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holy SHIT please read the whole thread and many more of these images right here, this artist put together an updated Opabinia reconstruction where every single one of these minute details (except coloration, obviously) are fully sourced making this most likely the first depiction factoring in 100% of current knowledge about it. Even I didn’t know it had little feet like a velvet worm and could have walked around on them! I never knew exactly how the trunk is oriented or how many “teeth” it is! I especially didn’t know the mouth was that weird! And I kind of assumed this since it’s a lobopod and all, but the whole animal was soft and squishy except for the eyes and the teeth. It did not have armor plates or a jointed exoskeleton like a lot of people portray. This also means all five of the eyes would have been able to bend and look around independently! The eye structure in fossils also indicates that they would have PSEUDOPUPILS! That’s the pupil-like dot in the eyes of insects like mantises!

Another #paleostream sketch

I frequently critique alien designs in pop culture for being incredible unimaginative. One reason is that our own plants history has seem numerous clades come and go that put Hollywoods creativity to shame.

Here some Lyrarapax (a radiodont) attack a Yuyuanozoon, the largest known member of a clade called Vetulicolia

Just a few sexy promo photos of my new Tyrannosaurus rex coin design, from The Royal Mint, with the London Natural History Museum.

Diictodon, who survived the most brutal extinction event on Earth, is happy to see you made it to the other side of that year. Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

This is adorable and I love it 💖

oviraptor mom and her odd-looking but still very good son

Today's random portfolio artwork is "The Formidable Opportunists," from the book LOCKED IN TIME, ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR UNEARTHED IN 50 EXTRAORDINARY FOSSILS (written by Dr Dean Lomax). It features a group of Allosaurus feeding on a dead Camarasaurus, it is based on an amazing fossil site at the Wyoming Dinosaur Centre (USA).

MEGALOSAURUS 200th birthday

200 years ago, in February 1824 Megalosaurus was described, becoming the first official dinosaur in History

video including more examples of paleontological evolution here

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Model of a decomposing Tyrannosaurus rex at the Altmühltal Museum by Aart Walen. Bavarian Forest, Germany

POV: you went diving at night and spotted Ordovician nautiloids feasting on a eurypterid carcass, after a while the commotion has attracted the giants, slowly creeping into view

behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

Today's random portfolio artwork is "Wrong Place Wrong Time," which shows the moment of death for one of two Sauroposeidon. This was my first ever Zbrush sculpture illustration (2012).

EXTINCT STICKY NOTE FRIENDS MASTERPOST because I can’t find what I tagged all of these fellas with when I posted them the first time ;w;

The first of these go all the way back to 2020, when I started at my current office job and needed colors in my cubicle that weren’t just Greige (Grey-Beige); these were almost exclusively drawn from memory, and a lot of them are pretty doofy as a result. Others I took a bit of creative liberty on. Proportions and perspective tend to be weird on most of these… but they all still ended up holding a special place in my heart. ^w^

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A new pterosaur from the Solnhofen area dropped two days ago, immediately went into my portrait gallery :3

It's a really nice and completely specimen too

And I love the name, here the paper

[ Argentinosaurus, a giant sauropod, illustrated by Chase Stone. ]

"Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining their colossal sizes. They overshadowed all other dinosaurs, from the duck-billed hadrosaurs and the horned ceratopsians to the armored ankylosaurs and predatory tyrannosaurs. Even the mightiest land mammals—mammoths and rhinoceroslike beasts that were up to twice as heavy as the largest elephants alive today—were featherweights compared with the biggest sauropods. From an evolutionary perspective, this singularity makes sauropods an intriguing anomaly. Evolution is rampant with examples of convergence, in which the same feature evolves more than once independently in different groups of organisms. A classic example of convergence is powered flight—flapping wings evolved in birds, bats, pterosaurs and insects, but the particular bones or other structures making up the wings differ among the groups, attesting to their independent evolutionary origins. Convergence in evolution is very common even when it comes to complicated features: warm-bloodedness, eyes that can move and focus, bipedal locomotion, the loss of limbs, the use of tools, and live birth all evolved multiple times in different animal groups. Convergence is widespread in the plant kingdom as well: carnivorous plants evolved at least a dozen times, roots evolved more than once, and even arborescence—plants taking the form of trees—evolved more than once. With convergence so common in nature, sauropods' uniqueness in size is special in itself. No other land animal has approached even a third of the largest sauropods' weight. What makes sauropods stand out from the crowd, both literally and figuratively?"

Read more: "How Sauropod Dinosaurs Became the Biggest Land Animals Again and Again" by Michael D. D'Emic.

Today's random portfolio artwork is a life-size model of a small Arthropleura (40cm long – they grew to 250cm long), which I built for MUSE – the Science Museum of Trento, in 2014.

1823 flashback. Full video HERE

200 years ago, Mary Anning made one of her more important discoveries. She was even accused of being a scammer for it at first. This short animated video serves as a prologue for a larger project I’m currently working on

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This is incredible - I spent a lot of time looking at these ammonites for my dissertation many years ago, and this is bringing back memories 😅

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the ammonite, Kosmoceras.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's a modestly sized Meganeura, from the Carboniferous.

❤️ trigonotarbids

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged Palaeocharinus, from the Devonian.