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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“The ill mammoth” cave painting

Imitation style cave art of a slimming elderly mammoth with a limping front limb and broken tusk

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Oh, to be enjoying the warm waters of the WIS. #SciArt #artbyjulio

A top down view of shallow, clear and cyan-tinted water with some dark rocks along the seafloor. Three Hesperornis, aquatic birds, are in the water, one floating on the surface and two others submerged, moving towards a school of fish. A mostly white Geosternbergia, a pterosaur, flies overhead looking down.

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Cells: What you're made of A collage featuring 16 different types of human cellular tissue as seen under a microscope. A look into the most essential parts of human anatomy simplified.

Left to right, top to bottom:
Nerve cells
Red and white blood cells
Simple cuboidal epithelial cells
Cardiac muscle cells
Skeletal muscle cells
Bone cells
Stratified squamous epithelial cells
Reticular epithelial cells
Smooth muscle cells
Columnar epithelial cells
Lymphatic cells
Fat cells
Dense irregular connective tissue
Areolar connective tissue
Fibrocartilage
Keratinized stratified squamous epithelial cells

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Did I make a whale fall coffee cake for my Oceanography final? Yes, yes I did. The taffy bones did start melting, need a better material next time.

Pink candy in the shape of a whale skeleton with gummy octopuses and other sweets.

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Dakosaurus #Alt4Me

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

While Dinamation did make a handful of cenzoic models, I think the spikes seen in this clip are from their Stegosaurus animatronic

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I really like these twilight years of quetzalcoatlus depictions when the most certain thing anybody knew about it was that it had a long wingspan and a fairly long neck.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

SPPOOOSSSHHH... PHHHFFFFFFF... SSSSSSHHHHHHHH... To paraphrase Bob Ross, you have to make the noises when looking at #paleoart, otherwise it doesn't work. 2018 illustration of giant Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, surfacing in waters that once covered Nevada. #art #fossil #paleontology #sciart

Three giant ichthyosaurs emerge from the water in front of a hazy, cloudy sky. The left animal has the arms of a large squid emerging from its mouth, and the right has surfaced far enough to show its front left flopper. The central animal looms above us, eclipsing the sun with its enormous snout. Two pterosaurs fly past the closest specimen, dwarfed by the emergent swimmer like pigeons circling a cathedral spire.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Some wax models of Cretaceous cephalopods for your enjoyment.

Life reconstruction of a disc-shaped ammonite (Placenticeras) with a straight-shelled ammonite (Baculites) in the foreground. These models are in a display case with text and figures apparent in the background.

Life reconstruction of an ammonite with a corkscrew-shaped shell with spines (Didymoceras) in a display case. Some text is visible in the background.

Life reconstruction of a squid-like cephalopod called a belemnite in a display case. Some text is visible in the background.

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's worth noting that since this photo was taken, the skull on the Allosaurus mount has actually been changed to a cast of DINO 2560. Apparently the original skull cast was beginning to slide off the mount (and was lacking in a lot of detail) so it was replaced in Spring of 2016.

Updated Allosaurus skull at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Calling all Paleoartists! I am assembling a team to reignite a paleoart collab I started years ago. Allow me to reintroduce the Prehistoric Journey Art Collab! A collaborative mural featuring over 100 unique prehistoric animals to choose from. More details below! (1/4)

The Prehistoric Journey Art Collab Re-Prepared!

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/12/2025

Fresh Bacteria in watercolor #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4430...

6 different bacteria images in a watercolor grid

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I would love to know why it was worse than imagined. I know what makes a good exhibit good, so I wanna know what makes a bad exhibit REALLY bad

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I’ll be honest, I was expecting at least one in this comment thread

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Do they have Krusty Neon-colored semi-viscous margarine product?

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

There is a building that looks suspiciously similar to this on the college campus I work at.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!

Corner display with a verdant mural of dinosaurs and other creatures in a swamp, over four cases with small fossils.

View of right side of mural, with resting T. rex in the center.

View of left side of the mural, with Pachycephalosaurus among some cypress

Big T. rex skeleton on platform, mural visible in the far distance

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

What the hell, these guys aren’t giants, they’re regular sized!

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It's been a while since my current stuff but way back in high school, I made a puppet of G2-9T from Star Tours.

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Listen to/Living with The Land gets a free pass for having an actual greenhouse (same with the Living Seas pavilion’s aquarium) and so the science was literally alive. Universe of Energy got a facelift in the 90s but the science discussed within was pretty similar in both

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I would lose my ever loving mind if somebody made a hybrid paleontology/health science exhibit that emphasized physiology and histology of fossils. (And if it already exists please, someone send me a video)

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It’s also worth mentioning that the original design philosophy of classic Epcot was to “inform, entertain, and inspire” all at once. Not to say that there aren’t exhibits that do all of those things though, plenty do

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Very few of the Epcot exhibits really emphasized up to date science, which is why they’re better off being considered separate from a museum type exhibit. Some of them, like Frontiers of Medicine in Wonders of Life were updated regularly but then closed when the pavilion lost its sponsor

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It feels like what would happen if somebody tried to modify an Epcot Pavilion by removing the rides and adding some fossils and extra interactive displays. (which would still be a cool experience tbh)

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

While I must admit that while LOT is severely lacking in comparison to other exhibits from its time like Prehistoric Journey or Deep Time, it looks so aesthetically pleasing. It feels like an explosion of Utopian Scholastic aesthetics (which also didn't survive past 2004)

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

A carnival-like exhibit entrance with a dinosaur skull, coelacanth model, and pantodont skeleton in cases under freak show-style banners labeling them as "Mesozoic terror" and "the fish that wouldn't die'

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

When I was A young boy My father Took me into the city To see a Rockies game

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

You should bring back the walk through thread you had back on twt. It was cool seeing those photos.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Delighted to have found an actual floorplan of Life Over Time this morning!

Slightly crooked photocopy of a map of a museum exhibit. U-shaped space runs from Understanding Evolution #1: time through galleries on various periods of deep time.

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Burger King was knocking it out of the PARK from 1999 to 2001

Burger King Pokemon promo with 57 unique toys

Burger King Lord of The Rings promo with 19 figures that formed a huge disc AND 4 collectable glass goblets

Burger King Walking with Dinosaurs promo with 5 buildable fossil skeleton figures

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Sure thing! I'll message you and send you the info.

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

So if you're interested, either leave a comment on this post saying you are, or send me a direct message. Then, I will send you a copy of the information sheet with rules and available slots so we can get you signed up! (4/4)

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Best of all, there is a wide variety of prehistoric fauna to choose from. Don't care for drawing dinosaurs? No problem! This collab, much like the exhibit it's based on aims to show a sampling of a little bit of everything during life on earth. (3/4)

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The idea of this collab is to artistically re-imagine fossil mounts and displays seen in the fossil collections of one of my all time favorite museums. The more styles, the better (2/4)

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I had one extra tooth than normal, making me a different different species

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I've noticed that in almost every photo set of the Sue travelling exhibit, there's at least one shot from Denver. I guess it must have been really popular there!

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"If I don't say anything hopefully they won't notice I'm just convergently similar"

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Edam is the same cheese Babybels are made of, so these are essentially Babybel flavored chips

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Between the Shelbyville Lemon, The Dud, Liver and Onions, and now Strawberries we need more contagious simpson faces in memes

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crazy8wizard @crazy8wizard.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Xiphactinus exploded inside its gut like a bomb

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Tony’s Macaroni (1999-2000): Little macaroni shaped like the "HBO" logo, in a box covered with images of the cast of "The Sopranos". It was released as a promotional item to the media and collectible outlets for the series premiere

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