Placodonts are amazing! Exhibit A: Cyamodus orientalis. And no, this is NOT a turtle. This is an illustration for my book (in preparation) You can see this one and another Placodont I reconstructed for my book in a new post exclusive for my patrons Patreon.com/serpenillus 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology 🐍

Some chinese placodonts and stem turtles

If you are a creative in the UK, I urge you to take part in the consultation about copyright law. AI companies are attempting to loosen those laws so as to use your work without asking. Now is your chance to say something about it, directly: www.gov.uk/government/c...

On the first day of #Crustmas, my true love gave to me One Uca fiddler crab from west of Panama City

Low-relief paper sculpture of a pigeon wing. It was frustratingly difficult to take a good picture of this. At some point, I'd like to attempt a more detailed wing, but this 'quick' one answered my craving to make it at the time. From 2018, six years ago on this very day.

Very close

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Don’t mind me hopping onto this but dark and moody #paleoart is my jam!! #SciArt #artbyjulio

This morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, is a mural featuring #Squalicorax, #Tusoteuthis, and a school of Apsopelix...

Trilobite reconstruction work in progress: Bellacartwrightia whiteleyi, with legs, gills, and antennae.

QP/Share your photos with texture! A better look at the scale pattern on the tail of my origami Capricorn, aka goat mermaid. ☺️

I find it interesting that people only ask me to tag for arachnophobia but never cynophobia, which impacts almost as many people.

Bearded Vulture. Or, if you prefer, Lammergeier or Ossifrage. Actually let's be honest the latter two are cooler.

Share your blue art 💙 #BlueArt #origami

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Less than two days to go on the Kickstarter for my art book 'Other Worlds'! I thought I would share some of the process art I have included in the book, which offers insights into how I work. Link to support it here :) bit.ly/403C70b (MyArt)

I created this painting "Dinosaur Parade" in 1990, before I invented the whole concept of Dinotopia. I just wanted to give a glimpse of a lost empire that humans shared with peaceful dinosaurs. Jumping through that picture frame and living inside the painting changed my life.

waiting at the bugstop 2022

Crested #pterosaur, #Nyctosaurus, without, and with, unlikely skin sail. Colour scheme borrowed from Graphium doson (I think – it was a few years back). Did this for a book that I never got beyond planning. . #palaeoart #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology

Ok, so the news is still new. I have a new paper out today naming a cool new pterosaur: Skiphosoura bavarica (Bavarian sword-tail), from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany. The full paper is here with all the info: www.cell.com/current-biol... Artwork by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

This animal is really important for understanding pterosaur evolution, but let's start with the basics. It's a member of a group called the darwinopterans and at 2m wingspan it's the biggest known, but the skeleton is also superbly preserved and in 3D which is incredible.

I refuse to join Bluesky - I don’t want to become a part of a Gecko chamber

Just spreading the word about a crowdfunding campaign for an art book by @alexriesart called Other Worlds. Only a few more days left. 💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I feel like popular media fails to prepare people for fascism because its always like... One Guy and a robot army, and you beat them to win. In reality its almost half of the people around you, they aren't just machines, and they quite like it.

Earlier today I posted “Rule #1: Always repost Tyrannosaurs.” I would like to amend that to “Always repost Tyrannosaurs and Natee” (who couldn’t be less tyrannical if they tried, but whose work is never less than extraordinary.

I feel like the Peytoia giving live birth warrants some more explanations. As it is one of the first depictions of this behavior. To be clear: it's at this point just speculation. We don't have direct evidence for radiodonts doing this. However...

Twitter followers will already know about this annual tradition, but: Every day in December I sell an original dinosaur sketch to raise funds for two charities (one local, one global). I’m considering doing it differently this year and doing alternating days on Twitter and here on Bsky…(1/3)

(Fixed Link) My interview with comicbook.com about my Kickstarter book, along with lots of lovely Subnautica: Below Zero art 🙂 comicbook.com/comics/news/... Sign up here for the Kickstarter! bit.ly/403C70b

The Kickstarter for 'Other Worlds', my first ever book, is GO! Filled with art from Subnautica: Below Zero, the Birrin Saga, and decades of my illustration and concept art. I took no half-measures creating this book. The Kickstarter link is here! bit.ly/403C70b (MyArt)

A 60 unit origami kusudama based on a rhombicosidodecahedron. Designed by Khin Hooi. Folded by me. Tutorial linked below. My first time making a modular from more than 30 units. It was much more difficult to keep track of whether the right number of flaps come together at a given point but very fun.

Heathrow Terminal 3. I surreptitiously ninja signed all the books I'd written including the Good Omenses on the shelf below.

I wonder if people should clap every time they safely reach their destination (on a Boeing)

That's an expensive team-kill.

the 4 twitters

So this will make accounts of notable journos/figures who were killed, or died w/out passing on account credentials, erasing a life's work or issues that got them murdered. Includes those imprisoned or lost access because their equipment was taken by the state. @amanthap.bsky.social, & I know many.

The process of creating the artwork Kaybor Gate, a great ruin of a birrin culture long past, even predating the Fall.

Of course. Of course the miracle of AI is a mechanical Turk. Not just stealing art. Humans even work the *boring* AI from inside. And it’s a colonial monster too, exploiting poor overseas labour. Oh, AI, is there nothing you can’t enshittify? TW: dark as fuck. www.wired.com/story/millio...

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A herd of Garumbatitan leaves some coastal fog behind.

I think I caught the proverbial bug again. 🤭 A work in progress of my latest origami model - a scorpion. I've been folding this piece of paper since Sunday but I've just been adding more folds to a flat piece of paper (Precreasing). Most of the visible progress has happened today. #arachtober

This!!!

I'm primarily an illustrator these days, but I still do the occasional sculpture...

Trying to catch the tail end of #Spectember with this little piece of @fabioaleromero.bsky.social fanart. A solifuge scorpion in paper form. Not perfect by any means but very fun. Could also be seen as an early entry for #Spooktober. I'm ready. 🤭

My latest book - Ancient Sea Reptiles (published by NHM London in the UK and Smithsonian Books in the US) - is currently scoring 4.8 out of 5 on amazon, with positive reviews. I really wish people would _stop_ comparing it to Greg Paul's The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles!!

I've been making Baba Yaga huts ✨🍄🌿🌖

For #FossilFriday, new #paleoart at #Patreon: nesting Tyrannosaurus deposits her eggs into a hole in the ground. Many #dinosaurs seem to have buried their eggs, including some big theropods - we just don't see it depicted often. Hi-res and discussion: www.patreon.com/posts/90032285 #sciart

New origami WIP. I've been struggling with burnout for the past few months so I definitely felt rusty. The inspiration for this piece came from a spec creature by @fabioaleromero.bsky.social called a solifuge scorpion, but due to my miscalculations it's not going to look right. More photos tomorrow.

Scaling the art to life-sized is sobering. Adult male Lion skull in comparison.