Some pencil studies/sketches in preparation for an exciting commission I can't say too much about 👀 #paleoart #sciart

One of the greatest wildlife artists ever - Stanley Meltzoff #sciart

An old #WIP of the Devonian shark Cladoselache. Mainly referenced the work of Ewa wahine'oniuhinui & Tyler Greenfield to reconstruct this. I suck at shading but liked how it looked at this stage #sciart #paleoart

I feel like we take hammerhead sharks for granted. They are insane!!! How does this evolve!!!

More Jurassic cycad studies, looking at cones & stems/trunks primarily. There are some fossilized cycad cones (Androstrobus, Leptocycas, etc) and plenty of extant forms to draw inspiration/reference from. #paleobotany

Old, probably inaccurate reconstruction of Livyatan melvillei. You almost never see it shown with its mouth closed #paleoart #sciart

Frederic Edwin Church is my favorite landscape painter for a number of reasons, one being even his unfinished studies are incredible

Cycad cones have deceptively complex features that, for me at least, require me to start as simple as possible and very slowly build in contour & detail. #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #WIP

Alexander Semenov is perhaps my favorite photographer when it comes to marine invertebrates. He covers a wide range of organisms and has an incredible eye for color & detail #wildlifephotography flickr.com/photos/a_sem...

Glad to see more #paleoart on the timeline of the criminally underrated Triassic allokotosaur Teraterpeton. Still pretty happy with my old reconstruction #sciart

New AMAZING reference for reptile/lizard anatomy just dropped and it's open access!!! The skeleton of the green Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae) and its intraspecific morphological variation [Rosa et al. 2025] #sciart #herpetology anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oooh, yisss!!! More of this!!! These are good!!! #paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #plants

After illustrating quite a few ferns, I've now moved on to cycads! Here are some examples of Jurassic cycad morphology. With great thanks to @lepidodendron.bsky.social for his insightful blog post about cycads for #paleoart! #paleobotany #cycad

While I love the weird & less popular fern types, the family Osmundaceae (Late Permian-present) really have that classic fern look to them #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.

More images in a scientific paper that can be described as low quality, of questionable accuracy, environmentally damaging, job stealing and copyright infringing. Hey, maybe it's time for scientific journals to just stop accepting AI-generated images?

Some rough compositional thumbnails, sauropod-themed of course. The image of browsing sauropod with the head closer to the viewer is a common perspective, so I'm seeing if I can make it look unique. #paleoart #sciart

it appears plagiorizer William Toosey tries his shit again, that's my Propalorchestes in his "Journey through the Cenozoic". I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top. Lots of JRC art here.

Do you have photos of sauropods in exhibitions?? Please, share them with me, so we can all enjoy the week with these amazing dinosaurs! This is the triad of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social: Giraffatitan (middle), Dicraeosaurus (left) and Diplodocus (right). 🦕❤️🦕

More paleobotanical studies - this time the Mesozoic dipteridacean fern Hausmannia. Another example of how ferns during this time exhibited a diversity of forms that can spice up #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart

Lesmesodon edingeri, a cat sized Hyaenodont from the #Messel Pit. We only have 4 fossils from this species, all still suckling age. Would be an early horse’s nightmare as an adult though (dissection in thread) #sciart (done in 2021)

Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right. #paleobotany

Thought I'd share a thread of artistic depictions of forests, woodlands & jungles that I find inspiring. Please reply with your personal favorites! Starting with "Ghosts of the Rainforest" - bongo illustration (Paul Augustinus) #sciart #landscape #art

Congrats to the authors, especially Ian Baylatry for his gorgeous #paleoart! This particular aspect of the paper is something Brian Engh has been bringing up for years - osteological correlates sometimes don't exist for soft tissue features!

One of my favorite landscape photographers is Jan Erik Waider. His borderline abstract aerial photos of geological features & processes are so crisp & otherwordly. Colors & textures that I would never guess were associated w/ rivers, glaciers & the like. Mostly taken in Iceland & Alaska I believe.

I know this is no fault of @tetzoo.bsky.social, who has been campaigning to try and make this happen for years, but I would absolutely kill for a "behind the scenes" Prehistoric Planet book that discusses the depth of research, decision-making and concept work that went into each episode

Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany

“We’re gonna need a bigger gravy-boat!” Turkey skull peeks out from behind a T. rex wishbone on Thanksgiving! 🦃🍗🦖

Happy to be a part of this big project led by Mario Bronzati & Matteo Fabbri—out today #OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2

Studies of some horsetail fossils from the Yorkshire flora of Jurassic UK to start off a brand new sketchbook. #paleoart #paleobotany #botany #sciart

I really hope I live to see a review/update of mamenchisaurid evolution & phylogeny. They're such a weird and interesting group in desperate need of tidying. Paging @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social lol

Once upon a time I was a nearly prolific illustrator of ancient life forms. Here's a sampling of this 🐡🎨 paleoart from the early 20's.

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

Here the result of the Seaham Formation #paleostream, maybe the most relaxing formation stream we will ever have! This Carboniferous tundra wasn't chosen because of it's fossils, but because of its setting.

One of the best & most useful scientific figures when it comes to sauropods is this one from Jannel et al. 2022. It's visually clear & gives a good idea of which sauropods we have decent hind foot aka pes material for.

In "Ecology of the Brontosaurs" Robert Bakker describes adaptations of many ungulates, including the "elongate, banana-shaped" hooves of the swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope. Surely, I thought, that's an exaggeration. But these are crazy!

#2025SVP I sometimes forget how important histology is to paleontology, and how often you see histological slides in conference talks. Some sort of simplified guide to how to read these diagrams would be a useful reference for paleoartists & other less academic folks #SVP2025

One interesting thing you often see scales do is becoming "banded" or forming ring-like formations down the tail. It's present in countless lizards, and pretty clearly visible in crocodilians.

I’m just going to say it straight away - the amount of stairs and small steps, and confusing layout makes the ICC an absolute disaster in terms of accessibility. Looking forward to muscle pain at the end of the conference #2025SVP !

And that's the end of that chapter. What a great success: the SVP Palaeoart Workshop.

My name tag is already trashed, that has to be some kind of record right? #2025SVP #SVP2025 😭😭😭

#2025SVP travel advice: as soon as you get to your hotel room find the ironing board and iron and iron all your shirts and suit jacket, if you plan on dressing to impress. Hang everything up in the hotel closet and it will stay wrinkle free until you need it. Then go and hang out (or nap)

salt marsh A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane

I’ve been working on some commissions involving Jurassic frogs, salamanders & turtles, so I practiced with a quick portrait study of an indeterminate turtle. I LOVE turtles and it’s always a treat to see them basking, a rare experience in my home of Chicago. #sciart

#Temnovember a study of the Jurassic temnospondyl Sinobrachyops, which lived alongside mamenchisaurs. Smaller than I picture temnos! Partly inspired by the work of cqin & Emily Stepp. Larva is speculative & not to scale

New paper on Parringtonia, an early croc relative I illustrated way back in 2019 for the Field Museum #paleoart #sciart

After an incredibly long gestation period, I have a new paper out reviewing all the data and evidence we have on the pterosaurian uropatagium. Full link to the paper is in the blogpost linked below: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...