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Peter Nickolaus @peternickolaus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A Wuerhosaurus rushes to save its nest from plundering Dsungaripterus. This scene takes place in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous, around 130 million years ago. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2026. #sciart

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Cassandra 🦕🖌 @tenontosaurus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

ouranosaurus doodle

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cetacea

Digital Drawing. An early whale (Pakicetus) stands at the water's edge, bending down for a drink. Behind it is a wall of tall grasses/reeds. The entire scene is shown within the shape of a blue whale. Despite the vast gulf in form and time between the two animals, they are of the same group: Cetacea.

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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

A pair of Eunotosaurus by Gabriel Ugueto: a sense of scale is provided by Glossopterus leaves in the fore-and-background and by a prosbolid hemipteran insect

Phylogeny of major reptile groups, showing turtles (Pantestudines) as early archosauromorphs and the putative stem-turtle Eunotosaurus as a millerettid stem reptile

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Hugo Paleoart @hugopaleoart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My biggest illustration ever ! The small dinosaur Zhongjianosaurus observes its surroundings. It can see two Moganopterus fighting, Caudipteryx wandering about, and a Sinornithosaurus stalking its prey. #dinosaur #cretaceous #paleoart #SciArt #china #yixian

Zhongjianosaurus yangi & Yixian Formation

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Added this cephalopods through the ages series I did a while back to my print shop ~* www.inprnt.com/gallery/lurn...

Illustration of three Endoceras, colored in pastel tones. They are arranged so their long shells form a diagonal composition.

Color illustration of three diplomoceras, with green shells and blue bodies, floating against a background of yellow water.

Color illustration of three chambered nautilus floating against green water.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Quite a few people have asked me to put the Cabrières lagerstätte from the Ordovician of France on our wheel for a while. I refused so far because, well, I already did it as a commission ;) Cabrières is a fascinating biota, a fuge amount of macro algae might hint at...

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Peter Nickolaus @peternickolaus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A Smilesaurus relaxes in the shade of a Glossopteris tree and a Cistecephalus comes out of its burrow. This image was a private commission. I do not own this image, so contact me if you do want to use it! Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2026. #paleoart #sciart

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Cystiphyllum visbyense growing on chain corals - Silurian #WIP #SciArt #Paleoart #3DAnimation #Blender3D #horncoral #coral

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Peter Nickolaus @peternickolaus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

20-min-sketches from the "Walking with" #paleostream (in honour of the late "Walking with" composer Ben Bartlett) from 25th April 2026. Ornithocheirus. Brontoscorpio. Liopleurodon. Koolasuchus. Digital paintings by 'Paleo Pete' Peter Nickolaus, 2026. #paleoart

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thuringian Forest early amniotes www.researchgate.net/publication/... #digitalart #perm #palaeontology #artandscience #sketchbook

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

🌲Permian Mallorca🐾🦎 During the Permian period Mallorca was located on the Equator and was not an island, but part of the mainland. Some terrestrial creatures are known from that time, mostly from the tracks they left behind #paleoart #Permian #Mallorca 🧵Thread for additional explanation

Drawing showing the biodiversity from the Permian of Mallorca, in particular from the Port des Canonge Formation. From left to right, and from top to bottom:
- Shoot and tree of a plant, possibly Feysia sp.
- Storm clouds bring pouring rain to a river valley at the end of the dry season
- Conchostracans similar to Triops (representing the ichnogenus Cruziana) move through the bottom of a pool
- A mother varanopid and her offspring (representing the ichnogenus Dromopus) rest on a branch
- A roachoid insect comes out from a burrow (representing the ichnofossil Palaeophycus tubularis)
- Tramuntanasaurus tiai eating some horsetails
- Early synapsids of different types (representing the ichnigenus Dimetropus) gather at a waterhole in the dry season
- A gorgonopsian tries to catch a Tramuntanasaurus, with the latter escaping by shedding its tail
- A large moradisaurine walks through a lush riverside in the rainy season. Smaller reptiles and insects appear nearby

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Results from the #paleostream! Don Juan (still unnamed rat fish relative), Muttaburrasaurus, Lystrosaurus (baby) and Bakonydraco!

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Result from the Zechstein sea #paleostream! This famous deposit from the late Permian of Central Europe (mostly Germany) has a special place in paleontology history and incidentally has a locality not even a km from where I sit right now.

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Watercolor of Diamantinasaurus reaching for a morsel without falling into the creek. (The crocodilian hopes they don’t fall too) 🦕🎨

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Very nice example of fluvial cross-stratification and succeeding channels cross-cutting one another in Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) sandstones of the Löwenstein Formation (southern Germany). By far the best example of fluvial sandstone channels (highlighted below) I've seen so far personally.

Photo of an geological outcrop in the Löwenstein Formation (Upper Triassic, Norian-Rhaetian) of southern Germany.
Various sandstone beds with cross-stratification above a claystone horizone are visbile. The sandstone beds are truncated by overlaying channels.

Same photo as above, but with the different sandstone beds highlighted in different colours and bedding-orientation drawn in.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨 Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher! paper below:

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Here’s Lystrosaurus murrayi ignoring the Great Dying, the mother of mass extinctions, just getting on with its parrot-pig-reptile-bulldog business #paleoart #sciart #dicynodont #triassic

A Lystrosaurus murrayi standing in front of some Early Triassic plants

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badgersoph.bsky.social @badgersoph.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I decided on a Twofer Tuesday. Rhodochrosite and Quartz, from a micromineral photo, Red Cloud Mine, Colorado

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Olorotitan watercolor portrait

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Result from the Sulphur Mountain Formation #paleostream! This formation made it onto the wheel as it is the last refuge of the last eugeneodonts, the group that gave us Helicoprion. Most prominently we have here Fadenia, a late surviving durophagous member of this group...

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Love the iridescent effect in this piece. Absolutely gorgeous!!!

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Emily S. Damstra @emilydamstra.com · 21/02/2025

This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting. #FossilFriday #sciart

Detailed color illustration showing 3 different views of the same specimen. Two at the bottom are the unreconstructed fossil from different angles. The reconstruction at the top shows the brachiopod in life position, with 9 visible boreholes and the common epibionts Cornulites and a bryozoan. The shell has pinkish and whitish horizontal stripes and the valves are slightly agape, with cirri lining the opening.

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Two lovely #ammonites wishing everyone a beautiful #Valentinesday 🧡 Old art, done in 2021 because I now forgot to do a piece for the third year in a row.

Two hildoceratid ammonites in a dark ocean, facing each other in the likeness of a heart (viewed from the side). Crinoid stems are visible in the foreground, framing the ammonites.

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

www.palaeonavix.org/index.php/pa...

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Albluu @albluu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Marsh guardian

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badgersoph.bsky.social @badgersoph.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Quartz phantom

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badgersoph.bsky.social @badgersoph.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Rainbow Garnet. Painted about 65X bigger than an actual crystal.

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

the praetorian bivalve

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Steps in the wind Microraptor using its wings to assist in running #paleoart #sciart

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Some pencil sketches done recently: - Serpianosaurus germanicus (pachypleurosaur; upper left) - Ferenceratops shquiperorum, that turned out a little to ornithopod, but not making it a 'typical' ceratopsian was intentional (upper right) - Ceratites obesus (middle) - Ajkaceratops kozmai (lower row)

Pencil Sketches of the pachypleurosaur Serpianosaurs germanicus (upper left), Ferenceratops shquiperorum (upper right), Ceratites obesus (middle), Ajkaceratops kozmai (lower left) and the head of the latter (lower right).

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Newest #watercolor is Ajkaceratops. Believe it or not this painting was rushed over the course of a few days on my lunch breaks at work. #paleoart

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nanotyrannus lancensis. Capa do meu novo vídeo no YouTube, inspirada na obra de Wayne Barlowe

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Result from the Agate Fossil Beds #paleostream! This early Miocene lagerstätte from Nebraska (USA) is a fantastic window into our understanding of the transition from forest communities to grassland biomes...

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

False eyes 👁️‍🗨️

A microraptor leaps on a decorated large cicad

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians. There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary! Check out our new study, led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social ⤵️

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature

New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New material of Ajkaceratops cements its identity as a ceratopsian, but adds a new wrinkle. It turns out that many european ornithischians previously classified as iguanodontians may actually be ceratopsians! New paper by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social et al., that I provided art for (link in reply).

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badgersoph.bsky.social @badgersoph.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Zoisite var. Tanzanite, watercolor on watercolor board. I feel this is possibly one of the best paintings I've ever done.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Some people really do be like: "nah, our modern day image of dinosaurs is boring and stupid"...

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🍄🤎Mayfly06🧡🌰 @mayfly06.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Finally finished this reconstruction of Iguanodon. Really proud of the final results. Gave it really pronounced shoulder scales with the idea that they'd help with protecting from the thumb claws in intraspecific combat. #paleoart #Iguanodon #ornithischian #dinosaur

A depiction of Iguanodon, drawn traditionally but painted digitally.
Here it has been depicted with orange and rusty brown hues on the head and neck. Reaching the body, the brown fades into a dark gray with a lighter, creamy underside of the body.
The area around the shoulders and the forearm features large, robust scales. The attachment point for the arms, however, has smaller chain mail-like scales. Sparse, spikier scales run down the top of the neck and back, and the underside of the neck has large, rugose caruncles. The rest of the body past the torso is fairly uniform and featureless.

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to All, from a small festive Struthiosaurus and his snowy dinosaur friend 🎄 "Weihnachts-Struthi" ca. 2.5 h / watercolour 23.12.2025

Festive Struthiosaurus with two small Christmas trees and shining stars atop in place if the conical spikes above the shoulder region. The Struthiosaurus also wears a red scarf and red Christmas tree balls on the laterally protruding shoulder spikes.
A small snow dinosaur stands next to him with a small Christmas hat.

Both stand in the snow, during a nightly snowfall with the stars warmly illuminating the scene.

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Ovislav der Schreckliche, shepard of all those who are lost wandering, wishes a sorrowless #Halloween to any souls, that may deserve it 🎃

A sheep-demon known as Ovislav the Terrible, wearing the robe of a shepard and holding a shepard's staff on which three purple, cubic crystals are hanging.

The demon is resting his other hand on the head of a sheep standing in front of him, while the moon is red and illuminating the night sky. Birch tress are framing the edges and red roses are growing beneath.

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FossilCrafter @fossilcrafter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Portrait of my best friend. #acrylicpainting >50 h 01.08.2025 - 07.09.2025 Really moved out of my comfort zone with this piece, but I'm quite proud. Might have been my most difficult painting yet, since I had to get her face right, the detail and the lighting. It was a pain, but a lot of fun.

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Peter Nickolaus @peternickolaus.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Great news! Plesionectes longicollum is a new genus and species of plesiosaur from Holzmaden, Germany. www.sachspal.de/plesionectes... This paleoart features two Plesionectes hunting near a colony of Seirocrinus. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

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