Speedpainted Zavecephale, the newly described pachycephslosaur from Mongolia. It was a juvenile when it died but its dome was fully formed. #paleoart #dinosaur #Zavacephale #watercolor

Made Pumpkin spice Dinosaur track cookies for the team at the dig site. Shout it to Safariltd for making dinosaur toys with detailed feet. 🎃🍪🦖🦕

Watching an episode of Dino Dana with my daughter where the characters imagine themselves as dinosaurs. It’s scaring me.

I usually don’t name art but this one of Pentaceratops chasing a pair of Sphaerotholus is called “Get off my lawn.” #paleoart #watercolor #sciart #dinosaur

Spooky season is here! 🧡🎃QRP your Pumpkin Art!🎃🧡

Bittersweet final season at Field Station: Dinosaurs doing paleoart demos.

Signs I am the coolest teacher.

Sad to learn that Mark Norell passed away. His work in paleontology had a HUGE influence on me growing up going to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I consider myself lucky to have gotten to speak with him once at an AMNH holiday party.

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.

Favorite Dragon Designs in media GO! I’m probably forgetting a lot.

Another Japan bird photo. I watched this Large-billed Crow catch this cicada out of the air, remove its wings, then gulp down the rest. 🪶

Newest Beast of the Week is Irritator! Hit the link to learn more about this important spinosaur. prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/08/irri...

Spicomellus is a real life Anguirus.

Another piece over a decade old now. The almost 4ft long Changyuraptor, swooping in on a smaller microraptorine. #watercolor #paleoart

Brooklyn this morning before sleeping for the day. Gargoyle Gecko eyes look like crumbling stone but ironically that’s not how they got the name. Rather it’s for to the sometimes unnoticeable ridges on their heads.🦎 #reptile #gecko #lizard

Here is my Irritator in watercolors again. The way it scanned last time didn’t do it justice and it was really bothering me. The colors on this scan after changing the settings a bit are WAY better. #paleoart #watercolor

Red-crowned Crane was my target species on this Japan trip. I drove an hour to the sanctuary they were said to frequent with no luck. Thank goodness I noticed the old man with a camera pulled over on the drive back, causing me to slow down and notice this family of 4 on the far side of a field! 🪶🇯🇵

This is the comically big noggin section of the shelf. Thank you, Japan. 🦕🦖

Name a non-LoTR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring (Pretty sure I've said her before, but)

Plesiosaur sighted at the thermal lake. 🇯🇵

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

Another Japan 7Eleven find. Ever wanna battle gummies shaped like awesomebro creatures? We got you.

i do everything i can to create opportunity for moments like this so people can see there’s support for us out there in a time that support can sometimes seem scarce – this one is pretty special 🏳️‍⚧️

Love the niche prehistoric creatures they have in this glass shop.

Red-crowned crane was a target lifer for this trip. No show at the park they frequent. But thank goodness for that old man with a camera on the side of the rural road. Otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed the family of Red-crowned Cranes on the other side of the field and kept driving!

Moth party at the hotel.

Visited the Mikasa Ammonite Museum in Hokkaido today. What a cool place! Yes that’s a literal pile of ammonites.

At a lavender farm in Hokkaido. These Japanese Treefrogs must have just morphed. Each was only about 1cm long 🇯🇵🐸

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Kyoto Aquarium today. Never seen so many giant salamanders. (They had one Japanese on display and a small army of hybrids.)

The Calico Critter (Sylvanian Family) horses have fingers and toes, not hooves. So this can only mean they’re intended to be Eohippus. That’s so niche of them. 🐎

New name for Bluesky friend groups just dropped

New post recapping my visit to the Pokémon Fossil Museum during my time in Japan. prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2023/12/poke...

Another Gashapon acquisition.

Found at a 7Eleven in Tokyo. Monster blind box. I think they’re supposed to be cryptids but unsure where the Centrosaurus fits in if that’s the case. I got Chupacabra. @tetzoo.bsky.social might appreciate.

Japan is crazy. Yes this is a gashspon of all griffins in the train station. Not different mythical creatures one of which is a griffin. ALL. GRIFFINS. I had exactly enough coins left and there was literally one capsule left. Got the green one, which is the one I wanted most. It was a good day.

Japanese dinosaur(animals in general) toys are on another level. These were in a bin at an indoor playground. They are so well researched! The theropods even pass the wrist test!

Made it to Japan. Booked a Pokémon room for OUR CHILD. Not us millennials who aren’t into pokemon at all that would be childish.

This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!

Newest watercolor is Irritator. The last spinosaur I painted befire this was 2014. #paleoart #watercolor #sciart

Cooperative Pileated Woodpecker a few weeks ago on my walk. It’s always cool to see them low to the ground. 🪶 #birding

Latest #watercolor is #Anurognathus, the small short-faced pterosaur that appears to have convergeantly evolved with modern swifts and swallows. (Also had a little cameo in the recent #JurassicWorldRebirth movie) #paleoart

Why am I getting an AI “art” account on my feed?

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

I know this is gonna sound smug but as fun as it is, in light of the recent publication of Mirasaura, I don’t like referring to Triassic animals as “weird”. They were around for millions of years and are way more standard compared to most vertebrates than humans.

Newest #watercolor of the recently described Triassic reptile, #Mirasaura. I did this on a “scrap” piece of paper leftover from trimming a bigger piece and realized after it’s roughly life-sized to some of the specimens! #paleoart

Based on a true interaction when I worked in the fossil lab at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly. 🦕🦖

Bird sounds.

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Did you catch the recent beast of the week? Lepidotes, the armored fish with crushing teeth! 🐟 prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/06/lepi...