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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

SO excited to FINALLY! see @bzaiken.bsky.social's work at the NY State Museum. It is GORGEOUS!! 🦣❤️ bethzaiken.com/new-york-sta...

Wall and corner of a museum in which a Pleistocene landscape, digitally painted by artist Beth Zaiken, brings woolly mammoths, caribou, musk oxen and tundra vividly to life.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#FossilFriday "A digital mural of an ice age landscape with extinct animals, produced for the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum." @bzaiken.bsky.social

A bird's-eye view of the landscape with lots of proboscideans and other animals walking toward a small river. The landscape is open, with some trees, and mountains in the distance.

From Beth Zaiken's website: This digital mural was produced as a lenticular graphic for the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum's new exhibit "Mammoth Discovery." The mural depicts a Pleistocene version (approx. 10,000 years ago) of the landscape that is now modern day downtown San Jose. (©Beth Zaiken)

A lenticular graphic shows two images at once, and shifts into just one or the other depending on where you are standing. The graphic switches from a photograph of downtown to the prehistoric landscape, like a hologram, it changes as you walk by.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

marta with dyzio the feathered dilophosaurus from 1997

A protoceratops family from the museum of evolution

Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki w Starachowicach

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

@extinctmonsters.bsky.social oh wow Ben thank you for tagging me, I would never have known 😂 it looks incredible 🔥🔥🔥

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Oh wow, finally installed!!! Looking absolutely EPIC 🤩

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The stupendous, monumental and awesome Mesozoic Art II is officially out in shops TOMORROW and we know that many people who've ordered one have already received their own copies. Here are thoughts on this amazing book ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/... #books #art #paleoart #palaeoart

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Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s — Tetrapod Zoology

Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art , edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bl...

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hey look—now y’all can follow my friend and fellow coin designer/nature illustrator @emilydamstra.com , she’s the bees knees! 🐝

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hey y’all should follow my friend @kevinbeaudin.bsky.social , an inspired painter of magical critters and fellow maker of prehistoric monsters!

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Always thought this was impressive af 👏👏👏

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

These are lovely, some remind me a bit of a roadrunner (an excellent bird of course)

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Oh yuck. Dodged a bullet there though, you deserve so much better 🫶

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A Tylosaurus chomping a smaller mosasaur (platecarpus) for Bluesky! 🥂

Tylosaurus grabs a smaller mosasaur, Platecarpus from the ocean surface

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I started my career as a traditional painter, and I used to hand-paint gigantic canvas murals (like this 58’x14’ one from 2015 (c) Blue Rhino Studio). These days I’ve transitioned to doing the same kind of work, only digitally.

Beth Zaiken paints a monumental mural featuring elk, bison and mammoths in a scenic river valley landscape

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Should probably remind folks I’m also an illustrator, you might see my work out in the wild on a cover like this recent one for Scientific American

Tyrannosaurus rex approaches a wary triceratops on a Cretaceous floodplain

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Oh RJ what have you gotten yourself into now 😆

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Throwback Thursday (are we still doing this?) to that time I was a Homotherium dentist....

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New sabretooth just dropped! Well, scimitar-toothed if we’re being serious

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Love the ‘alaska’ vibes in this one 🔥

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Reintroducing myself here—I’m a #PaleoArtist (illustrator of natural history), sculptor/fabricator and lead #muralist at Blue Rhino Studio. Here’s a popular pic of me doing a small part of the job—creating #dinosaurs! #quetzalcoatlus

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R_Slumber On Break @rodshark.one · 21/04/2024

Reminder to my artist friends that this awesome site exists. It lets you pick a species of animal, set the orientation of the skull, and then search for pictures of that animal that match the skull position. Also, consider tipping the creator if you found it useful! x6ud.github.io#/

A screenshot from the website https://x6ud.github.io/#/ showing a gallery of pictures of wolves all looking up, matching the direction of the skull that I set.

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Honestly don’t know where to be putting my energy these days. Posting new work feeds the AI beast, besides the algorithms seem to severely limit the reach when I do, compared to past results. Anyone out there have advice here? #art #artist

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

#FossilFriday Scientists sequenced Siberian #mammoth genomes from genetically healthy animals to those who were isolated on Wrangel Island before extinction. What they found has implications for endangered animals today. 🦣 (Art: @bzaiken.bsky.social) arstechnica.com/science/2024...

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DNA from mammoth remains reveals the history of the last surviving population

The mammoths of Wrangel Island purged a lot of harmful mutations before dying off.

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Beth Zaiken @bzaiken.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Well let’s try out this new establishment….hello! I’m Beth, a paleoartist, science illustrator, museum muralist, diorama creator, dinosaur builder, and hey I also design coins and medals for the US Mint. #paleoart #bluerhinostudio

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