Barinasuchus arveloi: as an animal, you just cannot get any cooler than this #paleoart

There. Was. A. Carboniferous. Tetrapodomorph. With. The. Head. Of. A. Rauisuchian.

Ouranosaurus #paleoart

Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23

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thank you to the amazing @literallymiguel.bsky.social for this wonderful art for my fantasy worldbuilding project, the dragonbinder chronicles! this is the protagonist, aurora, with her familiar, gwen 🐉

After reading the new Nannotyrannus paper, this is my attempt of a guide for its conclusions

Terminonaris, a very complete northamerican sister taxon to Sarcosuchus, and the most derived croc-relative to posses scleral rings

the sloth conservation foundation is a non-profit organisation based in costa rica that focuses on protecting wild sloths in the country, which are threatened by wildlife tourism, animal trafficking, and habitat loss www.slothconservation.org

Alamosaurus

Dromicosuchus, Hypselorhachis, and Hesperosuchus diagrams made throughout the months (hesperosuchus might only be represented by its holotype, more about this on the complete overhaul i wrote of its wikipedia page!)

Confractosuchus and the unsupervized infant child it swallowed before dying

this is an excellent video on sarcosuchus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuMi...

🚨NEW TRIASSIC THEROPOD NAMED🚨 a warm welcome to anteavis crurilongus, a basal theropod that was found in the late triassic ischigualasto formation of argentina! the paper by martinez et al. can be found here www.nature.com/articles/s41... (art by jorge blanco)

Saw these guys eating my platanos (during a 6-hour power outage) and claude identified them from a shitty artistic rendition lol

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is ichthyotitan, a gigantic ichthyosaur from the late triassic. estimated at over 20 metres in length, ichthyotitan may have been the largest marine reptile to ever live (art by caxela)

hello gorgeous 😍 a warm welcome to xiphodracon goldencapensis, a new ichthyosaur described from the uk's famous jurassic coast by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, massare and maxwell! the holotype is absolutely stunning, congrats to the team 🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Mahajangasuchus crunch

Modern euphractine armadillos sometimes hunt vertebrates as big or even bigger than them, this is taken to an extreme in Macroeuphractus (TW: Paleoart gore)

of course, as i’ve mentioned previously, opportunistic carnivory is widespread among herbivorous mammals; fellow ground sloth mylodon, for instance, was found to likely be omnivorous in a 2021 study www.nature.com/articles/s41...

happy 120th birthday to tyrannosaurus rex, aka manospondylus, aka dynamosaurus 🦖 t. rex is the most-studied dinosaur in the history of palaeontology, but there are still some things we don't know about the creature in spite of this (art by @literallymiguel.bsky.social)

happy #fossilfriday! this is abyssosaurus, a deep-sea plesiosaur from early cretaceous russia. like many other vertebrates that live in the bathypelagic zone, this animal retained juvenile traits well into its adulthood, a condition called paedomorphis (art by carlostsapiens)

Big congratulations to Chunk for taking the crown as this year's #FatBearWeek winner! Today feels like as good a day as any to tell you all about a little trick that bears have to ensure pregnancy takes place during OPTIMAL FATNESS.

Therizinosaurs are, without a doubt, some of the most interesting groups of theropod dinosaurs Here you have a selection of a few species that I reconstructed for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan for their 25th Anniversary Special Exhibition #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma ( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

Giganotosaurus

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In support of Science, Art, Kindness to counter my sense of malaise over the state of the world these past years, Bluesky seemed a good change: here’s a timelapse of me basecoat painting my Tiktaalik sculpture recently for a new display in Singapore!

a win for diversity, long live science (this is the holotype of a new genus)

a warm welcome to joaquinraptor casali, a megaraptorid from maastrichtian patagonia 🦖 several features of the animal's anatomy suggest that megaraptorans retained robust arms and gracile skulls even at large body sizes, contrasting other massive theropods (art by andrew mcafee)

timeline cleanse 🦜 oscar is a recently adopted congo grey who belongs to a friend of mine, and his comedic timing is impeccable #parrotsky

the new prehistoric croc is so cute and only one apples tall so i drew it getting absolutely decimated by a raindrop

Fishing day

what is known for sure is that rhinos in the modern day face significant threats in the wild, ranging from poaching to habitat destruction, but conservation efforts are attempting to preserve these magnificent animals www.savetherhino.org

Albertosaurus dinosaur illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project. #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Tyrannosaurid #Albertosaurus #Paleoillustration #SciArt

Why is my book taking so long to finish? Well, one of many reasons are Aetosaurs! They are very complicated to reconstruct AND my book has a lot of them! 😅 But Aetosaurs are awesome! Aetosaurs are pseudosuchians, and thus related to modern crocodilians #paleoart #aetosaurs #art

Amphicotylus milesi, from the morrison It resembles a gator, but its a basal neosuchian that converged on the ecology of modern crocs much earlier like other goniopholidids it had very weird pits on its maxilla, only 2 rows of big dorsal rectangular osteoderms, and an armoured neck and belly

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is ledumahadi, a sauropodiform from early jurassic south africa. its name means ‘giant thunderclap’ in sesotho, befitting its size – at an estimated weight of 12 tonnes, ledumahadi was one of the largest land animals of its time (art by @xtinctdesign.bsky.social)

Ambush Sarcosuchus imperator

Azdharchid cervical vertebra son or partial sebecid snout daughter

Queen parrotfish cheesin for the Camera 🔮😁👑🦜🐟 #queenparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #terminalphase #protogynoushermaphrodite #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

@cascoclauda.bsky.social did you authorize this photo of you being taken

tyrannosaurus rex

wonderful art of the recently described neornithischian pulaosaurus by gabuded, inspired by norman rockwell's famous (and memeworthy) 'freedom of speech'

Diandongosuchus fuyuanensis The most basal known phytosaur kinda funny how it was mistaken for a poposauroid in its original description (Qianosuchus is mentioned about 58 times in there😭) when every single one of its bones is literally jsut a phytosaur's. It even came with a-

popo who ¿

Poposaurus with this 🤔🤔🤔🤔

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is nihohae, a waipatiid dolphin from the oligocene of new zealand. the 2023 paper describing the taxon suggests that nihohae hunted and fed in a manner analogous to sawsharks, preying predominantly on soft-bodied cephalopods such as squid (art by shunovachrono)

Dicynodont's cranial anatomy is heeeeeeell thanks to @cascoclauda.bsky.social for opining and chatting with me about these guys