A real globe-trotting cat for #GlobalCatDay 🐈 Isotope analysis of the Winged Lion sculpture in St Mark’s Square, Venice suggests it began life as a tomb guardian in Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907) China, travelling to the floating city via the Silk Roads. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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.

Panthera fossilis is a lovely big cat

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.

Pappocetus lugardi, probably the largest known protocetid. #sciart #paleoart

It's World Crocodile Day and I conveniently just finished my skeletal of Deinosuchus hatcheri, a gigantic crocodylian (or near crocodylian) from Campanian Laramidia. This has been in the works for a long time and it feels good to have it done. #WorldCrocodileDay #dinosaurs #paleoart #Deinosuchus

Here is the target and setting for my project, the planet Sienna. Wet, oxygen-bearing, yet sweltering, it presents both opportunities and challenges for the robots. Link to webpage: sites.google.com/view/uponsoiltheymade/initiation/one-story-among-many

This might be one of my favorite diagrams I've made, a multiview diagram of the holotype of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, the best hadrosaur. It was a fun to figure out how best to represent multiple views. #paleoart #fossilfriday

Here's an update on my Deinosuchus skeletal. Nearly all the bones are done, just gotta finish the skull detailing and the osteoderms. Also the back leg. But theoretically in the home stretch. #paleontology #Deinosuchus #paleoart

First post here, I've got some new skeletals to share, but wanted to drop this WIP - I've been (slowly) updating my Deinosuchus diagrams from the ground up. Here are three specimens of the western species: TMM 43620-1, AMNH 3073, and TMM 43632-1.

The newly-described tortoise, Chelonoidis pucara, about to be deadlifted by a grumpy Megatherium americanum in Pleistocene Argentina 🇦🇷, 16 KYA. #paleoart #sloth #animals

It’s #WarhammerWednesday with a Mirebrute Troggoth! These swamp-dwelling beasts can fully regenerate from horrific injury, recovering from lost limbs and “certain” death. Painfully stupid, they are given massive clubs and ridden into battle by the tribes of swamp orruks. #warhammer #ageofsigmar

Heads up, y'all - this account, spoont51 . bsky . social, isn't a real person, but most likely an LLM operating out of another country. This account's handlers are targeting LGBTQIA2S+ users and their followers and adding them to blocklists/target lists for harassment. Block and report.

I should say that this Monday finally after a year waiting I got a new laptop, though I have yet to settle some things before taking it, I started to prove it to see how well it runs, so far painting has improved, here is a funny cow as a first try

Andrewsarchus mongoliensis #sciart #paleoart

Here the result of the St. Bathans fauna stream! This one took us into the early Miocene of New Zealand, the Moa's ark, as some call it. After many formation streams with very few birds this one has probably way too many! #paleostream #paleoart #sciart

And so concludes this short and relaxing formation #paleostream! The Soom Shale is a late Ordovician lagerstätte with few fossils but often times exceptional preservation.

Happy Birthday Dearc! The first named Scottish pterosaur, described in 2022, Dearc the birthday boy, is now 3️⃣! Since its discovery, it got a new neighbour (other Scottish pterosaur, Ceoptera) and has been recovered as one of the "missing links" in pterosaur evolution. Also, immortalised as toys!

A full color and hypothetical reconstruction of the head of recently found Dimartinia, based more or less in small sparassodonts as Cladisictis and Lycopsis for proportions. Interestingly, the mandible looks tiny compared to the teeth.

Hello, I am an artist and palaeo student who just moved to bluesky (previously only posted on tumblr). I like drawing strange animals in interesting landscapes. Some examples of my recent art: #palaeoart #scientificart

These people protected US forests and lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump

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Hey sorry for being inactive in these week, life has been harsh and I really do not have any energy to post as I wanted, so in the meantime here is a sketch of Arctodus simus and Ursus maritimus, two bears that probably interacted with each other on north American through the pleistocene

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Fukuisaurus, Cartorhynchus, Nanuqsaurus and Stethacanthus

New at Tetrapod Zoology... Yowies and the Marsupial Hominoid Hypothesis – Neil Frost’s Fatfoot: Encounters With A Dooligahl. Quick thoughts on a GIANT book about a very odd, marsupial-themed hypothesis... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/2/... (art by AThrillosopher) #cryptozoology #monsters

I made this for twitter as I restored the account I was willing to terminate, but it came along a lot of things while I was doing this that ended up being more of a comment regarding my own feelings on the current events, a way of telling myself and others that there is hope, that there can be hope.

The idea of a "carbon footprint" was literally invented by BP so you'd think about how *you* impact the environment and not how *they* impact the environment. People know this, right? Of course we should all work to minimize our impacts, but some perspective is useful here.

Skeletal reconstruction of UALVP 2, the most complete specimen of Stegoceras validum, after Gilmore (1924).

Happy #FossilFriday! I recently found out that you can access a magazine article on researchgate, which features my illustration of Oregramma illecebrosa!!! Enjoy! #paleoart #invertebrates #paleontology www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Rhizodus is an extremely impressive sarcopterygian!

Always a good reminder: Your skill at social media is not equal to your skill as an artist. Higher follower number =/= better artist. Read more in my book How to Webcomic! https://thestarfishface.com/products/how-to-webcomic #art #webcomics

#Cenozoicrewind2024 Meet Bolcaoctopus pesciaraensis! #sciart #paleoart

Well after two weeks since I did this as the system that allows the termination of my account finish it up to February 7 it really started to push me about just to lock the account and keep the content I had there intact, IDK if that would work instead of kill and erase it, any thoughts?

Carnotaurus doing a goof and slipping because while speedy on straight lines, it wasn't adapted for sharp turns, leading to situations like this with a baby hadrosaur getting its way birthday gift for @thenorthkivist.bsky.social!! idea by @convictclaude.bsky.social :D #paleoart

...Hoard bones in their borrows and caves. If not eaten they have a good chance of fossilizing despite the warm and humid climate. As you can see this size chart by @seismic-shrimp.bsky.social, only a fraction of this diversity made it in, but I tried to cover nearly every major clade.

Besides the greatest of apes this fauna is filled with an enormous amount of mammals, not to dissimilar to La Brea in diversity maybe. But instead of tar we mostly have to thank rodents, specifically porcupines, for the preservation of these fossils. Their need for calcium makes them...

THE BIG MONKEY HAS LANDED With the Gigantopithecus fauna I finish no. 40 in our formation piece series. While being very challenging, this composition was a joy to figure out, and not just because of the animals. The verticality of these karst landscapes always fascinated me. #paleoart #sciart

painting that I sort of abandoned. deemed it overdramatic for my taste I guess. I always imagined this was a scene from early jurassic coastline. was going to add a pterosaur (Dorygnathus,Campylognathoides or Dimorphodon) there about to snatch the dragonfly, but never got around to it

Day 3 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the "first apex predator" Anomalocaris. With complex eyes and a set of grasping claws it was the terror of the Cambrian seas. 🧪

More than a dog

Sudden surprise for that Dimorphodon! #paleoart #pterosaurs

Reconstruction of Teudopsinia grossheidei. This is potentially the smallest octobrachian of the Solnhofen Archipelago, known from dozens of well preserved specimens.

#Cenozoicrewind2024 Meet Protrachyaspis shorymensis! #sciart #paleoart

With the exception of Raurys, who's essentially just Drogon from the show, these were all a lot of fun to design for Levi and Fang did a fantastic job giving them some proper full body art.

Word up. It's #FossilFriday. This week, meet Eophrynus. This is a ~315 million year old member of the trigonotarbids - an extinct group, related to spiders, whip spiders, and whip scorpions. Check out the spines! I love this fossil. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Han solo, Tameryraptor, Rhizodus and Dinornis

I missed the first #paleostream of 2025, but I caught this one! Han solo, Tameryraptor, Rhizodus, and Dinornis.

Finished the reconstruction of a Panthera atrox (American lion) skeleton, a commission I did for someone :) #SciArt #Paleoart

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