E. annectens take

Without active mountain building the peaks of Lemuria slowly erode into hills. This dry and often times quite chilly habitat is not a good place for reptiles and so mammals dominate these highlands. This piece takes place during late morning on a spring day.

Another absolutely spectacular entry in David James Armsby’s incredible “Dinosauria” short film series. This might mark the first time Scutellosaurus has a prominent role in a work of dinosaur media, and it makes for a very memorable debut.

Rex Time #sciart

Alamosaurus

We set this piece between the open woodland and the bushlands of Lemuria. This piece exists as part of the usual roster of our spec evo projects for a while to show of the many burrowing animals that otherwise are hard to show, especially the ones that live near exclusively...

Some work out recently made, cetotherium riabinini is a small baleen whale from the Late Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys sea (Ukraine), a almost complete individual show it had remarkable body proportions unlike modern elongated species in a minuscule size.

As we leave the forests behind the landscapes becomes increasingly open and dry. The bushlands of Lemuria are therefore under threat of wildfires during the dry season of the year. This threat is more feared than any predator. Those who can't run or fly away will try to take...

Drawing them carboniferous creepy crawlies #sciart

Refining my digital sculpting skills with a sauropod! Camarasaurus sp. Thank you @tessasaurus.bsky.social for your help with integument possibilities!

Brachiosaurus/Giraffatitan: An Artistic History in Four Parts (Art by Zdenek Burian, Roger Payne, Steve Kirk, and Mark Witton)

Papiliomaris kluessendorfae, first reported in 1985 as the Waukesha "Butterfly Animal", was recently described as a strange bivalved arthropod with three pairs of large, feathery appendages. Some reports indicate it could reach up to 20cm wide.

Marine crocs of early jurassic #sciart

Update 15.1 is out now on Steam and Epic! 🦕 This patch introduces animal look targets, basic threat/flee behaviors and adds grazing animations to herbivores alongside a variety of bug fixes. The team is now fully focused on Update 16! 🗒️Patch Notes: bit.ly/473S7RH

environment practice

This weekend both Tyrannosaurus Rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus had their 120th anniversary, here are my tributes to both animals.

Modern euphractine armadillos sometimes hunt vertebrates as big or even bigger than them, this is taken to an extreme in Macroeuphractus (TW: Paleoart gore)

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia #paleoart #sciart #art

A happy day 2 of #Croctober (lets see how long I can keep this going) Crocs are well known for their parenting, but did you know that we even have fossils of them on their nest? This specimen comes from Germany and clearly shows a Diplocynodon mother that died on her nest

Better late than never! The tropical rainforest is our most diverse as well as one of the most challenging environments of Lemuria. A complex tangle of flora and fauna that got more than 500 submissions! i am still not 100% happy with this but at some point you have to let go...

Remingtoncetid protowhales #sciart

September's Dev Diary is out now! 🌟 Check out the latest post to learn more about Vivariums and get ready for Update 15's support patch to arrive this Thursday on the PTB! 🦎 ➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4nxyMzt 📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

The Triassic was a time of weird reptiles of every description. This is one of the more recent finds: Mirasaura from France. It's one of the drepanosaurs, an odd group of arboreal reptiles with superficially bird-like heads and, in some cases, equally superficially feather-like appendages.

Toxodon platensis portrait

Where the rivers meander into huge wetlands and lakes in the lowlands the light is often blocked out by enormous floating mats of grass. These grass rafts are a huge, diverse habitat even with it's own endemic species of whale.

46 species made it into this one, with a lot more I would have liked to add but at some point one must move on and the image is already quite full.

LESS than 2 days left to back my art book Carbon Based! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni... Finishing a T.rex vs Triceratops piece for the book & for the tier 4 print set. The rex is heavily based on AMNH 5027, it might have the coolest orbital horns.

Snake encounter of the day: This beautiful baby Rough Greensnake (Opheodrys aestivus) #snakes #reptiles

August's Dev Diary is out now! 🌟 As our team takes a little rest, this bite-sized post explores Update 16 and the next tiny animal coming to Prehistoric Kingdom - Compsognathus! 💕 ➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4n1GBfY 📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

Aegyptopithecus zeuxis #sciart

3 days left to back my art book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni... Special last minute addition here, working on a piece to add to the tier 4 print set! Will be added to the book as well. Classic T.rex vs Triceratops battle. RTs hugely appreciated. Thank you for the support guys!

Kostensuchus atrox, one of the coolest discoveries from this year, and the best peirosaurid crocodyliform yet found in my opinion very innocently running up to play with an Isasicursor! how wholesome! #paleoart

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

To liven up Tuesday afternoon, have some speculative #dinosaurs adapted for modern habitats. Respectively, they are the magnificent and steppe fissurefrills, the berk, and the grand field titan. It's nice to take a break from pure #paleoart every now and then, and designing animals is fun.

Some 40 million years ago, northern Europe was covered by what is known as the Baltic Amber Forest, now known only from pieces of amber found on the coastline. An illustration from my recent article in the magazine Suomen Luonto, based on research by Dr. Eva-Maria Sadowski. cara.app/post/6e6ed80...

Pretty sure this catfish did not enjoy his flight this morning. 🪶

Result of the Jialingjiang Formation #paleostream! This might be one of my favorite Triassic formations, although I might be biased because I love hupehsuchians and this formation just manages to hold all fot them.

quick commission of an obscure, recently extinct species of Tomistoma called T. gaudense

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 haven't talked much about Rebirth, but atm I'm not loving it. The series "reset" is odd and I don't love the creature designs on the whole. As someone immersed in the designs of this franchise, I feel that carries some weight and I wanted to share my takes on the new dinos.

Glorious people of #InverteFest 🧪, lend me your tympanal organs! I've written a book for NatGeo about North American wildlife. I got to pick 50 critters. An impossible task! But I want you to know... 13 OF MY 50 ARE INVERTEBRATESSSSSS That's more than 1/4 of the book!!! Want a wee taste? 😍

Shoshonius

"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.

A Once Green Antarctica

A lighting turnaround of the new-look Spicomellus I made for the PR materials. Was really cool to see this clip + the turntable on BBC news last night. I'm really happy with the copper patina vibe I settled on for the colours. This was my first time working in Substance Painter!

Went looking for Crested Caracaras. Was not disappointed. 🪶☀️🌵

Fiery-billed Aracari, Costa Rica - The Aracari is a medium-sized Toucan. #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #audubon #nature #naturephotography #birdnerd #wildlife #natgeowild #bbcwildlife #bbcearth #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #blueskyartshow #planetbirds #photography #birdsofcostarica

Results from the #paleostream! Tyrannosculda ( a wish by @ultraluther.bsky.social ), Pulaosaurus, Shangyang and Istiorachis.

And for #InverteFest false crab of the day, Paguropsis! 😍 A hermit crab genus that wears an anemone but stretched out with no shell ever! Also called the "blanket hermit crabs" they live in the deep sea, 150-360 m below 🦀🦑🧪 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/23712/

Common murre in breeding plumage off the coast of San Francisco for #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds #photography