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Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social · Aug 6

Is autumn on the way? The best season to draw forests #sciart

A nature illustration showing a river in the middle of a big, old forest full of animals and sunken trees.

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · Jul 2

Southern #Sweden during the late Cretaceous. A pair of pteranodontids trying to keep a healthy distance from an admittedly passive mosasaur. Meanwhile, the hesperornithids take a short break from foraging to catch some rays. #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #dinosaurs

A scene from Kristianstad in southern Sweden (the Kristianstad Basin) during the late Cretaceous. A pair of pteranodontids trying to keep a healthy distance from an admittedly passive mosasaur (probably a Prognathodon, but could also be a Tylosaurus). Meanwhile, the hesperornithids take a short break from foraging to catch some rays.

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · Jul 1

A Once Green Antarctica

The sauropodomorph Glacialisaurus (known from very fragmentary remains) strolls through a dense assemblage of flora at the edge of a forest. The plants are meant to represent Otozamites and Clathropteris. The scene takes place in Early Jurassic Antarctica.

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🪴🐌 Min Tayza 🧑‍🔬🦖 @sketchy-as-fork.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Eyecager @amberbladejones.bsky.social · Jun 9

Oscar Droege（1898-1983）

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · May 30

kabuterimon

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Ida @rusalkai.bsky.social · Jun 1

Diesel the Tyrannosaurus

Photo of a gouache painting depicting a Tyrannosaurus rex. His head takes up most of the page, and he's turned almost to face the camera, with his mouth slightly open. He is brown with some red areas.

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Apr 11

Ostrom’s Quiet Revolution

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Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social · May 25

Pike is my favorite fish 🐟 #sciart

An underwater illustration featuring northern pike.

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Paulo Leite @thek560.bsky.social · Apr 2

Dueling Diplodocus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. The background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #paleoart #diplodocus #3d #3dart

3D render of two diplodocus fighting. They are both standing on their hind legs, the one on the left is biting the neck of the one on the right.

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · May 9

Published today in Biological Reviews:

"New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs" - the biggest paper from my PhD (my favourite chapter, too).

doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Here's a thread outlining some of our key findings. (1/10)

Cover image promoting the new research paper "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs", written by Matthew Dempsey, Samuel R. R. Cross, Susannah C. R. Maidment, John R. Hutchinson, and Karl T. Bates, and published in Biological Reviews. Image shows a 3D Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton enveloped in simple geometric hulls, accompanied by an artist's impression of T. rex in life.

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · Apr 10

New painting! Featuring a pod of Stenopterygius

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DJ Crumrine @djcrumrine.bsky.social · Mar 27

Kleptoparasitism. Geosternternbergia, Nyctosaurus and Enchodus. Inspired by the book Oceans of Kansas by Micheal J Everhart and the brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds and delicious mahi-mahi tacos at my trip to Puerto Vallarta. #paleoart #pterosaurs

A chaotic scene of pterosaurs. A Geosternbergia with an Enchodus in its mouth is absolutely pestered by a flock of Nyctosaurus all trying to steal the fish.

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · Mar 10

New painting! Featuring the pterosaur Sordes pilosus of late Jurassic Kazakhstan.

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Gabriel Bertoja (commissions open) @gabrielbruh.bsky.social · Feb 27

An old buck Estemmenosuchus scratches itself on a dead tree with all sorts of little guys!

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · Jan 31

Had to attempt a little study of this #HEAVYPAINT

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · Feb 2

Ok, another Mexidracon thread because I find this critter just fascinating.
In our latest stream I tried to illustrate my point further by showing the proposed sediment probing behavior I assume for this animal.
#paleoart #sciart #scicomm #mexidracon

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · Jan 28

Phyllochrysa huangi • Liverwort Mimesis in a Cretaceous Lacewing Larva (Liu et al. 2018)
Illustration by Dinghua Yang
#paleoart #paleoentomology #sciart