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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sketch of a wolf sized predatory Sengi 5 million years in the future as part of an on again off again spec zoo project I've been working on

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Alternate version with a manga accurate blue suit with green highlights for Gon

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Pair of Sachicasaurus vitae, splashing around 124 MYA in the waters over what will someday be Colombia. Included a color rough in the thread- this piece was relatively painless thanks to that step and definitely something I always need to remember to incorporate! #paleosky #sachicasaurus #paleoart

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

End cretaceus hell

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Some fan art to celebrate the return of these goobers

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Result from the Tiaojishan Formation stream, or rather Yanliao biota stream. This incredible assemblage was on my mind from the very start of doing these pieces, not just because it has tons of fascinating critters but because a big portion of the vertebrates here appear...

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Hiné Mizushima/水島ひね @sheishine.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Listed Ancient Sea Creature Diorama: Acutiramus print in my Etsy shop! *Please note* U.S. orders ship once a week on TUESDAYS due to limited access to a faraway drop-off location. 古代海洋生物ウミサソリ・ジオラマ・ポスター（ほぼA4）をEtsyショップに追加しました！ hine.etsy.com #hinemizushima #etsy #print #paleoart #水島ひね

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Adrianne Lenker cross hatching study

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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Some shrews crawling around. Work in progress. I love shrews! #sciart #wip #art #mammals

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Trying to get back into the swing of things. Here's a little study of a Sugar Glider !

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Joermungandr bolti, Carboniferous 'amphibian' from Mazon creek. #sciart

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Here the result of the Ein Yabrud quarry #paleostream. An important locality from the Cretaceous of Palestine. While mostly famous for it's marine snakes and early mosasauroids, beautiful fish fossils and rich invertebrate fauna are completing this picture!

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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Packed Like Sardines 3" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork Back with me after being in an exhibition and now on my website www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p307/p... #embroidery #WildlifeArt #fish

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

👇 The list is growing 🌿

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In 2025 I really got back into traditional media, learned a lot more about working in 3D, and painted many, many dinosaurs. Cheers to 2026, and may we all paint more of what we love #paleoart #dinosaurart #tellmeaboutyourfavoritedinosaur

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this but I am not a fan of the fast food drive in Sonic. . .

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 29/12/2025

happy shrew year

we'll take a cup of shrewness yet
for auld lang syne

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...

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Peter Nickolaus @peternickolaus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface. This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#dailyart 76 : study, Carolina Wren Photo by @pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia. #Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A couple of Nebulasaurus taito enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake in China during the Middle #Jurassic. 🦕🦕🏝️ (Just a regular lake, nothing to do with #dinosaur reproduction… 😏) #paleoart #sciart #sauropod

A couple of sauropods, Nebulasaurus taito, enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs www.patreon.com/posts/132334...

Because I'm a lazy, lazy man, I'm copying text from the start of my Patreon post that describes this scene. If you want to read the rest of the discussion, you need to visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/132334586 (I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid. OK, not _that_ stupid.)

"It's nighttime in Early Cretaceous China, in the part of the world that will eventually be recorded as the Yixian Formation. A light dusting of snow covers the winter ground, and only the coniferous trees retain their leaves. The light of a full moon spreads through the misty sky, obscuring distant mountains but illuminating a large dinosaurian predator, Yutyrannus. It is consuming the bloodied remains of a small dinosaur that, from the silhouette, looks to have been a Psittacosaurus. Quietly surrounding the carnivore is a group of eight smaller dinosaurs: compsognathids. Their small size, long, stripy brown tails and facial masks betray them as Sinosauropteryx. They appear to be congregating in the hope of getting access to the Psittacosaurus carcass, some peering around the larger dinosaur at a respectful distance to identify pilferable morsels. The Yutyrannus is ten times their length and towers above them: surely it's best to wait until it's finished? Unless... wait: are these Sinosauropteryx enterprising opportunists, patiently waiting for the larger predator to have their fill? Or are they juveniles waiting for their parent – a tyrannosauroid – to finish with the carcass before they can have access, or even for it to provision them with food? What the heck has actually been depicted here?"

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Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Is autumn on the way? The best season to draw forests #sciart

A nature illustration showing a river in the middle of a big, old forest full of animals and sunken trees.

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Southern #Sweden during the late Cretaceous. A pair of pteranodontids trying to keep a healthy distance from an admittedly passive mosasaur. Meanwhile, the hesperornithids take a short break from foraging to catch some rays. #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #dinosaurs

A scene from Kristianstad in southern Sweden (the Kristianstad Basin) during the late Cretaceous. A pair of pteranodontids trying to keep a healthy distance from an admittedly passive mosasaur (probably a Prognathodon, but could also be a Tylosaurus). Meanwhile, the hesperornithids take a short break from foraging to catch some rays.

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

A Once Green Antarctica

The sauropodomorph Glacialisaurus (known from very fragmentary remains) strolls through a dense assemblage of flora at the edge of a forest. The plants are meant to represent Otozamites and Clathropteris. The scene takes place in Early Jurassic Antarctica.

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Eyecager Sketchbook @amberbladejones.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Oscar Droege（1898-1983）

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ostrom’s Quiet Revolution

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Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Pike is my favorite fish 🐟 #sciart

An underwater illustration featuring northern pike.

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Paulo Leite @pauloleiteart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Dueling Diplodocus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. The background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #paleoart #diplodocus #3d #3dart

3D render of two diplodocus fighting. They are both standing on their hind legs, the one on the left is biting the neck of the one on the right.

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Published today in Biological Reviews: "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs" - the biggest paper from my PhD (my favourite chapter, too). doi.org/10.1111/brv.... Here's a thread outlining some of our key findings. (1/10)

Cover image promoting the new research paper "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs", written by Matthew Dempsey, Samuel R. R. Cross, Susannah C. R. Maidment, John R. Hutchinson, and Karl T. Bates, and published in Biological Reviews. Image shows a 3D Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton enveloped in simple geometric hulls, accompanied by an artist's impression of T. rex in life.

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New painting! Featuring a pod of Stenopterygius

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DJ Crumrine @djcrumrine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Kleptoparasitism. Geosternternbergia, Nyctosaurus and Enchodus. Inspired by the book Oceans of Kansas by Micheal J Everhart and the brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds and delicious mahi-mahi tacos at my trip to Puerto Vallarta. #paleoart #pterosaurs

A chaotic scene of pterosaurs. A Geosternbergia with an Enchodus in its mouth is absolutely pestered by a flock of Nyctosaurus all trying to steal the fish.

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New painting! Featuring the pterosaur Sordes pilosus of late Jurassic Kazakhstan.

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Gabriel Bertoja (commissions open) @gabrielbruh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

An old buck Estemmenosuchus scratches itself on a dead tree with all sorts of little guys!

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Had to attempt a little study of this #HEAVYPAINT

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ok, another Mexidracon thread because I find this critter just fascinating. In our latest stream I tried to illustrate my point further by showing the proposed sediment probing behavior I assume for this animal. #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #mexidracon

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Phyllochrysa huangi • Liverwort Mimesis in a Cretaceous Lacewing Larva (Liu et al. 2018) Illustration by Dinghua Yang #paleoart #paleoentomology #sciart