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allisonchinart.bsky.social
Sea of Rays
A painting of cownose rays schooling in a diagonal formation, swimming through sundays. #sciart
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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joannakobierska.bsky.social
I thought you might appreciate crisp 4K version.
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YouTube video by Joanna Kobierska
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February 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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sawyerleeart.bsky.social
A strange dragon was spotted, briefly, ducking in & under thunderclouds. Eyewitnesses say it was almost disorienting to look at, the way it’s massive wings & crackling body wove through the sky. Efforts to verify its existence are underway.
February 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
I hope I won’t regret this…
I decided to develop my own version of #JurassicWorldRebirth ‘s mutant, with more obviously avian influences.
A digital illustration of a giant, mutant dinosaur, looking like a quadrupedal chicken crossed with a T rex, crossed with who knows what else…
February 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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jhemiptera.bsky.social
#Sciart #Paleoart The Jinju Formation (112~106 Ma) is a stratigraphic unit with the most abundant fossil record in Cretaceous Korea. Fossils including insects, spiders, isopods, fishes, plants, and trackways of extremely diverse vertebrates are known from this stratigraphic unit.
February 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nepeteaa.bsky.social
sea ducks! 🌊🦆🪶
February 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Panel 1: two crows are walking in the snow as a heavy but gentle snow falls around them. Panel 2: one says to the other while looking ahead "Heh, that lump of snow looks like..." Panel 3: what they thought was a lump of snow opens its eyes, revealing itself to be a pure white snowy owl. Panel 4: "Gasp" gasps the second crow. "... a spirit!" exclaims the first.
January 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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clivethompson.bsky.social
A hacker created an "infinite maze" trap for AI web crawlers

if the server detects a web crawler from an AI firm ...

... it spins up infinite pages filled with crap, so the crawler gets stuck scraping useless stuff

Fun @jasonkoebler.bsky.social piece: www.404media.co/email/7a39d9...
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
www.404media.co
January 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
My poster on the life appearance of Megalosaurus, as presented at SVPCA 2024. A paper on this, and the history of M. reconstructions, is currently in the system and should (hopefully!) be published later this year. Posting this in the interim as a poss. useful #paleoart reference. #Sciart #dinosaur
A text-heavy poster detailing what we might predict about the life appearance of the medium-large predatory dinosaur Megalosaurus. Various reconstructions abound, with a timeline of historic interpretations on the left, the oldest known life reconstruction of Megalosaurus in the top right, and my own reconstructions in the middle and bottom.
January 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Citipati osmolskae, watercolor
January 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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clanaghan.bsky.social
"While poorly suited for most caravans, #Ankylosaurus excel at many things including beekeeping. Their slow walking speed means that most bees tend to ignore them as part of the landscape and the few who don't are unable to both them through their thick, armor plated skin."
#paleoart #dinosaur
January 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
For people interested in the #paleostream formation pieces I recommend the interactive map that @montanoceratops.bsky.social build! Also gives you an idea of what blind spots we still have and ideas what to cover next.
montanoceratops.github.io/Formations/
January 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
ravenjay.bsky.social
Ngl I thought Coelophysis was like chicken sized. Late Triassic is way more interesting than I thought! I see why people want a Triassic episode in documentaries! Artist: @mariolanzas.bsky.social
Video: youtu.be/rdd6aMOZwOc?...
January 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Results from the #paleostream!
Tameryraptor, Ianthasaurus, Yinostius and Nemegtosaurus.
January 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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movingtrainmedia.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/bird...
In a ‘perfect comeback,’ some birds use antibird spikes to build their nests
The spikes were meant to keep birds away. But five corvid nests in Europe use the bird-deterrents as structural support and to ward off predators.
www.sciencenews.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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laurelgale.bsky.social
"Oh no, anti-bird spikes. Those humans sure have outwitted me this time."

#birds 📷
A photo of a male American kestrel perched the metal spikes that top a street light. The bird does not seem at all deterred by the spikes.
January 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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zoekellerart.bsky.social
I made this ‘Backyard Birds of the Northeast’ print last year, based largely on photographs I took on my walks around my local NY forest.

#sciart #birdsinart #ornithology
January 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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clanaghan.bsky.social
"River markets are the best places to acquire fresch caught fish directly from the anglers themselves, and are usually where you can get the best deals as well. Experienced traders know which vendors they can haggle down, and which are best to just buy at the asking price."

#spinosaurus #paleoart
January 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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sawyerleeart.bsky.social
Deadly Nadder, Scauldron, and Stormcutter from HTTYD in my style! I’m trying to keep their core shapes recognizable while adding subtle anatomical tweaks to add a sense of realism.
January 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
Totally normal animal.
Digital portrait of Nyctosaurus.
A digital of Nyctosaurus- an extinct flying reptile with a bizarre Y-shaped crest.
January 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I won the opportunity to create a series of Dinosauria coins for The Royal Mint & the Natural History Museum, London. There was Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, & here's my reconstruction of Hylaeosaurus.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Hylaeosaurus
January 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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srutis.bsky.social
Old Quetz scribble
January 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM