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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

@btobirds.bsky.social I saw these two wheatear near me (south Gloucestershire). Looks like a male and female. I saw today that there's no record of breeding anywhere near where I am. Worth investigating?

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus An animal difficult to do justice with an illustration.

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ferrutxoart.bsky.social @ferrutxoart.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A Supersaurus' walk through a flooded plain is interrupted by three Allosaurus. The theropods are passing through, an adult Supersaurus is a prey that carries too many risks, but for a moment, They look at each other briefly before everyone goes their respective ways #Paleoart

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#Nothronychus graffami. This is one of the skeletals I did a while back for the old book project of mine. Here it is for you to enjoy! #Paleoart #Paleontology

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Sick World Channeled my inner Wayne Barlowe for this one. #SciArt #paleoart #artbyjulio

An Inostrancevia (large gorgonopsid, early mammal relative) walks by a desolate landscape with smoke coming out of the ground and a red sun in the sky.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A fairly complete #Hypsilophodon specimen collected in 1996. Mentioned in Coram (2017)... does anyone have any more information on this specimen? #palaeontology #paleontology

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

All the dragons from the HTTYD stream. Detailed images below... 🧵 #paleostream #specevo #creaturedesign #sketches

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Eotyrannus lengi skeletal diagram revisited. And a (short) blopost to go along with it too: www.thecodontia.com/blog/reotyra...

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Only a few bones left to add! I'd like to do a #Eotyrannus blog spot to showcase how I reconstructed this fellow, and how it differs from my original one.

Eotyrannus (nearly) complete skeletal diagram

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

More progress on the #Re-otyrannus #Eotyrannus skeletal "update", going smoothly in between work and other projects.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Having a re-look at #Eotyrannus for a big project of mine. I think I've found a way to get rid of that awful long torso that I originally reconstructed way back for the Eotyrannus monograph.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Dealing with death threats from the right while a huge part of your job is defending yourself from your own audience is real bad. Only a pretty thin slice of humanity can handle both of those things at once.

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Gorgomoloch @gorgomoloch.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Styracosaurus, the coloration is primarily based on sable antelope.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 23/10/2024

Just putting this out here since people are still putting anime girls for scale on otherwise accurate skeletals.

We recommend humanoid silhouettes used
for scale have realistic human proportions
(i.e. avoid fictional characters with unrealistic
proportions) and indicate the height of the
human referenced.

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Hatzegopteryx

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Cam Clow @camthecowboyman.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

A gallop cycle of Bos bison antiquus (otherwise known as the Ancient Bison) for the game, Ecos: La Brea on Roblox. 🦣 @ecosroblox.bsky.social 🦬 ecoslabrea.wixsite.com/ecos--la-brea

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Wobbly Works @wobblyworks.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Dusted off my old Microraptor rig for a nice little hour-long animation practice

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Heavily editing a scan of an emperor scorpion to the proportions of #Pulmonoscorpius, the 50 cm long land scorpion from the #Carboniferous of Scotland

Pulmonoscorpius model from the top and side

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Can anyone please create a starter pack for #Palaeontologists on this site? I would like to follow everyone!

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Any dunkleosteus fans about? I made this guy last year. Literature was beginning to emerge regarding how we estimate body length, so I hedged my bets and made two versions! Subsequent literature appears to be leaning towards version 2. 🐡

Closeup of my dunkleosteus reconstruction, version 1

Closeup of my dunkleosteus reconstruction version one, from rear side

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Hi everyone. Here's a reminder to register interest in #DinoCon, kicking off in the UK next year. Though with #dinosaurs front and centre, it's NOT dinosaurs alone but prehistoric life and natural history more generally too... www.dinocon.co.uk

dinocon.co.uk

DinoCon

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

For those who don't know I also prepare fossils, my work includes: A lacrimal (skull bone/horn) of Allosaurus Big Al Two. The most complete phytosaur head from Europe. The only Metoposaurus skull with intact teeth. #paleontology #dinosaurs #fossil

Right half of a Phytosaur skull from Krasiejów, Poland

Metoposaurus skull with teeth from Krasiejów, Poland

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Sometimes I get inspired by a word, quote or other piece of written media (often ones that I've come across on Tumblr, of all places) and that just gives me an idea for a paleoart piece. Here are some recent ones with their source of inspiration in the alt texts. #SciArt #artbyjulio #paleoart

A dead Basilosaurus (ancient whale) washes ashore under a purple-ish overcast sky, a pelagornithid seabird flying by. Inspired by the quote "To be born into the waves and die as foam" which is apparently from unknown origin but probably refers to the original The Little Mermaid tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

An Elasmotherium, an extinct hairy rhino with a single horn on its forehead, looks forward towards a hazy Ice Age landscape illuminated by the sunset. Inspired by the word "Endling", which means the last remaining individual of a species - after the death of which, the species is officially no more.

Two woolly mammoths fight on a snowy steppe with some mountains in the background. Inspired by the quote "violence for violence is the rule os beasts" which funnily enough came from a Tumblr post, where the OP describes a dream in which this sentence was spoken by Barack Obama.

A mother Macrauchenia (extinct camel-like, funny-nosed herbivore from South America) looks down on its two-headed offspring laying down on the grass beneath the night sky, a shiny star above them. Inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

For my first post in a while on this app, here's something special I've been working on:

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Nice to see a good few familiar faces now on this app! Hopefully we can leave the days of the musked rodent behind

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

An introduction for new followers and those who don’t know me: I’m Alex (or AJ), a Masters zoology student who studies research, modern animals and 3D scans of fossils to reconstruct prehistoric animals and their bones!

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Who's this? It's my skeletal for the latest paper on #Taurovenator! I loved doing this one.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Thought I'd use my blue-sky to post on things that I don't want shared on Twitter. Here's a WIP of a Tyrannosaurus poster I'm working on. Full body will be included - here's the head so far.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

I haven't been checking on here much, how is the paleocommunity doing on this app?

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

I've been doing some coding with Dr. Cau's dataset passed couple days...

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

More progress, still a heavy WIP. Gonna add foliage, and I'd like to include the fissures somehow.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

Out of all the "twitter clones", so far this one seems the nicest IMO.

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Dan Folkes @danpalaeon.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

My first post on bluesky is a heavy WIP - I'm doing a vintage looking poster on Rhaetian (Late Triassic) reptiles from the UK! Clevosaurus, Terrestrisuchus, and Kuehnosaurus in bound... alongside others, and I'm open to suggestions for which taxa I should DEFINITELY include!

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