New @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social video with thumbnail art by yours truly ^^ youtu.be/CQvCzoOcQw8?...

Also, why are hurdy-gurdies so horrifically expensive? I mean, I know why, but still. Why.

My window prisms throwing little rainbows at some prehistoric beasts on the drying shelf 💕

In today's episode of misheard lyrics, I refuse to believe that this song does not, in fact, go: "Magick is a laughing fool, a dance into the dark A glimpse of hope within a circle... Le chonk" Who am I to tell musicians they can't sing about les chonks, after all.

"For centuries, scientists and sailors have know that sperm whales hunted the 'giant squid', Architeuthis dux. Whale bodies are scarred with huge sucked marks and gashes from Archituthus. But the battles take place in deep water, far beyond where humans can easily travel…" - Awesome stuff.

Cat

Thank you so much Totemic_tattoo (on IG) for making time for us to give me my very first tattoo. He was so knowledgable and kind, giving the best experience I could have hoped for! Both my partner and I are absolutely thrilled 🖤🥹

Luna lately when I take her for a walk(unless she gets taken to the beach or a forest, that is): " no thank you, I'd rather go home and nap" Luna the moment we get back: " I have ball. Please throw ball, don't touch ball, the ball, throw it, throw the ball" Make up your mind, you furry menace.

Yeah, I can't wait to hear the good old "but it's not about immigrants like you" once again. Yes it is, it's about all of us.

Research team Naiomi & Arjan approved coloration direction & gave some suggestions as I refined the paint job. Last steps after this: to add protowhiskers and some fuzz, next!

#SciArtSeptember Day 20: Glacial The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas. - #orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch

85 usd, I'll draw your cat or dog or bird or lizard or fish #comissionsopen

A little watercolour I’ve been working on, which all got a bit hypnotic for some reason. #oaktrees #savethebutterflies #inverts #nature #wildlifeart #teammoth

I'm very fond of Bactrian camels. Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.

"Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control has the power!" -G'mork #kaseyart #penandink

Actually, instead of whatever they're doing right now, the mod team should focus on the real problem: how to force people to tag their posts about whatever sports thing they have going on at any given moment, so I can mute them in peace. Also, reality TV. . . . (I am, obviously, not being serious)

I'm listening to a song where the chorus goes: "Twinkle twinkle brittle stars In this twisted realm you are Lost above the world so high Like black holes in the sky(...)" And I know he means, you know, the actual stars, but I'm stuck imagining a night sky full of sparkly echinoderms.

Today we visited the two Lascaux replicas, words can’t do them justice! 🥹😭 Both were amazing in their own way: the older one felt intimate and sits right by the original cave, while the newer one is stunningly precise thanks to modern scanning. The photos are from the smaller exhibits afterwards.

This little shit has had quite the journey. Some pieces can be easy, but some drag you kicking and screaming the entire way. I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.

Don’t support big company. Big company don’t like you. Support small artist. Or just save your money.

The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions. Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing. Not distressing. Full tilt disturbing.

I looked at the wrinkles on the necks/jaws of yawning hairless cats to inspire the folds for my Cyonosaurus. There’s no clear fossil evidence for skin texture: what do you do for something that’s not a reptile & not a mammal? I gave it a coarse skin texture w/a stamp I made from a cool pebbly leaf!

This summer I had the pleasure of collaborating w/ researchers Naiomi Cookson & Arjan Mann (Field Museum) to reconstruct a flesh-model bust of Cyonosaurus. After getting to meet the holotype, I started roughing out the skull armature. More of the process to follow! #paleoart

happy #fossilfriday! this is estemmenosuchus, a dinocephalian from mid-permian russia. due to its barrel-shaped body and dentition strongly resembling hippos, estemmenosuchus is theorised to have had a similarly amphibious lifestyle (art by philip edwin)

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

New Otter just dropped. www.earth.com/news/scienti...

So, I'm looking up some stuff for a possible painting, looking at the artiodactylda cladogram at Wikipedia. I slept really badly last night, so I'm barely conscious right now. And so, I read "Pecora (horn bearers)" as "Pecora (horned beavers)" and was very confused for a good moment.

Fossil Friday flashback to Lyme Regis 2024 and one of the displays I’m most proud of, homaging Mary Anning, Walking With Dinosaurs, the incredible @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social and also err Transformers… Really delighted how this came out and it was donated to the brilliant Lyme Regis museum 🏴‍☠️🖤🦖

My current AI policy is flat-out rejection and it's a pretty simple to frame why. I like NOT setting my critical thinking, troubleshooting, and creative skills to a subscription service. (which companies can throttle once they hit the mass adoption phase of their grow-then-become-profitable model)

Morning all :) ☕️ 🌿 Because #sciart isn't apolitical #stopthisshit

I love leopard seals. Nature was like: “What if we put flippers on a bear and gave it even less restraint?”

wow, fucking amazing, middle management ass slavery fetish bullshit. it's so hard to book yourself a haircut or order some groceries. they built a half baked program to let you microdose the fantasy of being a billionaire who has people doing all of these things for them. i'm so full of hate rn

something to keep in mind with fascist oligarchs swooping in to buy ALL OF MEDIA for pennies on the dollar is that a lot of corporate consolidation was sold to consumers as "imagine if your best friends mickey mouse and tony stark could play games with you" and it always came at labors' expense

I just want to say... Get pooped on, fascists. #birds #art #protest

Very happy that I decided to try a Huion tablet and Clip Studio Paint.

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer! We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians. 1/4

Zygorhiza portrait (basilosauridae) Acrylic on canvas (black and white) On sale (dm if you are interested) #zygorhiza #acrylicpainting #blackandwhite #noir #paleoart #sciart #archaeocete #basilosauridae #cetacean

Meanwhile my #wip continues #sciart #sunbird Alt : I was drawing a sunbird on the light table when the transparency effects inspired me this little DIY slowmotion. (I move the bird drawn in Indian ink among the foliage. A text appears: "Stop the genocide." Sounds of the Parc du Vallon birds ofc)

It is the year 2025 and I've encountered a pointlessly gendered product out in the wild. It's a yoga mat. A yoga mat !for men! A manly yoga mat, if you will. (It's black. That's it) This is so stupid.

Micropernodus is fighting Proscalops for his share of the early worm while a passing Amphicyon looks on. This painting was commissioned by the NPS to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the John Day Fossil Beds site in Oregon.

I sure wish I wouldn't go through extended periods of my brain going "yeah, sure, we should do this, we kind of want to do this, but, get this... How about we don't do this?" But here we are, and I've yet to find a solution other than waiting it out.

A Thylacoleo and Her Joey

Getting started on an #Estemmenosuchus bust

Sometimes I think that youtube algo has no idea of who I am and what I like, and sometimes I think it knows *exactly* who I am and proceeds to recommend me stuff that's sure to piss me off, and I'm not sure which is it.

True story. We had this on the whiteboard in the old #PrehistoricPlanet office. My drawing.

Relearning how to do this so have some Very Important #Mammals #sciart #artistsonbsky

So, for the last couple of years I was worried that the bats that were living in the area have disappeared, because I never saw any, but yesterday I was making tea at just the right moment to see them hunting right outside the kitchen window. I'm very happy to know they're still here.

Flight this, teleportation that, my superpower would be the ability to infect every single billionaire on the planet with the endometriosis adenomyosis combo so we can finally get some actual research done.

Rant about science denial in my family So, about 3yrs ago my father went and swan dived into the right wing pipeline, and with that, transformed into a climate change denier. I generally gave up on trying to talk some sense into him, because it's useless, but sometimes I still poke at the nonsense.