Go check out the new video from @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social youtu.be/fburCc__aes?...

In light of today’s palaeo news, and whilst not claiming to be a visionary genius or anything (that’s for history to judge… 😉) I’m just gonna drop my illustration of a quilled and spiky iguanodon from back in 2021. Sometimes you don’t need to be good. Just lucky. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #FossilFriday everybody! Today The Crew is celebrating with a #livestream at 9:00pm Eastern to discuss the trailer for the newly announced #Netflix documentary The Dinosaurs, featuring rarely or never before seen Mesozoic critters, environments and behaviors.

Finally, another fuzzy ornithischian: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... This is a big deal for dinosaur #paleoart, confirming some of what we've been doing for a while now, but also showing that we've probably underestimated how weird the integuments of these animals could be.

GIGANTORAPTOR, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I98... about the oviraptorid dinosaur family I made recently 🥚 some more in there #gigantoraptor #paleoart #dinosaur

a very warm welcome to haolong dongi, a fascinating hadrosauroid from the early cretaceous yixian formation described by huang et al. 🎉 the near-complete holotype preserves highly unique integumentary structures unknown in other dinosaurs www.nature.com/articles/s41 (art by fabio manucci)

Daydreaming Dilophosaurus. #SciArt

'A new, four-episode documentary series that will tell the story of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs' Hey @netflix.com , send me some royalties or give me a writing credit? 😉 news.newonnetflix.info/news/netflix...

Finally, I can break silence! I did a lot of creature design work for this show (collaborating, of course, with the production team) and think the animals are looking pretty good here! This was a lot of fun to work on - will be watching on Mar. 6! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

WIP of a little woolly boy

For today’s sketch let me present you with Styracosaurus Styracosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous in North America. The arrangement of very long, 4-6 spikes protruding from its relatively short frill and long nasal horn is characteristic of this species #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart

Cambrian illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project. #Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Cambrian

ORNITHOPODA #ornithopoda #paleoart #magnapaulia #shantungosaurus #tsintaosaurus #dinosaurs #hadrosaurs #parasaurolophus

More new #paleoart and discussion at #Patreon: the colour schemes of Sinornithosaurus and Microraptor. What do we know, and what do their colours tell us? www.patreon.com/posts/sinorn... #sciart #dinosaurs #paleontology #fossils

New #paleoart at #Patreon for #FossilFriday: Caudipteryx encounters a frozen lake, is unsure, prob. makes wee bokking noises as its feet slide apart hilariously. Lots of discussion about the colour data of this animal in my Patreon post. www.patreon.com/posts/149439... #sciart #fossil #dinosaurs

Today let me sketch one of the largest theropod #dinosaurs, the enormous Giganotosaurus carolinii Giganotosurus lived during the latest part of the Cretaceous in South America. It had a long, tall and narrow skull with prominent crests. These crests were rugose and had numerous ridges #paleoart

Let’s sketch one of the giants of the Jurassic, Torvosaurus! Torvosaurus was a genus of megalosaurid theropod that lived during the latest part of the Middle Jurassic and the Late Jurassic. The genus contains two described species found in North America and Europe #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Finally, North America gets some spinosaurs! OK, OK: North America finally gets _Spinosaur Tales_, by @davehone.bsky.social and me, from today. It's been out in the UK since Nov. and reviews have been v. positive. All your usual book vendors will stock it. Info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spinosaur...

Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is out now in North America. It's been getting top reviews already from readers, so if you like your giant, weird, controversial, carnivorous #dinosaurs and spectacular palaeoart, then check it out!

EPICHIROSTENOTES, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I98... I dedicated to Oviraptors 🐣 Anzu's close Canadian relative #oviraptors #paleoart #dinosaurs #epichirostenotes

Dive into the Mud with VOIDSTRIKE: The Crypt Book II. It's out Jan 27, 2026. #scifisky

Let’s sketch the magnificent beast that is Deinocheirus! Deinocheirus mirificus was a huge ornithomimosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in Asia. This herbivorous dinosaur had huge arms with large claws that were probably primarily used for digging or gathering plants #paleoart #dinosaurs

Another John Martin-style #paleoart piece painted for fun. This riffs on 1830s views of the British Wealden, where giant dinosaurs (Iguanodon and Megalosaurus here) engaged in violent combat in grand natural amphitheatres. Pterosaurs and other animals watch on. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? #sciart

It's #BurnsNight, so here's some #paleoart of one of Triassic Scotland's most famous inhabitants: Scleromochlus taylori. Exactly what Scleromochlus represents is still debated. Most think it's an early pterosauromorph, but not all. Like this image? Get a print @ www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...

The Art and Science of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge ... a new discussion from @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social on YouTube, featuring me and Framestore's Russ and Dorothy youtu.be/IVu9Mfc38Es?...

The Doors of Eden, the last one of the hungarian books by @aptshadow.bsky.social just arrived.

Rowe, A.J., Cerroni, M.A. & Rayfield, E.J. Southern hemisphere ceratosaurs evolved feeding mechanics paralleling those of Northern hemisphere tyrannosaurids. Sci Rep 16, 2804 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Amazing aerial photos of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) by Carlos Gauna, AKA “The Malibu Artist”. Observing via drone is probably the least invasive option and is a new, fresh perspective on a heavily-photographed subject

I talked about this on Tumblr already but I wanted to spread this a little further, unfortunately Twitter and Bluesky are not ideal for this type of content so I will work with screenshots. In short: I DOUBT MANIPULONYX WAS A EGG SPECIALIST AND HERE IS WHY!

SPPOOOSSSHHH... PHHHFFFFFFF... SSSSSSHHHHHHHH... To paraphrase Bob Ross, you have to make the noises when looking at #paleoart, otherwise it doesn't work. 2018 illustration of giant Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, surfacing in waters that once covered Nevada. #art #fossil #paleontology #sciart

THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social and illustrated by @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, is OUT NOW! #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

First new #paleoart piece finished for 2026: a super modern, 100% accurate take on Mosasaurus and a plesiosaur. In unrelated news, I had the spirit of the early 19th-century palaeoartist John Martin exorcised from my house over the weekend. #paleontology #fossil #sciart #retropaleoart #art

A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians. There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary! Check out our new study, led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social ⤵️

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First #FossilFriday of 2026: here's #paleoart of Dromaeosaurus atop a half-eaten juvenile Chasmosaurus. Dromaeosaurus was no Velociraptor clone, but a relatively robust and probably hard-biting raptorial dinosaur. Painted... two years ago now, I guess, in 2024. #fossil #paleontology #dinosaur

Spent #FossilFriday tweaking my Anchiornis colour reconstruction. The black+white+red intepretation does entirely match the melanosome data recorded for this species, as there's evidence of phaeomelanin (= rufous hues) on the arm, and lots of grey across the body. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

Some cool early christmas presents are here finally. Spinosaur tales by @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social , Mesozoic art II by @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social

New #paleoart on #FossilFriday: #Tiktaalik sees the world. Discussions of early #tetrapods often focus on limbs and lungs, but major changes also took place in their eyes. Seeing further and clearer than any animal before, they were the first to clearly see sunsets, stars, and the moon. #sciart

A pair of Stegosaurus leisurely walking while a group of Hesperornithoides bicker in the foreground I just think everyone needs to see Stegosaurus every now and then. Makes everyone happier 😊 This is an illustration of my licensing library and is available for non exclusive licensing. #paleoart

The final, formatted version of the Zanno & @jgn-paleo.bsky.social Nanotyrannus paper is out: Zanno, L.E., Napoli, J.G. Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New at #Patreon: an illustrated review of what we know, and some of what we don't, about the colours and patterns of ancient marine invertebrates (ft. trilobites, orthoceratoids, ammonites and Cambrian critters). Check it out at www.patreon.com/c/markwitton #paleoart #fossils #paleontology #sciart

🚨PTEROSAUR NEWS🚨 a warm welcome to bakiribu waridza, a filter-feeding ctenochasmatid from the early cretaceous romualdo formation of brazil. described by @alinemghilardi.bsky.social et al., it is recovered as a sibling taxon to the 'flamingo pterosaur' pterodaustro (art by julio lacerda)

IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age! I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together! #PrehistoricPlanet youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...

Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.

The reality of being a freelancer is that you end up working a lot of evenings and nights, something #mammals have been doing since the Mesozoic. Here's new #paleoart of two #Jurassic gliding Mammaliaformes, Arboroharamiya, starting their day as the sun sets 160 million years ago. #sciart #fossil

Results from the Nanotyrannus #Paleostream! First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus. You might notice some paleoart homages here ;) #BackInHell

It's #Halloween, so here's some scary #paleoart of the dreaded MAMMALIAN NOCTURNAL BOTTLENECK HYPOTHESIS. Which of these Megaconus will survive - AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM? (Image just uploaded to #Patreon, along with a detailed discussion of this idea: www.patreon.com/posts/142523...)

Nanotyrannus is real. For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex. But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species. Isn’t science fun?! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...