New tiny pterosaur, Makrodactylus

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-... #fossil #sciart

Suchomimus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. Background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #suchomimus #paleoart #paleontology #3dart #3d

As of September 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized by 157 of the 193 member states of the United Nations These are the 36 member states that DO NOT recognize Palestine:

Things keep getting scarier and scarier for trans people with no end in sight. I’m slowly building an emergency fund in case West Virginia becomes totally unsafe for me and my family, and anything you can spare would be greatly appreciated. Commissions are open, just DM me! ko-fi.com/sophiesaurus

NEW blog post! The evolution and fossil record of narwhals and belugas - the white whales! Emphasis on the surprising fossil record of belugas and the evolution of the bizarre tusk in the weirdest modern cetacean. 🐬🧪🦖 #whaleontology Read it here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-...

Its mating season, and the Ceratosaurs are particularly ready with their colorfull crests and mouths, this young female was atracted by the male's constant rumbling, will he be able to impress her?

Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.

63 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Cretoxyrhina

late night snack

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Share your favorite black and white movie.

Feeling particularly depressed today, have a happy Dearc to cure the ills

I've donated: if enough of us do that it sure make a difference. Have known about this issue for YEARS but seems that only now is it becoming well known. Help STOP the illegal killing of migratory #birds in #Cyprus! Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) donorbox.org/help-stop-il...

Youji-fish!! yo-ho

The newly discovered Huashanosaurus qini singing by himself in the marshlands of southern China during the Early-Middle #Jurassic #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

News @ Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (UMO) in Bayreuth: new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, named today after UMO's prime excavation site, the Jurassic clay pit Mistelgau. @olorotitan.bsky.social beautifully reconstructed the to-be fossil on a belemnite battleground typical for the locality.

Great egret, wood stork, and three roseate spoonbills doing a photo shoot for their new album at the Coffee Cup Ponds. Bexar, TX Sept 21, 2018

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

waiting for my time to lie down in the forest and peacefully rot #art

Some paintings

Dredge but if it had freshwater fishes from Argentina #fish #aquatic #art #dredgefanart #dredge #digitalart

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Merfolk Monsters #characterdesign #adoptable #monster #merfolk auction here: www.deviantart.com/glyretic/art...

She’s done!❤️🦣 #Embroidery

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

Dueling mosasaurs. 3D render and digital painting. #paleoart #mosasaurus #art

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Quick sketch of Zavacephale rinpoche, a new pachycephalosaur from Early Cretaceous Asia #paleoart #dinosaur

Southern Sun

Chinzorig, T., Takasaki, R., Yoshida, J. et al. A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A dome-headed dinosaur found in Mongolia had a serious weapon on top of its skull, a mouth full of no-nonsense teeth and cartoon-like giant eye sockets.

Sketching Triceratops for a commission I am currently working on These are sketches of Triceratops in various positions. It is always fun to go back to Triceratops #paleoart #dinosaur #art

Stairs

Might there have been hybrids between Mesozoic (non-bird) #dinosaurs, perhaps even between groups that had been separated for 10s of million of years? YES, the existence of such animals is very likely. But could we >identify< such animals? Let's see... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

Smart arguing for how to resist at universities here bsky.app/profile/oliv...

A quick Shego 🌹✨ #art

Hipparion sp. Another portrait from the Miocene mammals of Ribatejo, one I had finished last year but never posted. Hipparion is an ancient breed of three-toed horse that lived 10-5 million years ago across Eurasia and possibly North America and Africa! #sciart #paleoart #extincthorses

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

The first ornithomimosaur remains from Germany DENIS THEDA, DARIUS NAU, RENÉ DEDERICHS, and ACHIM H. SCHWERMANN It's open access! www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

With great pleasure I would like to introduce you to the first ornithomimosaur from Germany! The fossils of this charming bugger are from Balve, a locality that preserves early Cretaceous fossils in a Devonian reef that had karstified already back then, giving us: cave dinosaurs

#SciArtSeptember 10 - Tawny Not all gazelles live in Africa! Goitered gazelle is native to a vast area from Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan through central Asia all the way to northwestern China and Mongolia. Though widespread, its' population is in steep decline due to poaching and habitat loss.

Panthera atrox and Camelops by Charles R. Knight. Painted in 1922.

Hatchling vs lightning, here’s illustration I made for the paper “Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage” by Smyth et al., 2025. Paper below👇

Harpy!

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Re-upping my Due Process comic and the single image excerpts from it if anyone wants these for protests, the US Open, wherever… “Be Loud For America” and boo accordingly… spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/