My attempt at designing my own australovenator that I forgor to post from awhile ago.

Giraffatitan Xenomorph #sketch-a-day #art #ink #xenovember #xenomorph #dinosaur #giraffatitan #PaleoArt #CreatureDesign #CreatureArt

Getting all around good news today 😁

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Manuscript accepted with minor revisions!!🥳

Small Tyrant

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

Had the pleasure of working on the press release image for this groundbreaking research!

New dates on fossils from New Mexico reveal a community of dinosaurs that were thriving right before the asteroid strike, including 80-foot-long, 30-ton giants like Alamosaurus. I’ll tell you more in my latest for NatGeo. 🧪

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youtu.be/KSKrdG1CZ40?... Hello! For those who haven't seen yet, I've uploaded a video about how I made a 3D torvosaur model!

Huge congrats to my colleagues for getting the sauropod volume funded!! BUT they have just 3 more days to reach their stretch goal to fund paleoart!! 146$ is all they need. This volume will likely describe several new species so paleoart is a big must! experiment.com/projects/rea...

I’m opening paleoart commissions for detailed pieces! Dm me for a quote.

Camarasaurus 🌲🦕

Camarasaurus sketch

Refining my digital sculpting skills with a sauropod! Camarasaurus sp. Thank you @tessasaurus.bsky.social for your help with integument possibilities!

Galeamopus 🦕

Dramatic Dryptosaurs 🦖

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More rough sketches: this time some wee sauropodlets #paleoart

the fun part about making your own models is that you get to play around with them heheh

Check out this awesome video that Tom Fishenden captured for us of DinoCon 2025! It was an absolute blast and we will see you all again in 2026! (updates still to come!) To find more of Tom’s work, see the links in the comments.

Shoutout to certain dinocon ppl for getting me to appreciate (and perhaps become mildly obsessed with) sauropods. Like, what the hell. What cool, weirdass giant critters they were! "Extreme engineering" on another level for real

#DinoConUK @tessasaurus.bsky.social: On the skin of Diplodocus

More on work on sauropod skin by @tessasaurus.bsky.social 🦕 arstechnica.com/science/2022...

EVERYONE SHUT UP TREMORS IS ON YOUTUBE FOR FREE youtu.be/GHB9pqO5tCs?...

Love was literally in the strata this past weekend! 💍🦕 One couple unearthed something extra special with a surprise proposal in the quarry, while an epic bachelorette party brought the celebration to the museum halls. EFM is so lucky to be part of moments that make both history and memories.

Not counting today, FOUR DAYS until #DinoConUK. Tickets will be on sale for one or two more days for what's guaranteed to be the UK's - almost certainly Europe's - largest dinosaur-themed event since the end of the Cretaceous. Info: www.dinocon.co.uk

This time next week, #DinoConUK will be in full swing. Be sure to follow (and use) the # if you want to keep up with developments. We will encourage people to share news on social media throughout the event. See you there :)

Cave lion turnaround

my hands hurt

Caihong (idk what those plants are don't come for me) #paleoart #sciart

What are they talking about it?

that thing they say about Teto fans is true btw, we're all mentally ill i call this piece: "Vile Ripe Plant Ovary Meets Her Doom to a Kaatedocus" - 2025 #teto #tetokasane #paleoart #dinoart #dinosaurart

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life #paleoart

New paper day! Phil Bell led a great study on some *INSANELY COOL* titanosaur tracks our expedition found in Mongolia. The scales in particular are extra awesome - they're like little pyramids, and they *may* have helped with scratch digging and/or walking on sandy surfaces!

Has threatening your experiments ever worked? #science #academiccomic #phdlife

🦕DinoCon is happening this time NEXT MONTH!!! Get your tickets now and don't miss out on our first year!🦖

reject modernity, return to rugose rex 🦖

I don't think I ever shared the fully edited breakdown reel of my T. rex model. I've changed the texture maps a bit since compiling this (dirt pass and proper roughness maps), but I don't really feel like re-rendering the whole walk cycle again, especially not in this heat...

I met a celebrity today. Haddy the Hadrosaurus, in Haddonfield NJ

At one point the Nazis announced over the radio that when they caught her they were going to rend her into 309 pieces and she got all excited that they knew "her score"

Sewell NJ, 72 million years ago gift for a coworker featuring Mosasaurus Hoffmannii and Enchodus

Do you ever stop and think about how there used to be pterosaurs? A fun new study shows that pterosaurs used to eat plants (they'd been expected to be carnivores) & like modern birds, they had stones in their gullets called gastroliths that help break down plants 🧪 @science.org

Exciting new research out today in Nature on the evolution of theropod wrist bones by Skeleton Crewmembers James & Alex!! Tune in to our livestream at 8pm et TONIGHT to learn more as we play a topically relevant board game (Wingspan) together! Art by Henry Sharpe; link to paper in the next post.

A reminder that I will be presenting at @dinoconuk.bsky.social on August 16th. I'll be exploring the scaley, diverse textures of Diplodocus and kin, and also touch upon the science behind fossil color patterning 🌈🦕

Final(?) layout

Another example on how sauropod scales would have been more visible than we think is the lovely Astrodon mount at @thefossilpark.bsky.social. The scales here are 1-2cm wide, smaller than the 3-5cm polygonal scales we know sauropods had, and yet they're surprisingly visible. A very short 🧵1/ ?