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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Cave bear and Mousterian tools from Caverna Generosa (Italian Alps). Illustration for the art exhibition orginized by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists and The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org for the AABA 2026 meeting in Denver, Colorado.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"My Name Is Nobody" dwarf elephant 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑥𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑖 from Pleistocene Sicily, which fossils possibly inspired the myth of the cyclops such as Polyphemus.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My project has been selected for tThe Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social research grant (Fall 2024)! We will study the habitats of Caverna Generosa, the highest glacial refugium of the Italian Alps with evidence of Neanderthal occupation. leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-re...

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Introducing the Fall 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grant Recipients

Introducing the fall 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipients. Twenty-six scholars will receive funding to advance knowledge of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.

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IUCA Unizar @iucaunizar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

¡Comenzamos en #BlueSky con buenas noticias! 🔬🌍 @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social respaldará un proyecto liderado por Flavia Strani y Daniel DeMiguel @iucaunizar.bsky.social que estudiará el papel del clima en la extinción de los #neandertales en los Alpes italianos. 👀⬇️ iuca.unizar.es/noticia/resp...

Los investigadores de la Universidad de Zaragoza Flavia Strani y Daniel DeMiguel.

Fases de excavación en los depósitos Pleistocénicos de la cueva "Caverna Generosa". Foto por Fabio Bona.

Industria lítica (Musteriense) de neandertales encontrada en los depósitos de la cueva. Foto por Fabio Bona.

Cráneo fósil de oso cavernario (Ursus spelaeus) encontrado en la cueva "Caverna Generosa". Foto por Fabio Bona.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy winter holidays from a very early reindeer!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Pseudodama lyra, a Pliocene-Pleistocene deer whose name is inspired by its elegant lyre-shaped antlers

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

An introduction for the people that started follow this account! I am a senior researcher and a Marie Curie fellow specialized in Vertebrate Paleontology. I study mostly Quaternary mammals (below I am working with a sample to try to extract fossil DNA) and I also paint from time to time!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Sarkastodon mongoliensis (a big oxyaenid from the Eocene) based on the remains described by Granger (1938)

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I decided to ditch the cursed alphabet letter social for a hopefully less marketing oriented one. I am a researcher working on Paleontology and this is my fav artwork I painted in the last couple of years of the, so far, oldest fossil wolf of Europe that we found in Rome (thus the pose).

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Cave lion (Panthera spelaea) quick painting.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

At the #INQUARoma2023 meeting with Daniel DeMiguel (senior researcher @ARAID_ES) in front of my Palaeoloxodon antiquus artwork I've realized for the "Rome Before Rome" exhibition at the Department of Earth Sciences of Sapienza University @SapienzaRoma @InquaRoma2023 @unizar

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Pseudodama lyra, a Pliocene-Pleistocene deer whose name is inspired by its elegant lyre-shaped antlers

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 09/01/2023

Hoplitomeryx (a "prongdeer" from the Italian Miocene and Early-Pliocene) unfinished painting

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 27/05/2022

The artwork I made to promote the paper on Aragonictis araid, a Miocene mustelid found in the Aragon region and described by colleagues and friends from @unizar, is on the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 28/03/2022

Found the initial sketches of my fossil wolf illustration. My drawing and painting process is really messy but having a solid idea of the composition from the very beginning, immensely simplify the work later on.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 18/03/2022

I'm not always 100% satisfied with the results of my work, but I'm really pleased with how the illustration I created to promote our work of the fossil wolf from Rome looks like on @SapienzaRoma website!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 26/02/2022

Our latest work on the discovery of the fossil belonging to the first wolf (Canis lupus) of Europe is online on Scientific Reports and so it is the illustration I worked on for the press release!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 25/11/2021

Finally had the oportunity to see in person @MAntonPaleoart paleoart exhibition at @museonat!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 23/11/2021

It's good to be back! Missed Zaragoza so much in the last two years!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 04/09/2021

Revamped an old illustration of some Middle Pleistocene herbivores based mostly on the fossils unearthed from the site of Fontana Ranuccio (Central Italy) dated around 0.4 Ma

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 22/07/2021

It is online our latest work on the fossil bear remains from the Middle Pleistocene locality of Fontana Ranuccio (Anagni, Italy) where we review material of Ursus deningeri and of some specimens we couldn't ascribe to this species with certainty

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 01/02/2021

Updated reconstruction of Procervulus dichotomus based on what I've learned under the supervision of Prof. Beatriz Azanza @unizar and with the help of Dr. Gertrud E. Rössner curator at the Bavarian State Collection of Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG)

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 19/01/2021

A Micromeryx, a tiny fossil musk-deer, I painted to promote the article on European Miocene palaeoenvironments by Daniel DeMiguel and co-authors recently published on BMC Biology. #paleoart

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 12/12/2020

A quick reconstruction of Patriofelis, a cougar-sized oxyaenid that lived in NA during the Eocene #paleoart

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 07/11/2020

A fossil "vampire deer" (Procervulus) skeletal drawing I've been working on for fun. Nothing fancy or terribly rigorous as some parts are based on modern muntjacs anatomy adapted to match information I've discussed with researchers in Spain.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 12/10/2020

Last Saturday I went with my father to the natural reserve of La Camosciara and we met a sleepy big friend

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 18/08/2020

Working on yet another "saber-toothed" fossil herbivore #paleoart #sciart #wip. Loving the new darker Clip Studio Paint interface!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 17/08/2020

I finally had a chance to give @MarcAspinall TLJ print a nicer frame! I've rewatched the movie during quarantine and I'm really grateful to @rianjohnson for giving us such an hopeful story with excellent cinematography and character development.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 10/05/2020

While everyone is debating about Spinosaurus I'm spending the weekend working on a ref sheet for ASoIaF dragons with "theropod-like" features #ASoIaF #conceptart

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 29/04/2020

When your old reconstruction of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (where I accidentally made the tail too big and pushed a little too much for an aquatic adaptation) turns out to be somewhat accurate after all #paleoart #spinosaurus on ArtStation:

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/04/2020

Lannister House Sigil inspired by Etruscan/Greek art made for @jolannister. This artwork is part of an ASoIaF zine edited by @bidonica1 #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 17/04/2020

Rendering time! During this phase, I usually work with the default Clip Studio Paint darker pencil brush #paleoart #sciart #wip

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 25/11/2019

Experimenting with some new design ideas for Danaerys' dragons while taking pictures of the screen with a smartphone like my mom when she uses internet. #asoiaf

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 26/10/2019

My portfolio for #artstationday I do really love painting things facing to the right.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/10/2019

I tried to take a good picture of me in front of the Pilar Cathedral and the Ebro river, but the everlasting wind turned me into a bad pre-raphaelite painting.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 17/10/2019

A rare picture of me in the lab preparing an epoxy resin mixture I'll use to make casts of fossil teeth belonging to Pleistocene horses and giant deer.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/07/2019

Very much a work in progress because I'm only 5% sure of what is going on with the background and the 3/4 perspective is killing me #drogon #asoiaf #got

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 15/07/2019

I've been away for only two weeks and I already miss my cat :(

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 08/06/2019

I've just found the preparatory sketches I did for that Sarkastodon illustration I made some time ago #paleoart

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 22/05/2019

Scipionyx samniticus from the Italian Peninsula. One of the few dinosaur specimen with fossilized entrails!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 16/05/2019

Se questo sabato sera vi capita di essere a Roma, passate al Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra della Sapienza! Disegnerò in diretta parlando di paleontologia, paleoarte e illustrazione digitale.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 30/04/2019

Ursus deningeri, an extinct speloid bear that lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene. It is the probable ancestor of cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) and as them many specimens display a broad skull and a steep forehead.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 23/04/2019

Speaking of GoT do you know that David Bradley, aka Walder Frey, regularly visits my hometown because he has relatives in Italy? Legends say he once visited the middle school my brother went to acting as Argus Filch.

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