Toxodon platensis portrait

To liven up Tuesday afternoon, have some speculative #dinosaurs adapted for modern habitats. Respectively, they are the magnificent and steppe fissurefrills, the berk, and the grand field titan. It's nice to take a break from pure #paleoart every now and then, and designing animals is fun.

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

3 days left to back my art book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni... Special last minute addition here, working on a piece to add to the tier 4 print set! Will be added to the book as well. Classic T.rex vs Triceratops battle. RTs hugely appreciated. Thank you for the support guys!

Aegyptopithecus zeuxis #sciart

August's Dev Diary is out now! 🌟 As our team takes a little rest, this bite-sized post explores Update 16 and the next tiny animal coming to Prehistoric Kingdom - Compsognathus! 💕 ➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4n1GBfY 📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

All set up for @dinoconuk.bsky.social! Come by table 4 tomorrow... I have dinosaurs if you have coin.

I am playing with the idea of turning some of my formation pieces into posters. After a Tumblr poll (better to do there) I have a selection of pieces that would be suitable. Now the question of the layout. Let me know what you think! #paleoart #paleostream

Of course something you get involved with would end up with some nice looking figures.

Published today in Biological Reviews: "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs" - the biggest paper from my PhD (my favourite chapter, too). doi.org/10.1111/brv.... Here's a thread outlining some of our key findings. (1/10)

WHO IS 'THE OLD SETI'? The biggest Spinosaurus in #MesozoicLifeProject, Seti is over 13 metres in length and has a dewlap not present in other Spinosaurus individuals--a sign that it has reached a great age!

And the Procreate process for this big dromaeosaur.

Utahraptor dinosaur illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project. #Utahraptor #Dinosaur #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #SciArt

Oh hey this is public now! Was super cool to get the chance to sketch all of these dinosaur hybrid finalists! youtu.be/96vXv_skFMk?...

Suchomimus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. #dinosaur #paleoart #Suchomimus #blender #3dart

Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis with its huge lateral spikes was one of the most bizarre stegosaurs Gigantspinosaurus lived during the Late Jurassic in Asia. What do you think the function of those lateral, back-pointing spikes was? #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #art

Lightcatcher (Oxalaia quilombensis) #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

Here's a quick T. rex stop motion test I did yesterday, with a puppet I've made. I wanted to animate more, but I bumped into the camera 🙄 The puppet is made of wire and foam for the body. The head is made of a 3D print skull by Vitamin Imagination, and the "skin" is just unbaked sculpey

Plateosaurus dinosaur illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project. #Paleoart #SciArt #Plateosaurus #Dinosaur

WIP Barinasuchus skull sculpture in Blender. Slowly getting there...

I think my Barinasuchus skull sculpture is just about done.

The famous Antarctic theropod Cryolophosaurus has just caught a juvenile Glacialisaurus. That’s going to be a great meal! This is the package art I did for the upcoming Cryolophosaurus figure by Beasts of The Mesozoic line! #paleoart #dinosaurs

We're proud to reveal our new posters! A lot of effort went into the big mural-style poster especially. These will soon all be shipped out to backers who ordered them, and eventually we'll open an online store where you can buy them as well!

Coelophysis what a disproportionate creature

Hidden in Stone also features these fantastic models showing changing views of #Megalosaurus and #Iguanodon over time, wow!! They (and many many other pieces here) are made by the ridiculously talented Karen Fawcett, what a star. #dinosaurs #palaeoart

Today's #ArtBoost is for the incredible Ventura de Jesús Salas Galván, based in Mexico (a nation fast becoming a new hub of very skilled palaeoartists). Produces awesome #paleoart showing all sorts of animals, and does work of many styles. And open for commission! venturasalas.deviantart.com

Result from yesterdays Emu Bay Shale #paleostream! This was our first Cambrian formation piece AND No. 50 in this series! This place had some interesting challenges attached to it and it's fauna has some fascinating members.

Imperator Regum dinosaur hybrid specimen study for James J.M.S.S who submitted it to Goji Center's Great Hybrid War. We got an honorable mention with this big guy! #DinosaurHybrid #HybridDinosaur #JurassicWorld

Love, love, love fledging artists getting a spotlight and deserved attention

New post on my recent Iguanodon #paleoart just uploaded to #Patreon, featuring the high-res image and some behind-the-scenes musings on it and other Iguanodon artworks. I've drawn a few iguandonts over the years: they're a colorful bunch... www.patreon.com/posts/125286... #sciart

A guide to the exoparia: the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account: #scicomm #paleontology #dinosaur #sciart

I finally got this working. Pro & uropatagium to follow. Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.

You won't be surprised to learn that King Tyrant has some comments on azhdarchids vs. T. rex, including citations of multiple papers on birds stealing food from or harassing much larger, relatively formidable mammalian and avian opponents. There's also some updated size comparisons and art.

Styracosaurus dinosaur illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project. #Dinosaur #Paleoart #Styracosaurus #SciArt

Lambeiosaurus doodle wind down from yesterday.

Diplodocus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. The background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #paleoart #diplodocus #3d #3dart

Clearly, it was a massive privilege to be part of the #PrehistoricPlanet team and to help guide and steer this behemoth of a project. If you liked it, be sure to help spread the word, leave good reviews online, and tell your friends.

The T. rex retreats and leaves the #azhdarchids to the corpse. Maybe he comes back in 5 mins, maybe he comes back tomorrow. I absolutely object to the people who have confidently claimed that this scene is problematic or ridiculous.

ARISE, SPINOSAURUS! The textures, the lighting, the bird-like sleeping posture, the pure spectacularity when the spino rose to its full height! ...Wait, DR. DARREN NAISH IS A CONSULTANT OF THIS DOCU?! Go SUPPORT #MesozoicLifeProject and HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

Allo allo allo, what's all this then?

And here the result from yesterdays Ischigualasto formation #paleostream! This formation is famously known as the "cradle of dinosaurs", with animals like Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus. Which meant we went of course for the Hyperodapedon-Exaeretodon-Herrerasaurus biozone.

Three LorgeLads

The Kickstarter campaign for "Mesozoic Life", a series of CGI shorts detailing life during the Mesozoic age, will launch soon! Featuring @tetzoo.bsky.social as consultant We gotta make this project a reality! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mes...

Instead of finishing existing projects, naturally I started sculpting a new skull instead. Here's a preview of the skull of Barinasuchus. The fossil only has the front of the snout preserved. So, I'm basing the anatomy of the missing parts on Sebecus and other related taxa.

WIP Barinasuchus with new details is ready for snoot booping.

For a while I had been working on and off on a head muscle study on my Gorgosaurus skull with the intent to make it into a reference guide for people. With the new dinosaur cheek paper that just came out I added the new ligament as well.

WIP Sculpting tyrannosaur brow details.

‪Juvenile Triceratops skull diagram #sciart #paleoart

Don't think I had shared this on Bluesky before. I sculpted a Lokiceratops rangiformis skull a while ago. Here's a 1/5 scale 3d print of it. #Dinosaur #Paleoart #Sciart

Part of the tetrapod fauna of the Xiaowa Formation. Late Triassic, Asia This is a plate of my book on Tetrapods of the Triassic. As you know I have been working on this book for many years and I am still working on it #paleoart #sciart #ichthyosaurs #placodonts