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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Skull of a titan

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Palaeoloxodon atavus testing #sciart

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

R-R-Rrrrrrandom Illustration Monday!

Illustration of a cartoon boy and anthropomorphic sabre toothed cat (apologies to Bill Watterson) standing next to each other, staring with confusion/surprise at a museum diorama display of a stuffed sabre tooth cat attacking a paleolithic human with blank gazes in the foreground.

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Chris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Port Kennedy at ANSP also has...hands down, the best sample of the Irvintonian ground sloth Megalonyx wheatleyi anywhere in the world.

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Chris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Although I can't be with those of you who are out in the rain advocating for your museum today...I thought I might be a good idea to post some Academy of Natural Sciences fossils to keep you warm and dry on the inside. @savetheacademy.bsky.social

An ammonite scultpure outside the side entrance of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Xenorhinotherium & Macrauchenia my beloveds This was mostly an exercise in achieving different fur textures in Blender, as well as an excuse to make an infographic since I haven't made one of those in a while. #SciArt #artbyjulio

A simple infographic showing a mostly tan, short-haired Xenorhinotherium and a dark brown, long-haired Macrauchenia against a solid background, with a human silhouette for scale. Each animal has a lineart of South America besides it showing an estimated range, and its scientific name below it.

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

pt i - 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐀 𝐍' 𝐂𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒 - Welcome to Project Sippisippi, a series dedicated to representing the paleofauna of my homestate, Mississippi! Let me introduce you to 4 of MS's ancient cetaceans, with a side of sweet tea - Cynthiacetus maxwelli, Basilosaurus cetoides, Zygorhiza & Georgiacetus!

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

⭑ Asian Paleofauna ⭑ Pleistocene Edition ⭑ 🧵 #paleoart

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paraphysornis brasiliensis

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I use inordinate ammount of time studying anatomy. I justify this by telling myself that its all in the name of being better at my craft but in all honesty I just really really enjoy it. pierolapithecus.

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Noble Opossum

Drawing of an opossum carrying some opposumlets on its back

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Many of you aware of PREHISTORIC PLANET ICE AGE will know that we featured a giant, black fosa that we showed as unusually large, larger even than the estimated size for the fossil species CryptoprocTa spelea. Here's my article on what we showed.... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10... CONTINUED....

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The Amazing Giant Black Fossa — Tetrapod Zoology

Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Australopithecus sediba #sciart

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New (in a sense, original remains were known for over a century) basilosaurid dropped. Bartoncetus wanklyni, a dorudontine from the Bartonian (middle eocene) of England, described from partial skeleton and a skull that is now lost ☠️ adult form would have been as large as Dorudon) #paleoart #sciart

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Paleostream flocking wont be back for a while as Josch will be doing the final Lemuria streams!! in the meantime have a recent piece i was commissioned to draw by @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social, it's of an animal in her speculative evolution setting called a sengi-deer

a trail camera-style image shows the following scene: during the afternoon in a South American rainforest, two sengi-deer of a smaller species forage amongst a somewhat open forest clearing, a glasswing butterfly of the species Greta excellens is seen in the foreground just infront of the sengi-deer individual closest to the trail camera

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Quick sketch. Some Hippopotamus gorgops with hominins somewhere in east africa

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Bristly Surf Shrew In the New Age of Reptiles, placentals are just one among many lineages of eutherians. Surf Shrews, initially misidentified as eulipotyphlans, are members of a large clade of mostly invertivorous mammals common in the Northern Hemisphere. (1/7)

A Bristly Surf Shrew, a chunky, desman-like mammal with a thick and roughly scaled tail and widely flaring nose. It has a grizzly fur pattern and a yellowish patch of skin surrounding the nostrils. A size comparison with a human hand shows it to be roughly the size of a hand with extended fingers. Text above reads "Bristly Surf Shrew"

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

Predmosti 3. 26 000 year old Sapiens

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Mourasuchus, an incredible animal, literal whale-caiman, lots of cool postcrania undescribed, often oversized based in skull-length regressions it has prominent telescoped eyes, often-ignored semicircular squamosal horns over the ears, and holes on the premaxilla where the dentary teeth poked thru

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tired brain. So quick doodles

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Commissions Open! Feels free to DM me or email me!

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Up in the #Appalachian mountains during the Pleistocene, a young Mastodon is very excited to have found a new playmate. The playmate in question is not nearly so enthused but also can’t do much about it. This is a sketch I began a while ago but only just returned to. #paleoart #pleistocene #sciart

A colored-pencil drawing of a very fluffy, reddish-furred juvenile Mastodon against a white background, drawn in a running pose with its mouth open in joy while lifting a screaming raccoon into the air above its head with its coiled trunk. The mastodon has very short but still protruding tusks.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#FossilFriday "A digital mural of an ice age landscape with extinct animals, produced for the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum." @bzaiken.bsky.social

A bird's-eye view of the landscape with lots of proboscideans and other animals walking toward a small river. The landscape is open, with some trees, and mountains in the distance.

From Beth Zaiken's website: This digital mural was produced as a lenticular graphic for the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum's new exhibit "Mammoth Discovery." The mural depicts a Pleistocene version (approx. 10,000 years ago) of the landscape that is now modern day downtown San Jose. (©Beth Zaiken)

A lenticular graphic shows two images at once, and shifts into just one or the other depending on where you are standing. The graphic switches from a photograph of downtown to the prehistoric landscape, like a hologram, it changes as you walk by.

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Scene from the Late Pleistocene of La Brea in Los Angeles, California. A pair of Arctodus simus are duking it out whilst a herd of giant bison (Bos latifrons), a pair of western camels (Camelops hesternus) and a group of Pacific mastodons calmly enjoy their evening meal. #paleoart #sciart #iceage

Scene from the Late Pleistocene of La Brea in Los Angeles, California. A pair of giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) are duking it out whilst a herd of giant bison (Bos latifrons), a pair of western camels (Camelops hesternus) and a group of Pacific mastodons (Mammut pacificus) calmly enjoy their evening meal.

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Somewhere in Siberia during the #Pleistocene, three impatient #Homotherium cubs wait for their mother to return from today’s hunt. From my upcoming children’s #book ”Urgulliga urtidsungar och deras förhistoriska föräldrar” (Idus Publishing) for ages 3 and up. #sciart #scicomm #paleoart

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A short 🧵on our 2023 research on the ~23-30 myo fossil dolphin Xenorophus and early toothed whales. We described a LOT of skulls and skeletons, were able to assess growth variation, pathology, swimming adaptations, tooth wear, feeding adaptations, and name a new species, X. simplicidens. 1/

Skulls of four specimens of Xenorophus in side view. It has a long rostrum and a blowhole in front of the eye sockets, and the braincase is still long.

A stratigraphic column and map of Xenorophus localities in South Carolina, and body outlines showing the occurrence of different xenorophid species in the Ashley and Chandler Bridge formations.

Skulls of seven specimens of Xenorophus in dorsal and ventral view. It has a long rostrum and a blowhole in front of the eye sockets, and the braincase is still long.

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Doodles from the flocking #paleostream featuring Desmostylus, Numidotherium, Therizinosaurus, and Kutchicetus.

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Prehistoric Midwest @prehistoricmidwest.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Cuvieronius was an elephant relative with spiral-shaped tusks! The genus was found in parts of North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch

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DrongoJackBirb_art @drongojackburb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wakaleo alcootaensis Illustration! More context of the scene, fauna, flora and enviroment in comments! This illustration has had lots research and planning with help from the leading palaeontologist for the Alcoota Beds, Adam Yates! @reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social #sciart #paleoart #megafauna #alcoota

Wakaleo Alcootaensis Mother&Joey Walk by a defensive Male Wakaleo with a hunted Kolopsis torus carcass perched in a banksia tree. With the Male Grunting in defense from the mother, An Alcoota Goanna stands shell shocked nearby in the same Banksia tree, and in the distance, a pair of Dromornis stirtoni stay alert, as they heard the grunting from the Male Wakaleo. A few Alcoota Large Flamingo stand by, but one flies away in fear of the grunts. A looming storm in the furthest distance towers over the enviroment. With the floodplain at its max water level, this storm may prove devastating for the Alcoota Fauna/Flora.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Loxodonta adaurora

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The New Age of Reptiles: Grapplewhips Oceania, like in our timeline, is a hotspot of squamate diversity. Scincomorphan lizards are among the biggest success stories of the region. One lineage, the long-bodied predatory grapplewhips, have taken forms unlike anything in our world. (1/6)

A chunky, mossy-coloured scincomorphan lizard with short, pad-like clawed feet and wide mitten-like hands ending in recurved talons. Art by Wyatt Andrews.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A New Age of Reptiles: Torpedo Crocs Marine reptile diversity in the New Age of Reptiles eclipses any time in Earth's history, with thousands of species documented to date across dozens of lineages. The crocodylids, early colonisers of the Cenozoic seas, are among the most spectacular. (1/14)

A Sawsnout Torpedo, a gigantic coastal sea crocodile in a tightly curled posture. Its long, green-banded hide is covered in rows of scute-ridges. The deep, hypocercal tail is packed with powerful muscles. The head rapidly narrows to a thin, sawfish-like snout lined with laterally projecting teeth. A human silhouette beside shows it to be about seven meters long.

A Weeping Cr'orca, a massive sea crocodile. It has a deep, wedge-shaped snout lined with conical interlocking teeth. Its diamond-shaped forelimbs have a single claw, and its hide is a subtly countershaded purplish hue marked with scars and little injuries. A streak of white and yellow run down from the eye, breaking up the uniformity of its colouration. A size comparison with a human silhouette shows it to be about 13 meters in length.

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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The White-Cheeked Seagrinder, a fictional galloanseran I was commissioned to illustrate for @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social!

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Digital Echoes

A cave art inspired piece with various ice age animals arranged in a circle around a hand print

Animals include:
- Mammoth
- Cave Lion
- Cave Bear
- Saiga Antelope
- Caribou
- Wisent
- Red Deer
- Horse
- Human
- Wolf

Watermark states this is not for use

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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Megistotherium osteothlastes doodle, the very first procreate test. Thanks to @villesinkkonen.bsky.social for create these wonderful fur brusheset, so cool.

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

here's a recent piece i was commissioned to illustrate by @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social, it's of her fictional iguanian the Crown-of-Thorns Dragon which was designed by @/ddinodan

at night in the arid scrub forests of southeastern South America, a field researcher stumbles across a huge herbivorous iguanian called a Crown-of-Thorns Dragon, this adult is around 5 metres long. it stares back at the camera, its crown of large horns creating an imposing silhouette, though it doesnt seem particularly keen on moving away from the thorny shrub it's sitting under

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Mammuthus meridionalis

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

An assortment of random animals lol. #paleoart

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

saturday tinkering. Prodeinotherium #sciart

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thursday is collections day, so here's the holotype specimen of Macroprosopon hiltoni (FSAC CP 330) and a newly painted cast to be housed here at UMMP.

Photograph of two fossil fish skulls on a white background. Each consists of two blocks, and an orange scalebar lies between them. One is a cast, the other the original specimen.

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My last of this set is a Smilodon or Saber-toothed Cat for the Nucleus Portland Salut! 11 coaster show This was probably the most fun out of the set to draw, I always enjoy getting to traditionally paint creatures with patterned coats and feathers so this was no different

Illustration done in gouache and poscas of a orange, yellow, pink, and red Smilodon crouching and growling. It is surrounded by pink stars on a dark red background

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Jacob Schick (commissions open) @seismic-shrimp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

First post in a while but this is Paraophiodon, a late Miocene greenling from the Sakhalin Island of Russia. #sciart #paleoart

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yesterday I started on #paleostream a new series: #PocketPrehistry, in which I draw extinct animals in life size on postcard formats, meaning the animals can't be much longer than 15 cm max! Here the first 3 results Scalacurvichthys, Arcticodactylus, Iberomesornis with Eoalulavis, Kreischeria...

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Yoshi, Tylosaurus rex, Xianshou and Argyrolagus.

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The finished size chart of most of the fauna from the Mammoth Site, a Pleistocene fossil locality within an ancient sinkhole in South Dakota that preserves dozens of entrapped mammoths alongside scattered remains of other animals. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #Paleostream

A black-and-white pencil-drawn size chart of a lot of mammals, known from the Mammoth Site fossil locality in South Dakota. All are in a standing pose in left-facing lateral view, with the five carnivores (Black-footed Ferret, American Badger, Coyote, Grey Wolf, and Arctodus) in a row on a separate line above the rest of the fauna (Woodrat, two Ground Squirrels, White-tailed Prairie Dog, Cottontail Rabbit, Pronghorn, White-tailed Jackrabbit, Euceratherium, Woolly Mammoth, Hemiauchenia, Columbian Mammoth, and Camelops).

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My 3 favorite animals: Shepherd's Beaked Whale (Tasmacetus), Splendid Astrapia, and Eremotherium. I couldn't ask for a more unrelated trio! 🔥🔥🔥 #paleoart #bird #sloth #iceage

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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hell Creek Crossing A2 (16.5 x 23.5in) private commission A pair of T. rexes harass a gathering of Triceratops crossing a river. Overhead a pair of azhdarchids and a flock of wading birds take flight. I've included a few details.

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