Lemuria Phase 2, Temperate Forests! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

LEMURIA, PHASE 2 LIVE NOW! More leaf litter and temporate forest! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

This is game changing for the amateur paleontology community.

Better late than never! The tropical rainforest is our most diverse as well as one of the most challenging environments of Lemuria. A complex tangle of flora and fauna that got more than 500 submissions! i am still not 100% happy with this but at some point you have to let go...

While I am still labeling and tweaking the tropical rainforest piece let me introduce you to the canopy of Lemuria. Climbing crocs, multis and basal primates are accompanied by monotremes, marsupials and tons of birds and herbs...

Lemuria Phase II, Canopy stuff! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Lemurian rainforests return! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Lemuria! Phase 2, Tropical Rainforest now live! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Day146 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Perhaps we need a dour mascot like Bernd (Homo brotus depressivus) to follow John (H. sapiens) into the void like Tim (Torcula apicalis) #fossilfriday #savePRI

Day145 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver (H. sapiens) with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution Time is running short, but you could still put out a fire & make friends with this Wanneria walcottana (PRI76846) #SavePRI #EarthScience ⚒️

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate! experiment.com/projects/rea...

Apparently I forgot to post this one! From the coast we go ever inward! The Mangrove forests of Lemuria consist largely of Nypa palms that grow along and in the waterways. Meet the weirdos of this green cathedral, with semi-aquatic sirenians, climbing crocs and tons of fish and birds.

Where the rivers meander into huge wetlands and lakes in the lowlands the light is often blocked out by enormous floating mats of grass. These grass rafts are a huge, diverse habitat even with it's own endemic species of whale.

LEMURIA, PHASE 2 LIVE NOW! Rivers and Grass rafts!#Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Karstic stone forests are a rare habitat these days but the exposed former carbonate platform of Lemuria is an ideal ground for this habitat to form. Its a paradise for many small critters and specialized weirdos, some of which you can see here.

Time to Lemuria on that stone forest! (and rivers) #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

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

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

Mesozoic Art II virtual gallery event is happening tomorrow, see you there! eventfrog.de/de/p/fuehrun...

Grand Master Tyler Keillor is now on BlueSky! Tell him hello! He has waaay too little followers! #paleoart #sciart

Incredible art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 😍 LET THE PALEOART FLOWS! #dinosaur #paleontology

Please welcome Cariocecus bocagei! A new, basal hadrosauroid from the early Cret. of Portugal! This guy is known from a pretty nice skull, which makes it one of the best ornithopod fossils from Iberia so far! I loved during this little portrait for main author Filippo Bertozzo...

LEMURIA, PHASE 2 LIVE NOW! Mangroves and stone forests! #paleostream ! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Forgot to post here as well! Oh boy, this was a tricky one, went quite a bit back and fourth on the composition, specifically the rocks/whales. In the end this sea grass meadow of Lemuria got it's rocks back but also retained some of the whales sleeping in the back.

The coasts of Lemuria are an ever busy interface between and and sea. The calls of penguins and parrot relatives fills the air while semi-aqautic whales and sirenians wabble on the beaches.

Lemuria! Coasts and Mangroves await! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Lemuria? LEMURIA! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Look fellows, you can skive the rest of #FossilFriday by reading this interview with me at Science Photo Library. Don't worry, it's more #paleoart than words, and I won't tell your boss what you're up to. #sciart #fossils #paleontology #dinosaurs stories.sciencephoto.com/portfolio/ma...

Very excited to present the first ornithomimosaurs from Early Cretaceous of Germany. Artwork by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and the paper is OA: www.app.pan.pl/article/item... Enjoy! More is to be described from this place

With great pleasure I would like to introduce you to the first ornithomimosaur from Germany! The fossils of this charming bugger are from Balve, a locality that preserves early Cretaceous fossils in a Devonian reef that had karstified already back then, giving us: cave dinosaurs

The second habitat we visit in Lemuria Phase 2 are the snail reefs, a community largely supported by colonies of vermetid snails and encrust over rocks all along the coast. Between the entwined shells and rigid tubes you can find a unique fauna from weird little sharks...

The first two pieces of Lemuria Phase II are done and here you get the coral reefs! An incredibly crowded mess of sessile and mobile critters trying to get by. One of my whales also sometimes visits here but since it's 11 m long I only show it's lower jaw/skull here...

More snail reefs and sea grass medows later! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Lemuria Phase 2 is here! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Given recent interest in the ankylosaur, Spicomellus & its extreme armour, I thought l'd share this photo of an #aetosaur spike for this #FossilFriday. Highlights how wonderfully weird #Triassic reptiles pioneered many striking traits once thought limited to dinosaurs. #Paleontology #Science 🧵 1/

Kostensuchus atrox, one of the coolest discoveries from this year, and the best peirosaurid crocodyliform yet found in my opinion very innocently running up to play with an Isasicursor! how wholesome! #paleoart

Results from the #paleostream! Jaggermeryx, Kostensuchus, Rubidgea and Francocaris.

Result of the Jialingjiang Formation #paleostream! This might be one of my favorite Triassic formations, although I might be biased because I love hupehsuchians and this formation just manages to hold all fot them.

This tidal flat needs some triassic weirdos... #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Jialingjiang Formation stream! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

Flocking?! This time it was just one animal but we had 2 hours to do it. Spicomellus #paleostream #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Special flocking this week! 8-29-25 Spicomellus! The early ankylosaur with newly described material! #paleostream

Spicomellus' gonna keep dancing at the Big Bony Club. #Paleostream sketch, based on new material described by Maidment et al., 2025 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Got some weird horses done and dusted. Left to right are Corythosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Shantungosaurus, and Iguanodon Oh yeah, and something about Spicomellus on #Paleostream (I don’t get the hype. What Spikes?)

Tonight's #paleostream had only one goal: paint a Spicomellus in 2 hours so you don't have to listen to my runny nose for too long.

A Once Green Antarctica