So, this photo has been making the rounds lately. There’s many posts claiming it’s from many places, but the earliest I can find puts it in Big Creek, Mississippi. It’s not AI, and almost certainly a Leopard, so someone’s either good at photoshop or lost a pet. Additional info appreciated. #wildlife

A mammoth cow and bull browse quietly together, their silhouettes mingling with a herd of bison as the light around them fades. Scientific evidence suggests that mammoths used their massive tusks for social, defensive, and foraging behavior, much like modern day elephants!

Quick sketch of the face of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, a close cousin of living African Elephants that roamed across nearly all of Europe and parts of Asia during the Pleistocene. If not for human activity, it likely would have survived in much of its range to the modern day. #pleistocene #elephant

New @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social video with thumbnail art by yours truly ^^ youtu.be/CQvCzoOcQw8?...

A showcase of the oak savannas of Minnesota during the early Holocene, with emphasis on the herps. I drew this within four days to give to Ed and Emily of Snake Discovery, when they came down to the Atlanta reptile-expo in August. #holocene #paleoart #sciart #reptiles #amphibians #snakediscovery

The diminutive Thikarisuchus xenodentes (1/2 scale) wanders the forest floor at night. I'm glad the Blackleaf has another taxa and I'm so grateful to have helped in the process. There's more research from yours truly on this guy down the pipeline, so stay tuned! #sciart #crocodile #paleoart #clayart

Alderblattina simmsi riding a Baeria gracilis leaf through the air, cowboy style, in Toarcian Europe. A quick doodle of a fun concept, heavily based on beautiful illustrated diagrams made by @palaeojules.bsky.social. #paleoart #inverts #sciart #jurassic

Figured I had to draw it (still a work-in-progress)

Trying to work out some non-biotic aspects of my personal #spec-evo project, focusing on an alternative prehistory/history of the Kerguelen plateau. It’s in the early brainstorming stages, and I’ll likely be working on this for decades. #geology

Sexual dimorphism of Australopithecus afarensis is striking and yet the hominins before it (Ardipithecus) and after it (Homo) are virtually monomorphic in most skeletal dimensions. Social evolution id a hell of a drug!

Blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) is blooming now and butterflies couldn’t be happier! It lives in ditches where old homesites used to be. It mixes well with fall-blooming yellow plants but make sure you are ready for it to pass itself along to other parts of your yard! (1/2) #nativeplants

#SciArtSeptember 18 - Cenote Cenotes are sinkholes with unique fish faunas, found all over the world but especially common on the Yukatán Peninsula lining the Chicxulub crater, formed by the asteroid that ended the time of the dinosaurs. Big events still impact the world after millions of years.

A new update is coming this Friday, and among some cool changes, a few new skins will be coming as well! To start off, the most hard-headed herbivore is rolling out with a new look: “Scoria” Ancient Bison, a tier 2 skin priced at 500 tracks

The world may be a very scary and sad place right now, but I can still imagine and then draw bipedal, carnivorous Xenarthrans for my personal spec-evo project, so I will. #specevo #mammal #art

Forgot to post here as well! Oh boy, this was a tricky one, went quite a bit back and fourth on the composition, specifically the rocks/whales. In the end this sea grass meadow of Lemuria got it's rocks back but also retained some of the whales sleeping in the back.

The coasts of Lemuria are an ever busy interface between and and sea. The calls of penguins and parrot relatives fills the air while semi-aqautic whales and sirenians wabble on the beaches.

Herbivory is the most obvious - and blatantly ignored - solution to mitigate wildfire danger. It must be done right: Not overgrazed. Use multi pasture rotational systems, with varying herbivore species depending on conditions. Right animals, right place, right time. Let the land lead.

#SciArtSeptember 13 - Bottleneck We almost lost the last wild horses. At the end of the 1950s, there were only 12 Przewalski's horses left. After decades of conservation efforts, there are now a couple thousand horses living in zoos and conservation areas in several countries, from Spain to China.

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, researchers found sex-reversed birds in five native Australian species, challenging long-held assumptions about bird biology.

A family of extinct camels (Camelops hesternus) is relaxing in the tree lines of Pleistocene North America. Made for the Ice Age Fossil State Park, Nevada, Las Vegas Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper #paleoart #paleoillustration #camelillustration #naturalhistoryart #animaldrawing

On the plains of Nebraska, a Platycerabos flees from a charging Camelops. While C. hesternus is a fairly well-known former inhabitant of North America’s prairies, Platycerabos dodsoni is known from just one skull from Nebraska and is quite obscure. #pleistocene #sciart #paleoart #platycerabos

The second habitat we visit in Lemuria Phase 2 are the snail reefs, a community largely supported by colonies of vermetid snails and encrust over rocks all along the coast. Between the entwined shells and rigid tubes you can find a unique fauna from weird little sharks...

The first two pieces of Lemuria Phase II are done and here you get the coral reefs! An incredibly crowded mess of sessile and mobile critters trying to get by. One of my whales also sometimes visits here but since it's 11 m long I only show it's lower jaw/skull here...

The domestic Mabanwo bapu (commonly known by its English mondegreens “lobapu” and “lofafu”) is a breed of fowl-sized Alektoriid. Commonly kept for meat and eggs, it represents an ancient Columbimorph lineage endemic to Salotum, where it is seen everywhere from backyard gardens to industrial farms.

In 30 years, relentless poaching, fueled by the insatiable demand for ivory in east Asia, has plunged African forest elephant numbers by 86%, pushing them towards extinction. And without the elephants as seed dispersers, many trees and plants can't regenerate. share.google/3oqKiOtvq4tc...

Aegyptopithecus zeuxis #sciart

Comparison of Carcharocles angustidens (similar in size to C.auriculatus from the Eocene), Basilosaurus cetoides and Physeter macrocephalus. #sciart #paleoart

Finally back to posting paleoart so here are some ungulates: Aprixokogia kelloggi, Koristocetus pescei, Pachynolophus eulaliensis, and Pliolophus vulpiceps #sciart #paleoart

🔍 Join us at our Open House for a behind the scenes look at AUMNH! 📅 Wed. Sept 3 | 5:30–7 PM ✨ Explore our collections ✨ Meet the curators ✨ Discover Auburn’s biodiversity 📍 Auburn University Museum of Natural History 🎟️ Free + open to the public! #aumnh #auburnuniversity

A aum sits down on the steps of his apartment to take a smoke break away from his family. He looks across the street at a pair of teenage boys making a ruckus and scratches his neck in annoyance. He’s told them off a hundred times before in his mind, but they’re asking for another telling off…

For August’s #NearbyNature2025, I’ve drawn the American Grass Mantis (Thesprotia graminis). These are small, very slender mantises endemic to the southeastern U.S. They have a typical carnivorous diet for a mantis, but oddly can reproduce both sexually and by self-cloning. #sciart #wildlife #alabama

A Thylacoleo and Her Joey

The Hell Pig Episode is Here! A bit early because I forgot to set the time, but that works since I'm at camp and will be working at usual release and engagement hours. Thank you so much to my sponsor and art budget team! Hope you enjoy! Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7fd...

It’s been a few months since it was initially described, but here’s my informative/appreciation posts for Dynamognathus robertsoni, a very cool #Pliocene critter and my new personal mascot. 🧵 #grayfossilsite #paleoart #sciart #salamander #Dynamognathus #cenozoic

In our Shiny Bug Era 💖🪲🦋❤️‍🔥 #ts12 #theshinybugcollection #entomology #beetles #truebug #naturalhistory #aumnh

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20 million years ago, Moropus inhabited the forests of North America

Meet Promerycochoerus! This oreodont was a strange piglike creature, and was likely very social and engaged in intraspecific violence. More information on them coming soon!

Spec bird sketch made some months ago

Tonight’s flocking #Paleostream sketches, all pretty minimalist and abstract: Carcharodontosaurus, Austroraptor, Dreadnoughtus, and Razanandrongobe. #paleoart

Late Holocene, on a beach far south in the southern hemisphere, where a beaked whale carcass has attracted many scavengers. Quick doodle for my personal long-term spec-evo project, “what if the Kerguelen plateau never submerged and had cool critters on it”. #specevo

Some Kaishelan fabadonts:

Janjucetus dullardi, a fantastic, newly described mammalodontid mysticete from the oligocene of Australia! #paleoart #sciart

Bretzia pseudalces- deer from the early Pliocene of North America. Since pollen from trees of the genus Taxodium and evidence of seasonal accumulation of deer were found, I tried to depict one of these forests during the period of leaf fall.

Australopithecus anamensis #sciart

The houze prairie of central Ni’Khar is home to a great diversity of formidable creatures. Some familiar like leopards, others strange such as quilled ceratopsians and giant chalicotheres. Even demons haunt these grasslands. None are more feared than the na'hashet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlU...

Postschizotherium intermedium, a large Pliohyracids with a hippo-like head. For almost a hundred year, people can only learn about this animal through its skulls and teeth. With no any thing about the postcranial, it's very hard to accurately reconstruct the entire body shape. 1/