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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The saber-toothed tiger, certainly alongside #mammoth and giant sloths, is the most famous animal of the Ice Age. Here I illustrate the #Smilodon fatalis, which inhabited areas from Canada to Chile and Argentina. #paleoart More below!

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The "giant woolly sloth", #Megatherium americanum, alongside the #woollymammoth and the saber-toothed tiger, is easily one of the icons of the Ice Age. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The #WoollyMammoth Certainly the most iconic animal of the Ice Age, #Mammuthus primigenius is a species divided into two morphotypes, with European populations being larger than Siberian populations. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#pteromaiobr dia 8 "O andarilho dos céus" #Anhanguera piscator Um Anhanguera, sobrevoa uma costa do jovem atlântico, ao fundo uma tempestade se aproxima, e bom ele se apressar e voltar para a segurança da colonia.... #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#pteromaiobr dia 4 Um #Arthurdactylus conandoylei encontrou um triste fim nas mandíbulas de um spinosaurideo da Formação crato (possível ancestral do angaturama e #irritator da formação Romualdo?) #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#pteromaiobr dia 3 #Tapejara wellnhoferi Após perder parte de sua crista este cara virou uma boa forma de se ver a lua #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Right at the beginning of the rise of the dinosaurs, Antarctica witnessed one of the most interesting experiments of theropods, the #Cryolophosaurus ellioti, characterized by a peculiar crest formed by its lacrimal and nasal bones. #paleoart

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Observation and study

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The New Hunter #Neovenator salerii, the top predator of the Wessex Formation, and one of the initial experiments of the Allosauroids that would later become the carcharodontosaurids, the Kings of the Southern Hemisphere. #paleoart

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OnlyScarcelyScaly @onlyscarcelyscaly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Went ahead and adapted my Paranthropus boisei skin to this little Australopithecus's anatomy. Almost done with the re-creasing the mesh and updating the color texture, but haven't even *touched* the bumpmap texture yet

Screenshot of a Hominin bust in Blender, with a material like a solid reddish-orange slightly shiny plastic. The Hominin, modeled after the Little Foot skull, faces left-of-frame, and we view it from slightly above such that we see the top of her head but can also still see some of the front of her neck. She is a member of genus Australopithecus, and so some of her features are ape-like, but human-like features are identifiable if you know what to look for. Her forehead and much of her upper face is creased, with pads of thick skin on her upper cheeks, and a similar situation on a smaller scale is present above the corners of her mouth. Her nose is wide and mostly flat, but the ball of her otherwise apelike nose protrudes a little bit. Her braincase is rather small but a little taller than most chimpanzees or bonobos, and her lower face is robust.

An image exported directly from one of Blender's cameras, situated at a fairly similar angle to that of the previous image. This time, we see the realistic skin texture applied, with lighting as well. The inner corners of her eyes and the aforementioned cheek pads are pale, as are the outer corners of the mouth and the insides of her ears and nose, all with slightly different hues. Otherwise her skin is a dark, greyish brown, with a slightly rough texture. From this angle there are very few strong shadows, since the camera is basically aligned with the light source, and there is a faint bluish reflective light across the back of her head and shoulders.

Another image exported from Blender of the Hominin reconstruction, this time from a low angle a little bit to one side, so that she appears to gaze intently somewhere beyond the upper right corner. Now we can see strong shadows, at her right cheek, under her chin, and just above her eyelids because of the robust, creased brow ridge. Since her eyes aren't as hidden by that brow from this vantage point, we can see dark grey scleras and rich brown irises. The faint bluish reflective light catches the back corner of her jaw and the underside of the bust.

The final Blender image export of this post, this time with Little Foot staring straight ahead and slightly up into the camera. We can see how the inner part of her eye socket and the outer part of the cheek pad are strongly raised from the surrounding skin, with deep creases at the edges. Aside from her ears, from this angle the silhouette of her head is almost mirrored top-to-bottom, with the sides of her face forming a fairly straight upright line from her temples to her jawline. There are strong shadows at the oblique parts of the right side of her face, and now the reflective light runs faintly along the right-hand outlines of her trapezius and her braincase.

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The Wanderer An #ornithopod roams peacefully through what will one day be the northeast of #Brazil. Inspired by the footprints of the Sousa Formation. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"The Great Khan" #Tarbosaurus bataar, the alarming lizard, a close relative of #Tyrannosaurus that lived in what is now the Mongolian region at the end of the Cretaceous period, a striking characteristic of which is its even smaller arms compared to T. rex! #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"The Head Crusher" A newly described #Edmontosaurus skull with a #Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in its snout has been described, implying predation and consumption by the T. rex, much like jaguars and crocodiles that bite skulls to the point of crushing the bones! #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I'm alive, but he's not. First post of the year, a skeleton of the #Velociraptor mongoliensis, the most iconic of all raptors. This idea came from an edit I was making of a Scott Hartman skeleton for some friends on Discord, then I decided to play around with it more... #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Test paint on my Arctops sculpt! It’s probly getting a little more work on it but one session in and the vibes are there :) #paleoart #gorgonopsid #permian

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Another #DAWNDINOS paper submitted! A deep dive into locomotor function and biomechanics in the awesome Late Triassic "rauisuchian" Postosuchus.

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OnlyScarcelyScaly @onlyscarcelyscaly.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A *liiiitle* late to the party, but not as late as the finished piece will be: corpses of an adult Nanotyrannus and juvenile Tyrannosaurus washed together after a flood, similar in size but anatomically distinct. Very much a work in progress, lmk if anything looks especially disproportionate

Grayscale digital painting on a vertically tall canvas, depicting two Tyrannosaur corpses seen from directly above. They lie on their sides more-or-less facing one another, the Tyrannosaurus juvenile (left) missing its lower jaw, leaving its tongue to flop out onto the ground, and the Nanotyrannus adult (right) missing its right foot and most of the shin. The ground is dark and damp beneath them, shadows casting shortly but sharply leftward, with puddles blurrily reflecting a pale grey sky with pterosaurs wheeling overhead, and various branches and small animal remains scattered around them too. The Tyrannosaurus is generally darker (for now) with haphazard stripes on its tail and flank, and more deliberate feathers and tubercles on its head and neck. The Nanotyrannus has no patterns for now, but has an upward- jutting crest in front of its eyes and larger arms and two-fingered hands than its relative.

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OnlyScarcelyScaly @onlyscarcelyscaly.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Little update on this, now that its been over a year since I opened the file somehow: changed her proportions and the color gradient slightly, and also added hair : )

Digital painting of a Neanderthal woman shifting her weight in preparation to throw a spear, seen from a low angle such that the distant dusty horizon is behind her shins. Her body is mostly turned toward us as she holds the spear (grey, uneven, pointed diagonally downwards toward the bottom right corner of the image) in her right hand, at left-of-frame, and lifts her left foot and left arm to lean on her slightly bent right leg. Her head faces more severely toward right-of-frame, and tilted so we see under her jaw, and, as a Neanderthal, she has a large nose on a projecting midface, a receding chin, strong brow ridges, and an oblong, low braincase. She is softly but densely muscled, with slightly short-looking legs compared to a large torso, and has brown skin with darker brown cranial hair and pubic hair. The background is a vertical gradient of a dull, hazy sky and completely flat landscape growing paler as they approach the horizon, and her shadow is cast thinly and faintly rightward.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Rex, all hail the king #sciart

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If giant terrestrial archosaurs retained thick articular cartilage at large sizes, I wonder if this enhanced their locomotory performance compared to giant land mammals (that get thinner cartilage with ⬆️ size). An advantage of thick cartilage would be shock absorption.

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

open your little mouth and say AAAA A #Tyrannosaurus rex uses its colorful mouth as a form of display, a bizarre rictus protrudes from its jaws displaying strong blue colors, while the inside of its green mouth breaks the contrast of the blue. #paleoart #art

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It's spring in the heart of Europe sometime in the Pleistocene, and a mother #Palaeoloxodon antiquus takes care of her baby after a winter, she began to exchange her winter coat for a thinner summer coat while her baby plays among the flowers always under her care. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#Baurusuchus salgadoensis A survivor of a megaraptoran attack when she was young, which cost her her right arm and part of her tail and left her with deep scars on her skin. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#Tameryraptor markgrafi is a recently described carcharodontosaurid from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt. It features a peculiar structure on its nasal bone, which may have supported a crest during its lifetime. (1/2) #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

first drawing of the year a #jormungandr wahallaensis stylized to resemble medieval bestiary illustrations. #mosasaurus #art #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

goodbye 2024 and hello 2025 last art of the #NewYear . an unexpected duo? a young #Ceratosaurus exchanges caresses with a large #Torvosaurus under a huge tree. speculative behavior based on allopreening seen in extant #birds #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

a trio of #harpactognathus quickly devour an unfortunate #Ceratosaurus, while the owner of the carcass(( #allosaurus )) turns back his fangs when he sees his meal being stolen. #paleoart #JurassicReimagined #art

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

( #paleoart comission ) Deinosuchus' main prey would've been giant turtles, followed by fish, but it wouldn't have passed the chance on ambushing a clueless dinosaur (Like this Tyrannosauroid)

the giant alligatoroid Deinosuchus ambushing a passing-by non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroid

70-something million years ago in Appalachia

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Morrison's #volcanoes A young #Allosaurus fragilis wanders in the middle of an active volcanic crater, he passes next to a river of lava that lights up the night, beneath them the #moon shines with all its beauty. #paleoart #art

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Sara.draws.paleoart @saradrawspaleoart.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Gnathovorax cabreirai

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Mingau @themingau.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Vou aproveitar aqui pra falar dessa discussão um tanto cansativa envolvendo lábios em dinossauros... A questão dos lábios em teropodes já é bastante cansativa, e é mais ainda no Spinosaurus porque fazem muita comparação com os crocodilos quando se trata desse bicho.

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

a #tyrannosaur from the southernmost population of Laramidia. I imagined such a population as being relatively more slender than their northern cousins. 1/3 #paleoart #trex

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

As #homotherium has recently seen an increase in popularity, I decided to play a little with the toothy #cat #paleoart

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The fact that most of us (speaking as a latino myself) don't usually learn in-depth about the majesty of south and mesoamerican pre-columbian cultures in school is depressing. Reading that Tenochtitlan had more people than Paris or London in the 1500's blew my mind as an adult.

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Michael Deak @slothfultyrant.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

For any new followers, yes, my profile pic is of me with the holotype of #Tyrannosaurus rex. Truly a high point during my time as an undergrad. #fossil #dinosaur #paleontology

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Manusuchus @manusuchus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

- A male Voay robustus rests with a female C. niloticus during the breeding season about 1000 years ago. He´s blissfully unaware that he is the last member of his species, but that's okay. What's extinction compared to the love of a lady and the warm rays of the sun on your face? -

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Archaeopteryx male with a speculative display crest and dancing to impress~ Some process and thoughts in the thread!

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OnlyScarcelyScaly @onlyscarcelyscaly.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Two theropod-centric pieces near the beginning and end of my time in high school, being a graphite drawing of Bambiraptor from 2012, and "Lady Spinosaurus with an Incisivosaurus" a 2014 acrylic-on-posterboard parody of Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine".

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

A Therizinosaurus made as a gift! First time drawing one of these in a good while, they’re such delightful weirdos both in terms of looks and evolutionary history! #paleoart #dinosaurart #therizinosaurus

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Taking advantage of the fact that today these three complete 100 years since their description, some quick sketches of #oviraptor, #saurornithoides and #velociraptor. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

"the one above all" the king of dinosaurs, #tyrannosaurus rex! #Halloween #art that I made very quickly so as not to miss the date. #paleoart

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

"the one above all" the king of dinosaurs, #tyrannosaurus rex! #Halloween #art that I made very quickly so as not to miss the date. #paleoart

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tiagokuch.bsky.social @tiagokuch.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Mamutes sapientes: Os mamutes sapientes vivem e evoluíram em um arquipélago de ilhas grandes, desenvolvendo uma sociedade complexa e avançada, incluindo a construção de casas, pirâmides e totens. Junto ao desenvolvimento da agricultura e a domesticação de árvores.

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Lana Potiguara-GuaraLana 🏹 @lanaflowerz.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Nós gostamos de mulher musculosa sim !!!!

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