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Gen C

@trigonotarbida.bsky.social

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Palaeoart & various other biology art. Palaeontology student (3rd year) and into a range of hiking and nature stuff (though I particularly like strange arachnids and crustaceans). Any pronouns.

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · Apr 8

Happy #PortfolioDay!
I'm a palaeontology student and mostly draw various unusual animals (both extinct and extant), and like doing interesting vegetation and backgrounds! I also do some more technical scientific illustration.
Contact for commissions is [email protected]

Digital illustration of a syncaridan, a strange crustacean with many appendages, swimming towards the viewer

Digital illustration of Phreatoicopsis raffae, an unusual isopod walking through wet moss

Digital illustration of two eusthenopteron fish swimming through algae

Diagram with graphite illustrations of a diprotodon vertebra compared to a koala and wombat

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · Dec 29

Okay I have finally updated my inprnt... get some creature prints here I guess www.inprnt.com/gallery/ostr...

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks! it took quite a while 😅

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · Apr 16

Quick sketch of Bothriolepis, an antiarch #placoderm from a slab at the at the Canowindra fossil museum.

Graphite sketch of the imprint of Bothriolepis, a placoderm

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · Jun 4

Some digital illustrations of dasyuromorphia marsupials from a while ago to practice drawing mammals

Digital illustrations of a range of dasyuromorphia mammals in a poster format on an orange background

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · Jul 23

Pelagornithids for an assignment a while ago
#palaeoart #paleoart #pelagornithid #birds

Digital illustration of some pelagornithid birds flying over a stormy sea with the start of a sunset in the background

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 1d

spiny dogfish

(Swim On 5, 2019) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈

Illustration of a spiny dogfish and smaller fish swimming among stylized kelp strands, white lines of current threading around it and its surroundings.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 23h

#Paleoctober2025 day 6 paleoart sketch of the giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #ichthyosaur #Ichthyotitan

Painterly hour long digital sketch of the massive ichthyosaur in cool ocean waters with much smaller ammonites swimming past.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 18h

Day 7 #Invertober2025 - Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 🐌

SNAIL. BYE.

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a Scaly foot gastropod, a very fancy black shiny shelled snail with a red soft body but it is covered in little black scales, on a black background.

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mushy @mushbeast.bsky.social · 14h

print reproductions are hard with textured paintings using a dry brush technique, but this turned out nicely

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · 1d

last rocks finally done :)

photograph of a graphite drawing of rocks, with rocky mountains going out into the distance

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · 1d

Aww it's really cute!!

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 1d

This was supposed to be the #SundayFishSketch ...
The bumby snailfish is refusing to get painted at the moment :/ ... I may return to it later or try again.

tiny watercolour of a bumpy snailfish looking ahead
pencil stump for size reference
It looks like a pjnk bumpy blob withe spiky fins

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 2d

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia

#paleoart #sciart #art

Illustration showing a pair of Cartorhynchus swimming in coastal waters

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that you can submit early to the December art book so we all won't scramble when the holiday season comes!

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Vyhr / ioioiee @vyhrart.bsky.social · 3d

Edmontosaurus two day sketch I just finished!
If you wanna see me draw this live, I'm starting to stream in the upcoming week on Twitch!
www.twitch.tv/ioioiee
My commissions are open! Will be helping the funding of my trip to SVP in Birmingham!
See you on Twitch! #paleoart

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3d

#Paleoctober2025 day 5 paleoart sketch of the Mesozoic coral Isastrea.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Coral #Isastrea

Painterly shallow seabed showing the coral in the foreground and vague fish in the background. Might be totally wrong, I don't know anything about coral.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 3d

Sad news: the kakapo population is down to 237 after a female bird called Solstice died of an infection.

According to the Kakapo Recovery Facebook page, she had
• 8 clutches
• 24 eggs laid
• 13 fertile eggs
• 6 chicks hatched
• 4 living offspring
• 27 descendants

Illustration of a kakapo - a large, moss-green flightless parrot with an owl-like face - sitting on a person's arm with just the arm visible. It has a circular framing depicting little scribbles of ferns and conifer branches. Behind it is a light brown background with pale lineart of mossy tree trunks and branches of New Zealand's forests.

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 3d

#Trilobites of the Pimenteira Formation, Devonian Brazil.
#paleoart #sciart

Vintage illustration of numbered trilobites of various sizes, their fossils, and a short description on the bottom.

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Brennan Stokkermans @brennanstokkermans.bsky.social · 3d

I was honored to create this illustration to accompany the discovery of Breugnathair elgolensis a newly discovered genus of reptile that shares traits of both lizards and snakes.
Congratulations and special thanks to the authors!
You can read the paper using the link below
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 3d

Finally found her a nice branch 🌿

A thorn bug sculpture perched on a bumpy branch against a neutral background.

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 7d

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma

( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
🐙🦑🧪

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Gen C @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · 4d

lighting is a bit terrible but pseudoscorpion I just saw :) I love them. #arachtober

photograph of a pseudoscorpion on a damp piece of wood. There is a springtaill under one of its pincers.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 5d

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Yes, the dragonfly was drawn with this very brush. 🧐🔍

Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a dragonfly, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with. The detail is very tiny and intricate. The penny could eclipse the dragonfly entirely with room to spare.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #Invertober day 3!

Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)

(based on reference photo by aparrot1 on inaturalist)

#SciArt #art #Invertober2025

Digital painting of a giant green anemone, a rounded disk which has many pointed tentacles around its circumference in shades of green and gray, against a mostly black background that is slightly mottled with a subtle dark gray.

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