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Cassandra 🦕🖌 @tenontosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Regarding the new paper by Giacomo Gobbo and others on *that* Camarasaurus skull (that is, the one with the soft tissue preserved around the snoot), a useful visual guide of what the authors therin describe. Paper link below.

Visual description of the typical models of skin, tooth, and jaw for the four groups represented here.

Labels point to different tissues, I've just not labels bone. Ooops.

1st, a typical sauropsid, like a lizard or mouse. Soft labile skin on the outside, thick, squishy gums on the inside.

2nd, a crocodilian. Thick, rough skin on the outside, and mostly squishy gums on the inside. The skin around the teeth itself are both gum and skin, and they can be pretty "corny."

3rd, the Gobbo model, which supposes the outer layer of the cornified dermis is a sheet, like a beak, and extends further than the jaw margin, forming a pseudobeak of sorts, or an "odontoscutum," or tooth-scale. Otherwise, soft skin on the outside, but inside you have normal squishy dermis, and the authors suppose the teeth are confined to a much more cornified dense gum. This is not that dissimilar to crocs, but it's much more similar to turtles.

Lasty and 4th, birds and some turtles, in which the soft skin is mostly covered on the outside by a set of cornified sheets that form a ridged beak, or rhamphotheca, with the gum being either super soft in parts, or super hard, cornified.

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Renato Santos @dracontes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For convenience and for the record: - Dinosaur Mailing List Archives (1994-2021): dml.reptilis.net - Dinosaur Mailing Group (2021-): groups.google.com/g/dinosaurma... And while we're at it the relevant thread: groups.google.com/g/dinosaurma...

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Eutyrannosaur preprint

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 06/09/2026

This appears to be a bot/scam account propped up by other bots (the first reply is one) that jump on viral t-shirt posts with this exact reply that points to a hollow shell of an e-commerce site with AI reproductions of the viral shirts. Shitty way to exploit peoples’ desire to support real creators

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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I can *maybe* see a supporting role for some aspects of outlining, but I also suspect the post-processing required eliminates any initial time or cost savings. Just do it correctly from the start.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Morphological illustrations are crucial in research on insect taxonomy and phylogenetics." So prioritize their accuracy. "Although traditional manual drawing and digital tracing techniques have undergone continuous evolution," Improving accuracy, 1/THREAD

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Stormy @stormypanda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That’s a beautiful butch lesbian

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Turtles with lips, y'all. Yes, but not really.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In the hubbub about what qualifies as an anime, there is simply no way you can argue King of the Hill and ATLA are animes. It's only an anime if it's made in the Anima Valley in Japan. Doesn't matter if they're derived from Bugs and Mickey, those are just "sparkling cartoons."

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This and the preceeding posts, reflects something that I think is hard for people to understand about the power to change the world, and those who are afraid of it. Kindness, and its transformativeness, as Dolly follows Fred "Mr" Rogers show us, proves love is a strong force, by simply DOING.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is three gut punches in rapid succession. I think my spleen ruptured.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I will always love you" comes from a movie with the titillating and unassuming title of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." It was always an odd thing to come across, much less praise, until I watched it. Whitney may have owned the song, but no one was as plaintive as Dolly. Rest, Queen.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just so you know, since learning "coel-" is derived from Greek *koilos* meaning a hollow space, I've been saying Coelophysis and Coelacanth and yes, even Cephalopod (*kephalos*) with a hard-K since I was like, 15.

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Two Abrosaurus dongpoi perform a courtship ritual at a large waterhole in China during the Middle #Jurassic. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I like to think of drawing as a sort of challenge at times. You have a vision in your head, and you want to see it. You don't sometimes know what you want until you see it. Then there's this, making you realize: "You don't think you're able to be that good." THAT is the challenge to overcome.

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✯ A Pained Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I need this energy going forward because it’s so hard for me to stay positive about anything art related at my current age.🥲

Four panel comic. Are you sleeping? Yes, now shut up… Tolkien didn’t start LotR until he was 45, you’re doing just fine….

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Now I have to wonder why no one's done more than casual levels of "let's make the trunk short and slap it atop the chin there and fugeddabout it" facial reconstruction on belodonts. Mechanical leverage, head swishing, and trunk anatomy would be very fascinating.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's another genAI image sneaking into scientific illustration for us to groan over, @nataliajagielska.bsky.social

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A young Afrovenator abakensis suddenly lunges out of a copse in an optimistic attempt to hunt a midsized sauropod in Niger during the Middle Jurassic. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart #jurassic #prehistoric #paleontology

A young Afrovenator abakensis lunges out of a copse

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Roses are red, our lizard is green, this is the Mix & Match game, to deride how many limbs a dragon needs.

A dragon in blue and green, facing left, bereft of limb or accoutrement but their own fragile skin.

At top left, the words uttered by sages past: "the Mix & Match Game --- Dragon Edition", while at bottom right, the artist's imprint.

Dismembered, the wings float above, while the legs float below, but a smart student might notice these mean the same thing: a wing is a limb, as is a leg and an arm.

One wing is bat-like, with a free thumb; another is bird like; whereas the last resembles a fish's fin, made of collapsing spines to form a "sail."

The legs vary from bird-like and stout, cat-like and mammalian, to scaled but still deceptively mammal-like.

There are also horns above and below the head, to consider how and how many they be placed.

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🌱 Hugtak @hugtak.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Been a while since I've drawn any dinos, here's some ceratopsian doodles! #paleoart #cretaceous #styracosaurus #pachyrhinosaurus #triceratops #sketch

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Finch @finchwing.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hormbill inspired Dilophosaurus 👁

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Birdstang @birdstang.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

omg i did a Shoebill dilo a few years ago! Everything looks supreme with a big ol' crest.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The connoisseur

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a guy opens the door to his apartment for a girl. He says with a smile, “well, this is my place!” She looks a little surprised. Panel 2: the guy is at the refrigerator across the room, grabbing a beer. He asks the girl, “drink?” His apartment is decorated with a poster of Heath Ledger’s Joker, a huge poster of Thanos wearing a crown, mink coat and sunglasses on a background of buzzwords such as “money - respect - sigma”, and a gold Kaws figurine. At the base of the panel is a pair of video game RPG-style move selections that read FIGHT and FLEE.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm *so* happy with how these guys turned out! #sciart

Prints of psychedelic illustrations of Hallucigenia, Opabinia, and Marrella. Opabinia is just the print; the other two are matted and in plastic sleeves.

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Visited the newly renovated Maryland Museum of Natural History today to see my silesaur art in the exhibit.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Saw a prompt about "apex predators," and I went ... naaaaa. When designing creatures for a fantasy world, I like to start somewhere further to the bottom. Let's say you've designed a world without ... birds? Okay ... and insects? How does that work? #fantasy #lecture ? #i_dunno The small things

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Kosperry 🧀 @kosperry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🎶🔥"...Burning down the house!"🎵🔥

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When I was a boy, my father would pay to my mother aalimony on account of his three sons, but for which he refused a portion to me. So I got to wear stuff from Goodwill, and my mother tried to make sure I got *something* new. We were poor. So Vime's philosophy of shoes is POIGNANT.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Heads up: since this name honors the Di-Ne, the Navajo, it's pronounced dih-neh-venator, rather than the snazzier at-first-glance look of "DIE-na-venator," which, while awesome sounding, isn't as awesome as DYE-ne-vator: the killing escalator dinosaur.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If it's still #Caturday we've a bit of whimsy to play do not so hastily skeddat here I present a vibecat for you all this Saturday. #Fantasy, personal design, part of a broader project. Her name is Hissy.

A green and pink cat without much in the way of fur, with strange designs on her skin, and...why yes, those are TWO...eyes!

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"I wish this plot had never come to me. I wish these degens had never happened." "So do all writers who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All they have to decide is what degen to remix that plot into in the time their editor has given them."

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 29/07/2026

Three days until Pterosaurs: The Field Guide goes live on Kickstarter. Twenty illustrators, around 390 pages, over 200 pterosaur genera. The first comprehensive field guide to the flying reptiles. Kickstarter · August 1 · fossi.ls/Nev1YT/bs #Pterosaurs #Paleoart

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Matej Frantisek Calfa @csapa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hello, I'm a frelance artist/painter from Košice, Slovakia 🇸🇰, with a profound interest in the natural history of rodents, carnivores and others.. as well as history and lores of balto-slavic and uralic societies. I will be delighted to produce an artwork for you! contact: trogopterus@gmail.com

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've updated my portfolio site with ALL the artwork I've done for @restingdinoface.bsky.social over the last couple years, including the upcoming book, Tyrant Lizard Queen! korybing.com/paleoart

Snaggletooth overlooking the setting of the book

Tyrannosaurs and other scavengers eating a dead Alamosaurus.

A wet and cranky Tyrannosaur hatchling in the rain

A Kritosaurus grazing in a swampy marshland

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Gabriel Bertoja (commissions open) @gabrielbruh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"setting dolomites" two Tanystropheus H. fight at sunset for... territory? mates? that half eaten fish in the sand? who knows really. extremely proud of this one! such pretty colors 🤤

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Allison 美林 Chin @allisonchinart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Above Ancient Seas

Painting of a plesiosaur hovering above a darkened globe, surrounded by a swarm of glowing lanternfish.

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Zach Robinson @xtinctdesign.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Decided to paint up a few of those #pachyrhinosaurus busts I did a while back #Blender3D #paleoart

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Well, fracture across the proximal (cuboid) articulation of the fifth metatarsal has be bumming. Lose. But hey, I knew and could talk to the doctor about the nature of my foot with ease. Win? I find I much hate going to and talking with doctors, on account of interversion and trauma. Still, win.

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Jaime Headden @jaimeheaddenart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

These are brilliant, gorgeous, and evocative of a culture I have only tried studying for fiction deep-dives. A lot of original concepts. The Sinosauropteryx tail defies the typical racoon pattern you see elsewhere! That Plateosaurus evokes the Xuanwu (Genbu) really well!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Centrists: The people want unity. The People: We are desperate for affordable housing Centrists: They want bipartisan solutions The People: We need livable wages Centrists: Arms across the aisle is what they want The People: We want to organize our labor Centrists: WILL YOU SHUT THE FUC

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