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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our fundraiser on exploring Dakota the dino mummy for color was funded!!! In a day!!! OMG. so with that, we are announcing stretch goals so we can sample more areas of Dakotas body 😁

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The extinct Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), from my book A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press. a.co/d/6rKgbMQ 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #extinct

A bright yellow-green parakeet, shown in flight with wings spread.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Dodo of Mauritius

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

20 years ago today, the first episode of Prehistoric Park aired. If you haven't seen it yet in the intervening time, I highly recommend tracking it down. It's a very fun show, a grounded (excepting time travel) take on the dinosaur park concept that we haven't seen on screen since

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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Last of the walgvogels...

retro, woodblockstyle illustration of a dodo.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Results from tonights #paleostream! You might notice a slight parental theme ;) Apteribis, Parachoerodon, Lavanttalornis and Maiacetus.

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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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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Lazy sunday sketching. Deinotherium and some funky bipedal apes in a watering hole somewhere in east africa #sciart

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

There are two ways to portray Hațeg Island in paleodocumentaries: 1. Tropical jungle paradise with beautiful sandy beaches 2. Gloomy mountainous horsetail land with killer pterosaurs

Hațeg Island as portrayed in Dinosaur Planet (2004): a beautiful tropical rainforest. This screenshot features a Pyroraptor (a red feathered dromaeosaur) looking over the edge of a waterfall, with lush foliage all around

Hațeg Island as portrayed in Prehistoric Planet (2022): a beautiful coastal jungle. This screenshot features a tropical sandy beach, on which a Hatzegopteryx (big azhdarchid pterosaur) stands, looking out at the sea. Thick foliage can be seen behind it

Hațeg Island as portrayed in Planet Dinosaur (2011). We see a field of horsetails with mountains in the background and dark gray clouds in the sky. Here a Hatzegopteyx looms over a herd of Magyarosaurus (small titanosaurs)

Hațeg Island as portrayed in The Dinosaurs (2026). Everything is very gloomy, with strongly overcast skies. The camera is placed in a field of horsetails with mountains in the background. In the distance, several Magyarosaurus seek shelter in a cave

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A short thread with thoughts on Disney's Dinosaur, which I rewatched recently to commemorate the loss of Dinoland USA. I always forget just how dark this movie is, inarguably the darkest in the entire Disney filmography. There is SO much death and suffering both on and off-screen, it's truly grim!

Poster for Disney's Dinosaur, showing a prehistoric landscape dominated by giant sauropods reflected in the blue eyes of an Iguanodon. The film's title is written in a rough, weathered font with an amber hue.

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Palorchestes has got to be one of the most absurd marsupials ever What's not to love?

A pencil sketch of Palorchestes, a bizarre marsupial from Late Pleistocene Australia

A pencil sketch of a Palorchestes yawning, showing its teeth and scrunching up its bizarre floppy nose

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Gastornis/Diatryma meets one of their non-flightless neighbours, the stem-parrot Cyrilavis Originally made as gift art for @kulindadromeus.bsky.social

A scene set in an Eocene rainforest, circa 50 million years ago, in modern Wyoming.
A Gastornis, with a gray plumage and an orange beak and blue eyes, is delighted to spot a Cyrilavis resting on their large beak. The Cyrilavis is white and gray with gray cockatiel-style cheek-spots

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

At the moment, the cranes that nest in Finland are wintering in Africa along the Nile in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. Looks like this particular one has some friends to meet there! Yes, I know all these guys don't share ranges, no need to put that in the replies

A scene with assorted cranes and storks standing in reeds, against a blue backdrop. On the left, there is a Common Crane (Grus grus), looking right, to meet the eyes of a Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), Gray Crowned-Crane (Balearica regulorum) and Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer).
They all look pleased to see each other.

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Moa

Digital Drawing. A depiction of all 9 species of moa. They look as if they are floating in the air, moving towards a glowing point in the bottom left corner. In the background are some twisty-ish trees, all leaning to the left. There is a dark border around the whole piece. At the bottom are the skulls of all 9 species (they're probably not exactly to scale with one another). On the left and right of the skulls are pairs of kōwhai leaves. The rest of the border is filled with simple lines.
All 9 species of moa are (left to right):
Mantell's moa
Bush moa
Eastern moa (bald one with blue head)
Heavy-footed moa (behind eastern moa)
South Island giant moa (has blue on the neck)
Stout-legged moa
North island giant moa
Crested moa
Upland moa

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Older Andrewsarchus reconstructions look like the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus if it was a mammal

The Megalosaurus statue at Crystal Palace park in London. It is a robust quadrupedal predator with a long, toothy skull and a hump on its back

The Andrewsarchus from Walking with Beasts. It is a robust quadrupedal predator with a long, toothy skull and a bit of a hump on its back

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Every year, this couple of Palaeoloxodon falconeri visit a communal site to mourn the dead. As a token, they leave stones for the cairns Island life shrunk their bodies, but not their brains, which are in proportion to their body size match early humans. Who knows what was churning in their heads

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

In continuing celebration of TWENTY YEARS OF TETRAPOD ZOOLOGY, I've just published an article listing some of my personal highlights. The article is here if you want to check it first... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/1/... but I'm also going a build a thread, discussing and linking to my highlight articles.

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After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights — Tetrapod Zoology

A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Dinosaurs were nearly wiped out 66 million years ago, long before the start of the Quaternary ice age. However, #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge shows that the few surviving dinosaurs (birds) would go on to become highly successful. Let's meet the ice age dinosaurs featured in the series! 🪶🧪

Screenshot from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age showing the head and neck of a giant stork.

Screenshot from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age showing a long-legged bird standing on a rock. It is using one foot to hold down a piece of meat while also tearing at it with its beak.

Screenshot from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age showing two flightless birds with long necks standing in a forest. The male on the left has a bright blue head and is much smaller than the female on the right.

Screenshot from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age showing numerous large flightless birds feeding in a wetland.

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The image in question is from the website of @australianwildlife.bsky.social , which has a whole host of amazing images of conservationists handling Aussie wildlife, gotta be my favourite genre of photography www.australianwildlife.org/what-we-do/r...

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Restoring wildlife

AWC’s world-leading reintroduction program returns animals to landscapes where they’ve been lost, restoring ecosystems and preventing extinctions.

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A simple portrait of Teratornis merriami, done in coloured pencils

A portrait of Teratornis merriami in coloured pencils against a blue backdrop.

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just a Dimetrodon out fishing, not much else He looks nice to hang around with, and it'd be nice to just relax for once

Grandfather Dimetrodon sitting on a chair at the river bank, holding a fishing rod, reeling in a paper on the ecology of Dimetrodon grandis. The Dimetrodon feels happy and content.

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Go check out this video if you haven't already, it covers incredible paleoart by an incredible wildlife artist, and it's presented expertly It's awesome!

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木下いたる Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We are NOMINATED‼️ This gonna be the LAST CHANCE for anime adaptation, and I believe we have the power to make it happen! Please VOTE for Dinosaur Sanctuary from the link below▼ anime-japan.jp/activities/a... I'll show you how to vote in the replay below.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

An extinct condor from the open & semi-open ecosystems of eastern Brazil in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene - part of a diversified guild of scavenging #birds that suffered severe #extinction when South America's rich #megafauna was decimated by Homo sapiens www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

⭑ PALEOFAUNA ⭑ of ⭑ NEW ⭑ CALEDONIA⭑ 🧵 #paleoart

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Moa Remains

Digital Drawing. A depiction of an upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) based on the type specimen. The head and right foot are represented as mummified remains while the rest of the body is drawn more like a life appearance, in the style of a monochromatic sketch.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Results from the #paleostream! Dodo, Oneirosaurus, Thikarisuchus and Bakiribu

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yee-qi.bsky.social @yee-qi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles. This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

Small single-celled organism bathed in rays of light, evocative of the Pale Blue Dot photograph

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work: “I basically study swamp monsters” “I’m a dinosaur orthodontist” “Dead bird bird watcher” #2025SVP

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.

Prehistoric Planet Megaloceros as seen from a cave interior.

Prehistoric Planet giant adjutant stork.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 04/10/2025

T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday! #art

Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.

A simple landscape illustration with a grey-green ocean, a dark grey rocky islet partly covered by orange lichen and a light grey overcast sky. On and around the islet are seabirds of several species, most pictured realistically in colour. The largest bird is a now-extinct great auk, depicted as a semi-translucent white ghost figure.

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️

Two juvenile giant moa (Dinornis robustus) run energetically along a beach, creating some splashes as they go. Small waves roll in behind them.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/08/2025

Bird abilities I wish I had. Buy my new book here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

A nine panel comic called "Bird abilities I wish I had." In panel 1, labeled flying, a woman in a red tshirt and blue jeans soars through the air with 2 mourning doves. In panel 2, labeled singing complex songs, the woman sings with a magnolia warbler. In panel 3, labeled carving wood with my face, the woman has carved a hole in a tree and is covered in wood chips, while a pileated woodpecker pecks on a tree behind her. In panel 4, labeled eating shrimp to become pink, the woman has turned pink and is standing next to two flamingos. In panel 5, labeled storing food in a gular pouch, the woman has a throat pouch with an apple and a fish in it, and two pelicans fly by. In panel 6, labeled not needing winter legwear, the woman is bundled up but has bare legs and is standing in a snowy landscape next to a mallard duck. In panel 7, labeled being a symbol of peace, the woman looks peaceful and is wearing a shirt with a peace sign, and there's a mourning dove on her hand. In panel 8, labeled being an omen, the woman is in a spooky tree next to a crow or raven and a crescent moon. In panel 8, labeled stealing chips with no criminal repercussions, the woman and a herring gull are flying through the air carrying chip bags in their mouth while someone on the ground says "hey!".

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Joanna has made incredible paleoart before, but this is just jawdropping It looks as alive as a photograph of a lion in the Serengeti today, only fluffier and better suited to the harsh mammoth steppe If you don't follow her work yet, do it now

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I just learned about Dear Fauna, a STOP MOTION, FELT animation about pleistocene. It releases in just a couple days. Let's show it some love!

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's true, #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age is coming to #AppleTV for November 2025. These images show how good our animals are, but... believe me, this barely scratches the surface!! It has been a massive thrill and privilege to help bring this series together... you're in for an incredible treat.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two homotheres interacting in a snowy landscape.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two Woolly rhino, a calf and old adult.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a glyptodont.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a mother sloth climbing up a rocky surface, baby on her back.

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Derek den Ouden, Paleosoricidologist @denoudenderek.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I had an absolute blast talking with David and Will about the wacky and wild world of shrews, have a listen!

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Through Time And Clades is over, and with it my paleoart series. I'm grateful to have been a part of it with @albertonykus.bsky.social and @killdeercheer.bsky.social , even if for one episode My paleoart musings will go on in one way or another, somewhere else www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8MR...

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Farewell!

YouTube video by Through Time And Clades

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P. David Polly @pdpolly.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Hyaenodon, an @pelican-man.bsky.social original now framed and hung with a @blueasterstudio.bsky.social original.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There is no tomorrow for Moa kind. In this result of yesterdays #paleostream we explore the Holocene of New Zealand, a world we largely lost not even 1000 years ago.

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Ilari Pätilä @pelican-man.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

You can just feel the moisture of the air and hear the rustling of leaves and the sounds of countless insects. Rarely you see fossil environments as alive as this! Truly the work of a master

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“MOAMANIA 2”, ft. 1. N. Island Giant Moa 2. Coastal Moa 3. Eastern Moa 4. Little Bush Moa 5. Crested Moa 6. S. Island Giant Moa 7. Heavy-footed Moa 8. Mantell’s Moa 9. Upland Moa #paleoart #art #digitalart #Pleistocene

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Upland Moa

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Bird nesting in the Cretaceous! This is the illustration I did for a new paper by Lauren Wilson and colleagues that is published TODAY in Science The new paper describes an assemblage of fossils that includes both chicks and adults from multiple species of Late Cretaceous birds! #paleoart #birds

Illustration depicting a late Cretaceous arctic beach where several species of birds are nesting and several other dinosaurs are around

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We were interviewed about our work on the mind of a horse science comic. Give it a listen :)

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Heavy Footed Moa

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