The recently re-described Palaeocama anthrax is by far one of the weirdest lobopodians discovered yet! This Carboniferous worm was not only was it covered in hundreds of poisonous spines, but it's also the only freshwater non-Tardigrade lobopodian known! #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Results from the #paloestream from 26th July 2025. Depicted are from top left to down right: #Palaeocampa #Nektognathus #Wudingloong #Mirasaura Tags: #paleoart #prehistoric #prehistoriccreatures #paleozoic #prehistoricanimals #peternickolaus #paleopete #dinosaur

here's this week's #Paleostream flocking drawings!!! this week we drew Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, and Mirasaura #science #scicomm #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

One of the iconic keystone species of the U.S. Atlantic Coast, the Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus, female), or "beautiful, savory swimmer." For a new project. 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Happy #fossilfriday! ❤️ Here's my reconstruction of the Cambrian #sponge, Falospongia ramosa. 🪸 This genus is known from the Burgess Shale—where they once used their 'radiating fronds' to capture food. #digitalart #sciart #scientificillustration #paleoart #paleontology #invertebratebiology #invert

Do you have a favorite #moth? 🦋 Mine is the hummingbird clearwing! These moths are active during the day and are excellent #pollinators of native plants like wild bergamot, buttonbush, milkweed, and thistle. 🌼 ‪ #sciart #scientificillustration #wildlifeart #nature #invert #bugsky

Pseudogygites latimarginata #paleoart #art #sciart

Meet Palaeocampa anthrax, a newly discovered Carboniferous lobopodian, and 150 year old mystery fossil! Palaeocampa is an exceptional lobopodian - it lived in rivers and lakes, bristled with thousands of poisonous spines, and more. 🧵 Open access: nature.com/articles/s42...

Acanthalomina minuta, a small but stunning trilobite found in Czech Republic from the Silurian period. #trilobite #fossil #paleontology #FossilFriday #eurypterid #silurian

The eurypterid Carcinosoma newlini, from the cover of my recently published eurypterid book, for #FossilFriday. ⚒️🧪 The specimen is from Kokomo, Indiana, which I think preserves some of the most photogenic eurypterid fossils. You can read the publication here: doi.org/10.1206/0003...

Dicranurus Convergence 1/2019 20 X 24 Inches [50.8 X 61 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #trilobite #fossil

Winneshiekia youngae, an Ordovician dekatriatan chelicerate. It shares traits with e.g., xiphosurans (such as the eye ridge) and chasmataspidids (13-segmented opisthosoma). #chelicerata #dekatriata #paleoart #paleontology #art #ordovician #arthropod #Winneshiekia #Winneshiek

Bohemiatupus elegans

Houcaris consimilis (=Ramskoeldia consimilis) is a Lower Cambrian predatory radiodont from the Chengjiang Biota. #radiodonta #radiodont #Houcaris #Ramskoeldia #Amplectobelua #Amplectobeluidae #arthropod #arthropoda #lobopodia #paleoart #paleontology #cambrian #art

A very unusual ancient horseshoe crab for #FossilFriday. This creature is from the Ordovician (425 million years ago) of Michigan and looks like no other horseshoe crab that we know of. This specimen also has a secret which will be revealed when the description is published shortly! 🧪⚒️

Would you flip a #pillbug isopod over if you found one stuck on its back? 💖 Check out these illustrations depicting four common isopod species of North America. Which one do you like the most?! #sciart #scientificillustration #digitalillustration #wildlifeart #nature #bugsky #isopods #invertebrates

Happy #fishfriday, everyone! 🐟 Viperfishes are characterized by their long, needle-like teeth and hinged lower jaws. I had lots of fun drawing this fearsome fish! #sciart #scientificillustration #wildlifeart #nature #marinebiology #deepsea #fish #drawing

Keurbos susanae, a newly described giant arthropod from the Ordovician-age Soom Shale of South Africa.

For #FossilFriday, meet Plesiosiro. This is a ~315 million year old weird arachnid, found near Birmingham in the UK. It's a lovely fossil but even so figuring out where it sits on the arachnid tree of life has been... annoyingly challenging. Nowadays, we are fairly confident that it... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

For #FossilFriday, an enormous (>70cm) headshield from the colossal filter feeding radiodont Aegirocassis benmoulai (Ordovician of Morocco, Fezouata Formation) One of the most exciting fossils I've gotten in the mail, I think

Liwia, a Lower Cambrian nektaspid belonging to the family Liwiidae, was found in the Zawiszyn Formation, known only from borehole samples, which revealed these inaccessible beauties hidden kilometers underground. #Artiopoda #Nektaspida #Paleoart #Cambrian

Despite being a minor pest, I love the bright red color of these bugs! ❤️ The common cotton stainer feeds on cotton, hibiscus, and oranges while staining their host plants yellow. Sometimes they cause fruit to drop early too! #sciart #scientificillustration #wildlifeart #nature #invert #bug #bugsky

Eyeless, Brainless, Vetulicolian Feeding on a Microbial Mat in the Cambrian. #paleoart

Peytoia nathorsti #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Serolid isopods from off South Georgia at 500 m deep! #BIOPOLE2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone rather than paper sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology

The Waukesha Biota is a Silurian Lagerstätte preserving many soft-bodied organisms, but rarely any hard carapaces. The scene below shows only a part of its rich fauna. (It's my first 3d paleoart scene, and I think it turned out well. Rendered thanks to @prehistorica.art) #paleoart #silurian #3dart

Here's party themed Mieridduryn (pronunciation is like mee airy theerin so it's not quite "merry")

interestingly, I’ve found out (through boredom) that setae fluoresce. this might be a good way to see setae on a confusing worm! unfortunately my phone and camera both do horrible jobs of showing how brightly the setae glow under UV

Going freshie fresh for #Crustmas - it's the freshwater California Clam Shrimp (Cyzicus californicus)! They're endemic to California & found in vernal pools – their eggs can withstand drying out & can hang out in the dirt waiting for the pools to fill up again. Little taco shrimp! #25DaysofCrustmas

i drew Shucaris again! now properly showing off the GLS's and other masticatory elements + properly drawing the strengthening rays and frontal appendages big thanks to @/prehistorica.bsky.social for the help with this

Reposting some of my stuff here for people to see, starting with Nectocaris pteryx. A relativity famous 10 centimetre long creature from the Burgess shale formation in British Columbia, Canada. #paleoart #art #sciart

Next is Timorebestia kopri, a nearly 30 centimetre long stem-group Chaetognath from the Cambrian of Northern Greenland. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Paucipodia inermis was an unarmored, 15 centimetre long lobopodian from the shallow seas of the Chengjiang biota. Formations that encompass the Chengjiang biota can all be found in Yunnan, China. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

Olenoides serratus is probably one of the most famous trilobites. These little trilobites would have been voracious little hunters feasting on worms like these unfortunate Spartobranchus. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

quick little thingo of the new aussie trilobite: Triarthrus novoaustralis trying to be more okay with imperfections in my art, i still struggle with focusing on fine details which dont really add much to the final composition, even here i admittedly do it a bit #AusPalaeo #paleoart #bug #sciart

Phyodesmus, a Bornean endemic genus of very large platyrhacid millipede. this one looked like an ambulatory spinal column

The BLUEST BEE of them all! 🐝💙 WOW! Is the only word I had when I saw potentially the most beautiful bee in the world this year in Malaysia, the Blue Carpenter Bee! 🤯🌳 This ENORMOUS BLUE FUZZBALL makes the loudest buzzing sound as it flies around the rainforest looking for bright flowers! 🌸💙

The Anji Biota, a diverse glass sponge reef roughly 1000 metres below the waves of Ordovician China, in the aftermath of Earth's second worst mass extinction event. Archopterus anjiensis, a small eurypterid, glides leisurely through. #paleoart #sciart

Arthropleura, the largest known arthropod to ever exist at an estimated 2.5 metres long, walks slowly along an ancient Carboniferous coastline looking for food.