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@wargonopsid.bsky.social

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Artist and gamedev, Permian period enthusiast. Ex road Rennie. Volunteer fossil preparator. They/them . no AI training or reuploads https://www.redbubble.com/people/wargonopsid/shop https://jbh.threadless.com/ https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/wargonopsid/

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · Mar 4

lol welp, Three Gorgonopsid Moon everyone! (mostly gorgonops torvus :) ) #sciart #coprolitepost #meme shirt available here jbh.threadless.com/designs/thre...
Been a minute since I've painted digitally! Krita isnt half bad :) Fun detour :) #permian #digitalart #krita

Three gorgonopsids howl (?) at the night sky and the moon, inspired by the famous Three Wolf Moon shirt. The gorgons are in rougly the same positions and colorways as the original shirt, with a white/arctic color morph on top. a amber colored morph in the middle and a melanistic one on the bottom. The background is a gassy nebula or clouds, take your pick lol.

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 40m

Newest #paleoart is Hesperosuchus running off with a stolen Coelophysis egg. Not often you see the little pseudosuchian preying on the dinosaur. Figured I’d switch it up. #watercolor #sciart

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · Dec 18

me and @literallymiguel.bsky.social have achieved peak paleonerd-ness by creating our very own fucked up archosaurian hybrid

art showing a bipedal, birdlike animal with well-developed forelimbs, opposable thumbs, long and muscular legs with sickle claws on the second digit, and a mostly phorushracid-like head whose jaws are lined by sebecid-like pseudoteeth. the animal's integument mostly consists of shaggy greyish feathers, though it's head, neck, chest, and legs are bear, with dermal ossifications running down the back of its neck

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Rain Dog @brushwolf.bsky.social · 1h

about the last thing you expect out of 40K shorts on YouTube is discovering the world's most unphaseable cat

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What is your purpose? What is your duty? #warhammer40k #warhammer #warhammer40000

YouTube video by Brother Astartes

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 1h

:3 little Permian ambassadors lol

Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 1h

I spread the gorg word xD

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inzaenity @psalidodont.bsky.social · 15h

The Devilish stormcaster. A dragon cursed by lightning, capable of producing shocks strong enough to paralize your whole body, and potentially sending you straight into the afterlife. #intothedeadlands #dragon #art #monster #creaturedesign

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 17h

Getting stock all packed up for tonight at the Greenwood Arts Collective! Come by if you want some sculptures, I will be bringing this painting as well but I didn’t wanna haul too much canvas tonight :) #seattle #greenwood #sculpture #painting #artshow

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 21h

at the request of no one, i'm bringing back #flatfuckfriday! this is gemuendina, the armoured pancake of early devonian germany, as @skyemcdavid.com so eloquently put it
(art by nobu tamura)

a photo of a cast of a gemuendina specimen at AMNH

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 22h

who's that pokemon? it's stilpnia vitriolina aka the scrub tanager 🎉 sighted and sketched by @literallymiguel.bsky.social

two scrub tanagers on some plants. the most beautiful art you'll ever see

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 1d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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nogain98 @rlatkdwls.bsky.social · 1d

Bienotherium

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1d

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is ichthyotitan, a gigantic ichthyosaur from the late triassic. estimated at over 20 metres in length, ichthyotitan may have been the largest marine reptile to ever live
(art by caxela)

a pod of ichthyotitan swimming in dark waters

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1d

happy #fossilfriday! this is diabloceratops, a ceratopsian from the late cretaceous. named in 2010, it is one of the oldest ceratopsids in the fossil record, and is mostly considered a basal member of the clade centrosaurinae
(art by andrey atuchin)

a partly reconstructed diabloceratops skull, as the holotype is incomplete

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1d

hello gorgeous 😍 a warm welcome to xiphodracon goldencapensis, a new ichthyosaur described from the uk's famous jurassic coast by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, massare and maxwell! the holotype is absolutely stunning, congrats to the team 🥳
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a photograph of the xiphodracon holotype, a nearly complete skeleton preserved three-dimensionally

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 1d

They are gonna lose their damn mind at the answer lol

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

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Beautiful crow against a black background

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 2d

Rhamphorhynchus

Was intended to be just a sketch but I spent 2 or 3 too many weeks on it.
#paleoart #sciart

Ventral view of a Rhamphorhynchus flying under a bright blue sky, wings fully open, while looking down towards the pov.

Ventral view of a Rhamphorhynchus flying under a bright blue sky, wings fully open, while looking down towards the pov, zoomed in to the animal's head, torso and hindlimbs.

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 2d

while bare-headed birds are commonly associated with a scavenging ecology, the trait is far more widespread than that - the wood stork, bald parrot, roseate spoonbill, and bald ibis are all examples of non-scavenging bare-headed birds

a photograph of a wood stork by alec hopping

a photograph of a bald parrot; unknown source

a photograph of a roseate spoonbill by jeffrey gammon

a photograph of a northern bald ibis at the san francisco zoo

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Zals @zals.bsky.social · 3d

Big zealot

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Mystalia @mystalia.bsky.social · 2d

Possible creature design for a new comic project🐉 #art #myart

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 2d

is this the year of pachycephalosauria? a warm welcome to brontotholus harmoni, a new pachycephalosaur from the two medicine formation described by woodruff et al. based on cranial material
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