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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

💐 Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, eÌditeur, 1845-1880. [Source]

Historical botanical illustration from "Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe" (1845-1880) depicting a large, white Victoria Regia water lily flower with multiple layered petals arranged symmetrically around a prominent central bud. The flower rests on a broad, textured green lily pad with visible veins and curling edges, alongside a partially visible reddish-brown spiked leaf or stem segment. The detailed shading and coloring emphasize the flower’s delicate texture and the lush foliage, highlighting its significance as an exotic aquatic plant cultivated in European gardens. The composition focuses on the flower’s grandeur and botanical structure relevant to garden cultivation.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hypoxidaceae flowers lack nectaries, so they don’t offer nectar rewards. (But biologists need to check for micro amounts of nectar from diffuse nectaries.) The flowers have plenty of pollen & are visited by bees. 📷: Hypoxis hemerocallidea of southern Africa. #Hypoxidaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of a yellow, star-shaped flower with six tepals and six yellow anthers. Adjacent flower buds are hairy. Background foliage is grassy, folded (plicate) leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I finished my little bee \o/ . Art of a bee and by a bee 🐝🌿 It's now available on my Ko-fi. (End of the month and next month is vet month, so I will try to put other art up too. Commissions for small paintings are open 🙏) ko-fi.com/s/4515f07e50 #sciart #traditionalart #bee

2 passepartous with round cutouts.
One is showing a leaf cutter bee gripping a green stem on turquoise background.
the other is showing a glued down leaf which was symmetrical cut out by a bee. The background is red with little dots of gold.

watercolour of a leaf cutter bee gripping a green stem on turquoise background with a little golden signature underneath

a glued down leaf which was symmetrical cut out by a bee. The background is red with little dots of gold.

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Carlos Góis-Marques @cgoismarques.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A brief photo summary of what happened last week at the XII European #Palaeobotany and #Palynology Conference in Münster, Germany. It was really nice to meet you there! :)

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🐺 Amusement microscopique tant pour l'esprit, que pour les yeux A Nuremberg: Se grave et se vend chés Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt: 1764-1768. [Source]

Historical scientific illustration titled "Amusement microscopique" (1764-1768) showing detailed labeled microscopic views related to a wolf. The image features three main figures: Fig. D depicts a dome-shaped structure covered in fine hair with alphanumeric annotations; Fig. E shows a cross-section of a similar structure revealing hair follicles and smooth inner tissue; Fig. F presents a cross-sectional view with branching red veins or nerves surrounded by dense hair. Below are smaller inset illustrations showing circular and spherical anatomical details connected by slender stems. The illustration focuses on the wolf's hair and internal microscopic anatomy, emphasizing texture and internal complexity.

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today the organisers #SAPP2026 have gone to schools in Trelew to talk to the pupils about what a scientific conference is and why fossil plants are important to understand our past and future. What an amazing way to reconnect people to their paleontological heritage, we have much to learn from them!

Cast of a fossil plant used to show school pupils how a fossil plant looks like

3D printed pollen grains used to show school pupils what pollen is

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was a great week at the 12th European #Palaeobotany & #Palynology Congress, with very interesting presentations and chats. A special mention to all the excellent early career speakers in our session & the paleoart session organized by @lepidodendron.bsky.social and @palaeojules.bsky.social 🌿⛏️ 1/2

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Carlos Góis-Marques @cgoismarques.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🌋🌋🌋🌋🌲🌳🌲🌳 My newest paper! A small contribution to the #Tenerife and #Canary Islands #fossil record, this time focusing on #lava tree moulds, plant fossils that are often neglected in #Macaronesia. Open acess in @historicalbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Palaeobotany on the radio at 9am! @christophermberry.bsky.social and Jenny McElwain talking about the Evolution of Forests on In Our Time on Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... #Paleobotany

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Listen to the latest episodes of In Our Time on BBC Sounds.

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Our latest issue just dropped! It's green & special! And super meaty, even though it is about #plants #evolution! 🌵🌿🫛🍃🌱 This is all you need to read this week! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

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Carlos Góis-Marques @cgoismarques.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Working on new stuff to present at the 2026 European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference! :) #Miocene #Palaeobotany #Madeira #fossil #monocot #notaleaf

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A beautiful set of branches of Archaeopteris, one of the first globally distributed trees, it's ideal for #FossilFriday!

A specimen of the fossil tree Archaeopteris with particularly large leaves (around 4 cm broad)

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🦕 🌿 Missed our Paleobotany Week? There's still more on @botany.one Ancient Secrets of the Fibonacci Spiral 📖 botany.fyi/78cb3g #Palaeobotany #PlantScience

Cover image: S. Rae via iNaturalist CC BY 4.0

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I did a thread on paleontologists contributing to eugenics & fascism. What about the opposite end of political spectrum?🧵 Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.

Stegosaurus landscape by Ernst Untermann

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David Horcajada-Tejero @davidhorcajada.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Finally, my first publication is out! We describe an exceptionally preserved new species of Metzgeriaceae liverwort from the Lower Cretaceous and reveal new insights into its growth mode and autoecology as an inhabitant of the subtropical wetlands of Las Hoyas. Give it a read if you are interested!

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And the answer was photo 2, which only shows cycads and grass. Watch this thread for 🌿the name of the ferns, 📍photo locations + ⛏️ photos and info on related fossils. Happy #FernFriday & #FossilFriday ! 🌿⛏️ 1/4

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a cute little fossil fern for this #FossilFriday. This picture was taken by illuminating the fossil with light in the visible spectrum and capturing the infrared radiation emitted from the specimen!

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Hugo Paleoart @hugopaleoart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'M BACK !!! This is Leefructus, one of the oldest flower plant, with an indetermined species of Oregramma, a kalligrammatid from the Yixian formation (China, 124 MA). This butterfly-like insect fed on the first flowers of the dinosaur era. #paleoart #SciArt #insect #cretaceous #flower #china

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New blog out on how much I love botanising with my local #botany group in #Brecknockshire: lizzieharper.co.uk/2026/09/brec... Every trip I learn loads and meet wonderful botanically-minded people. Look up your local group, and give it a go! @bsbibotany.bsky.social #botanicalillustration #botany

Early Dog #Violet #Viola reichenbachiana #sciart #botanicalillustration by Lizzie Harper of the #wildflower showing roots, #flower and #seeds. Completed in watercolour, cut to white.

There are three flowers in bloom, and the tripartite seed capsule has split and is on the far right. Leaves are glossy green and heart shaped.

#Lousewort #Pedicularis sylvatica #sciart #botanicalillustration by Lizzie Harper of the #wildflower showing #flower and inflated calyx. Completed in watercolour, cut to white.

The flowers are pink and look like dead nettle flowers. leaves are much lobed, and grow low in a loose basal rosette. The plant grows low to the ground in wet habitats

Germander #speedwell #Veronica chamaedrys

Cut to white botanical #illustration showing a close up of a single bright blue, four petalled flower (with 4 stamens) and the square stem in cross section

Lesser Water Parsnip Berula erecta #sciart #botanicalillustration by Lizzie Harper of the #wildflower showing #flowers and #seedhead. Completed in watercolour, cut to white.

On the right are close ups of single seedpod and of one flower. Members of the #Apiaceae or #umbellifer family, they share pinnate leaves and umbrella-like white flowering heads composed of lots of tiny white flowers

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🌱 Histoire naturelle des végétaux: Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-1848. [Source]

Historical botanical illustration showing detailed black-and-white line drawings of flowers, seed pods, and seeds from three plant types labeled Ficoïdées, Crassulacées, and Portulacées. Various stages are depicted, including whole flowers, cross-sections of reproductive parts, individual seeds, and seed capsules. The arrangement is scientific, with labels identifying parts like stamens, pistils, and seeds. The bottom text lists three species: "Mésembrianthemum blanchâtre," "Joubarbe des montagnes," and "Claytonia de Virginie." The fine details emphasize seed structure and plant reproductive anatomy, reflecting 19th-century botanical study and classification.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Late in the season, but now the rain has arrived it's time to put out some new croziers. Dicksonia antarctica #fernFriday

Green fronds with two green croziers unfurling.

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fall will soon start in the Northern hemisphere and in the temperate zones deciduous plants are going to shed their leaves 🍃🍁. But how can we know about leaf deciduousness in "deep time" ecosystems, tens to hundreds of millions of years ago? #paleobotany #botany 🧪 🧵🌿⛏️

Fallen ginkgo leaves, with a cat paw for scale and also for cuteness.

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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks to @scishow.bsky.social for their new video covering our research on Prototaxites, really great work here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gFg...

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Those Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After All

YouTube video by SciShow

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

1 May 1831: Oxford geologist William Buckland writes to Henry De la Beche 'I have a capital Class which I am sure is 30 per cent better for your Duria Antiquior by way of a Syllabus'. Published to assist Mary Anning, it was used by Buckland as a teaching aid in his lectures on the Lias saurians.

Top, an 1830 lithograph of a reconstructed scene of the early Jurassic of Dorset showing ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and fish all eating one another; bottom, extract from William Buckland's letter to De la Beche 'I have a capital Class which I am sure is 30 per cent better for
your Duria Antiquior by way of a Syllabus.'

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany

A black background with a plant recon on the right and logos in the bottom left.
Writing in white reads:
European paleobotany and palynology conference 2026.
20th to 25th September 2026
Symposium
Plant Paleoart: perspectives and promises
Julianne Kiely and Mario Coiro
Abstract submissions welcome.

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✅📄Now Free Access: The eternal struggle of trees: a commentary on ‘A dwarf conifer tree from the Triassic of Antarctica: the first fossil evidence of suppressed growth in a favourable climate?’ Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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The eternal struggle of trees: a commentary on ‘A dwarf conifer tree from the Triassic of Antarctica: the first fossil evidence of suppressed growth in a favourable climate?’

All major lineages of living vascular plants have tried their hands at being trees; this repeated evolution of the woody, single-trunked growth form has be

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🐍 The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: . London: printed for C. Marsh [etc.]1754.. [Source]

Illustration from 1754 showing a rattlesnake coiled around branches of two different plants. The snake has a speckled brown and gray pattern with a distinct rattle at its tail. The plants feature elongated green leaves, yellow spherical flowers, and seed pods. The composition highlights the natural habitat and details of the rattlesnake alongside botanical elements typical of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.

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Bri @circadiancrunch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A landscape I did for Transition Habitat. This place doesn't actually exist though. It's a made up landscape based on photos I took at Lost Lake, available photos of Puma Canyon, and my commute thru the San Gabriel Mountains. A representation of the ecotone~ #sciart #ecotone #scrubland #art

An digital illustration of a scrubland/pinyon-junper woodland.
There is shallow, flowing, water in a sandy wash with some large rocks. The plantlife is mostly rabbitbrush and big sagebrush, but pines, deciduous trees, and joshua trees are visible going further back toward the scrub covered hills.

These plants communities combine in these spots between the biomes we more commonly think of, making them extremely biodiverse.

While this particular landscape is based on the Mojave-San Gabriel Mountain transition zone, this particular place doesn't actually exist. Instead, the image is based on Puma Canyon (Phelan, CA) Lost Lake (San Bernardino, CA) and the drive up Lone Pine Canyon (Lytle Creek, CA)

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🌴 Icones filicum ad eas potissimum species illustrandas destinatæ, quæ hactenus, vel in herbariis delituerunt prorsus incognitae, vel saltem nondum per icones botanicis innotuerunt.. Londini, Prostant Venales Apud Treuttel et Würtz, Treuttel Fil. et Richter; [etc., etc.]1831.. [Source]

Historical botanical illustration of Lycopodium wildenowii, a species of clubmoss in the Pteridophyta group. The main image shows a detailed green stem with symmetrical, densely packed, small needle-like leaves branching horizontally. Below are additional detailed views: a close-up of a leaf cluster with a spore-bearing cone, enlarged individual spores, and cross-sectional views of stems and leaves. The illustration highlights the plant’s reproductive structures and foliage texture, providing scientific accuracy for identification and study of this lesser-known pteridophyte species.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If you need 150 people in palaeontology, geology, zoology, scicomm and related. And I could list more, but ran out of space!

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A piece of Glossopteris leaf from the late Permian of Antarctica ~260 million years old 🌳⛏️. Broken but showing nice detail of the veination. Glossopterids are seed plants that were found on all of today's southern continents during the Permian. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany

An impression of a fossil leaf showing details of the veination. The apical and lower parts of the leaf are missing

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms! Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Get your weekend off to a great start by catching up on 'the Indiana Jones of the plant world' (and our past President!) Sandy Knapp on Private Passions. As well as her music choices, she discusses how plants names are decided and her research into plants named after women.

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Private Passions - Sandra Knapp - BBC Sounds

Michael Berkeley's guest is the botanist Sandra Knapp.

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JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm a researcher studying insect fossils of South Korea, and also a paleoartist. Feel free to contact me! Contact: okok2073@gmail.com Pixiv: www.pixiv.net/users/6334360

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison. #sciart #paleoart

A brown stripey Apatosaurus walks through a glade of lush tree ferns, cycads, and conifers. Small theropods run past in the foreground.

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RMSBA @rmsbartists.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

OPEN CALL FOR ART! Claim a color in "Full Spectrum" — A joyful celebration of COLORS. Color choices must be in by Jan 1, and some colors are almost full! You have most of 2026 to finish your piece. Check it out at: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084FA8... #callforart #juriedshow #botanicalart

FULL SPECTRUM call for art closes November 2, 2026 (yes, a year away—botanical art is slow art!)

YELLOW: A close-up sunflower by member Dorothy DePaulo.

VIOLET: A single thistle blossom by member Mary Crabtree.

RED: A pairing featuring bright Indian Paintbrush by Jan Boyd Haring.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Result from the Talara tar seeps #paleostream! Like the La Brea tar pits this was Pleistocene death trap, however these fossils come from Peru so everything has a south american flavor. This piece is set at the beginning of the rainy season, with new green beginning to sprout...

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Nice wee blog on #Permian plants. #geology #paleontology

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Ochi of Brocktoon @anatotitan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

More Kaiparowits #paleoart for #artadventcalendar day 2: this travel poster featuring a pair o' Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, perched enantornithean, and big ol' turtle. 🐡🎨

A travel poster reading Explore the most of the Kaiparowits, Late Cretaceous. A misty swamp scene in purple, blue, and green with a distant pair of crested Parasaurolophus, turtle on a fallen tree, and bird high up in a tall tree.

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Studies of some horsetail fossils from the Yorkshire flora of Jurassic UK to start off a brand new sketchbook. #paleoart #paleobotany #botany #sciart

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Study of Matonia pectinata fiddlehead & mature frond. I forgot how time-consuming ferns are to render 😭 #sciart #botany

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Pencil study directly based on the figure above, to practice the complex shapes of this fern. With plants, especially ferns, I find you have to start with very simple, geometric shapes & slowly build up complexity #paleobotany #paleoart

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