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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A very successful dino digging season in Wyoming with the Oertijdmuseum, as we uncovered a disarticulated Triceratops skeleton with skull! And right after, we've found another Edmontosaurus as well. It's been lots of fun!

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Visited the Black Hills Museum for the first time earlier this week. Such incredible specimens on display. Like a cast of a fully articulated Triceratops! #FossilFriday

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Triceratops skull Veronica was unveiled at the Oertijdmuseum today! It's very well preserved and probably the most complete Triceratops skull on display in Europe.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Progress on the Oertijdmuseum Edmontosaurus "Monty". Finally uncovered the overlapping tendons on our first block! Nice to see how articulated the bones are on this side. We have most of the skeleton, but it's in such hard boulders it will take a few more years to finish.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Big progress on the Oertijdmuseum Triceratops skull! It's a little dusty and some pieces have yet to be attached, but it's standing upright. It might just be the best Triceratops skull in Europe.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Meet Spinosaurus mirabilis. I got to see the material and skull reconstruction in the lab last year. Lots of people have been working hard on getting this described for quite some time and it's great to finally see it published.

Sketch of Spinosaurus mirabilis by Ole Zant

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Last summers spoils arrived at the Oertijdmuseum today. Lots and lots of dinosaur bones, and even an articulated Edmontosaurus skeleton! #dinosaurs #paleontology #Edmontosaurus

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Aurora, a Morrison sauropod composite skeleton. It was recently added to the dinosaur parade at the Oertijdmuseum and is our second diplodocid mount.

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Any paleo folks in the Chicagoland area- this afternoon is our final Open House of 2025 - come see what we’ve been working on at the Fossil Lab, 5437 S. Wabash (just West of UChicago main campus). We’ll continue hosting our monthly Open Houses in the spring of 2026! 🦕🦖

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Diplodocid bones galore and aplenty at the Oertijdmuseum. Here some photos from a while ago of the construction of Aurora (a composite of two specimens). The skeleton was on display elsewhere for a month and is now being mounted in the Oertijdmuseum. Photos of that coming soon.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I realize I never really posted my work on the Triassic phytosaur skull at the Oertijdmuseum on here. So here (and in the posts below) are some photos. I finished it recently when I cleaned more of the mandible. #FossilFriday #Phytosaur #paleontology

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Sketched this little guy eating a mammal earlier this year, although I didn't actually know what to call it then. I guess we do now. Welcome back Nanotyrannus!

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Check out this timelapse I made while giving an Edmontosaurus a pedicure! One small part of the story out today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Two new Edmontosaurus skeletons with preserved skin just got published by Paul Sereno and collegues. They had a fleshy scaly crest over their back and hoofed feet! I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A new diplodocid skeleton was unveiled today at the Provincial House of the Dutch Province of North Brabant! It will be on display there for the rest of the month, until it returns to the Oertijdmuseum, which is where we originally prepared the skeleton. #dinosaurs

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I haven't been posting much. But that doesn't mean I haven't been drawing any dinosaurs. 👀

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A new giant project on diplodocoids! When finished, it will provide a look into the anatomy, diversity and phylogeny of these long necked dinosaurs. They just started a crowd funding campain, so if you want to see this project realized consider donating. experiment.com/projects/rea...

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Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea

We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I wrapped up a summer full of dinosaurs at Paul Sereno's Fossil Lab earlier this week. I had the privilege of working with a lot of great minds, on a lot of great projects.

Paul Sereno (left) and Ole Zant (right) in the Fossil Lab. With a Spinosaurus aegyptiacus skull in the back.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hello #PortfolioDay! I illustrate extinct animals and their environments.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Presented a poster today on my research on mammals from a new Lancian microsite. The poster is in Dutch but don't worry, I'm almost done with the paper which will feature significantly more material anyway.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Solar eclipse at the museum today

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus An animal difficult to do justice with an illustration.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Finally finished my Spinosaurus reconstruction today. Just have to write the thread now. I'll be posting it on sunday. In the meantime, have some titanosaurs.

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Dois Pycnonemosaurus machos tendo comportamento de marrada para disputas territoriais

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

A cast of the new Archaeopteryx specimen that was published yesterday. It's on display in the Oertijdmuseum in the Netherlands. Our senior curator Jonathan found the specimen in Germany a few years ago.

A cast of the fossil arm of an Archaeopteryx

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Some very exciting projects coming up next year! Once this Spinosaurus reconstrution is done it's back to focusing on writing some papers! Which will of course include illustrations as well, of several dinosaurs and mammals.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I am once again drawing plants

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A dinosaur claw for #FossilFriday Part of a new Plateosaurus skeleton at the Oertijdmuseum.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I've been working with a lot of 3D stuff lately, though I can't share much. Here's a vertebra from the tail of a large theropod. Look how weird those proportions get near the tip of the tail! Massive prezygapophyses! #FossilFriday

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today was not a good day for the native Dimetrodon population.

A Dimetrodon covered in snow. Observed safely through glass.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A Sarcosuchus sketch I made today, based on a photo I took some years ago.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

FINALLY seeing more interaction here than Twitter. That's incentive to be more active here, to work to build things, and to scale back on Twitter. Sad, because I loved it there until King Muskrat did what he did. So... hello, I post about animals, evolution, natural history. I blog at tetzoo.com

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Tetrapod Zoology

The podcast of the famous blog by Darren Naish, with John Conway as the straight-man. Discussion of all things tetrapod and vertebrate palaeontology, and many things not.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

For those who don't know I also prepare fossils, my work includes: A lacrimal (skull bone/horn) of Allosaurus Big Al Two. The most complete phytosaur head from Europe. The only Metoposaurus skull with intact teeth. #paleontology #dinosaurs #fossil

Right half of a Phytosaur skull from Krasiejów, Poland

Metoposaurus skull with teeth from Krasiejów, Poland

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 21/10/2024

Also got one for the surprisingly high amount of top shelf paleoartists here go.bsky.app/RYwJUEK

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Carcharodontosaurus saharicus hunting Alanqa #paleoart #sciart #art

A theropod bites the wing of a pterosaur trying to fly off.

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

go.bsky.app/RYwJUEK Only good people are here. Go follow them all!

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Good Paleoartists

Join the conversation

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

the mighty bison latifrons

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Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong @ydawtheshow.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

The beautiful thing about science is the changes persistent study and experimenting can reveal. Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

A Spinosaurus aegyptiacus reconstruction I'm working on. #paleoart #Spinosaurus #dinosaurs

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

For the archeology enjoyers among us. The Oertijdmuseum just got a 3 meter long canoe. It was preserved in peat and found during a construction project in the Netherlands. Research is ongoing to figure out its age, but it should be somewhere between 2000 and 10.000 years old #archeology #archaeology

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

My skeletal reconstruction of Ardetosaurus viator, which I made for its publication. Along with some of the fossil material. #paleontology #dinosaurs #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #FossilFriday

Skeletal reconstruction of Ardetosaurus, surrounded by photographs of the bones.

Articulated anterior dorsals photographed by me. Caudals by Tom van der Linden. The rest of the photographs in this figure are courtesy of Sauriermuseum Aathal. Skeletal reconstruction also by me. Photographs not to scale.

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Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Trying to think of a skeletal to share that I haven't really discussed elsewhere, so here's my take on the skeleton of everyone's favorite giant flying reptile, Quetzalcoatlus. The 2021 monograph by Padian, et al. made this worth tackling.

A skeletal reconstruction of the giant azhdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus launching itself into the air. With scale bar, copyright Scott Hartman, 2023.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Hello lovely folks, I will try to be more active here now considering how many bad decisions are made in the other place. Have some recent images from the streams.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 17/10/2024

📌✨Portfolio Post✨📌 Hey I'm a concept artist and illustrator working in the entertainment industry. I like to paint monsters and explosive compositions. 🦖 RJ-Palmer.com ✉️ arvalis@mac.com 🎨 artstation.com/arvalis 🛍️ rjpalmerstore.com

Bloodborne Hunter vs alien queen illustration

Link from Zelda illustration surrounded by one million different items from the games.

Giant yellow T. rex monster chasing a woman riding a giant bat through a cave. Illustration done for Magic the Gathering.

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Ardetosaurus viator A reconstruction I made for the recently published dinosaur 🦕 #PaleoArt #SciArt #Dinosaurs #paleontology

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Weird little dinosaur thing with weird little arms or smth

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Hello Bluesky. I'm Bob, I've been a full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist for over 20 years. If it's dead & long gone, I'll bring it back to life. You will have seen my art in a book, a museum, or on TV somewhere. Ok, let's go...

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Some Giganotosaurus carolinii sketches

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