Yesterday I started on #paleostream a new series: #PocketPrehistry, in which I draw extinct animals in life size on postcard formats, meaning the animals can't be much longer than 15 cm max! Here the first 3 results Scalacurvichthys, Arcticodactylus, Iberomesornis with Eoalulavis, Kreischeria...

Curious what y’alls’ favorite living inverts are, anything from bugs to worms to ostracods. Multiple answers and debates are encouraged! #bugsky #invertebrates #entomology

I recently searched "goblin shark" on Instagram and was disgusted by the ubiquity of generative AI slop masquerading as actual footage of living goblin sharks. So here's a thread on how to spot the bullshit (examples below) #scicomm #sharks

Another good cockchafer fact: as a result of studies by 1800s entomologists, the cockchafer was one of the first animals to be discovered to have a strong preference towards homosexuality. A lot of Victorians found this very upsetting and refused to believe it.

A reconstruction based in a new mandible of the largest species of Stirtonia, S. tatacoensis, shows that this animal had already the robust and large mandible that distinguish these monkeys of the other relatives like spider monkeys, since that they are more specialized to eat leaves.

pattern recognition is wild. I can instantly tell a wasp mimic or discern a Viceroy/Monarch. I can ID most local earthworms by sight now, which is a little scary still opened the calculator app the last ten times I needed to set a timer in the clock app

Quick Deinotherium sketches, using their weird tusks for anchoring/resting the head while browsing and for intraspecific combat. Just exploring the possibilities of such a strangely shaped proboscidean. #sciart #paleoart #cenozoic #deinotherium

The fauna depicted are found in the Tule Springs Fossil Beds of Nevada. My previous illustrations feature on the park website. These are available for non-exclusive licensing.

This past weekend I revisited one of my first illustration jobs with the National Park Service.

Everything IS bigger in Texas... Introducing TYLOSAURUS REX–“TEX”. A monster animal, a monster paper, & a monster project that I am *so* excited to finally share with everyone after ~5 yrs. Huge thanks to my coauthors, Mike & Ron, & to Alderon Games for bringing our lad to life!! #FossilFriday

Tonight’s flocking-together #Paleostream was pretty mammal-heavy! We started with the cheetah-like sabertooth Yoshi, then the newly named Tylosaurus rex, then the little Jurassic furball Xianshou, and finally the strange hopping metatherian Argyrolagus. #cenozoic #mesozoic #paleoart #sciart #mammals

Laquintasaura venezuelae poster :3 (en español)

Quick sketch (will refine later) of a small bee, Halictus poeyi, fleeing from the oncoming nose of a Paramylodon somewhere in eastern Alabama during the late Pleistocene. Another bee, either H. poeyi or H. ligatus, is still clinging to the Coreopsis behind it. #WorldBeeDay #sciart #paleoart

Let’s start #WorldBeeDay with the most important meme about the disparity between bee conservation efforts. Nearly all bee conservation efforts represent honeybees, a managed agricultural product easy to identify. Fortunately, bumblebees are getting some conservation love nowadays.

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

When you finally find a really cool bird in a far-off land and get lots of cool photos but they all look like this but you don’t care because it’s STILL A HORNED LARK! #birds #birdwatching

Updated the thumbnail for JURASSIC WARD, my new short film! If you haven't already, go watch the new comedy short film on my channel! I am immensely proud of it, I hope you all have as fun watching as I did making it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG2c...

Behold, a non-mammalian shovel-tusker: (Trunk-lipped Tritylodont concept for my Kerguelen spec-evo project) #specevo #creaturedesign #synapsid

Improving the world in a small way, removed about 100sq/ft of worthless lawn today and installed a native plant garden of 25 perennials (8 species, 4 are keystone) for birds/butterflies/pollinators, from the Ecoplantia roll out garden line. This connects to more native plants in my rain garden 😊

Last night’s flocking #Paleostream sketches, the large Eurasian hyena Pachycrocuta and the enigmatic, carnivorous afrothere Ptolemaia. I was only able to catch the tail end of the stream. #paleoart #sciart #prehistoric #mammals

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard of! It’s the only totally eyeless and cave-endemic parasitoid wasp, known exclusively from dead, mummified specimens (all other endemic insects from this cave are also very specialized and also all dead and mummified). #insects #entomology #australia

A little update to this: as of a brand new paper on Choerolophodont taxonomy, C. chioticus is now Parachoerodon chioticus (and potentially had a significant keratin spade on the tip of its jaw)! Also quickly sketched out the new Parachoerodon rhynchus. #paleoart #sciart #elephant #miocene

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.

Somewhere in Southeast Asia during the middle #Pleistocene, a pair of Yellow-throated martens harass the local Honey Badger (Mellivora indosinica) as it traverses the open savanna. This eastern species of honey badger is known from a single tooth from Vietnam, described recently. #paleoart #sciart

Lazy sunday sketching. Deinotherium and some funky bipedal apes in a watering hole somewhere in east africa #sciart

There’s a lot of awesome science posted here that gets painfully little attention, check this and similar accounts out if you’re looking for something to grow your brain! #science #mammalogy #wildlife #carnivores

The basilisk, called vanyu by Kaimerans of the Free-States, is a small therocephalian dragon found in much of the temperate range of the known world. Like their legendary namesake, they are rivals to mustelids that compete for the same small rodent prey. youtu.be/4cJgIga_Rz4

Ok, lets have a look at this: Over the last few days a new paper in Science has led to MANY discussions in the paleo community and it appears to have breached containment into the wider world, judging by headlines and google results.

A quick drawing of two Cretaceous giants, the cirrate octopus Nanaimoteuthis and the chimaera Edaphodon. Both are known from particularly fragmentary remains (the octopus especially so), so full body reconstructions and their exact dimensions are quite speculative. #paleoart #sciart #octopus #ocean

Quick doodles of Nanaimoteuthis, a genus of gigantic, durophagus Cirrate Octopus from the North Pacific during the Cretaceous. As all we have are huge beaks with significant wear, and extant species are deep-water filter feeders, all reconstructions are very speculative. #paleoart #sciart #octopus

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An interesting paper was published a few days ago, describing a single middle-Pleistocene carnassial tooth from the Tham Hai cave of northern Vietnam. It comes from a new species of Honey Badger, Mellivora indosinica! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #science #pleistocene #paleontology #mammals

Finished Paraentelodon skull sculpture. 1/6th scale print, sculpted in #Blender. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology (1/2)

Nearly a month later, still alive and walking around (first time seeing it since it entered the enclosure). Are there any other scorpion-keepers around here? #arachnid #invert #scorpion #terrarium

A sketch from tonight’s flocking-together #Paleostream, the Pliocene salamander Dynamognathus robertsoni! So happy that this little creature from Tennessee was finally chosen for a flocking, here depicted chomping on one of many contemporary shrew species. #paleoart #sciart #cenozoic #grayfossilsite

Observation and study

finally finished my Megamastax painting! started this one after the new material was described and let it simmer for a while

Quick facial-tissue study sketches of two long-faced proboscideans from the Miocene: Saegusaia wimani and Choerolophodon chioticus. Elephants are weird and I love them so dearly. #sciart #paleoart #cenozoic #elephants

Yes, *another* update of the motomazor, Kaimere's marine apex predator! The motomazor in the northern oceans episode was close. Very close, and they work fine as individual characters, but I wanted something a bit more streamlined for the profile representing typical specimens.

#PortfolioDay I go by Dynamo, and I am primarily a pencil-and-paper artist who likes drawing wildlife of all sorts, extant and extinct and fictional. I live and grew up in the deep southern U.S., and the beautiful ecosystems and animals of this region will always be my favorites. #paleoart #sciart

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

In a lush meadow in France during the late Pliocene, a very fortunate Eucyon adoxus has stumbled upon a nest of Palaeocryptonyx donnezani, an ancient partridge. As the hen flies away in a panic, the canine has a clutch of six eggs all to itself for breakfast. #sciart #paleoart #pliocene #cenozoic

Big Blue Whorl

More plant-posting, this time some Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) in a nearby state park. This shrub looks more or less like the evergreen-dicot-ever until it blooms, lining the riverbanks with contrasting pale pink and dark green colors. #nativeplants #botany #alabama #mountainlaurel

Found a lot more of it! #nativeplants #botany #littlebarley

African frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. 🐸🧊 A new study shows ancient forest refugia in Central Africa align with the modern diversity of frogs. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/afri... Study: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Lemuria will return this summer and something else with it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM8...

Last but now least, GFS (don't mind the salamander)!

Our #marchofthemammals2026 formation frenzy wrap up. As always, thanks to everyone who's stuck around for another March! #paleoart #sciart #fossilfriday

Tonight’s flocking #Paleostream sketches: the ichthyosaur Xiphodracon, the early Paleocene mammal Ectoconus, the mammaliamorph Morganucodon, and the Cambrian echinoderm Atlascystis (drawn life-size). #paleoart #sciart #mesozoic #cenozoic #paleozoic