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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Two Tylers, twice the trouble but @ejrpaleo.bsky.social kept things under control at the Fossil Lab on #FossilFriday ! Great to see @tylerstoneart.bsky.social and talk #paleoart a bit 🐊

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#FossilFriday Kutchicetus minimus, a sea otter-sized remingtonocetid whale from Eocene India. #paleoart #paleontology #whale

Illustration of Kutchicetus, a primitive whale that looks like an otter. It has a large head with wide a long, narrow, flute-shaped snout, wide cheekbones, and tiny eyes near the top of its head. It has four short legs with webbed feet and a long, flattened tail like that of an otter or beaver. It has short fur that is light brown with a cream-colored underbelly. Four rows of cream-colored spots go down the animal’s back and sides. It’s depicted in a swimming pose as if it’s diving in search of prey.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It’s finally here! Meet Crocodylus lucivenator, a new species of Pliocene crocodile from Hadar, Ethiopia, described today by my mentor Chris Brochu and his colleagues. I had the honor of creating the press illustration. Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1477...

An illustration of the extinct crocodile, Crocodylus lucivenator, shown underwater, stalking an adult male Australopithecus afarensis getting a drink from shore. The scene takes place along a river surrounded by a dense gallery forest, with two antelope-like relatives of giraffes, Sivatherium maurusium, watching from the edge of the trees.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis. www.newscientist.com/article/2516... I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.

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New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Oh that Godzilla blanket is excellent

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Prehistoric Planet-inspired Tarbosaurus. Commission for a private client. #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur #tarbosaurus #prehistoricplanet

Tarbosaurus, T. rex’s Asian cousin, based on the design from Prehistoric Planet. It’s red-orange in color with a creamy underbelly and spots, which are outlined in brown. It has a keratinized ridge on its nose and hornlets over each eye, and a thin coat of sparse, hairlike feathers on the neck and back.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I’m sure some of it was getting mileage out of the rigs they had, but ZT1’s Dinosaur Digs felt like a much better cross section of dinosaur diversity. I wish Dino Danger could’ve been the 2’s version of that, with Extinct Animals then being a non-dino expansion, but oh well. Still love them.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

What always felt odd to me wasn’t even the designs (some were good, some were… uh…), it was the roster. I loved the huge variety of mammals, but some of the choices were weird. Stokesosaurus but no mammoths? Three raptors and no ornithopods? What are we doing?

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#WIP Prehistoric Planet Tarbosaurus illustration for a private client. #digitalart #sciart #paleoart

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Warmup sketch from last night, based on a project idea I’ve had for a while. Maybe this can become the first illustration in a series once commissioned work is done. More info about the concept in the alt text. #sketch #paleoart #plesiosaur #cryptozoology #lochnessmonster #nessie

Rough sketch comparing a generic plesiosaur to the Loch Ness Monster, showing how different they are. The plesiosaur has a snakelike head, a sleek, egg-shaped body, and a short tail with a paddle. The Loch Ness Monster has a horselike head with two small horns, a bulky body with three humps, and a long tail ending in a point.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

4. Make more time to draw for myself without an end goal so art remains a source of joy instead of another thing to stress about. 5. Combine 1-4 to break bad habits and, hopefully, improve my confidence, thereby ensuring people will feel bad if they publicly shame me for not achieving said goal 😉

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

1. Get better at landscapes (especially plants) and environmental lighting. 2. Improve my ability to visualize objects in space and draw more dynamic poses and compositions. 3. As an extension of 2, get better at extrapolating from reference images instead of just following them to the letter.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

However, I don’t think anything has ever captured my imagination the same way that Luis V. Rey’s Therizinosaurus did. It is, to this day, my absolute favorite piece of paleoart.

Luis Rey’s painting of Therizinosaurus, with Tarbosaurus and Avimimus in the foreground.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Jan Sovak’s art really captured the way dinosaurs FELT when I was a kid. Active, post-JP dinosaurs in an ethereal, perpetually hazy primordial world, with a handful of feathered dinosaurs as something mysterious and new just beginning to emerge from the shadows.

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Hey Bluesky, long time no post. I promise I’m still alive. Here are some odd sketches I’ve done over the last few months (more info in alt text). I’ve got something really cool I should be able to share in the next few weeks. Stay tuned. #paleoart #sketch

Mirasaura, a strange Triassic reptile with a soft tissue display crest on its back.

Maiasaura with its nest, sketched for my friend Bethany Burke Franklin’s SVP poster.

Yawning, sleepy Makaracetus, a bizarre early whale whose skull structures suggests it had big flappy lips.

Halloween Nanotyrannus, with feathering and colors meant to invoke Frankenstein’s monster. It’s alive!!!

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Pictured: me, reading the registration email for this year’s SVP meeting, knowing full well that I can’t afford to go. Maybe next year…

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

So cool to see my art attached to a peer-reviewed study again!

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

And Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Edmontosaurus, and Baryonyx. I’ve got 8 of these left that I’ll post as I go. Can’t wait to see my art at the zoo!

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Plateosaurus, Apatosaurus, Struthiomimus, and Scutellosaurus…

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I still have 8 drawings to do (this came up VERY last minute, but the folks at the zoo have been super flexible with me because of that), but here are the rest of the 15 I’ve done so far. Heterodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Zhenyuanlong, and Yi…

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The dinosaurs have arrived at Blank Park Zoo, so here’s the project I’ve been working on this week. I was commissioned by the zoo to draw 23 silhouettes for signage comparing their animals with dinosaurs as part of their new “Dino Park Zoo” branding. Species labels in alt text. #paleoart #sciart

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

24 If any, or hopefully all, of this is interesting. They you might want to know that c. 6 months from now I'll have a book about all this and much more, written with, and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's available for preorder now in all the usual places online. Thanks for reading.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

With the trailers for both #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorld Rebirth apparently showing swimming Spinosaurus, I thought it might be time to go over why I think these animals were not good swimmers. After all, it's something I've written a fair bit about (with @arctomet.bsky.social) 1/many

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I adore your work and am grateful for the support you’ve given me over the years, and I hate seeing you constantly targeted by these people. I hope the love you get when you speak up outweighs the noise from angry smooth brains.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries: it’s one of Adobe’s flagship programs. With a powerful desktop workstation and as much memory freed up as possible, there should be no limit to what you can create with it. So, why does After Effects still run like complete ass?

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We got the one before ancient Hoplophorus, ancient Hoplophorus, Hoplophorus… wait, I’ve seen this one before.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

That’s a 10-year-old tentative master plan that doesn’t match with the current zoo and the expansions, renovations they have announced.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

(2/2) The current otter exhibit is tiny and really showing its age, and the current bald eagle exhibit is a converted education pavilion. Compare that with what’s in the wild Iowa renderings. It’s night and day. youtu.be/q9fyv3JLaHo?...

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Blank Park Zoo Expand the Impact Capital Campaign Press Conference

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

(1/2) AFAIK there are no plans for gorillas. Still, rhinos seemed like something that would never happen when I was a kid, so who knows what the future will bring? Yes, the only new animals in Wild Iowa will be bobcats. However, the new river otter and bald eagle enclosures will be very welcome.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s an EXCELLENT zoo. Small but mighty. It’s grown a lot since I was a kid, and always for the better. Well worth a visit if you get the chance. Here are some pictures I took when I visited with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. She loved it.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Bonus: corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Spent my morning covering the groundbreaking for the new lion conservation center at Blank Park Zoo. After 10 years without a visit, I’ve somehow ended up at the zoo 3 times this month. Guess I’m making up for lost time. Anyway, time to flex with some shots I got of the kitties.

A male and female lion on a rock in a zoo exhibit, with a news camera recording them in the foreground.

A male and female lion lounging on a rock in their exhibit at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa.

Close up of the eyes and nose of a male lion.

A male lion looking off in the distance.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Being a paleoartist with a social media following is fun, because you get to have people who don’t understand your field accuse you of lying and tell you that T. rex actually had wings and was a dragon. #paleoart #paleoartist #meme #skit

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I know I already responded on Twitter, but… you’ve always been one of my idols, and your kindness and support of my work has meant the world to me. I know many others can say the same. I hope you feel all that kindness in return while you grieve.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#WIP Sketching some obscure canid that I definitely haven’t had any strong feelings about recently. #paleoart

Work in progress sketch of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus).

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Looks like I’m officially adding “Iowa Broadcast News Award winner” to my resume!

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Shamelessly using the new Deinosuchus paper as an excuse to share my illustration of it again. I did this for Adam Cossette and Chris Brochu back in 2020. It was my first commission out of college, and while there are some details I wish I could correct, I’m still really proud of it. #paleoart

Skeletal, muscular, and life reconstructions of Deinosuchus riograndensis.

Me with my illustration of Deinosuchus on the cover of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Apparently paleoartist Jan Sovak has passed away. Growing up in the period between Jurassic Park and the soft dinosaur revolution, I don’t think anyone captured the way dinosaurs FELT when I was a kid as well as he did. It’s a hard feeling to describe, but Sovak nailed it.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

That estimate feels far too generous.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Reposting some obscure theropod I drew last year, with colors based on some obscure show, for no reason in particular. #paleoart #WalkingWithDinosaurs

Drawing of T. rex with colors inspired by the design from the original Walking with Dinosaurs TV series.

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