New #paleoart of the Welsh theropod Dracoraptor hanigani, restored with appropriately neotheropodan features. UK marine sediments have a glut of small Jurassic theropods, with Dracoraptor one of the best-known. #sciart Like this image? You can own a copy! www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...

And to @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social who did the skeletal reconstruction of the animal. See how lovely it is when put back together!

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.)

Hey, take this... allosaurus¿ not sure about that.

Today in Incredible Things Trackways Tell Us That We Had No Way Of Possibly Knowing Before, joining the "sauropods could turn right" revelation, we have "theropods could walk slowly". Truly, the extent of our discoveries knows no bounds.

Parachoerodon rhynchus, a new genus and species of choerolophodontids from the Miocene of northern China. The skull is based on the holotype IVPP V23457 and paratype IVPP V23213.

Hesperonychus elizabithae illustration

Shoutout to this Postosuchus by 2000s palaeoart legend Mineo Shiraishi, which inadvertently ended up looking exactly like a distant prehistoric ancestor of Monsterverse Godzilla.

Sorry, sorry #animalart #swiftfox #digitalart

Some wolverine studies after our photos from last year. #Animalart #sciart #wolverine #mammals #mustelid

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

†Muttaburrasaurus langdoni - Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981. 📃 | "Cranial anatomy, palaeoneurology, palaeobiology and stratigraphic age of the large-bodied ornithopod, Muttaburrasaurus langdoni, from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia". 🔗| peerj.com/articles/207...

S L O W progress... Please pray to the universe for me. If this goes well, it will be only the second thing not to have gone fantastically wrong since the year began. 😓

Tiger sketch. I think the foreleg looks a bit weird without shading to show it's foreshortening and not stumpiness, but like how the face came out -3389 🎨🐡 #art

I stopped to see our gothic avian family residing in NYC's great gothic cathedral, St John the Divine. I captured one parent heading back out after dropping off lunch. The youngsters are growing fast and will be fledging soon! 🖤⛪️🖤 #Ravens #birdsseenin2026 #birding

3/5 mecopteran (scorpion flies) species that occur in finland. Managed to see these three last summer. two species still allude me. Maybe this summer.

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni [ #paleoart | #reptiles | #jurassic | #3Dart | #art ]

Iguanodon bernissartensis [ #paleoart | #dinosaurs | #iguanodon | #3Dart | #art ]

#FossilFriday For May Day, it's Maiasaura! New mount at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social

This has always sort of been my de facto logo because I printed it on my envelopes. It's a self portrait of me as a tyrannosaur trying my hardest to sculpt a self portrait out of cardboard, popsicle sticks and toilet paper tubes.

Stickers and some more 3D prints!

Fossils are pretty good at hiding from me this morning but at least I get the dopamine reward of finding a few shark teeth. Cretoxyrhina mantelli, 86 million years old

quick nanaimoteusthis and mosasaurus piece because why the fuck not #paleo #paleoart #art #creature #digitalart

More new art just uploaded to #Patreon: a commission for @gggcast.bsky.social of a monsterised Allosaurus with weird, twisty skin growths. Read about how it came together, and see the WIPs, here: www.patreon.com/posts/156958... #art #digitalart #dinosaur

New Star wars troop carrier just dropped

This book - Ross et al. 1989, published by Merehurst - came out when I was a teenager and cost around £20. That was a fortune to me at the time and I had no hope of ever buying it. Obviously, I eventually did. It's a fantastic book and I still use it often. #books #crocodylians

Drawing studies

Meese

strange lizard

Lots of western meadowlarks belting out their songs this morning. #Alberta #wildlife #birding #birds 🪶

Late #PortfolioDay post - I draw #palaeoart and wildlife art, mostly using stippling.

Emu prints at Froggy Dam, Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

Think this is pretty much finished - the big lamniform #shark Cretoxyrhina attacking the #mosasaur Clidastes. This is a scene from the Late #Cretaceous Niobrara Formation. #palaeoart

New at #Patreon: #paleoart of Cretaceous fireflies and #Spinosaurus mirabilis. Fireflies have existed for 100 million years and, thanks to some cool science, we know what colours they illuminated themselves with. Details (+ more new art) at www.patreon.com/markwitton. #dinosaur #fossil #art

the full set of dragonflies that i put together last year!

Warmup doodles before I get started on this comm. #art #animals #ocean #paleoart #whale

WIP... 👀

Speculative primitive spinosaurid inspired by megalosaurids and Monolophosaurus Colors based in Potamites montanicola suggested by my friend @cascoclauda.bsky.social as usual c: #paleoart for @edgescience.bsky.social !!

Studying transitional whales with Maiacetus #sciart #paleoart

Playing around with Hyaenodon #sciart #paleoart

Studying pinniped anatomy (using Titanotaria) #sciart #paleoart

#sciart One of the two pieces I entered into the SCMNH Art of Nature exhibition: the holotype mandible of the sea lion-like "double-tusked" walrus Dusignathus santacruzensis, found in ~6-7 myo rocks in Santa Cruz, CA. Watercolor and gouache, ~10x5". 🐡🐬🦖

Cambrian on my mind #sciart

It's not everyday you get to shake a dinosaur's hand

That fish in the background of every single shark photo you've seen: the pilot fish, Naucrates ductor. It's almost hard to find pics of oceanic whitetip sharks *without* pilotfish in them

Amazing footage from @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social shows two young males and a smaller female calf - is their boisterousness part of the explanation why males leave/are isolated from the social units they were born in, because they bring threat od injury to vulnerable calves? 🐳🦑🧪

Some beautiful shots for Wildlife Photographer of the Year Years ago when I had my DSLR I dreamt of entering this, but most of the stories behind the photos are like, 'I slept in my car for a week in subzero temps to get this shot' I'm not *that* dedicated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Me, gearing up to catch the capybara

Another "I'm not dead post" while slugging away on Book 7. Here're revisions made to my recent Caudipteryx #paleoart piece after revisiting the distribution of melanised feathers in referred specimens. I also closed the split tail, following feedback from @albertonykus.bsky.social - thanks, Albert!