The spectre of the Cretaceous depths, Nanaimoteuthis, preys upon a young elasmosaur that strayed too deep. Dazzled by bioluminescense and running out of air there's little hope of survival

🐙 Sculpture vs Real 🐙 🌴 Caribbean Reef Octopus Edition ⭐ 📷 "Aurora" Sculpture 📷 Hunting Caribbean Reef Octopus photographed by Alessandro Dona.

Lighthouse Mimics (Farimendax carolinae) are pack hunters that evolved from deep-sea fish. When a ship passes by, a lone hunter uses its lighthouse-like lure to trick the crew into redirecting the boat, leading it to crash into shallow rocks. The stranded sailors become the pack's next meal.

Bait ball buffet ft. Hydrotherosaurus

A fat pregnant baby has moved into my house.

the front cover of a zine i'm making about the perception & experiences of masculinity, "am i man enough for you?" this zine aims to explore how ppl identify their masculinity, and where the similarities lie between cis & trans individuals #art #transartist #collage #textart #zine

My children have been brought into the physical plane

Stillborn Venus

An adult Tyrannosaurus and her subadult hunting partner in the morning.

Edmontosaurus.

Seafloor aura

Just realised I've now modelled the (estimated) largest extinct vertebrate and invertebrate. Maybe I should make a little fella next.

Ichthyotitan severnensis - known from a huge partial surangular bone this Triassic ichthyosaur may have even exceeded the blue whale in length. #sciart #paleontology #blender #ichthyosaur

A tylosaurus finally catches a breath after a long dive. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

Making a splash 🟦☁️

Let's show off our blue art! Requote with 💙🖌️

If you see this, post a monster

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

Proof of concept for an animation idea I have. The simulation definitely needs optimising if I want longer clips (took about 8 hours to bake) but render time was pretty forgiving.

Migrating Hydrotherosaurs will often breach during sunset. #blender #paleoart #dinosaurs #paleontology #plesiosaur s#sciart

Lazily drifting through the kelp

In 1977 the Japanese ship Zuiyo-maru caught a highly decomposed carcass first assumed to be that of a plesiosaur. Though quickly identified as a basking shark, a recently uncovered image from the small New Zealand fishing vessel Karetai dating to 1975 casts doubt on this theory.

In 1977 the Japanese ship Zuiyo-maru caught a highly decomposed carcass first assumed to be that of a plesiosaur. Though quickly identified as a basking shark, a recently uncovered image from the small New Zealand fishing vessel Karetai dating to 1975 casts doubt on this theory.

A bonded pair of Hydrotherosaurus patrol a seagrass meadow

Hydrotherosaurus basks in the moonlight of the Cretaceous summer

By the 1950's it was widely accepted that the giant squid (Architeuthis dux) was the origin behind the myth of the "Kraken". In 1956 this theory was challenged with the discovery of an enormous shelled carcass found beached upon the small Norwegian island of Flesa.

Hello hello hello

Wrapped up two major #paleoart projects this week, so for the rest of the year I'll be beavering away on my sixth book for a December deadline. There's a cryptic clue to the nature of that book in this image - and no, it's not the pterosaurs (Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, if anyone's wondering). #sciart 🧪

A "sea serpent" reportedly caught by a whaling vessel off the coast of Maine circa 1920.

There's something in the trees The whole forest reeks

Details + progress shots

Gooooood mooooorning! I'm starting today with a fishy mural I painting for The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It's a Western Interior Seaway scene featuring Squalicorax (shark), Tusoteuthis (squid), an octopod (in the shark's mouth), and a school of Apsopelix fish.

Parapuzosia seppenradensis is the biggest ammonite known, it's estimated to have weighed over a tonnne.