Bretesuchus bonapartei, a real-life dragon #paleoart

CRACK! Razanandrongobe easily crushes a dinosaur's femur to feed from its nutritious marrow If Barinasuchus' skull rivaled the size of a Daspletosaurus, this crocodyliform's skull rivaled the size of a T. rex, and was arguably more specialized for bone-cracking #paleoart

New paper published today by @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social and a big group of incredible collaborators! It has been a great honour to contribute to this study and be part of the Ozboneviz team.

A last ditch attempt to save the Orinoco crocodile. 🐊 www.reuters.com/investigates...

#FossilFriday For our first social media posts, we highlight the iconic MB.Av.1010: a complete fossil of Archaeopteryx siemensii; a Late Jurassic species thought to be transitional between theropod dinosaurs & birds. On display at the Berlin Natural History Museum.

They’ve only waited 120Ma. A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Artwork by Jonathan Metzger. 1/10

- Voay robustus - Commission I made for a very nice guy last week. If someone wants to commission me, Im open, as we say in Spain: Bueno, bonito y barato.

Check out our latest paper validating telencephalon and cerebellum endocast measurements in birds 🐦🦅🦆🦃🪿🐦‍⬛ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @evolsara.bsky.social @evoneuro.bsky.social

- Sebecus icaeorhinus - For a prototype, I am quite happy with the result. #Crocodylomorpha

In the Late Triassic, croc relatives took on a broader array of forms and ecological roles than dinosaurs. The largest carnivores, for example, were big croc relatives like our chompy friend Fasolasuchus here. This life-size model is on display at Parque Nacional Talampaya, Argentina. 🧪

Lately I've been more focused on sculpting than 2D , but I felt like doing something fast to keep practice going. A Mekosuchinae indet. inspired by the latest study on its presence in Papua New Guinea. I really need to refocus on painting man. #crocodilia

A year or so ago, @zieglertn.bsky.social notified me that they've come across a fossil #thylacine from one of the caves in eastern Victoria - a BIG one. After hours of delicate prep work, I got to take a look at the beast (though apparently not take great photos... ).

Finished with one of the commissions I have been working on, the Australian Pleistocene crocodilian Quinkana fortirostrum.The commissioner requested the animal be reconstructed emphasising its terrestrial nature, though how terrestrial this animal actually was is debated.

New croc paper alert! 🐊🚨 In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper alert, just in time for #FossilFriday! A reevaluation of the #crocodylian fossils from the #Pliocene Otibanda Formation in Papua New Guinea. For a quick summary, check out the thread below 🧵👇 You can read the paper here (contact me if you need a PDF): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EXCITING NEWS A new paper just dropped on the Otibanda ziphodont, a probable mekosuchine from the Pliocene of Papua New Guinea. I'll drop my thoughts once I manage to get my hands on a PDF, but I'm very much thrilled already. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I see lots of people who can't readily tell apart the skulls of Melanosuchus and Alligator, so I decided to make this comparison showcasing the differences between them. The two largest of the alligatorids side by side.

Ive been thinking about making a detailed/realistic illustration of Quinkana, since theres a lot of misinformation about it. Which species do you think best represents the genus, Q. timara or Q. fortirostrum?

New #crocpaper alert ! 🐊🚨 Fossil crocodylomorphs lived in a wide diversity of environments compared to extant ones. This review (my first one !) focuses on those adaptations, from very early Triassic forms to crown group eusuchians ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.2... in @anatrecord.bsky.social

- Sutekhsuchus dowsoni - An Egyptian Miocene gavialoid #crocodilia

This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...

I love this fossil of Alligator prenasalis, a ~35 million-year-old relative of today’s alligators that lived in what’s now South Dakota. You can track how climates changed in the Cenozoic by where crocodylians lived, from the high latitudes of the Arctic down to their current range. 🧪

Hello Bluesky! My name is Jorgo Ristevski, and I am a paleontologist that studies crocodylomorphs.