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Behold, a Flying Tako (Grimpo) 🐙
@lesoulrocc.bsky.social
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I am a Grimpoteuthis ceatti come from the depths. Currently an instructor at a nondescript ASEAN country university!

I like creatures and graphics, too. 🦖🐦🎨
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zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social
What do you call a reptile that looks like a lizard but isn't? I'm Nothosaurus...

Helping to understand ecosystem recovery after the PT-extinction, a large new nothosaurian is described, adding to the evidence of large predators in the Tethys shallow seas! 🧪👇
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
#FossilFriday
January 16, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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doedryadart.bsky.social
Belted Kingfisher illustration recently finished. Watercolor, colored pencil, and a bit of gouache on 6x9" cotton paper.

#sciart #birds
January 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
since it's appreciate a dragon day, meet thanatosdrakon, the so-called dragon of death 🐉 this azhdarchid - known for its appearance in JWE3 - is known from two specimens, one of which is relatively complete by the standards of the clade
(art by vikasrao)
thanatosdrakon soars over a forest; we see its silhouette from below, from the point of view of some ornithopods a reconstructed thanatosdrakon skeleton alongside aerotitan in the museo paleontológico egidio feruglio in argentina a family of thanatosdrakon as depicted in JWE3 a skeletal diagram of the two thanatosdrakon individuals, with the known elements highlighted in yellow
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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nao70shark.bsky.social
ディロフォサウルス
January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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rlatkdwls.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
SPPOOOSSSHHH... PHHHFFFFFFF... SSSSSSHHHHHHHH...

To paraphrase Bob Ross, you have to make the noises when looking at #paleoart, otherwise it doesn't work.

2018 illustration of giant Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, surfacing in waters that once covered Nevada. #art #fossil #paleontology #sciart
Three giant ichthyosaurs emerge from the water in front of a hazy, cloudy sky. The left animal has the arms of a large squid emerging from its mouth, and the right has surfaced far enough to show its front left flopper. The central animal looms above us, eclipsing the sun with its enormous snout. Two pterosaurs fly past the closest specimen, dwarfed by the emergent swimmer like pigeons circling a cathedral spire.
January 16, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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ausarchosaur.bsky.social
Eofauna’s website has a questionnaire where one of the questions is what other animals you’d want them to make figures of. I THINK I remember requesting Paraceratherium on this questionnaire before.

Either way I’m pleased I could get this soon.
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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nao70shark.bsky.social
JPのディロフォサウルスのようなエリマキの場合、エリマキを展開するための骨が必要なのよね
だけどそのような骨は見つかってない

だからエリマキがあった場合は展開する骨のないものにする必要があるわね
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Hiya, I have 4 more school fact file sheets for #FossilFriday:
#Tianyulong, #Darwinopterus, #Oregramma, and #Caytonia! These are really relaxing to do, and I plan on doing more plants next!
I hope you like them!
#paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #schoolwork #publiccommunication
A fact file of Tianyulong with a drawing oc it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right. A fact file of Darwinopterus with a drawing of it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right. A fact file of Oregramma with a drawing of it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right. A fact file of Caytonia with a drawing of a tree on the right, and the leaves and reproductive organs on the left, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right.
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social
#PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
'What if you're right? What if I am the last Gigantopithecus?'
Gigantopithecus aesthetics...
January 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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rlatkdwls.bsky.social
Maip hunting Isasicursor
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
Spending the week on commissions for museums and realised that - now we're in 2026 - I've been creating #paleoart for other scientists and researchers for 20 years (actual anniversary is July). Here's my first "professional" gig: thalassodromid ontogeny for Dave Martill and @tetzoo.bsky.social.
An image created back in the mists of time, when the Earth was new... 2006. It shows what was once thought to be a growth series of the crested Cretaceous pterosaur Tupuxuara (all animals shown to scale, with hatchling at the bottom, juvenile on the right, subadult at top, and old adult in the centre). Later work showed this growth series to be incorrect, with the "old adult" pertaining - as was originally suspected - to a different genus (Thalassodromeus). This was not my first digital painting, but it was the first painting I did for a client, and the one that first put my art and name in the press.
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 PM
lesoulrocc.bsky.social
me yesterday: why is the moving average section taking so much memory!?

me today: ohhh, it took 200 samples. my bad 😅
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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rlatkdwls.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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rlatkdwls.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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rlatkdwls.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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chrisdipiazza.bsky.social
Newest #watercolor is Ajkaceratops. Believe it or not this painting was rushed over the course of a few days on my lunch breaks at work. #paleoart
January 15, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
lesoulrocc.bsky.social
Would anyone happen to know how to memory optimize a moving average code? 🥲 (currently using too many float variables hnnng)
January 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2026-01...
T. rex grew up slowly: New study reveals 'king of dinosaurs' kept growing until age 40
For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of Tyrannosaurus rex to estimate how old the giant carnivores were when they died and h...
phys.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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rlatkdwls.bsky.social
Spicomellus sketch
January 14, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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literallymiguel.bsky.social
#paleoart

In case it's needed, i'm also a nerd who's way too into the skeletal anatomy of said creatures hehe
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
I've heard it's a #PortfolioDay, so I'll throw out a few . . .

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Art #JurassicWorld
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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wargonopsid.bsky.social
#portfolioday I'm a multidisciplinary artist who prefers to depict animals extinct and imagined, in 2d and 3d. I'm a volunteer fossil preparator and hoarder of art mediums :) #paleoart #fantasyart #3d #mixedmedia
a painting of two gorgonopsians, mostly watercolor but with some acrylic, based on this paper https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.699298/full A 3d sculpted and printed Lycaenops "the Pettable Gorg" with a cast of the animal's skull in the Burke Museum A spec evo bird designed with @cascoclauda.bsky.social for the lemuria challenge, a combo of Blender and Krita. a fantasy scene of two Gorbolds, one with a polearm, about to ambush a scutosaur pulling a cart. Watercolor and Arrtx markers in my sketchbook.
January 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
#PortfolioDay
I'm Natalia, a 🇵🇱-born, 🇬🇧-residing, 🇭🇰 & 🇨🇳-based palaeontologist, with a doctorate in pterosaurs, currently specialising in blasting fossils with lasers. On the side, I'm an award-winning artist, drawing for magazines, books & museums (recently, Palestine Museum of Natural History)
A leaping dinosaur with a striped tail A sauropod covering from an impact A dynamic Microraptor
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM