This to honor the work that John Bindon did in 1996 to illustrate Orodromeus (shown in image 2), a relative of Hypsilophodon, but it is also a perfect way to illustrate how our perception of these dinosaurs has changed over the last 30 years

A recent commission: 1st winter Ross's Gull (watercolour on paper). I would really love to see this species! #gull #birdart #natureart #wildlifeart #watercolour

Two new Edmontosaurus skeletons with preserved skin just got published by Paul Sereno and collegues. They had a fleshy scaly crest over their back and hoofed feet! I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dire wolf/wolves by Mark Hallett. Had no idea the pack hunt drawing at the bottom right was a thing, so this was a pleasant surprise.

happy #worldreptileday! i have chosen today to celebrate the success of dinosauria, from the largest dinosaur (argentinosaurus huinculensis) 🦕 to the very smallest (mellisuga helenae) 🪶

Woolly rhinos jousting observed by flock of barnacle geese #sciart

Rhamphorhynchus, Dimorphodon & Darwinopterus ~ 🦅 . These are the finished designs of my ‘big pterosaurs’ for my upcoming Pterosaur Tree design! . The whole thing is nearly finished…I can’t wait to share it with you! . What do you guys think? #paleoart

Terminonaris, a very complete northamerican sister taxon to Sarcosuchus, and the most derived croc-relative to posses scleral rings

I was at the Australian Botanic Garden at Mt Annan yesterday when this *huge* Lace Monitor crossed one of the lawns. Many birds followed, mobbed, and swooped it, but only the Masked Lapwings came close enough for me to get some action shots. #birds #reptiles

Cave hyaena #sciart

21 October 1902 | Eddy Hamel was born in New York. As a teenager, he moved to #Amsterdam. 1st Jewish player in Ajax Amsterdam. He scored 8 goals in 125 league games. After his arrest in October 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished on 30 April 1943.

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is sarcosuchus, a neosuchian from early cretaceous africa and south america. nicknamed the ‘super croc’, sarcosuchus is not closely related to crocodilians, instead belonging to the clade pholidosauridae (art by @literallymiguel.bsky.social)

while its longirostrine snout is most similar to primarily piscivorous crocodilians like gavialids and the extinct euthecodon, the sheer size of sarcosuchus imperator – estimated at over 9 metres in length – would likely have allowed it to prey on dinosaurs as well (art by mark witton)

the african s. imperator is the larger and more famous of the two species, and was found in the elrhaz formation of niger, where it coexisted with the spinosaurid suchomimus and the hadrosauriform ouranosaurus, among others (art by raphtor)

Happy New Year!! Just a few of my favorite works from 2024...

A portrait sketch a portrait of Diplodocus hallorum based on the skeletal mount at the NMNH. As pointed out by Tess Gallagher, studies like this are a good reminder of how bizarre sauropods probably looked at certain angles. #paleoart

Bighorn Sheep rams are nearing their peak - look for a thick muscular neck that will serve them well in the head bashing days ahead. #mammals

Once more some mammoths

If you leave quietly maybe the werewolf won’t notice you🐺

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔 Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙 Link also in profile. ko-fi.com/himmapaan

Sea dragons dont like gulls

Been painting scales again!!! This time my favourite domestic carp: goldfish! (Sorry Koi) Been working on these prototypes at home. Hopefully will have a few up for grabs next week! Then more colours in future...

Three Scutellosaurus lawleri waiting out the rain under an old cycadeoid (Early #Jurassic Arizona, US) From my #book ”När dinosaurierna tog över” #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Inktober Day 15: "Ragged." The Sand Tiger Shark (Carcharias taurus) is also known as a Ragged Tooth Shark in many areas of the world. Typically a chillaxed species, they do well in aquariums. #Inktober #inktober2025 #Shark #marinelife #fishart #sciart #nature #fish #fishart #animalart #ArtYear

Xylethrus superbus is a fabulous species of orb weaving spider from the Amazon rainforest. While she looks a bit like a strawberry, eating her is not recommended. #Arachtober Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

A trio of Caviramus (considering Raeticodactylus synonymous) soaring the skies of Late Triassic Europe This is an illustration from my library of work available for non exclusive licensing #paleoart #sciart #pterosaurs

“The Bull” This piece was done over the last year as a commission for the new card game “Zoic”

Hi #PortfolioDay, I am a palaeo / wildlife traditional artist and use stippling / pointillism for ink drawings. Here are a few recent drawings: @palaeoart 'dinosaur @fish

Guillemot and puffin scatter as a white-tailed eagle glides along a rock face. #superseabirdsunday

One of the main components of Great Hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) diet is stingrays. Sometimes they even keep a souvenir. 🤣🦈 Therefore, I submit to you my illustration for #Inktober Day 11: "Sting." #shark #marinelife #sciart #hammerhead #sting #stingray #fish #fishart #animalart #nature #ArtYear

If you haven't read—or re-read in a while—Bakker's 1986 classic The Dinosaur Heresies, it's well worth doing. I read it in 1986 & again on my recent trip to Japan. Got a pb copy for $10 for the long trip (1st photo) rather than take my signed 1st ed (got John Gurche to sign his cover art, too!). 🦖

New #watercolor - the skull that launched a thousand papers - Aetiocetus weltoni, the ~25 myo toothed baleen whale that likely had teeth and baleen - from the Oligocene of Oregon. I started this last winter and only finally finished it yesterday. 🐡 🦖🐬 #sciart #whaleontology #whalewednesday #art

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

The fierce carnivore Inostrancevia is one of the species of synapsids that went extinct in the Great Dying, known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction event. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

It's Thingummy. The new one that sounds like shushing. I suppose one kritosaurine looks much like another... #Ahshiselsaurus

This is Finley. He has a rare genetic mutation that causes patches of different colors in his coat. It is completely harmless, but it does make him completely handsome. 14/10 (IG: jaktlabben.finley)

Last weekend I had the opportunity to find a Broad-banded Copperhead (Agkistrodon laticinctus) for the first time! What a beautiful snake! #snakes #reptiles

New drawing of Early Jurassic #plesiosaur #Rhomaleosaurus. This was a big predator, around 7 m long (comparable to an orca). Rhomaleosaurs had shorter necks and larger skulls than many plesiosaurs, but were not as big-headed and short-necked as more derived pliosaurids like Kronosaurus. #palaeoart

Feel like a fish out of water? Meet the giant mudskipper! This fish needs to breathe air & spends a decent amount of time on land! Found on the muddy shores of mangroves in parts of Southeast Asia, it uses its pectoral fins to “walk” across mudflats. Photo: mysorekid, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters

A little before-and-after for this adorable little Black Devil Anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii). She had been in the news a while back and I just HAD to do my version. 🤣🤙 White Prismacolor on black Canson paper. #BlackDevil #anglerfish #fish #fishart #marinelife #sciart #nature #ArtYear #art

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

‘Turkestan Shrike, adult male’ acrylic, 13 x 18 cms. Turkestan Shrike, also known as Red-tailed Shrike, is a very rare visitor from Central Asia to the UK. Along with the closely related Daurian Shrike it was once considered one of the sub-species of Isabelline Shrike. #turkestanshrike #birdart

Hi, I'm Sean! Multimedia and specialize in shark art (although I have been branching out lately). 🤣🦈🤙

And Mike Benton was keen to say he liked it too:

If you want to know the real Spinosaurus, the animal behind the myths, check out this upcoming book by @davehone.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social !!

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia #paleoart #sciart #art

Happy 120th Nameday, Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus!

Named 120 years ago today. Tyrannosaurs rex.