To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data... #sciart #fossils #paleontology

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It's marine reptile Thursday! Here's my digital painting of the giant #ichthyosaur, #Temnodontosaurus, or, as BBC News called it, the " #SeaDragon Dinosaur Dolphin." This is the 10m long Rutland specimen (Larkin et al 2023). #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #WildlifeArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

Therizinosaurs are, without a doubt, some of the most interesting groups of theropod dinosaurs Here you have a selection of a few species that I reconstructed for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan for their 25th Anniversary Special Exhibition #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

And of course big up to the artists at NICE Studios who made all these ancient fishes come back yo life 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

More temporary palaeo exhibitions to check out in China, fossil fish in "Touch the Deep Ocean". At the Phoenix Centre, Beijing.

Great exhibition, closing soon ! A lot of effort was put into this project ! Here are some pictures from my visit some time ago :

Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender. May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍

Four generic frogs? No! These are members of four different FAMILIES from Europe, Borneo, Madagascar, and East Africa, convergently evolved on the generic brown frog morphotype! 🧪🐸

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Apparently I forgot to post this one! From the coast we go ever inward! The Mangrove forests of Lemuria consist largely of Nypa palms that grow along and in the waterways. Meet the weirdos of this green cathedral, with semi-aquatic sirenians, climbing crocs and tons of fish and birds.

Southern Sun

Please welcome Cariocecus bocagei! A new, basal hadrosauroid from the early Cret. of Portugal! This guy is known from a pretty nice skull, which makes it one of the best ornithopod fossils from Iberia so far! I loved during this little portrait for main author Filippo Bertozzo...

Forgot to post here as well! Oh boy, this was a tricky one, went quite a bit back and fourth on the composition, specifically the rocks/whales. In the end this sea grass meadow of Lemuria got it's rocks back but also retained some of the whales sleeping in the back.

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With great pleasure I would like to introduce you to the first ornithomimosaur from Germany! The fossils of this charming bugger are from Balve, a locality that preserves early Cretaceous fossils in a Devonian reef that had karstified already back then, giving us: cave dinosaurs

Rogatons Rediffusions - 10/10/2023 - "PNJ" Source: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202...

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Results from the #paleostream! Jaggermeryx, Kostensuchus, Rubidgea and Francocaris.

result of this week's special 2 hour #Paleostream flocking! for this flocking we spent 2 hours on just Spicomellus, however, i spent an additional 6 hours on my piece #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #dinosaur

Tonight's #paleostream had only one goal: paint a Spicomellus in 2 hours so you don't have to listen to my runny nose for too long.

I thought it'll get better with time, but, I still fervently haggle down or give work for free when doing a commission. Why I deserve to be valued more than a manual labourer? Is my time, somehow worth more, deserving of more comfort and material goods, to others?

Achieving succeses in unequal country hurts. I want to live in a world where I know my bus driver or cleaning lady are not overworked, can afford great food, lovely house & support their family. I have no reason to be put above them, to deserve more comforts, in our socioeconomic hierarchy.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Guess who has been meeting up with David Armsby again? Yes, me.

Yanliao biota (middle Jurassic china) palaeontinidae (cicada relatives) I think all the best known taxa are present together with few more obscure ones. While the colors are artistic vision the specific wing patterns are not and are as they were preserved in the fossils. It's quite magical. #sciart

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An imposing Langstonia scavenges a Xenastrapotherium carcass, in the Miocene of Colombia #paleoart

if anyone replies to this with “you just have the wrong size” i WILL hunt you for sport #comic

Terminally Ill Serpent Renounces Symbolic Ties With Evil

Some photos from my recent trip to Uppsala, Sweden 🇸🇪

Clairement. On casse tout, puisqu'apparement ya plus que comme ça qu'on peut etre écouté.

Just for fun, some #paleoart of Ichthyosaurus communis predating belemnites. I deliberately left the brushwork on this one a little looser than usual to give a sense of speed and movement. #sciart #ichthyosaur #fossil #paleontology

A scene of ca. 252 million years ago during the Late Permian in the Madumabisa Mudstone Formation in Zambia, Africa. You can see here various therapsids and a Pareisaur #paleoart #art #permian

And here the result of the Patrick Burn Formation #paleostream! This has been our first adventure into the Silurian, a short but important period for eurypterids and our own ancestors. The PB Formation from Scotland preserves a brackish fauna with such elements.

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Zooms with species from my #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social at Memorial University, #Newfoundland. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia

I asked Al to write me a story and she, being dead for approximately 152 million years, said nothing

Rogatons Rediffusions - 13/06/2023 - "Persévérance" Source: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202...

here's this week's #Paleostream flocking drawings!!! this week we drew Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, and Mirasaura #science #scicomm #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

If you see this quote your green art 🍃🌿☘️ #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

Possibly the first reconstruction of a dinosaur to come from Africa, drawn in the 1910s by a native Tanzanian (then part of the colonial Deutsch-Ostafrika) taking part in the Tendaguru fossil excavations.

We focused on Polish paleontologists turned victims of Nazi aggression, but what about academics who voluntarily joined Nazi ranks & what consequences (if any) they faced? A thread about Jurassic bivalve researcher, Dr. Richard Lebküchner, a sadist responsible for deaths of 50 East Europeans 🧵

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

I get into fights with palaeoartists over this, but, privatisation will never deliver the same way as non-profit public resources can. People shouldn't pay to have access to education or culture. Privatisation spells doom for people low on the socioeconomic ladder.

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n