King in Black A few weeks late but here’s a Tylosaurus rex life reconstruction . Huge congrats to @tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social and her team on publishing the work on the king of the seaway. #TylosaurusTuesday #paleoart #sciart #art

Painted a blue heron - getting back into things

The Fishes of the Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, commission for El-Sayed et al., 2026. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Digital Echoes

Cool press release palaeoart by Lewis LaRosa and Jão Canola. Again, really happy seeing diverse art styles enter mainstream in academic palaeoart.

Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing reconstruction of a famous eurypterid site! Here's one member of that fauna, Acutiramus macrophthalamus (UMMP IP 86635).

420 Million years before the reign of Mamdani, two Acutiramus wake up from their daylight slumber as thousands are Eurypterus begin to invade the shallow, warm waters of New York. This is the Fiddlers Green or Bertie Formation, a Silurian lagerstätte known for its eurypterids🧵

I've been drained from paleo. So I will be taking an extended break from it for awhile. When I am getting stressed from having to deal with people being annoying, arrogant/ignorant, or mansplaining my own field to me while I am trying to take a break from my stressful personal life, its too much.

Spent the last couple of days in the @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social , so is only right to share some Old Red Sandstone fishes for #fossilfriday

First post in a while but this is Paraophiodon, a late Miocene greenling from the Sakhalin Island of Russia. #sciart #paleoart

Abstract submission is now open, with the 31st of May as the final deadline. Feel free to contact us regarding our symposium!

GF gifted me Subnautica 2 on steam hell yeah we ball

Herbology Pouch 2 is now available as stock art on my Patreon. This time, the subject is the symbol of my home state. 🌱 www.patreon.com/posts/stock-... The post can be purchased without subscription, as always. #ttrpg #sciart #stockart #bsnm

I'm in the first volume of "Mesozoic Art" @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social! Available at the Anchorage Barnes & Noble location: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mesozoic-a...

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...

Leptoceratops #art #dinosaur #dinosaurart #ceratopsian #leptoceratops #paleoart

apparently a new pterosaur dropped? Laueropterus

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkM... Unbelievable work by @kiabugboy.bsky.social! Please go give it a watch!

Quite a few people have asked me to put the Cabrières lagerstätte from the Ordovician of France on our wheel for a while. I refused so far because, well, I already did it as a commission ;) Cabrières is a fascinating biota, a fuge amount of macro algae might hint at...

Result from the Burgess Shale #paleostream! This piece turned into one of the busiest yet, and yet we only scratch the surface here! Burgess Shale is a fossil bearing deposit high up in the Canadian Rockies and is sometimes called the "most important fossil locality of all time"

#InverteFest is here (24-30 April), show us your invertebrate-themed creations!

Awhile ago I started editing the Lagerstätte article to make the list more comprehensive, better cited, nicer, etc. I ended up splitting the list out because of size (still need to improve the main article) so now I can say that I created & wrote the majority of the longest paleo wiki article. help

people asking me what my favorite animal/time period etc is...

Results from the #paleostream! Don Juan (still unnamed rat fish relative), Muttaburrasaurus, Lystrosaurus (baby) and Bakonydraco!

Result from the Zechstein sea #paleostream! This famous deposit from the late Permian of Central Europe (mostly Germany) has a special place in paleontology history and incidentally has a locality not even a km from where I sit right now.

Made a rough sketch reconstructing the updated skull of Muttaburrasaurus. Repositioned some of the bones that were out of place, like the quadrate, maxilla and jaw.

it still boggles my mind how someone credibly accused of sexual misconduct is still consistently publishing and hasn't lost his job... its disheartening

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Here the result of the Escuminac Formation #paleostream! These deposits from the Devonian of Canada offer a glimpse into a coastal fish community with some absolute bangers and historical favorites. But it doesn't come without it challenges.

These are the paleobirds I did for Scientific American last year! #FossilFriday 🪶🧪🐡

Cherry blossom horseshoe crab 🌸

Many extinct sirenians past the Eocene look pretty normal once their lose their hindlimbs, and then there is Anomotherium.

Another moth of a wizard-y nature

I just want to be able to share images in DMs 🤷 private accounts would be nice, too. I dunno why people are taking it to extremes like people want diamonds or ponies or something - be serious, y'all.

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029. Please spread the word! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

Still alive as work on Book 7 enters the last few days, though I am quite sleep-deprived. And which joker organised daylight savings so close to my deadline? Thanks, jerk. Here's some #paleoart of the Jurassic pterosaur Balaenognathus soaring over dinoflagellates, the source of their pink bodies.

Follie Abstracta Helmet (Concept Fan art) "Hello, Darling." #warframefanart

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...

Cambrian on my mind #sciart

As if cassowaries weren't cool enough already.... So, does UV #fluorescence & reflectance translate to biological casque function? Well, that is complex. This is the first step, but future light physics, molecular, & ecological studies will be able to test the question more fully.

UV casque biofluorescence occurs in living #birds and even 100-year-old #museum specimens (big thanks to @nhm.org & @amnh.org for samples). This may be useful for censusing wild individuals 🇵🇬 🇦🇺 (similar to whale fluke “fingerprinting”) and identifying incomplete #cassowary specimens in collections.

Result of the Wellington Formation #paleostream! People like to think of the Carboniferous as the time of the giant insects but they actually reached their peak in the early Permian. And here in Kansas we find the largest: Meganeuropsis, which in our case in going after a...

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

🚨 It's finally out! 🚨 A new bizarre harvestman from Eocene Baltic amber, named Balticolasma wunderlichi! This wonderful little guy was quite the challenge to work on as I don't do inverts that often...

Result from the Sulphur Mountain Formation #paleostream! This formation made it onto the wheel as it is the last refuge of the last eugeneodonts, the group that gave us Helicoprion. Most prominently we have here Fadenia, a late surviving durophagous member of this group...

From El Hossny et al., 2020: Spathiurus, a Cretaceous relative of bowfins. This specimen is at a museum tied to the Lebanese University. One of the university’s campuses has been bombed, and the director of the Faculty of Science has been killed You can support Lebanon here: gofund.me/40b24e072

Allow me to introduce you to Sonselasuchus cedrus, a new bipedal, beaked and herbivorous crocodile-relative that lived during the Late Triassic in North America #paleoart #sciart