Waning Hours

Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus, and Helicoprion.

Nanotyrannus basks in the light of a new day.

Xiphodracon breaches towards a golden sky.

look at my 1/4096 son… i love him

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

Dust flies and wood breaks under the titanic efforts of two Scallop Nuns, the largest land animals of Lemuria. Their home are the open woodlands, which they formed in part themselves as they constantly topple smaller trees. This open up the landscape for grasses and ferns and...

my most evil creation... the disgraceful tube is in!

Newtonsaurus investigates a peculiar structure held in place by coastal sediments.

Homotherium labeled skull diagram. I made this for an online vertebrate anatomy illustration class I'm taking right now, where we were assigned to draw a labeled felid skull. #homotherium #cat #skull #paleontology #paleoart

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus #paleoart #dinosaur #art

Akidostropheus, a uniquely ornamented reptile from Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park.

Grendelius alekseevi #Ichthyursday week 12

Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis #Ichthyursday week 11

Zavacephale

my funny bird made it in!

Apparently I forgot to post this one! From the coast we go ever inward! The Mangrove forests of Lemuria consist largely of Nypa palms that grow along and in the waterways. Meet the weirdos of this green cathedral, with semi-aquatic sirenians, climbing crocs and tons of fish and birds.

Where the rivers meander into huge wetlands and lakes in the lowlands the light is often blocked out by enormous floating mats of grass. These grass rafts are a huge, diverse habitat even with it's own endemic species of whale.

Karstic stone forests are a rare habitat these days but the exposed former carbonate platform of Lemuria is an ideal ground for this habitat to form. Its a paradise for many small critters and specialized weirdos, some of which you can see here.

Sister of the Void #hollowknight #silksong

Phalarodon fraasi #Ichthyursday week 10

my silly little whale is here!

Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae #Ichthyursday week 9

my bald son made it in!

The second habitat we visit in Lemuria Phase 2 are the snail reefs, a community largely supported by colonies of vermetid snails and encrust over rocks all along the coast. Between the entwined shells and rigid tubes you can find a unique fauna from weird little sharks...

The first two pieces of Lemuria Phase II are done and here you get the coral reefs! An incredibly crowded mess of sessile and mobile critters trying to get by. One of my whales also sometimes visits here but since it's 11 m long I only show it's lower jaw/skull here...

Eurhinosaurus quenstedti #Ichthyursday week 8

Kostensuchus, a terrestrial hypercarnivore distantly related to modern crocodilians.

Doodle from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Spicomellus!

Cymbospondylus youngorum #Ichthyursday week 7

Another pipe cleaner pterosaur commission - Thalassodromeus! If you would like to commission your own pterosaur, shoot me a DM! Starting at $15 + shipping.

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, one of the most well-preserved #Archaeopteryx specimens found to date! #paleontology #dinosaurs #birds

Hatzegopteryx joins the party! And will now be leaving to its new home since its a commission. If you'd like to order your own custom pipe cleaner pterosaur, shoot me a DM! I can do any pterosaur, not just azhdarchids. #pterosaur #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs

Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Carcharodontosaurus, Austroraptor, Dreadnoughtus, and Razanandrongobe.

Everything I made for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Acamptonectes densus #Ichthyursday week 6

Just for fun, some #paleoart of Ichthyosaurus communis predating belemnites. I deliberately left the brushwork on this one a little looser than usual to give a sense of speed and movement. #sciart #ichthyosaur #fossil #paleontology

Tubusvenator dedecorosus, also known as the disgraceful tube, a fictional noasaurid and my sixth entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Oculocetus lemuriensis, also known as the Lemurian eye whale, a fictional whale and my fifth entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Psammodactylus eludos and Karstavis lutarius, fictional saurians and my fourth entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Stenopterygius quadriscissus #Ichthyursday week 5

Guanlingsaurus liangae #Ichthyursday week 4

Myobradypterygius hauthali #Ichthyursday week 3

Nyctospheniscus oculus and Phytocetus triassicus, fictional marine tetrapods and my third entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Phalacroichthys stellaris, Neojohn hirsutus, and Scyllaricoralis crypta, fictional marine non-tetrapods and my second entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, and Mirasaura.

Chaohusaurus geishanensis #Ichthyursday week 2

One of the coolest cases of convergent evolution was just published yesterday, so I was inspired to draw them together - Temnodontosaurus trigonodon and Tyto alba. #paleoart #paleontology #ichthyosaurs #owls

Temnodontosaurus trigonodon #Ichthyursday week 1

A small herd of Murrabuttasaurus stop at a river on an early Cretaceous morning. The lead male and one of the females are occupied with mating while the other females are drinking.