Can finally share this #watercolor #paleoart I did a few years back of the “King of the Riverside” I did for the new paper by @melanieduring.com which shows that in Hell Creek there were giant Prognathodon mosasaurs that were living in freshwater (not just visiting)

#gambit #xmen

Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

Day 8 of my 2025 charity sketch sale, in aid of my local food bank & MSF. Today’s sketch - Majungasaurus. Rules are simple: First person to reply “Mine” gets it. Minimum donation for each sketch is £15 ( but you can donate more if you are able). Payment via PayPal.

Shopping small is meaningful!

An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌 Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat

‘La souris (anatomie et dissection): planches coloriées à feuillets découpés et superposés’ by Jules Philippe Louis Anglas, 1916.

'Two Sirens' Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

Result from the Mammoth Site #paleostream! This has been our first mammoth steppe formation stream, dwelling into some the classic giants of the Pleistocene. This site in South Dakota offered a unique opportunity is that is has so much stuff preserved in situ that we can...

Could I ask you to please take a moment to sign and share this. Education matters, and needs to be fought for. Thank you. www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

So many of these “nature” accounts are just AI slop generators. Another one here to block.

Ornithocheirus simus. A new portrait of this early Cretaceous pterosaur. #SciArt

Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite. Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013. #ArtAdventCalendar

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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

To celebrate the start of #ArtAdventCalendar here's my watercolour of the pesky Wood Pigeon who keeps eating all the bird food! That guilty expression and full cheeks says it all! 🪶☺️ Happy December everyone 🕊️👋 #Birds #Art #BirdArt #Painting #EastCoastKin

Something’s new in the works! And because it’s a personal project I get to share it with you while I work on it 🙌 This is the cover for Aquarium, Herbarium’s spiritual successor. So if you like rivers, folklore, holy wells, and D&D it might just be for you 🐟

Highlighting 19th-century women in palaeoart (Alice Woodward (1862–1951))

POV: you're in the museum's Ice Age dioramas hall #SciArt #artbyjulio

Study of Matonia pectinata fiddlehead & mature frond. I forgot how time-consuming ferns are to render 😭 #sciart #botany

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

@gallerynucleus.bsky.social is having a Black Friday sale where everything except Disney products will be off 20% from November 28th - December 1st with the code THANKS20. A number of originals of mine are still available (including this one!) plus prints! www.gallerynucleus.com/artists/vane...

Had some time off, so I made something fun and wildly out there just in time for Thanksgiving.

🌊The Angler's Bride🌊 My heart is a sunken altar. There, I thrive. There, I keep a ledger of bones. The deep remembers what the surface forgets.

A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface. This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0

markers are so fun!!!

underrated feature of old twitter was people with a decent following being able to bully brands into acting right

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859

The real “Dolores”? I was recently commissioned to create a pencil sketch of Aquilops - a dinosaur which I’d never really paid proper attention to. In the l course of my research I became a bit obsessed and felt compelled to also create this more detailed illustration as a personal project. #SciArt

another discord comm. #digitalart #art #intothedeadlands #illustration

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social et al 2025 for the publication of their Oxroadia paper! And thanks for bringing me onboard to do some restorations of this relative of Lepidodendron and Isoëtes from the Carboniferous of Scotland. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #FossilFriday #paleobotany

Thanks so much for bringing me onboard for this Sandy! It was great working with you again, and I really grew to love Oxroadia: it's a fascinating plant and I loved the resolutions we were able to get with these restorations! #paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #fossilfriday

Take me with you 🫀 man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

Be weary of the beardogs! These swift pack hunters are not to be taken lightly. New update (backers only) posted to our Kickstarter! Link in thread

DINOVEMBER 2025 - DAY 18: DEINOCHEIRUS (Big Goose! With goslings) #dinovember #dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleoart #paleoartist #paleontology #sciart #prehistoric #prehistoricanimals #prehistoricplanet #deinocheirus

The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica Illustration by Guilherme Gehr anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨NEW TURTLE🚨 a warm welcome to shakiremys colombiana, described by cadena et al. from the colombian la venta biome, and known from a complete skull with an articulated carapace! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (art by juan giraldo)

Happy #fossilfriday, everyone! The next ##Sketchasaurs short looks at the bat-like Anurognathus, perfectly adapted to catch flying insects... in the right habitat. #blender3d #animation #sciart ##artistsonbluesky

Mammoth spotted in South Poland! Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍

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

Another of my original artworks in the @changelingart.bsky.social 'Deck the Halls' auction ending tomorrow, 12pm EST. An older Holiday Hadrosaur from 2011. Sepia ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 209 ×128 mm. www.facebook.com/share/p/17fi...

Frankenstein studies

🚨NEW NOTHOSAUR🚨 a warm welcome to lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, a long-necked nothosaur described by shang et al. from a new early middle triassic locality in southwestern china! www.nature.com/articles/s42... (art by kelai li)

Nosso bebê nasceu 🥹 Uma nova espécie de pterossauro do Araripe, encontrada dentro de um vômito fossilizado de dinossauro 🤍. A natureza é linda! Kkk Seja bem-vindo, Bakiribu waridza! Acesse o artigo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Results from the #paleostream! Three pieces here, another one below for people who don't wanna see hadrosaur sexual behavior. Ankylosaurus, Makrodactlyus and Joaquiraptor