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 14

Well... love sometimes hurt, Dr. Witton.

Please do not ask how I managed to find out.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 13

To your Xiphias gladius and Sahara desert, I raise you Crocodylus suchus

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 13

Anyway, to your Xiphias gladius I raise you Crocodylus suchus. Croc croc.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 13

Another one for the #HornbillDay . Did not expect this one to be popular... #birds 🪶

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 10

If you have to ask me what birds should be the icon of Indonesia, hornbills and birds-of-paradise are my picks. Pictured here are 3 Wreathed Hornbills (Rhyticeros undulatus)🪶

#hornbill #rhyticeros #bucerotidae #forestbird #junglebird #bird #seabirds #ornithology #photography #dinosaur

A male Wreathed Hornbill (Rhyticeros undulatus)

Grooming time for the Wreathed Hornbill. That nape feather in dark brick red looks stunning, great contrast for its white neck and yellow gular sac.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 13

Turns out it's #HornbillsDay today. So here are two other hornbill species that I have met. A Papuan Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus) and Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)🪶

#hornbill #bucerotidae #forestbird #junglebird #bird #ornithology #photography #dinosaur

A male Papuan Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus) at Bandung Zoo

A preening male Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) at Bandung Zoo

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 13

I will never recover from this.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 12

I bite a kid that bullied me. Hard enough of a bite to make him howl and cry in spasmic shock.

Teacher went nuclear at me as if it was an attempted murder.

To be honest it kinda was.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 12

Honestly from the deepest bottom of my heart, to Prophetic, fuck you. Fuck you and your CEO and your board members and all your investors, I hope this company burns to ground

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 12

Bunch of Nazi supporters I presume

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy 200 (re)birthday, Iguanodon. Remember, Iguanodon will always give you two thumbs up. Not because they believe in you, that's just how they hold their thumbs.

#iguanodon #dinosaur #hadrosaur #europe #belgium #paleontology #paleoart #sciart #prehistoric #animal #art #digitalart

Iguanodon bernissartensis, a type of hadrosauriform dinosaur living during Barremian age of early Cretaceous, about 125mya in what is now UK, Belgium, Spain and Germany. Historically a wastebasket taxon, only one species is now considered valid.

Hard to believe, 200 years since the term 'Dinosauria' first coined by Richard Owen, now we have more than 1000 species of non-avian dinosaurs alongside more than 11000 extant species of avian dinosaurs. Birds, to you and me. From teeny tiny 5cm Bee Hummingbird to gigantic 35m Argentinosaurus, from fruit-munching touracos to bone-shattering Tyrannosaurus, from questionable Spinosaurus to toucan hopping around your living room looking for his favourite plushie, dinosaurs are among the most diverse group of tetrapoda ever to walk the Earth.

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Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 11

Believe it or not, the group that praises AI and the group that praises Nazi and fascism are often than not intersect with each other.

Tyas @tyasmoerti93.bsky.social · Feb 11

Sea pancakes need more appreciation. Rays are surprisingly intelligent and cognizant animals. Pictured here is a Javan Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera javanica)

#cownoseray #rays #rhinoptera #chondrichthyes #fish #animal #photography #underwater #indonesia #ichthyology

Javan Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera javanica), showing the namesake of its other vernacular name: Flapnose Ray.

Javan Cownose Ray receiving a cleaning treatment by a Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse

Why are they named cownose rays? Here's why

You can see from the way it looks that these amazing animal is always learning and inquisitive