Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.

A new Science Advances study led by Sanaa El-Sayed reveals that many modern fish groups were already diversifying in Egypt less than 4Ma after the extinction of the dinosaurs, providing a rare glimpse into the recovery of ancient marine ecosystems. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec8978

Peak palaeoart 👇

Can't recommend @thepeanutpal.bsky.social enough! @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social and I had a great time working through this reconstruction with him.

The Fishes of the Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, commission for El-Sayed et al., 2026. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Haolong

Fossils of Alberta

Lambeosaurus

Life reconstructions of the Red Willow Edmontosaurin and hypothetical fleshy Lambeosaurus for Sharpe et al. 2025

Edmontosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Plotosaurus

Skull of Platecarpus

Zavacephale

Stegosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus..es

Mosasaurus

Anchiceratops commission

Coronosaurus commission

I am available for freelance work! Feel free to contact me for details if you’re interested.

Allosaurus

Gastonia

Tyrannosaurus

Pachycephalosaurus

Styracosaurus

Euoplocephalus and Daspletosaurus

Parasaurolophus

Amargasaurus

Carnotaurus

Skeletal reconstruction of UALVP 2, the most complete specimen of Stegoceras validum, after Gilmore (1924).

Iguanodon study

Dorsal and caudal aspects of UALVP2, the only known complete skull of Stegoceras validum.

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

Happy #FossilFriday! Today I take the time to look back at some of my earliest paleoart, I think from when I was 5ish… I’m not really sure what was going on here.

Last week @thepeanutpal.bsky.social asked if I had any photos from the old Royal Ontario Museum fossil halls. Here I am remembering! These are all from their photo archives—this exhibit was overhauled in 2006 or so.

Nasutoceratops sketch - watercolor pencil on medium grain paper Based on a photo of a Sichuan Takin I took at the zoo

uh oh #WIP #SciArt #Stanleycaris #isoxys #Blender3D #3Danimation #paleoart #cambrian #reef

Caraxes sketch

Sketches from the Royal Ontario Museum, 2021

Happy #FossilFriday! Here is a spread of some dinos from the horseshoe canyon formation I did in 2022.

Oh, hey look, it's that sabertooth kitten that thawed out of the permafrost! Oh wait, sorry...it's just my cat Pinky snooping around the lab. #PinkysDinosaurAdventure Article on real sabertooth kitten mummy: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Brachylophosaurus “sketch”, 2022

My other starter packs have all been updated as well so please give those a look if you are so inclined. Concept Artists: go.bsky.app/TyNJQ99 Creature Designers: go.bsky.app/SBCxqoa Paleoartists: go.bsky.app/RYwJUEK

Do you like dinosaurs? How about one hundred?

Osborn's Ornithoids, 100 years later (Oviraptor philoceratops, Saurornithoides mongoliensis, and Velociraptor mongoliensis).

Shringasaurus indicus

“Between the fisherman and the ladyfish”, 2022. This was done for a high school art project which I still like very much.

Theropithecus brumpti

I see the invertebrate #paleontologists are stirring up inter-lab hostilities early this week.

Prognathodon, 2022