It might not be intentional but the murky, hazy atmosphere within the dioramas almost feels like a visual representation of trying to look through the depth of time to see the past. If so, it’s a brilliant approach to palaeoart that I’ve only seen a handful of other times.

More astounding innovative palaeoart by Chinese graduate students. This time dinosaur dioramas locked in epoxy, with Tyndall effect (小红书: 念崽不会画画) 📍CAA Grad Show, Zhejiang Art Museum

Follow the young women in palaeoart here: xhslink.com/m/3rJhG7i4DKh

Music that gets you doing a theropod style walk

Paleo person here: beaver tail bones actually have those broad flat bits that stick out, those are not normal for tail bones! Bone shapes actually show us how muscle and soft tissue attaches, hence why we know weight estimates for animals like T. rex! For researchers, deduction is very important!

Today’s four random pieces of palaeoart: Zdenek Burian’s Protoceratops, Brian Franczak’s Wuerhosaurus, Richard Orr’s Allosaurus, and Michael Berenstain’s Pterodactylus!

thank you for reading this thread! link to the paper is here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24836614/ have a happy April everyone! (4/4)

because various wing fossils in extremely detailed preservation allowed the team to reconstruct the sounds stridulation would have made! you can hear the reconstruction below: (3/4)

Hex hepta is an enisferan from China that clades at the base of Hagliodea, making it a very important step in our understanding of sound production in enisferans much like it's relative Archaboilus musicus, why you ask? well... (2/4)

I was given the honour of illustrating the press release art of the new basal enisferan: Hex hepta! described by 初音＆重音, (2026) (paper linked at the end of the 🧵) (1/4)

Well, I can deny it no longer I did a little work for Surviving Earth ;)

Now with a closer look at the concept art that I made ;) I am very happy and proud I could be part of the process and hope I can contribute a little more in the future in similar productions ^^

As the time to talk #SurvivingEarth nears, I wanted to say that I’m extremely proud to have been part of the amazing team who worked on it I was commissioned by Tim Haines (producer of Walking with Dinosaurs) and his team, to create the concept art for MANY animals for this project! #paleoart

You all know I had to do it. Here is my reconstruction of the newly described Spinosaurus mirabilis, including its magnificent scimitar-shaped head crest #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #spinosaurus

Progress goes swimmingly

Ok one more Valentine’s post! (Mainly because the salsa version of “Die with a Smile” has been glued to my brain from the superbowl lol). Perucetus & Dromornis. #paleoart

It’s apparently World Whale Day, so I introduce you to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise. Supposedly, it can click up to 200 times/second to find prey in murky waters. There are other species of finless porpoise in the same genus, but all are threatened.

Belated #valentinesday post but heres dragon couples and also some paleoart pieces from a while back Dragons: Syrax and Caraxes Vermithor and Silverwing Balerion, Meraxes and Vhagar Seasmoke and Tessarion Vermax and Moondancer Carolina parakeets Pair of Sinornithosaurus Pair of Pachycostasaurus

Been itching to refine these sketch ideas, started off with african wild dog and then i just kept going, i feel like a komodo dragon needs to be added too

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

Where's the blunt Joschua???

Protocera

Amargasaurus #paleoart

Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.

A pile of #lystrosaurus cuddled up in the underbrush!🧡🌿 #paleoart #TheDinosaurMann

New art is arrived ! A large Yutyrannus is being cleaned up by a group of Hongshanornis. A curious Gegepterus approaches. In the foreground, a Zhongjianosaurus seems interested in the small birds. #paleoart #SciArt #dinosaur #digitalart #yixian #china #feathered

I am running in the Palaeontological Association Council Elections, as an Early-Career Research Officer & Meetings Co-ordinator🏅If you are a member of the PalAss, and want me to be part of the council, maybe cast a vote or two? I'd love to fulfill the Early Career position 🤞

My cabbages! An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away. This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

Just when I thought it was safe to pee by myself at night

I can finally share this!!! a huge Thanks to both @skyemcdavid.com and @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social for allowing me to do a Nyctosaur for this poster!!!

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia. #Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.

Oh, that's so not the official #Framestore I tagged there, oops

I'm a bit late to the party with these, but here are the newly described Nanotyrannus lancensis and Nanotyrannus lethaeus, friend-shaped as ever! #nanotyrannus #paleoart #chibi #dinosaur

This exhibit is worse than I could have ever imagined. I actually had a really fun time discovering all the ways it could disappoint me! 😂

in honor of his heroic choice to help Cuomo go down in flames i vote we continue to allow Sliwa to wear his very funny beret

Some dragon sketches.

"An Effort to Release It" Available later today through Strangerfactory.com

lil crop of some birbs. A bunch of the illustrations were sketches, most of them not in color. But coloring this rougher stuff was actually pretty fun~ #birds #sciart #mojavedesert

Later in the day, I'll be streaming with @paleontologizing.bsky.social to explain and answer all your questions, so, you're welcome to join!

I want to thank all my amazing coauthors -especially my mentor Darren Tanke (who first hypothesized the mating hypothesis in 1989 -DARREN, WE DID IT!-), the many institutions that helped me, and the paleoartist Emiliano Troco for the illustrations!

there are MANY "but", "if", and biological implications. The paper is published in OPEN ACCESS so you can read and give me your thoughts 😀

After this evaluation, we realize that the mating hypothesis was the one explaining the pathological pattern at best. The mounting male presses on the female tail, causing the vertebral lesions on top of the spine.

Knowing where we were going, we had to be sure. Or, at least, we had to consider EVERY OTHER SCENARIOS to explain what really looked like something related to sexual activity: predation, locomotion stress, strange and particular behavior, herd stepping... all of them were missing soemthing.

This is the condition for the tails we could check, we also have many other vertebrae in the dataset

Apsolutly fascinating paper. Very intresting ecological and behavioural implications for Hadrosaurids as a whole given this seems to be something seen in both Saurolophins and Lambeosaurins. Congrats on Dr Filippo et al. Also the paper inspired me.

Via Finite Element nalysis, we discover that the spines were stressed by a heavy load coming from above, vertical-to-oblique (around 30-60° degrees). Combine the fact that in that region there is the cloaca, plus the fact that, in articulated tails, the lesions were spread along many vertebrae...

For ABSOLUTELY NO REASONS AT ALL, here the two replica skeletons of the Russian lambeosaurines Olorotitan and Amurosaurus at the Institute of Narural Sciences of Brussels for #fossilfriday … hehehehe 😏👀🦕

Happy #hadroween everyone! Here's two #Olorotitan fighting for dominance.