Today’s four random pieces of palaeoart: John Sibbick’s Tyrannosaurus and Edmontosaurus, Bernard Long’s Tanystropheus, @tessasaurus.bsky.social’s Allosaurus, and Brian Engh’s Megalonyx!

I stopped using term "palaeoartist" to describe myself because it annoyed some white guys in the community who insisted palaeoart cannot be stylized I won two palaeoart prizes in a row, awarded by the oldest palaeontological society in the world🏅 ✨Don't listen to gatekeepers✨

Cheryl🦖

In the blistering heat of the dry season, a desperate ceratosaurus goes for prey it is unlikely to survive. #SciArt #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Blender #Art

I applied for both a grant and PhD program, and got zero emails from EITHER of them. Not rejection or acceptance emails, just nothing. Wtf is going on.

Harrowing knowing someone has been found guilty, with evidence, of serial harassment and professional misconduct to own students (of minority status). And faced no consequences, just a raise, new position abroad, and a Nature paper. Academia and palaeontology are a hotbed of lawless misconduct.

Sauropod and whale paleontologists battling to see which giants would win. I’m rooting for @tessasaurus.bsky.social but I’m dinosaur biased, sorry Piero

Behold Allosaurus, the great drifferent lizard for Morrison Uncovered! By far the most common large predator of the Morrison, this dominant theropod was only challenged in size by the rare torvosaurus. #SciArt #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Lowpoly

Day 1 of dino road trip: Carnegie 🦕

what is this? some sort of... 'time of the titans'? (individual animals in the thread below) a tribute to the late Ben Bartlett #WalkingWithBenBartlett

Women in Palaeo - Part 2 On Feb 11th, we talked about the current state of women in palaeontology. This session is now online, featuring @amandalocaris.bsky.social, @tessasaurus.bsky.social, @ppaleoartist.bsky.social, Natalie Lawrence, and @women-archeopal.bsky.social.

Call for help: If anyone has prior experience for vending at conventions in the UK as a non-UK-resident or citizen, could you please reach out? I am currently trying to brave the UK government webpages to figure out how to legally stay within what's sensible for me as a business to vend at DinoCon!

Usually when talking about misogyny in palaeontology, it's women that speak about own experience, guys stay silent. Reverse is needed. So, cis guys in palaeo. What do you do when you see (numerous and obvious) breaches of professional conduct from your colleagues, in field, conferences or private?

Our new 3D printed Abydosaurus skull for the mini museum. We recently realized Abydosaurus is EXTREMELY close to our local Astrodon and is therefore the best analog right now. 🦕

I knew using ChatGPT was bad for ones brain but this is REALLY FREAKIN' BAD. Wow. Added alt text:

Tom Fletcher will be hosting a talk at #DinoConUK 2026 about his experiences in moving from academia to film making. Tom's research focussed on fossil shark hydrodynamics. Tom now works at Silverback Films, a natural history filmmaking company in Bristol.

sketch

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.

Been wild to see that horrid word come roaring back. Just stop using it; its trashy. Has no place in Leftist circles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUbu...

New paper out now! Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

What the fuck do you mean the earliest possible evidence of feathers in dinosaurs comes from the east coast

negotiation

"there are good uses for gAI--" I don't care. the damage already done is so significant and obscene that I need the tech banned outright and use cases to be proved/vetted before implementation like we do with UBI, which is to say never but it'll be because gAI doesn't actually work while UBI does

A juvenile Diplodocus is slipping out post-bedtime for a late #FossilFriday post. Like other Mesozoic dinosaurs, young diplodocids were proportioned differently than adults, bearing shorter necks, faces and tails. The mottled skin pattern is based on (very tentative) palaeocolour data. #paleoart

Dean Lomax will be hosting a talk on his book, The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs, at #DinoConUK 2026. Dean is an acclaimed palaeontologist, author, a leading authority on ichthyosaurs, and TV presenter affiliated with the University of Manchester and the University of Bristol.

Homotherium beloved

What's a paleontology topic you wish people talked about more?

guess who's going home at last 🎉 #IrritatorBelongstoBR #DecoloniseScience

#tadc now showtime flavored. belly rubs for the great chaos god.

I met Sue the T. rex in real life 🥹

The permanent exhibit got its bimonthly update with lots of new artwork! 🖼️ With an online event today (April 17th) at 4pm UTC with Show&Tell + online presentation by Blandine Hautier and Ronja Sonnenschein Gallery: extinctfineart.com/view-gallery/ Event infos: extinctfineart.com/online-events/

New comm sheet. DM if interested!

Commission for @tyrannonerd.bsky.social

Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences & the University of Warsaw invite participats for paleontological excavations, in July-August. Accommodation and meals are provided. The digs uncover Triassic vertebrates in Polish Silesia. Details in thread 🧵

here's what we sketched during this week's #Paleostream flocking: Brachiosaurus, Centrosaurus, Rauisuchus, and Muttaburrasaurus #AusPalaeo

Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.

Searing.

Hahaha I was wondering when folks would pick up on this! This is my favourite critter from the series, and I got to write and direct a short film about how we brought it to life! Very excited for people to see the series later this year.

The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 — over 200 years ago — and it's been underfunded ever since. At a time like this when NSF budgets are being slashed and the museum is receiving little institutional support from Drexel, we deeply appreciate you spreading the word: c.org/Rkpyfx9HRN

Studying pinniped anatomy (using Titanotaria) #sciart #paleoart

Study of Homo erectus, based in approximation off of some of the Dmanisi skulls. #sciart #paleoart

Prancy horse dragon thing (next sticker)

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

Oh, hello Dakota 👋

Packing for my trip to North Dakota!

I've got this big pal finished! They're a half-size, pose-able Protoceratops! They have a plastic armature throughout their body allowing a range of poses, surrounded by polyester stuffing which means they're still squishy! For sale over on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/12-pose...

They're very fun and expressive to pose!

Showing off my poster for ASAB - Spring

Jaw dropping fossil integument news: this new Iguanodontian was rather improbably covered in porcupine-like spines and this Permian trace fossil captures the earliest known cloaca