I wanted to do something for this little guy (Zavacephale), especially because there are good plant fossils from the same formation he is found in, but this is all I had the energy for.

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Lmao rest in piss bozo

New dromaeosaurid, Shri rapax. What an amazing fossil!

Let me cook

I've seen lots of suggestions for what real prehistoric animal could have replaced the "mutadon" in Jurassic World Rebirth. Having seen the film now, I couldn't stop thinking what if it was a ground-dwelling predatory pterosaur, like has been suggested for Thalassodromeus.

Its my birthday today, and good news! You can celebrate by reading my fully illustrated new article on the prehistoric animals of Jurassic World Dominion, what we know of their life appearance & behavior, and how that compares to the film: jurassicparkterror.com/jurassic-par...

SURPRISE! Breeding is coming Update 15! 🥚🦖 Tune into this month's Dev Diary to learn more about fertility, courtship and the nesting system coming to Prehistoric Kingdom in August. ➡️Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4kmk8IW 📝Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

I have been enjoying doing these environment sketches in what little time I have.

A few silly guys

Why are YouTube videos so long now? I keep seeing thumbnails I think look interesting and then see it is 1.5 hours... 2 hours... 3 hours long. No! Stop it!

Today I can share the Cretaceous angiosperms (for the Temperate and Tropical biomes) and Cretaceous Wetland plants I designed for Prehistoric Kingdom.

Sinners had extremely high expectations placed on it and it still somehow exceeded them. For one I didn't see anyone mention how good the music is??

I really like how these lines look and now I'm afraid to do anything else to them

They should invent a high protein tortilla that isn't a low carb fad bullshit one

A really fun interview by Rachel at IFLScience with our showrunner Kirsty, palaeontologist Nizar, and myself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmd...

Lowkey obssessed with the Rebirth rex

I can now share the "Jurassic Scrub" plants I designed/reconstructed for Prehistoric Kingdom!

I've already posted about this before but it is generally shocking how bad Google's AI overview they put on top of searches is. It isn't like it sometimes gets things wrong. It is ALWAYS wrong! You'd think they'd want to do something about that!

How does Andor have so much sauce?? Its crazy how much better it is than every other recent Star Wars thing.

No shade to the authors, it's not their fault I know, but God I hate textbook prices. Like what do you MEAN it's 230 buck for the kindle version??

Thanks to the current article I'm working on I've just written the same story about oviraptors being attentive parents rather than egg-thieves for what feels like the 50th time.

Green Low-Poly Video Game T.rex, my beloved.

I'm going to be crucified as a killjoy but I'm not impressed with the Predator Badlands trailer. I think the Predator design is bad and I hate all the fan boy masturbatory IP reference crap. I loved Prey for the record.

If I hypothetically _had_ to do a life reconstruction of Pyroraptor for a commission, do we think doing it as an unenlagiine or a generic mid-sized dromaeosaurid (eg. Tianyuraptor) makes more sense? I feel like amateur paleo people are bias towards the former just because it is more interesting.

Someone else pointed this out on Twitter first, but how Colossal are claiming they created the dire wolves is literally the method used in Carnosaur. In the book they are able to extract DNA from dinosaur fossils and then edit chicken genes to match the fossil samples.

Said on twitter, I am admittedly curious to see the skeleton of one of the Colossal Biosciences "dire wolves" compared to real fossil remains to see how close they actually got. Just quietly I suspect it's not close at all and they will look like big grey wolves, but I'd be happy to be wrong!

8am Velociraptor sketch, as you do.

I kinda feel like I could start making tiktoks where I just yap about Mesozoic-vintage plants, but I hate listening to myself speak.

Is it worth posting ultra ultra low detail sketches like this? Obviously inspired by two new papers, the therizinosaur Duonychus, and evidence for face-biting behavior in hererrasaurids.

I have learned of The Skunk Ape and am very tickled by this concept. Like "what if there was a bigfoot that was even stinkier"

#ArtBoost today is for TALOS aka Maulido Armi Dwiputra @mightytalos.bsky.social, palaeoartist / scientific artist in South Sumatra, Indonesia. Has produced stunning depictions of all kinds of ancient life, including marine mammals and reptiles, fish, mammals like rhinos and metatherians, and more.

This might be controversial because I'm positive there are fans that like this, but I really don't like how they started giving the dinosaurs basically video game skins instead of distinct male, female and juvenile variants. It's especially bad in the cartoon shows.

jurasseikret park

What if I said I kinda suspect they got the idea to give Titanosaurus fins by googling "Titanosaurus" and getting a bunch of images of the kaiju

JUST OUT!!! Happy to announce my first publication, coauthored with @davehone.bsky.social, Tim Gomes, and Joseph Peterson. Meet Infernodrakon hastacollis - a new name for the azhdarchid from the Hell Creek Formation! Life restoration by @jhemiptera.bsky.social

I guess the primary fish used for Fish & Chips in other countries is not flake (shark). I never really thought about it before but that really is as aussie as you can get huh?

I'm sorry but I like this so much better, if they give us the option I am taking off the stupid hat at the first available opportunity

(1/?) Paleontology (especially dinosaurs) turning into a “fandom,” with all the hyperbole and drama that entails, is exhausting for those of us directly involved with it (scientists, paleoartists, sci-commers, etc). I do think there are solutions though, or at least things we can do to lessen it. 🧵

I'm reading The Science of Jurassic Park and The Lost World (DeSalle & Lindley 1997) and they are currently discussing the possibility of finding a piece of Mesozoic dinosaur in amber, and obviously it's funny that this has now actually happened a few times.

Sort of tangential to this, I promise you David Koepp and Garreth Edwards are not up to date on Jurassic Park: The Game or Jurassic World viral marketing material, etc. In fact, they almost certainly do not know they even exist.

Got home from work and immediately threw together a quick sketch of the new Jurassic dinosaur Baminornis, which preserves the earliest known example of a pygostyle (the fused tail bones that support the tail feathers in modern birds).

Will people get mad if I say none of the fan-edits giving the Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus a longer neck work because they don't fit properly in the frame of the shot 🫣

Already torturing myself I'm afraid

I take it back. Bro is GONE gone. Probably not ethically sound to even stream his old stuff unfortunately

I still think the head is ugly but if it looks like this that is a W imo

No one asked but revealed Jurassic World Rebirth designs: Titanosaurus 8/10 New pterosaur 7/10 New T. rex 8/10 New Mosasaurus 9/10 New Spinosaurus... - body 9/10 - neck + head 3/10 Raptor/Dilo/Mutants: too hard to tell yet

Big silly guy