My latest drawing, a commission for @veppart.bsky.social who wanted to see some great auks just chilling and doing auky stuff like standing around, swimming, and being fancy. No predators, no danger, no fear. Except for those fish. Their day is ruined for sure.

Dire wolf?

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mexidracon longimanus From Late Cretaceous Cerro Del Pueblo Formation, Mexico, "Long armed Mexican dragon" is a newly described ornithomimosaur with extremely long metacarpals. Its discovery hints at a greater diversity of ostrich mimic dinosaurs Art by @hodarinundu.bsky.social

@hodarinundu.bsky.social suggested the idea of chromatophores in ceratopsian frills. youtu.be/Yp5FRJbBNgU?...

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Xenosmilus hodsonae From Early Pleistocene Florida, "strange knife" was a sabre toothed cat with broad canines and serrations on all its teeth. It has been theorized to inflict deep wounds on its prey before retreating, earning it the name "cookie cutter cat"

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Tameryraptor markgrafi From Late Cretaceous Bahariya Formation, Egypt, "seizer from the beloved land" is a newly described 9 meter Carcharodontosaur based on Stromer's now lost findings. Other than having more shark like teeth, it also had a small snout crest

Must I always do the paleontologists' job?

Not a friggin golden eagle flying over my house twice!!! Sadly didn't get the camera in time D: what a gift tho :B

Enjoy Christmas cause when I take over the world you'll have to celebrate Hodari...mas, I guess, and anyone who isn't sufficiently merry will be fed to the jaguars

Dragon's moon :B Inspired by the beautiful full moons this year, and by the recent article about how our Moon was volcanically active during the Cretaceous. Was this visible from Earth? Did dinosaurs take notice? Good thing about being an artist is, you can draw whatever :B

Speculative miniature sabercat... :B Known machairodontines are generally speaking large cats- even the smallest known are leopard or lynx sized. I wonder if any truly tiny species evolved- maybe in some island. Imagine one housecat sized or smaller, but still able to kill prey larger than itself..

Am I the only one who still uses ttyl?

Apparently there's a myth out there that pronghorn have telescope eyes that can see the rings of Saturn. That sounds real cool but I don´t think it's true. Also getting distracted by astronomy probably would have been maladaptive in the Pleistocene...

I will never stop sharing my Siats from 2015 cause I still consider it one of my masterpieces :B

Remember when a bone found in a Mexican cenote was described as a new species of Panthera (P. balamoides) and I doodled this and everyone was like no way it can haul that crocodile up and at the end it didn't matter because the bone turned out to belong to an Arctotherium? Yeah.

If I don´t get much traction here I might use it just to bitch about things. Like in old times Twitter. I'll save in therapy money. :B

I'd rather bitch about my splitting headache here where it's only around five hundred people than on Twitter :B Ow, my head!

Somewhere in Pleistocene South Africa, a quagga tried to cross the river to rescue a goal caught by a leopard. Unfortunately, there's leopards in the water too... Inspired by leopard seal fossil from Ice Age South Africa.. Colder climate may have allowed them leopard seals to range further north...

The supposed giant chicken Gallus tamanensis from the Pleistocene was one of the first obscure prehistoric creatures I posted online back in 2007. I drew it again this year, extra crisp color. It's fragmentary and no one knows if it truly was a giant chicken- but it totally should be. :B

Dare getting closer? The Pliocene python Liasis dubudingala ("strangling ghost") is the largest snake known to have lived in Australia. It has been estimated at 10 m long and may have been arboreal, aquatic, or a bit of both. I imagine it hunting near rivers, hanging there like a living noose... :B

Rescued from Deviantart! Arachnoraptor damocles, the spider raptor! Creepy, crawly, kinda cute if I may say so myself. I bet it's got a venomous bite too because of course it would.

Drew this during a break from work :B Two Pachystruthio (colossal ostriches from the early Pleistocene) chased by sabercats. These birds reached up to 450 kg and 3.5 m tall being easily among the largest birds known to have existed. They seemingly adapted well to cold and even glacial climates!

Bluesky, if you don't remind me constantly of the existence of Fallen Kingdom and Dominion like Twitter does, we can be friends :B

Damn, I didn´t even remember I had made an account here :B