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Carl-August W.

@basaltweaver.bsky.social
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Basalt Weaver aka Paleo Edits. Earth-science artist & fan-editor. All my links: linktr.ee/carlaugustw

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Klimatgranskaren @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026
MISSA INTE Klimatgranskatens unika rankning: Miljöpartiet får klart högst betyg när Klimatgranskarens unika partiranking nu släpps. Den baserar sig på den samlade miljörörelsens olika granskningar. Sist på listan hamnar Moderaterna (!).
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UNIK RANKING: Så bra är partierna på klimat och miljö
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
PBS Eons made a insta post showcasing my work on their series "Life and Death on Pangea" :) #sciart www.instagram.com/p/DcypJWfG4d9
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Added to this, I think you can visually identify animals or locations quickly with onscreen text, and it's sort of odd to me that modern paleo docudramas don't employ this technique. (This fan-edit of Prehistoric Planet does, and it works really well!)
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Ice Age Eurasia | Fan-Edit | No Narration
YouTube video by Paleo Edits
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Remember to tune into the first episode of "Eons: Life and Death on Pangea" today! #paleoart #science www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8m...
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How the Formation of Pangea Changed the World | Eons: Life and Death on Pangea
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
#PaleoAgainstAI The amount of anatomical, environmental & artistic knowledge one has to gain to reconstruct past worlds is staggering. It's a responsibility to share the knowledge w/ the respect it deserves. And unlike AI, we put great efforts to not misinform the public. PS. see Alt #sciart #art
Daohugou biota from Tiaojishan Formation, featuring an anurognathid Jeholopterus flying through a forest, surrounded by mayflies, and a fat salamander - Pangerpeton. A Volaticotherium is sitting on a branch in the background.A stylised illustration portraying an agitated Velociraptor in two versions: feathered and feathers removed. It aims to show how birdlike they were under the integument.A stylised drawing of Pterodaustro. The pterosaur is portrayed in shallow water (where it likely fed in using hundreds of teeth to filter food items), with hands positioned outwards as suggested by pterodactyloids footprints. The wing membranes of pterosaurs had sophisticated anatomy and are shown contracted. The fluff on the tail hints to the viewer that the animal was covered with pycnofiber. The Pterodaustro colours are inspired by flamingos, modern animals of similar feeding behaviour which take their pigments from their food.
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Key-art of BBC Earth's "Mammals" series from 2024, but it's with a more ancient Synapsid. #paleoart Dimetrodon model by Bill Nguyen
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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One episode into #EvolutionWithChrisPackham , and there's already no doubt about the final score. 10/10. I REPEAT. 1 0 / 1 0 . ONE OF THE PINNACLES OF MODERN PALEO DOCUS. AN UTTER AND ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH OF EDUCATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, INFO-RICH STORYTELLING that never ever sees the audience as idiots.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Heard rumors about this project long ago, and glad to see it coming out. Focusing on the science over reconstructing past environments, @pbseons.bsky.social has a full-length TV documentary series coming out: www.popsci.com/science/pbs-...
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Watch an exclusive clip from new PBS series 'EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA'
The six-episode series brings The Great Dying to life.
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Complexly @complexly.org · 18/06/2026
🦖🌋👀 www.popsci.com/science/pbs-...
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Watch an exclusive clip from new PBS series 'EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA'
The six-episode series brings The Great Dying to life.
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Two of my paleo globes featured in Melodysheep's latest video! #sciart #paleoart www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQV...
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Tonight on #SurvivingEarth, we'll be weaving basalt ... Just sayin'
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Prehistorica (Christian M.) @prehistorica.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A pair of Oreinorema bergstroemi, a small species of highly derived radiodont from the Chengjiang Biota of Cambrian China, examine the defences of the armoured lobopodian Onychodictyon ferox.
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Nautical map experiment, of the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian - "the MOST dangerous sea ever". Might update it later on. Geography largely based on Schueth 2025 (+some PBDB data points), Cao 2024 plate tectonics model. #sciart #paleoart #geology #maps #mosasaurs
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Map of the now submerged ice age world of Doggerland. Shoreline extrapolated from bathymetry data to sealevels 15,000 years ago - glacial rebound taken into account. #gis #maps #sciart #geology
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ice Age World Map - paleolithic variant? #sciart #geology #maps view in better quality: basaltweaver.myportfolio.com/lgm
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ice Age World Map (WIP?) #sciart #geology #maps
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
#SurvivingEarth watch guide
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Slightly stylized ice age Earth render (LGM, of course) #sciart
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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A sudden, heart-rending and tragic loss... Rest in peace, Ben Bartlett, greatest and most beloved of all paleo docu soundtrack composers. You painted for us a glorious vision of lost worlds with unforgettable music, music that shall always echo in our hearts... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HArX...
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Giant of the Skies
YouTube video by Ben Bartlett - Topic
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Another commission I did for PBS Eons, here Gondwanaland during the Cambrian. #sciart #geology www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDv...
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When the Earth Had Supermountains
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#Artemis II but it's the Ordovician period, 465 million years ago. #blender #sciart www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
From #Apollo (left) to #Artemis (right), two glances at our only home, 54 years apart. One was our Blue Marble — full and vibrant. The other seems like a tiny, solitary jewel in the black cosmic ocean. Yet it’s always the same #Earth. The same heartbeat. That’s us… in both.❤️ 🔭 🧪
This is Earth as photographed by the Apollo 17 crew on December 7, 1972. The whole planet pretty much fills the picture — you see the deep blue oceans, those swirling white clouds, and Africa standing out as this big brown landmass right from the center to the upper left. It’s the famous Blue Marble shot. Credit: NASAFull view of Earth from the Orion spacecraft during Artemis II. Pale blue planet with white clouds, Africa visible on the left with the Iberian Peninsula twinkling with city lights along the curved edge. A soft green aurora glows near the top right. Taken against the blackness of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨 Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher! paper below:
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Result from the Joggins Formation #paleostream! This Canadian site is an absolute classic and even if you are not familiar with its name you probably know at least one of its major players...
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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The shot from last video I posted… Beautiful light moment in Antarctica with the red sails 🔥🔥 #photography
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge edit + pleistocene globe at the end of the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vX...
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Ice Age Americas // Prehistoric Planet edit
YouTube video by Paleo Edits
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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Good morning! Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm. #OceanDevotion
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Komodo Dad @komododad.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Capping off the year with yet another prehistoric map: Australia during the Pleistocene ice age, an ancient land of bizarre Megafauna, as seen in the most recent season of Prehistoric Planet. See you all in 2026, happy new year! : ) #Maps #Geology #Sci-art #sciart #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #GIS
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
de-modernizing the modern
wip, ice age repaint of NASA's [public domain] blue marble composite
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Where volcanoes rule. The Karro-Ferrar large igneous province, in the Early Jurassic. #geology #sciart #paleoart #blender #space
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Plienbachian variant of the western Tethys region (mostly Europe)
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Early Jurassic - planet reconstruction (184 - 183 MYA) Another full world project that has been in the background for several months! See high-res images on my portfolio site below basaltweaver.myportfolio.com/jurassic Otherwise, here's a thread #sciart #paleoart #GIS #mapmaking #maps #geology
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
#sciart
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Made a couple of Earth shots for the latest PBS eons video, including the still in the thumbnail here. Represents Greenland 2 million years ago. There is a bigger Eons project which I was more heavily involved with, set to come out next spring, I believe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVP...
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How Frozen DNA Revealed a Lost World
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
New mashup for my paleo-media followers! #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J2g...
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Walking With Beasts INTRO with Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
YouTube video by Paleo Edits
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Render of the frozen north of this prehistoric planet (not Pleistocene)
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
WIP something something Tethys ocean
Flying over the Tethys ocean, at some point in the Mesozoic...
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Help saving the geology department of Leicester! Sign if you can! www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
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Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
First time I've had one of my illustrations in a publication 👀 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
slowly grinding forward #mapmaking
Paleo mapmaking
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Map of Europe during the most recent Ice Age (the last glacial maximum) - 20,000 years ago. Made with ArcGIS, Photoshop, Illustrator & Blender. Raw image is roughly 12K in size. #geology #paleoart #sciart #GIS #maps ( #PrehistoricPlanet !!whoo)
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
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Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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rickraptor105.bsky.social @rickraptor105.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#Nanotyrannus #BackInHell
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#BackInHell
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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
WE ARE...EXACTLY ONE MONTH (30 DAYS) AWAY FROM #PrehistoricPlanet S03...
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Return of the king #PrehistoricPlanet www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i0R...
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Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 First Look | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
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