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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gallimimus bullatus, Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, about 70 million years old. Sculpted from Osmólska, Roniewicz & Barsbold's 1972 description and photos of the Nemegt specimens. 13 parts, around 53 cm once built. STL at novastudios.be #PaleoArt #Paleontology #SciArt

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dozens of these skeletons were found in a Belgian coal mine in 1878, 322 metres underground, and they still stand in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Both mounts are now one STL kit: 25 parts, pin holes for 4 mm steel rod and a 36-page assembly manual. novastudios.be

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iguanodon bernissartensis, built twice. The modern mount stands on all fours, the way the animal is read today. The other is the famous 1882 standing pose from Brussels, upright with the tail on the ground. #Iguanodon #PaleoArt #Paleontology

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Filippo also went over the finished skeleton and its measurements before I released it, and gave me advice along the way. 16 parts with the base, 16-page manual. The STL is here: novastudios.be/product/jeholosaurus-skeleton-stl/

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Jeholosaurus Skeleton STL – Complete, Accurate, 16 Parts

Jeholosaurus skeleton STL, life-size: 72 cm on a base with three posts, 16 parts, skull sculpted on Filippo Bertozzo's CT models. Manual included.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis, life-size. A small plant-eater from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China, built at the size of the holotype, a young animal: 72 cm from snout to tail. Skull sculpted on the 2025 CT models by Filippo Bertozzo and colleagues. #Paleontology #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jared is now a download. Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis, life size, built from the skull Sotheby's sold last summer. Sixteen parts and a 20-page manual, and it prints on a standard FDM machine or a large resin printer. Link in the reply. #Paleontology #PaleoArt #3DPrinting

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Life-size STL is on the site, 847 mm long, 20 parts, with a 23-page assembly manual: novastudios.be/product/bambiraptor-skeleton-stl

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bambiraptor feinbergi. A small dromaeosaur from Late Cretaceous Montana, found in 1993 by a fourteen-year-old who had walked off on his own. It came up about ninety per cent complete, which for a raptor under a metre almost never happens. Skull, furcula, sternum, both hands, the whole tail.

Two renders of a life-size 3D printed Bambiraptor feinbergi skeleton on a shelf, lateral view on the left and three-quarter view on the right, mounted on a single steel rod.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Life-size STL is on the site, 847 mm long, 20 parts, with a 23-page assembly manual: novastudios.be/product/bambiraptor-skeleton-stl

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My Psittacosaurus skeleton is free because I didn't make the bones. Matt Christopher scanned real fossils and put them out for anyone. I cleaned them up and cut them for printing. It's in three museums. One of them named him Taco. www.novastudios.be/why-my-psitt...

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Life-size STL is on the site, 870 mm long, 19 parts, with an assembly manual: novastudios.be/product/berthasaura-dinosaur-skeleton-stl

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Berthasaura leopoldinae. A metre-long ceratosaur from Late Cretaceous Brazil that had no teeth at all, just a beak, in a family full of toothy predators. Described in 2021 from a single young animal, still the only one known. Full skeleton, life-size, on the shelf. #Paleontology #PaleoArt #SciArt

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Described in 2014 from one partial skull about 8 cm long, from the Cloverly Formation. The body follows its closest relatives, Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus. The mount in the second photo is at the Sauriermuseum in Bellach, Switzerland. STL: novastudios.be/product/aquilops-skeleton-stl

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Aquilops Skeleton STL | Ceratopsian 3D Print File

The first complete Aquilops skeleton STL, sculpted from the only known skull. No supports, resin-ready, instant download. Personal non-commercial licence.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Aquilops americanus. The oldest horned dinosaur known from North America, from Montana, about 106 million years old. Cat-sized, with a hooked beak, hence the name: eagle face. Known from a single skull, so the rest of the skeleton is built from its closest relatives. #Paleontology #PaleoArt #SciArt

3D printed skeleton of the small horned dinosaur Aquilops americanus in a walking pose on a wooden base, seen from the side with the hooked beak on the right, against a black background.

The Aquilops skeleton on display at the Sauriermuseum Bellach in Switzerland, a black mounted skeleton among plants on a red backdrop, with two skulls below it, one at original size and one enlarged.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The famous one is at the Sternberg Museum in Kansas: a 4 m Xiphactinus with a 1.8 m Gillicus swallowed whole, still inside it. The usual take is the meal did fatal damage on the way down, and both were buried together. Its whole family died out at the end of the Cretaceous, nothing like it today.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Xiphactinus audax. Late Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago, when Kansas was the bottom of a shallow sea. Up to 5 or 6 metres long, the biggest bony fish of its day, with a jutting lower jaw full of fangs. Skull built in Blender and 3D printed. #Paleontology #PaleoArt #SciArt

3D printed skull of the Cretaceous fish Xiphactinus audax on a wooden stand, seen from the front left with the jaws open and long fang-like teeth visible, against a black background.

The same Xiphactinus audax skull from the right side, showing the large plate-like bones of the gill cover and cheek, on a wooden stand against a black background.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good to see this getting picked up outside the field.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Falcontoxodon is great, poor thing never gets any love. Was there much to go on for the head?

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lovely. Ardi always looks wrong in drawings until you look at the fossil and realise the fossil is the weird one.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh this is useful. Been wanting something like this for ages.

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nice cover. March is a long wait though, what's this one about?

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Nova Studios | Palaeo 3D @novastudiosbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Life-size Spike, a caenagnathid dinosaur. The real skeleton sold at Christie's for £3.46M into a private collection, out of reach of science. I rebuilt it in Blender; Theropodia in France made the mount. Fossils shouldn't vanish before they're studied. #Paleontology #PaleoArt #SciArt

Life-size 3D printed skeleton of Spike, a caenagnathid oviraptorosaur, mounted on a black steel stand in a running pose in front of black curtains.

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