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Edmund or Jonah
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🦖• amateur palaeoartist, ARK enthusiast, and horror and dinosaur enjoyer
🧪• Current Interests: ARK, DBD
🦕• artist, gamer, photographer, autistic little freak
🧬• wannabe evolutionary biologist and palaeontologist
🐀• rat dad
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It looks messy/ugly because I'm bad at formatting and such, but an updated Carrd ^^

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markwitton.bsky.social
Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
Garfield Minott at microphone, holding sauropod model. Photo from Simcoe Muskoka Family Connections Black History Month event. Carcharodontosaurus head model by Minott, as used in technical paper by Kent Stevens. Minott Carcharodontosaurus head model from Paul Sereno lab website.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 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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markwitton.bsky.social
New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: the giant Meganeuropsis hawks Dunbaria in Early Permian Kansas, reaching to trap it with long, spiny legs. This image is set at the coast to reflect the marine occurrences of Meganeuropsis and Dunbaria fossils - not all Carbo-Permian insects lived in swamps! #sciart
A freakin' huge griffenfly with a c. 70 cm wingspan, Meganeuropsis, flies vertically in pursuit of the comparatively tiny palaeodictyopteran herbivore Dunbaria fasciipennis. The long, spined legs of Meganeuropsis are reaching forward to trap the smaller insect, while a large wave crashes over rocks behind them. The pattern on Dunbaria is known from fossils, although the colours are not. It's suspected that Meganeuropsis, like other Palaeozoic members of the dragon/damselfly lineage, sported clear wings.
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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mmarcosaurus.bsky.social
#FossilFriday
There's a big 5-star customer review of this new dinosaur book by great paleontologists @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social!
Can't wait to read Spinosaur Tales, but the day will come in two weeks. ^^
www.nhbs.com/spinosaur-ta...
Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs
Buy Spinosaur Tales (9781399412469): The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs: NHBS - David Hone, Mark P Witton, Bloomsbury Sigma (Bloomsbury imprint)
www.nhbs.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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paleoadiel.bsky.social
🐟 Fossil Fish Alert‼️Carol Smith found a jaw of a rare bony fish in the ~82 million-year-old (Cretaceous) marls of Harrell Station Paleontological Site in Alabama last month during a trip I organized for the Alabama Paleontological Society! 😄 Specimen: UA Museums paleontology collection #FossilFriday
Carol Smith found a jaw of a rare bony fish in the ~82 million-year-old (Cretaceous) marls of Harrell Station Paleontological Site in Alabama last month during a trip I organized for the Alabama Paleontological Society! 😄 Specimen: UA Museums paleo collection. Carol Smith found a jaw of a rare bony fish in the ~82 million-year-old (Cretaceous) marls of Harrell Station Paleontological Site in Alabama last month during a trip I organized for the Alabama Paleontological Society! 😄 Specimen: UA Museums paleo collection.
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New #paleoart on #FossilFriday: #Tiktaalik sees the world. Discussions of early #tetrapods often focus on limbs and lungs, but major changes also took place in their eyes. Seeing further and clearer than any animal before, they were the first to clearly see sunsets, stars, and the moon. #sciart
Tiktaalik slugs its way over a muddy bank in a flooded Devonian landscape while the sun sets over the horizon. Banks of pink and purple clouds loom in front of distant streaks of orange as clear turquoise sky peeks through cloudless regions. Various trees and shrubs stand tall above purple water glistening with gold wavelets. With vision that could probably see in the UV spectrum and eyes beginning to adapt for the infinite visual range provided in aerial habitats, Titaalik pauses to take this all in, being among the first animals that can see the natural world in such detail. All which is to say - the next time you admire sunsets or the night sky, consider what this owes to events of 375 million years ago. When the first vertebrates struggled out of the water they rapidly developed eyes that were much sharper and clearer than those of their fishy ancestors, vision being of variable utility in most freshwater habitats. Millions of years on, what probably started as a means to navigate and find prey allows us to observe and enjoy the natural world with a sense of awe and wonder.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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fossildetective.bsky.social
The Mesozoic mammal Sinodelphys, discovered in China and photographed at the Carnegie Museum, for #FossilFriday. Originally described as a marsupial but now thought to be an early placenta mammal, in my considered opinion this is clearly a creachure. 🧪⚒️
A photograph of a fossil mammal with spiky fur and a long face.
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIE STAGOSAURUS!
Here's my Sophie artwork, commissioned by @nhm-london.bsky.social & @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social back in 2014.

#SciArt #SciComm #Stegosaurus #Dinosaurs #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #JurassicWorld
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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ladynaturalist.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday! Join us this morning at 9 a.m. MST, 11 a.m. EST to learn about dinosaurs of the ❄️ north ❄️! Pachyrhinosaurus, Troodon, Daspletosaurus, and so many more.

📲 FREE. Zoom link: museumoftherockies.org/calendar/vir...

🎨: Art by Julio Lacerda
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIE STAGOSAURUS!
Here's my second Sophie artwork, called "The Great Jurassic", commissioned by
@nhm-london.bsky.social & @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social back in 2014.

#SciArt #SciComm #Stegosaurus #Dinosaurs #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #JurassicWorld
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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mesozoic.bsky.social
A fossilized armored millipede segment of an Arthropleura sp. from the Orzeskie Beds, Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland. These giant Carboniferous aged myriapods grew over two meters. The fern genus Zeilleria can also be seen on the slab. #FossilFriday

#myriapod #fossil #paleontology #arthropleura
Fossilized Arthropleura on original rock or matrix showing a Zeilleria fern nearby.
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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coastalpaleo.bsky.social
#fossilfriday Calcified cartilage is not always rare. 20 years ago I found this strange "bone", later identified as a mandibular cartilage of a skate (Raja binoculata). I have since collected dozens of these, which seem to be the most common vertebrate fossil in the 3-5 myo Purisima Formation of CA.
A series of small banana-shaped 'bones' - fossilized mandibular cartilages of skates. A scientific figure showing a bunch of upper and lower jaws of fossil skates, with a complete set of jaws, with teeth, shown up at the top.
December 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
Fresh off the digital canvas, my take on the Carboniferous verte... arthro... mollu... er... bilaterally symmetrical animal Tullimonstrum gregarium. Tully monsters are true palaeontological enigmas: 70 years after they were named, we still don't know what they are. #paleoart #sciart #fossil
Vignette of a Tully monster, a strange swimming animal from the Carboniferous. They say working on it makes you mad, but I've been painting this all afternoon and I'm... fine. Just fine. That said, I have been working hard alongside my janitorial duties at this hotel. And thinking about this little beast a lot. I... I see it when I close my eyes. I see ITS eyes when I close my eyes. But I'm just working too hard. Just take a break! You know what they say: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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mosasaurologist.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday from this dinky Saurornitholestes tooth that I found in the Judith River Formation.

Now if only I could find a whole raptor attached to one of these someday.
A tiny brown curved raptor tooth on curatorial fingertips. Judith River Formation in the background
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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angusburgers.bsky.social
Kylie didn't get a halloween pic but he gets an Xmas one?? Ok, but he will do it His way 🫀
December 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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thedinosaurmann.bsky.social
Basking spinosaurus🌞

#paleoart nature illustration for an awesome client!

#TheDinosaurMann
September 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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w0lfertinger666.bsky.social
HAPPY BUNNYWEEN
(He/Him) 🪦🧠🐇
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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w0lfertinger666.bsky.social
Bunny demon boy night
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October 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
And if you want details about my NSL talk, I'm speaking on Sunday 19th of October, 11:15. See live.newscientist.com/speakers/mar...
Mark Witton
live.newscientist.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
Don’t miss this interview with @markwitton.bsky.social demystifying the world of dinosaurs! Read his full interview here: www.express.co.uk/news/science... and don’t miss his talk at New Scientist Live on 19 October! @express.co.uk #KingTyrant #NewScientistLive
I’m a dinosaur expert – this is what Hollywood always gets wrong
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Witton also believes dinosaurs "may have been much smarter animals than we have given them credit for".
www.express.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
I forgot about this #paleoart of Deinocheirus I produced back in 2019 until this morning. Having not looked at it for years, I think it holds up pretty well. And no, it's not got the "feather mountain" look because D. was a big animal in a temperate climate.
#dinosaurs #fossil #paleontology #sciart
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-...
#fossil #sciart
A herd of mammoths, with three large individuals up front, and lots of smaller, more distant individuals in the background, surrounding a shallow Pleistocene lake. They stand on browning, yellowing grass in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky. The mammoths are variable in colour, some being dark, some pale. A juvenile mammoth, blonde all over, has broken ranks and started chasing mallards around a pond. He has made a little grebe nervous. Why has this baby mammoth started attacking other species? Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
What's in MESOZOIC ART II, our new, outstandingly gorgeous #palaeoart-themed giant book? Check it out ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/... #art #books #dinosaurs #paleoart
Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s — Tetrapod Zoology
Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art , edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bl...
tetzoo.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
It's marine reptile Wednesday!
Here's an acrylic painting from 2021, depicting a #Cretoxyrhina (top left), Squalicorax (#sharks, bottom right), & two #Tylosaurus (juvenile left, adult right). This was a private commission.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Mosasaurus #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM