iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

TA Holmes

@fadeno.bsky.social

74 followers 35 following 21 posts

Lapsed geochemist and science teacher turned stay-at-home dad. I draw bones of dead things.

Posts Replies Media

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It's World Crocodile Day and I conveniently just finished my skeletal of Deinosuchus hatcheri, a gigantic crocodylian (or near crocodylian) from Campanian Laramidia. This has been in the works for a long time and it feels good to have it done. #WorldCrocodileDay #dinosaurs #paleoart #Deinosuchus

Left lateral skeletal diagram of Deinosuchus hatcheri

34715

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Here's an update on my Deinosuchus skeletal. Nearly all the bones are done, just gotta finish the skull detailing and the osteoderms. Also the back leg. But theoretically in the home stretch. #paleontology #Deinosuchus #paleoart

WIP skeletal diagram of Deinosuchus hatcheri with out any soft tissue. Scale bar is 1 meter long.

1216

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This might be one of my favorite diagrams I've made, a multiview diagram of the holotype of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, the best hadrosaur. It was a fun to figure out how best to represent multiple views. #paleoart #fossilfriday

0175

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We all know that #Deinosuchus is a giant crocodylian, but how giant was it? This diagram shows the largest and smallest estimates for AMNNH 3073 to appear in scientific literature over the last 25 years, plus an estimate based on my WIP skeletal. #paleoart #paleontology

Diagram showing various size estimates for AMNH 3073, the holotype of Deinosuchus riograndensis. The largest is from Schwimmer 2002, at ~12.2 meters. The smallest is ~7.3 meters, from Iijima and Kubo 2020. The artists own estimate is ~11.2 meters. The preserved material of AMNH 3073 is also shown for reference.

180

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Some more #paleoart, this is a diagram I threw together for my wife when she needed some visualizations for teaching homologous structures and evolution. Took a bunch of skulls from completed projects and some WIPs and added in a couple horrible mammal skulls. #sciart

0196

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#Torosaurus skulls, laid out approximately in stratigraphic order. Torosaurus is a large, controversial chasmosaurine with two? species from the American west. I've got a few more chasmosaurine skeletals to post and I have a few more I'd like to work on over the year. #paleontology #paleoart

Rigorous diagram of Torosaurus latus skulls, showing preserved material, formation, and size estimates.

191

TA Holmes @fadeno.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

First post here, I've got some new skeletals to share, but wanted to drop this WIP - I've been (slowly) updating my Deinosuchus diagrams from the ground up. Here are three specimens of the western species: TMM 43620-1, AMNH 3073, and TMM 43632-1.

Skeletal drawing of the skulls of three individuals of Deinosuchus in left lateral view.

1113