So many facets of palaeontology are weird and cute and interesting, we need more communicators popularising their work and wonders of natural history.

For the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Joaquinraptor, a new species from a very cool family of dinosaurs: long-armed, hook clawed (possible) tyrannosaur relatives from South America

Un nuevo Protolamna ricaurtei Illustrated for: Cristian D. Benavides-Cabra, José A. Narváez-Rincón, Daniel E. Pomar Made to go with the study published last week describing a new specimen of 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘯𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘪 Carrillo Briceño et al., 2019.

Froggy doggy

🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways? When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Firion ✨ #finalfantasyII

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

Remingtoncetid protowhales #sciart

El mar se estremeció primero Illustrated for: 3° Congreso Colombiano de Paleontología Paleoart contest - 1st place Digital Illustration category. This illustration was originally intended to go out with the publication but life got in the way, I resumed work on it mid-August.

𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘴 A practice illustration to delve into a different group of organisms, inspired by the work of Torres et al., 2022. #paleoart #foraminifera

Intriga Illustrated for: 2° Congreso Colombiano de Paleontología Paleoart contest - 1st place. Two years ago, I presented a talk at a conference for the first time and made this illustration for their paleoart contest. #paleoart #ichthyosaur