I _did not_ appreciate Mahler making me jump out of my skin with the final orchestral crash of _Das klagende Lied_ as I was carefully touching up the beak. That could have gone so very wrong indeed. 😬😅 (The head without the frill is about 4cm long.)

A juvenile Diplodocus is slipping out post-bedtime for a late #FossilFriday post. Like other Mesozoic dinosaurs, young diplodocids were proportioned differently than adults, bearing shorter necks, faces and tails. The mottled skin pattern is based on (very tentative) palaeocolour data. #paleoart

Updated some old #paleoart of Pelorosaurus for an upcoming project. The first versions of this image scarily date to 2013 and 2015. Pelorosaurus is an Early Cretaceous British titanosauriform, but we don't know much about its proportions or appearance. Silhouettes FTW! #sciart #fossil #paleontology

Tomorrow. Prepare to be a part of (pre)history.

'Swift Hunters' I'm very pleased to present the work I did for @paulscottcanavan.com 's MIR mentorship. He's a fantastic teacher and our cohort was lovely!

Result from the Pleistocene Sicily #paleostream! This piece was a fascinating up and down to construct and to research. While certainly iconic our understanding of these faunas is not complete and misinformation and memes plaster ones way. Center of this piece...

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

Late #Cretaceous Winton Formation, #Australia. A huge Australotitan cooperensis ploughs ahead, paying no heed to bothersome #pterosaurs (Ferrodraco lentoni) or a puny Australovenator wintonensis. A group of Diamantinasaurus matildae observe the commotion from a distance. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart

Australovenator casually strolling on the beach

decked out in her breeding plumage, arizona's most eligible dilophosaurus debutante takes a much-needed rest by a stream. who knew that competing for a mate could be such an exhausting endeavour? #paleoart comm by @literallymiguel.bsky.social

I've been spending a lot more time in Blender recently! Here's a Torosaurus - all movements somewhat exaggerated as I just wanted to play around with the rig and the damped motion of the tail

Quick sketch of a White-breasted Nuthatch for Yardwatcher on reddit/ko-fi. 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Art vs. artist 2025 Thanks for following along! Happy holidays! #artvsartist #dinosaur #paleoart

Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite. Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013. #ArtAdventCalendar

'Everything has its proper name. I shall call it “Armadillo” till I found out the real one…’ Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012. Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm. #ArtAdventCalendar

Experimental with style #dinosaur #digitalpainting #paleoart patreon.com/thepaleoartofPK

Had some time off, so I made something fun and wildly out there just in time for Thanksgiving.

Sitting in the small hours in my pyjamas, wrapped in a shawl, freezing my toes off, and painting things in red and gold while listening to Bach's Jesu, meine Freude. Why, it feels like Christmas already. 😬

Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019. A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly. (But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.) www.nature.com/articles/s42...

”Bloody Mary” Nanotyrannus #sciart

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.

Some Over the Garden Wall for this month’s riso print subscription, because I would love to have a frog sing to me

Joaquinraptor. Hi-res, Draft versions and ref on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/140120...

Suchomimus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. Background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #suchomimus #paleoart #paleontology #3dart #3d

Sketching Triceratops for a commission I am currently working on These are sketches of Triceratops in various positions. It is always fun to go back to Triceratops #paleoart #dinosaur #art

A bit of silliness from 2021. Kong's first line is taken directly from the 2007 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

When reconstructing an critterthis poorly known, I tend to go for a more conservative appearance, taking into account relatives from similar times/places. Unfortunately, footprints are incredibly difficult to assign, and ornithopod footprints aren't dissimilar from theropod ones.

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...

I’ve just backed @emilyhare.co.uk ‘s new book, and I have a feeling that a LOT of my followers will want to do the same! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/art...

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Stegosaurus #paleoart

Cover to my first art book collection Carbon Based. Hoping people will dig it & hoping it’ll allow me to catch up on some things & hopefully seek relief for my back problems I’m always whining about. Thanks guys! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

I once posed the question on the other place, "What, for you, is a 'typical' bird?" The sparrow was the most common answer. It was mine, too. I see them less often these days in London, but they were in overwhelming abundance in my childhood in Chiang Mai.

Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️

Milk Tea #ドット絵 #pixelart

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, Mirasaura

Ok… so the cat is out of the bag and I can FINALLY start talking about this. I just confirmed with Tim I can say that I did a lot of concept art, like this baby Spinosaurus, for the new docuseries #SurvivingEarth coming out in 2026! So excited for you guys to see this!

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Shri rapax is the second member of the genus Shri and it is characterized by a shorter skull and robust hands with very powerful claws, especially that of the pollex (much larger than those previously known from other dromaeosaurs) #paleoart #dinosaurs

Pied Peahen & Peonies Gouache & acrylic gouache on MDF coaster, 98 mm. This piece ended up taking a long time for what was supposed to be relatively ‘simple.’ 😅 The peahen’s neck is actually more teal-blue-green, but neither my phone camera nor my scanner were equal to capturing this. 1/4

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A herd of #Alamosaurus leaving their footprints along a coastline, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by @princetonupress.bsky.social). #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Titanosaur #Sauropods #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous

Just a foraging hedgehog 🌿