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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If ever you end up in early Cretaceous Brazil, do your best to not be bitten by Thalassodromeus. It would not be fun. Figure from this pterosaur bite force study @rv-pegas.bsky.social and colleagues: doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa163

Bar graph displaying the estimated absolute bite forces (A) and relative bite force quotient (B) for several pterosaurs. Top to bottom, they are Nyctosaurus, Pteranodon, Anhanguera, Tropeognathus, Dsungaripterus, Tapejara, Caupedactylus, Tupuxuara, and Thalassodromeus. A skull silhouette of each pterosaur is displayed next to each bar. Of these, Thalassodromeus has by far the highest absolute bite force, at 150 N, and the second highest bite force quotient after Dsungaripterus. Fig. 20 of Pêgas et al., 2021

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Spinosaurus comm

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Matteo @teolorenzo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Albertosaurus for an art night

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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Vertigo 🩵🐉 @vertigoishere.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Repost if you used an invite code to join this site

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 08/02/2025

Rachel Riley must hate Willow Ptarmigan’s on Countdown

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Isidore R N @wildtwink.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Iguanadon says trans rights

A sketchy illustration of a charging iguanadon on a gold background, it's colored like the trans flag, naturally

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Matteo @teolorenzo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Couple anatomy sketches I did for my art class.

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A White-tailed Eagle portrait I just love these giant birds of prey, which are quite abundant here in Norway. Their giant yellow beaks, intense gaze and losse, ruffled head feathers make for great portraits Acrylics on board 9.8″ x 9.8″ (25 x 25 cm) Original available

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Prehistoric Kingdom @prehistorickingdom.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Sound on for this one! 🔊🦖 Learn more about how the ontogeny audio will work with a free Dev Chat article on our Patreon - available for everyone to read! 📝Patreon Post (free!): bit.ly/3PVR2Dk

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This past weekend was Dinofest 2025 (Underwater Worlds) at the Natural History Museum of Utah and I hear it was a total success! I had the pleasure to be commissioned to do the banner art, which depicts the pliosaur Brachauchenius about to catch a hypothetical baby Nothronychus #paleoart #dinosaurs

Illustration depicting Brachauchenius swimming under a baby Nothronychus clinging to a mat of floating vegetation that has been washed offshore after a storm

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Wobbly Works @wobblyworks.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I honestly forgot I made this account months ago lmao Anyway, here's a little treat for all the new followers!

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Wobbly Works @wobblyworks.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Dusted off my old Microraptor rig for a nice little hour-long animation practice

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Baldi🍉 @baldikonijn.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

An oldie but I still like this one.

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Portrait of a Short faced bear Copic Markers and colored pencil on Fabriano paper 8.3″ x 6.3″ (21 x 16 cm) Original sold

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Matteo @teolorenzo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Drawing of an #Edaphosaurus I did on one of the whiteboards at school. He wishes you good morning :) #paleoart #goodmorning

Earlier in the night I was doing foliage practice and looked at some Permian plants. I ended up doing a colored sketch using colored pencil for the first time in nearly a decade. I’ll throw that up here at some point too.

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Nathan Dehaut @nathandehaut.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

First post on here! I'm a paleo-illustrator so if you like fossils and extinct species stick around! First up : Portunatasaurus chasing fish in a wave during the late Cretaceous in what is now Croatia. It's a potential early relative to the much bigger mosasaurs!

Extinct marine lizard Portunatasaurus pursuing fish in a wave
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm working on #paleoart of #synapsids today, so here're two battling Arsinoitherium to mark the occasion. They are nothing to do with the species I'm drawing, other than the fact both subjects share a great deal of heft and some nifty headgear. #sciart

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Doodlize @doodlize.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I drew my kitty-cats in school uniforms for an art night! 🐱

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Prehistoric Kingdom @prehistorickingdom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hey Bluesky, this is our first post here! Prehistoric Kingdom is a zoo building/management tycoon game with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, currently in Early Access on Steam and Epic! 🦕Steam (30% off!): bit.ly/pk_steam ➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/3Wqev3o 📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

BBC Earth doesn’t seem to have an active account on here, so I thought I’d share the news. First look at Walking with Dinosaurs (2025)!

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So glad for people to get to see some of the animals I've spent the past couple of years looking after! I had the wonderful opportunity to design the looks of many of the species, and have worked on each animal in detail across the VFX process. Walking with Dinosaurs premieres later in 2025!

A mother and juvenile Pachyrhinosaurus nuzzle each other.

Three Albertosaurus, the central one heavily scarred, emerge from the forest.

A close up on the side of the face of an Albertosaurus.

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projectpaleozoo.bsky.social @projectpaleozoo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Ambassador animals provide opportunities for our guests to create deep, memorable connections to the natural world. With plenty of personality to show, keepers @teolorenzo.bsky.social and @doodlize.bsky.social prepare a pair of Microraptor and Yi qi for an upcoming ambassador animal showcase! 🪽

Two Paleozoo keepers prepare a group of small, feathered dinosaurs for an educational showcase for guests. One gracefully is landing on the glove of its trainer. Another, sitting patiently. The last is attempting to nibble the hair of its trainer.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Ancient timelapse appears: It's a study painting of a cat skull I did on the Nintendo 3DS #art #skulls #cat #painting

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Happy #FossilFriday, and a massive THANK-YOU so much to everyone who's followed me!!! I've just passed 5k, which is about double the followers I've had anywhere else before, so thank-you!!!🥰 As a treat, here's a new piece of #paleoart which I've previously only shared on Patreon! #paleobotany #plant

A parchment coloured landscape page covered in different bennettitalean leaf genera. They are almost all frond-like and green, but vary wildly in their shape and structure. The genera present are Anomozamites, Dictyozamites, Nipponoptilophyllum, Ptilophyllum, Shenozamites, Eoginkgoites, Nilssoniopteris, Otozamites, Pseudocycas, Pterophyllum, and Zamites.

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Finished the reconstruction of a Panthera atrox (American lion) skeleton, a commission I did for someone :) #SciArt #Paleoart

A reconstructed skeleton of the American cave lion, Panthera atrox

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Carolyn Bennett Glauda @notoriouscbg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This article has solid, actionable tips for minimizing the damage caused by social media collecting our personal data - without having to delete profiles or burn it all down.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Hej #portfolioday! I'm Twarda. A freelancing illustrator with a biology background. I do paleoart, creature design, and I work in games. Portfolio & contact: twarda-arts.carrd.co Thank you for looking💛

Underwater paleoart featuring a lot of marine animals from the late Cretaceous

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Matteo @teolorenzo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Ceratosaurus emerges from a forest. This illustration depicts a Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus. Coated in scars and ticks emerging from a forest.

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This illustration depicts a Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus emerging from a forest into an arid plain. Coated in scars and ticks this individual still sports bright crests and a healthy weight. Maybe they sought cover from the sun to rest, maybe eying potential prey nearby, or even a potential rival.

Ceratosaurus is one of my favorite dinosaurs and often comes to my mind. Like deinonychus I tend to do rough sketches of them but never really do much outside of that. It’s nice to have something of Ceratosaurus on my page to show that :)

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Mamenchisaurus is best known for its extraordinary long neck, however it also has a surprisingly slender head. With most artwork focusing on the neck the oddity of the skull is somewhat lost. But when you change perspective... #paleoart #sciart #paleostream

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Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The best physical activity everyone can do this holiday season is delivering a spinning kick directly to Elon Musk's testicles. It's fun for the whole family, promotes aerobic exercise, and delivers the gift of Elon doubled over as your kick impacts his nuts.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Third ancient Greek vase from an alternative timeline with less destructive humanity. In this religious scene, Athene, goddess of wisdom, carries a giant Cretan owl, one of the extinct endemic Cretan animals. They are trailed by little owls (Athene noctua), which is Athene’s symbol in real life.

Illustration mimicking those on ancient Greek vases with orange characters on a black background. It’s showing the goddess Athene as a woman clothed in flowing fabric with snakes reaching out from her back. She’s walking from left to right, holding her arms in front of her, a very large Cretan owl sitting on her hands and two little owls following them. There is also a young olive tree planted in a decorative pot, another of Athene’s symbols.

The same illustration of goddess Athene, three owls and an olive tree as in the previous image, now depicted on an ancient Greek two-handled amphora.

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Jutyrannus 🇫🇮🇲🇽 @jutyrannus.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Paranthropus and Homo erectus standoff. Inspired by the recently described footprints found in Kenya.

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!! today we sketched Bathornis, Quinkana, Acanthostega, and Megaloceros #AusPalaeo

a Bathornis jumps into the air and uses its wings to glide a small distance, it's in a large field of lush grass.

Bathornis was a medium sized bird with a hooked bill and long legs, much like its living relative the seriema.

a Quinkana rests with only its head above the surface of the water, the water is covered in floating plants.

Quinkana is an australian crocodilian from an extinct lineage that didn't look too dissimilar to modern crocodilians.

an Acanthostega travels across the bottom of a vernal pool, using its primitive limbs to save energy. dead Sphenophyllum plants lay around the vernal pool's floor. the day is overcast and the surface of the water reflects the cloudy sky, silhouettes of Calamites trees can be seen in the bottom right, while the top left shows silhouettes of fern fronds.

Acanthostega is a stem-tetrapod that looked like a salamander with no neck and webbed feet.

Sphenophyllum is an extinct vine-like plant that grew on the bottom of the forest floor, their appearance is vaguely similar to horsetails.

Calamites are extinct relatives of horsetails that looked like christmas trees and grew to about 50 to 60 metres tall.

a female Megaloceros mounts another female Megaloceros in a grassy field, the edge of a forest can be seen in the background.

Megaloceros is a massive extinct deer, males possessed gigantic antlers which is what the genus is famous for.

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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

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projectpaleozoo.bsky.social @projectpaleozoo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Artemis Paleozoo is an upcoming artbook composed by a collective of illustrators, educators, and creatives that depicts a modern menagerie of creatures time forgot. Follow us for future updates and previews of what's to come, as we bring the past to your present! 🦕📚

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Completely serious paleoartistical hypothesis about Majungasaurus

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

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Montana Rosslyn @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

How it started vs. how it's going. Josch, his art, & myself have changed a lot in the 3 years, 3 months, & 3 days since the left pic was made. I am so unbelievably fortunate to have improved in paleo and have made friends with so many amazing folks. Here's to many more years of #paleostream 🥂

An inaccurate drawing of Montanoceratops in a burrow with Atrociraptor staring back.

Montanoceratops lost in the sauce of floating aquatic ferns and freshwater angiosperms, dignantly looking upward and to the side. A branch extends from the right side with 3 birds sitting on it. further away is the foliage of a swampy forest.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Amazing science on bird limb functionally! I'm totally not going to harass our pet chickens to watch them rotate their legs at the knee, no sir.

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