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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social

Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The rocky shores of a small winding creek offer a window into the complex communities of the Lemurian rainforest during the Pleistocene. Fig trees, loaded with fruits, attract all kinds of herbivores, from towering gondwanathers to small simosuchids and bizarre, flightless...

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quick sketch of Westlothiana lizziae, grabbing some lunch in early #Carboniferous Scotland. Formerly known as an early reptile-like amniote or maybe an amphibian, “Lizzie” was just reinterpreted as more early-diverging tetrapodomorph, possessing fishy gills and spiracles. #sciart #paleoart #fishart

Colored-pencil drawing of the superficially lizard-like animal Westlothiana, curling its body in a sinuous motion as it crushes a small aquatic insect nymph in its jaws. Its body is elongated, rusty brown, and covered in relatively large fish-like scales. The front legs are tiny and swept back as it lunged forwards, the hind legs are only a bit larger and spread out as if holding on to an underwater log. The head is low and oval shaped, and near the base of the front leg is a slit-like gill opening. Its eye is fairly large and looking down towards its prey.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨Big News🚨 I wrote a book! It's out on February 9th & it’s available to pre-order now! 🦈 Published by UniPress Books & @princetonupress.bsky.social & featuring incredible art by the amazing Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social, you can pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Megalodon-Ot... 🦈 (1/4)

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Speedpainting of Miophyseter gunmaensis, a new species of physeteroid described from Japan. The specimen consists of a nearly complete skeleton of a young individual, with an estimated length of 3 to 4 m. It lived approximately 16 to 14 million years ago. #paleoart

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Kira Zhuravel @kyrazhuravel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello BlueSky people

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Joan Francesc Oliveras @jfoliveras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Carolingian Armorican cavalryman from Charlemagne’s army. Done for @despertaferroed.bsky.social Jinete armoricano carolingio, ilustración para Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval n. 80: Roncesvalles. Carlomagno derrotado.

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Joan Francesc Oliveras @jfoliveras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

14th century almocadén from Seville, done for @despertaferroed.bsky.social Almocadén sevillano del siglo XIV, ilustración para Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval n. 75: Alfonso XI y la batalla del Estrecho.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's four random pieces of palaeoart: Luis Rey's Pterodactylus, @kakapojay.bsky.social's Lisowicia, Tuomas Koivurinne's Mojoceratops, and Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' Megatherium!

A black and white Pterodactylus stands atop a rocky hill overlooking the calm sea. Its swooping, fiery-coloured crest is marked by black streaks and spots which extend onto the toothy jaws. It grips a little squid by its feeding arms between its protruding teeth.

Two heavily built, big-headed dicynodonts stand astride each other in a forest. Their earth-toned, leathery hides contrast with the lush greenery of the surrounding trees.

The carcass of a green ceratopsian lies in a stiff-limbed posture in a dry riverbed, surrounded by the skeletal remains of other horned dinosaurs. Two crow-like birds alight atop the body.

A pair of enormous, short trunked ground sloths under the leaves of a tree with a thin, curving trunk. One stands bipedally, clutching the trunk with its huge claws, while the other sits in a comically low quadrupedal pose, its head appearing behind the shoulders of its companion.

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was searching for something on a Discord server and remembered this one time a few years ago someone tried to tell me orcas don't really ambush prey, and that it was "[my] personal interpretation [that one might do so to a great white]". Lmao

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Xenorhinotherium & Macrauchenia my beloveds This was mostly an exercise in achieving different fur textures in Blender, as well as an excuse to make an infographic since I haven't made one of those in a while. #SciArt #artbyjulio

A simple infographic showing a mostly tan, short-haired Xenorhinotherium and a dark brown, long-haired Macrauchenia against a solid background, with a human silhouette for scale. Each animal has a lineart of South America besides it showing an estimated range, and its scientific name below it.

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cuddling Diictodon

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Unicorn Bristlecat Much as in our timeline, northern South America is dominated by a great sprawl of waterways. This colossal expanse of flooded forest, rivers and streams, lakes and the like host an unimaginable variety of life. (1/6)

A Unicorn Bristlecat, a chunky catfish with a projecting horn-like spike formed from the first ray of its dorsal fin. The spike is lined with hairlike projections. It is a countershaded purplish white, with an amber-hued eye. A comparison with a human hand shows it to be about 60cm in length.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't have the time or energy to write full threads today, but here's some animals from A New Age of Reptiles that are just waiting for a detailed thread! (Artwork by @fabioaleromero.bsky.social, @manusuchus.bsky.social, and Wyatt Andrews!)

A yellowish shark with curling barbels and a huge, knotched caudal fin. It has a small blueish streak behind the spiracle. Art by @fabioaleromero.bsky.social

Size comparison between two leopard-spotted, slender-snouted crocodiles and the silhouette of a waving man. The larger crocodile is labelled as male, the smaller as female. The male is about twice the length of the female. Art by @manusuchus

A towering, sauropod-like simosuchian with a beaky snout, rusty orange-brown scales, and large clawed hands and feet. It is shown beside a waving man's silhouette, showing it to be a little over four meters in height.

A shaggy-furred mammal with hoofed limbs and a head halfway between a rodent and a horse flees from two robustly built, long-nosed predatory mammals with dog-like builds. The fleeing mammal bounds desperately, its viscera visibly spilling from under its long fur. Art by Wyatt Andrews.

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Keenan Taylor @talesofkaimere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Most famous, of course, are the dragons, which are now wild yet only achieved their modern size and variety by a recently domesticated past.

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Keenan Taylor @talesofkaimere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are plenty of other domesticated beasts great and small, and crops which are the beating heart of civilizations.

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Keenan Taylor @talesofkaimere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Permian Islands have a great many domesticated flora and fauna. Among the most important are the manticores ridden like horses, gorgons used for meat and labor, and fauns with long wool. Link to episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm0y...

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🧵 Last night we finished the first of the habitat murals for Lemuria Phase 3. We added the continental shelf this time to the roster to enable people to experiment more with pelagic megafauna. After reinventing whales we felt like that it would be only fair. This piece is set on...

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Australopithecus sediba #sciart

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GoGo_MrDoDo 🦤🏝 COMMISSIONS ARE CLOSED @gogomrdodo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Behold! ✨️✨️✨️ The 172 year old wonder of Crystal Palace. MEGALOSAURUS from the 1850s 🦖✨️ Gift for @creatureconsultant.bsky.social thanks for the 3 color suggestions 🇮🇪 #fossilfriday | #paleontology | #megalosaurus | #dinosaur | #paleoart

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Tumblr post by sunderwight: The current AI situation is like if the people who were pushing NFTs had successfully gotten everyone to start referring to any and all digital transactions as an NFT, thus allowing them to pretend that things like online shopping, downloadable video games, bank transfers, etc were closely related to convincing middle-aged would-be techies to invest serious money in ugly digital paintings, and hold the former examples up in defense of the latter any time someone pointed out that the whole NFT thing was a racket. What do you mean NFTs are bad, don't you want disabled people to be able to use their phones to have medication delivered to their doorstep? Wow. Horrible of you, really.

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Up in the #Appalachian mountains during the Pleistocene, a young Mastodon is very excited to have found a new playmate. The playmate in question is not nearly so enthused but also can’t do much about it. This is a sketch I began a while ago but only just returned to. #paleoart #pleistocene #sciart

A colored-pencil drawing of a very fluffy, reddish-furred juvenile Mastodon against a white background, drawn in a running pose with its mouth open in joy while lifting a screaming raccoon into the air above its head with its coiled trunk. The mastodon has very short but still protruding tusks.

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たてぃとぅてと（B_Wither） @fossiltttttbw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#paleoart Doodle of Xenacanthiformes, Triodus and Lebachacanthus

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My tablet is out of commission for now so have this Smok wawelski with colored pencils (for @cascoclauda.bsky.social

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Last night’s episode of Surviving Earth dealt with the Ordovician extinction and its aftermath. For this episode I was entrusted to create the concept design for Endoceras 9as you can see here), Telephina (the swimming trilobite) and Nerepisacanthus (the Silurian fish) #paleoart #SurvivingEarth

Concept design of Endoceras and screenshots of the episode

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

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Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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Olof Moleman @lordtrilobite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gorgosaurus libratus portrait #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

Gorgosaurus libratus portrait. Facing right with mouth open.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Today's four (not so random) random pieces of palaeoart: Charles Knight's Carboniferous Coal Swamp, E. Boyd Smith's Permian Scene, @prehistorica.bsky.social's Arthropleura, and Matt Celeskey's Cotylorhynchus!

A riparian forest choked by horsetails and towering scale trees. A dark-skinned, broad-headed temnospondyl cruises down a stream, while a small salamander-like tetrapod hauls itself out of the water.

A Permian lakeside, prowled by a menagerie of strange creatures including a fuzzy-faced, elongated Dimetrodon, a snail-like ammonite, and a hulking green herbivore with a spiny back. In the lake, a long-necked ichthyosaurian creature and a swan-necked plesiosaur can be seen.

A wide-bodied, studded Arthropleura trundles along a seashore. Its spiky back has a simple, earthy brown colour with two long black streaks down its length, flecked with little dots of red.

A hulking Cotylorhynchus digs into wet mud, tearing up roots as rain pours down on its wrinkled, lightly scaled hide.

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Acrophyseter sp from Chagres Fm, Panama, partial mandibles suggest this animal was even smaller than their peruvian relatives, a pygmy killer sperm whale. I drew one back in 2023 for Benites-Palomino et al. 2023. along other small odontocetes from Chagres. #paleoart

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

More astounding innovative palaeoart by Chinese graduate students. This time dinosaur dioramas locked in epoxy, with Tyndall effect (小红书: 念崽不会画画) 📍CAA Grad Show, Zhejiang Art Museum

Microraptors gliding down tree in epoxy resin with Tyndall effect

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 13/05/2026

My art book 'Other Worlds' is available for order! Here are some purchase links :) Non-Amazon Retailers: bit.ly/4nr7Phz Amazon: amzn.to/3QYsn1s #conceptart #illustration #scifiart

Image of the cover of an art book by alex ries

Image of the interior of an art book by alex ries

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

1/4 The enormous complexity of algae fishing Researchers have studied in detail how chimpanzees in Guinea fish for algae. They prepare their tools (up to 4 m long) in advance, and use 22 different techniques. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The Dragoninaki @inakidrago.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Here is a wonderful Lineart commission done by @roojoeus.bsky.social, of a redesign of a sophont/sapient viper from a Eocene divergence that uses its mouth as a manipulator with a little help from its tails. Also I colored it to see the colors of the species. #snake #specevo #worldbuilding

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm fine tuning the muscle-skin setup of my T. rex model, so decided to made a little comparison video showing the effect of the different layers during animation.

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

here's this week's #Paleostream flocking results! this week we drew Epidexipteryx (mine is a juvenile being chased by a Pterorhynchus), Witwatia, Ceratosuchus (the bird behind it is Diatryma), and Prognathodon (mine has caught a young Archelon)

illuminated by an artifical light from below, a juvenile Epidexipteryx makes a daring jump from the tree branch it was resting on to avoid becoming a Pterorhynchus' midnight snack, it uses the membranes that run between its shoulder, across all its fingers, and ending at its elbow to somewhat control its descent, but mainly to cut the impact force from the fall

Epidexipteryx is an odd dinosaur from Jurassic Inner Mongolia, China with elongated fingers that may have held membranous webbing between them. there are many debates about whether or not it had these structures, but here i have chosen to depict them being used similarly to a flying frog's webbing (although not as effective) to essentially break the animals fall and allow it to somewhat control its descent rather than fully glide. there is also debate surrounding where the membrane of its relatives starts and stops, here i interpret that the largest portion was between its elbow and third finger rather than its third finger and its body

Pterorhynchus is a pterosaur from the same area, it had a long tail as well as an attachment point for a large soft tissue crest from the middle of its snout to the back of its head

in a cave illuminated by an artificial light, a Witwatia flies away from the camera. above it are the rest of its colony staring back at the camera

Witwatia is an extinct kind of bat from Eocene Al Fayyum, Egypt only known from teeth, however, from the size and morphology of the teeth we can tell it was a large bat and most likely had similar morphology to extant vesper bats

in the morning, a Diatryma walks carefully around a drying mudflat looking for food. it does not notice the Ceratosuchus lying in wait in one of the last saturated areas of the mud, its two large horns protruding just behind its exposed eye

Ceratosuchus is an extinct alligator from Paleocene Colorado, USA to Eocene Wyoming, USA which possessed distinctive large horns behind its eyes which protruded upwards almost appearing like cat ears

Diatryma is a genus of large hebivorous birds (often mixed up with terrorbirds, though they are closer related to waterfowl) which has typically been considered synonymous Gastornis, however, this has been debated in recent literature, here i choose to interpret it as a valid taxon though none of its diagnostic features are pictured

a Prognathodon has caught hold of a young Archelon. it crunches down while continuing to swim up due to the inertia from a ventral ambush mere seconds before. the turtle's guts spill out as its shell is slowly crunched under the strong bite of the mosasaur

Prognathodon is a genus of large mosasaur from the late Cretaceous near-worldwide with a robust jaw that most species used to crush a large variety of prey. however, it should be noted that Prognathodon has a lot of species within it that may not actually be the direct relatives of the type species P. solvayi, with many not clading together in phylogenetic analyses. here i have depicted it with typical countershading, however, interupted by a metallic yellow strip of scales, the reflectiveness is based on the structure of the fossilised scales from Mosasaurus sevciki, though, colour isnt preserved

Archelon is the largest turtle found so far which lived in the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Canada and the USA

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

what is this? some sort of... 'new blood'? (individual animals in the thread below) a tribute to the late Ben Bartlett #WalkingWithBenBartlett

a size chart of all extinct animals that appeared in the Walking With Dinosaurs episode New Blood next to Ben Bartlett

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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In the brain of a sabertooth: First neuroanatomical description and ethological insights on Megantereon cultridens (Felidae, Machairodontinae). Study by Ilaria Meli et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Artwork by Simone Zoccante #FossilFriday

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Fabio Alejandro Romero @fabioaleromero.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is perhaps my last posts regarding the size estimations of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, pretty much because there is nothing more to attempt to change their results until somebody come to make a more concrete argument of the results, for now I stick with a conservative size

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JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Opposite birds #Sciart #Paleoart #Dinosaur

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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Fabio Alejandro Romero @fabioaleromero.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I went doing this for reflect on the representation of scale Nanaimoteuthis size, I made this chart based on the main results of the article, based on the given data since all the ML are made individually with the constant of an ML:TL average of 4.2 from 18 taxa.

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

this week's #Paleostream flocking was themed around the Walking With series of palaeontology documentaries to honour the late Ben Bartlett who passed yesterday we sketched Ornithocheirus, Brontoscorpio, Liopleurodon, and Koolasuchus #AusPalaeo

an Ornithocheirus catches the wind and hovers in place for a second, it stares into the setting sun to the left of the camera

Ornithocheirus is a fragmentary sea-fairing pterosaur which had large crests on the tip of its snout

it's most well known for appearing as the protagonist of the Walking With Dinosaurs episode 'Giant of the Skies' which follows an older male

a Brontoscorpio walks along in shallow brackish water, branches and detritus coat the bottom, and aquatic plants can be seen growing in the back

Brontoscorpio is a dubious scorpion only known from the tip of one of its claws, while some have proposed it to be a large crustacean, i have decided to reconstruct it as a scorpion similar to Waeringoscorpio which looked almost identical to modern scorpions, except having gill filaments behind its legs rather than book lungs. in life, Brontoscorpio may have been around 70cm long from cephalon to the tip of its telson stretched out

it's most well known for being an antagonist of the Walking With Monsters episode 'Water Dwellers' being a recurring species throughout the episode

a Liopleurodon swims close to the bottom of the shallow ocean it inhabits, a school of belemnites avoid the larger animal (though it isnt interested in them). underneath the Liopleurodon, a juvenile Thalattosuchus chases after the belemnites, staying wary of the apex predator above it (though the Liopleurodon has no interest in it either, maybe in a few more years though)

belemnites are cephalopods which possessed hard internal elements used to help regulate buoyancy

Thalattosuchus is a kind of marine crocodile which had a tail fluke similar to ichthyosaurs, reduced arms, and long flipper-like legs

Liopleurodon is a large pliosaur (short-necked plesiosaur) which was large and barrel chested with a length of around 5m long. it had log interlocking (but not splaying) teeth which would've been used to take down large prey, and large front and hind flippers used to propell it through the water

it appeared in the Walking With Dinosaurs episode 'Cruel Sea' as a recurring antagonist, though being very oversized

a Koolasuchus waits underneath the water, waiting for the sun to warm it up enough for the large beast to move. dried Zamites leaves and other assorted bits float on the surface of the water, winter is approaching and soon the Koolasuchus will need to find a safe place to hibernate

Koolasuchus is a large temnospondyl and the last of the large non-lissamphibian temnospondyls, it is only known from a jaw bone, but its possible life apperance can be inferred from its close relative Siderops

it is most well known for its appearence in the Walking With Dinosaurs episode 'Spirits of the Ice Forest' where it appears as a reccuring character/minor antagonist

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Fabio Alejandro Romero @fabioaleromero.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Although it wasn’t a giant macropredatory sausage as Basilosaurus was, Dorudon is remarkable for its cosmopolitan distribution being found its fossil material in three continents through the Late Eocene, being D. atrox from Egypt the largest of the genus.

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Midiaou Diallo @midiaou.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Besides touching grass, nothing makes you appreciate the story of life on Earth more than studying and illustrating it. Earth Day is everyday.

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Fabio Alejandro Romero @fabioaleromero.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

One of the most iconic creatures in The New Dinosaurs that inhabits the African grasslands, the Lank is an animal that surprises not only because of its derived form compared to its flying ancestors, but also because of how closely it resembles actual large pterosaurs of similar size.

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Fabio Alejandro Romero @fabioaleromero.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is not exactly part of any future project, but as concept idea inspired by somebody's brainstorm that I discussed a long time ago, I had the sketches for a while with vague description so I decided to at least flesh out a little more these future chameleons of a far away seed world.

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