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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The spectre of the Cretaceous depths, Nanaimoteuthis, preys upon a young elasmosaur that strayed too deep. Dazzled by bioluminescense and running out of air there's little hope of survival

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 15/03/2025

🐙 Sculpture vs Real 🐙 🌴 Caribbean Reef Octopus Edition ⭐ 📷 "Aurora" Sculpture 📷 Hunting Caribbean Reef Octopus photographed by Alessandro Dona.

A large Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture made by Sahasa. Posed as if moving.

A real Caribbean Reef Octopus, its web ballooning as it's hunting for food.

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 19/02/2025

Lighthouse Mimics (Farimendax carolinae) are pack hunters that evolved from deep-sea fish. When a ship passes by, a lone hunter uses its lighthouse-like lure to trick the crew into redirecting the boat, leading it to crash into shallow rocks. The stranded sailors become the pack's next meal.

A night photograph showing a calm, foggy sea as seen from a ship. It appears that, in the distance, a lighthouse is beaming with a strange green light. Two of the stars appear to be under the horizon line. Are those stars?

A small fishing boat has crashed into a rocky shore. Around it, three large black fish with glowing eyes thrash in a hunting frenzy. Each of them has a long stalk in their dorsal fins, ending in a glowing green lure. Between them, a single hand rises from the water, trying to grasp for help that is not coming.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Bait ball buffet ft. Hydrotherosaurus

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A fat pregnant baby has moved into my house.

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s l i m e ✨ (they/he) @slimefunction.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

the front cover of a zine i'm making about the perception & experiences of masculinity, "am i man enough for you?" this zine aims to explore how ppl identify their masculinity, and where the similarities lie between cis & trans individuals #art #transartist #collage #textart #zine

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My children have been brought into the physical plane

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 09/01/2025

Stillborn Venus

A shimmering oyster casts a faint glow in the dark. Within, a stillborn cow fetus lies in sleep, attached to the oyster through its umbilical cord.

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G. H. Paleoart @paleoart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

An adult Tyrannosaurus and her subadult hunting partner in the morning.

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G. H. Paleoart @paleoart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Edmontosaurus.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just realised I've now modelled the (estimated) largest extinct vertebrate and invertebrate. Maybe I should make a little fella next.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ichthyotitan severnensis - known from a huge partial surangular bone this Triassic ichthyosaur may have even exceeded the blue whale in length. #sciart #paleontology #blender #ichthyosaur

A 3d render of the giant ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan underwater

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A tylosaurus finally catches a breath after a long dive. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

A render of a tylosaurus emerging from the sea in a spray of water silhouetted by the sun

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Let's show off our blue art! Requote with 💙🖌️

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Proof of concept for an animation idea I have. The simulation definitely needs optimising if I want longer clips (took about 8 hours to bake) but render time was pretty forgiving.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Migrating Hydrotherosaurs will often breach during sunset. #blender #paleoart #dinosaurs #paleontology #plesiosaur s#sciart

A 3d render of hydrotherosaurs breaching, sillohueteed againtst the sunset

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

In 1977 the Japanese ship Zuiyo-maru caught a highly decomposed carcass first assumed to be that of a plesiosaur. Though quickly identified as a basking shark, a recently uncovered image from the small New Zealand fishing vessel Karetai dating to 1975 casts doubt on this theory.

An image of a plesiosaur like animal suspended from a crane on a boat, a fisherman looks on. 3d render made in blender.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

A bonded pair of Hydrotherosaurus patrol a seagrass meadow

Two Hydrotherosaurus swim across a sunlit meadow of seagrass

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Hydrotherosaurus basks in the moonlight of the Cretaceous summer

A Hydrotherosaurus (a genius of plesiosaur) swims belly up near the surface of the moonlit water.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

By the 1950's it was widely accepted that the giant squid (Architeuthis dux) was the origin behind the myth of the "Kraken". In 1956 this theory was challenged with the discovery of an enormous shelled carcass found beached upon the small Norwegian island of Flesa.

A black and white photo of a man standing on a beach and looking down at an enormous ammonite laid on a large tarpaulin.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Hello hello hello

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Wrapped up two major #paleoart projects this week, so for the rest of the year I'll be beavering away on my sixth book for a December deadline. There's a cryptic clue to the nature of that book in this image - and no, it's not the pterosaurs (Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, if anyone's wondering). #sciart 🧪

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

A "sea serpent" reportedly caught by a whaling vessel off the coast of Maine circa 1920.

An old photograph lying on a table. The photograph shows the mosasaur Tylosaurus suspended on a dock by its tail with its mouth propped open by a pole and a fisherman standing behind its front paddles.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

There's something in the trees The whole forest reeks

A grainy photograph showing a forest illuminated by a camera flash. Amongst the trees a large shadowy figure is visible with a large winged arm displaying long scythe like claws

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H. Pettijohn @punkpaleo.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Details + progress shots

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Gooooood mooooorning! I'm starting today with a fishy mural I painting for The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It's a Western Interior Seaway scene featuring Squalicorax (shark), Tusoteuthis (squid), an octopod (in the shark's mouth), and a school of Apsopelix fish.

A blue saltwater ocean scene, a shark swimming in from the top left with a small octopod in its mouth (the octopod's tentacles are around the shark's head and through the gills). The biggest animal in the mural is a giant squid, on the right, it is covered with bioluminescent blue dots. Hundreds of fish are swimming towards us, left, then up, and behind the shark.

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Callum Pursall @cpursall.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Parapuzosia seppenradensis is the biggest ammonite known, it's estimated to have weighed over a tonnne.

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