iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Patato @patato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October finally and this year @djigr.bsky.social is defending her PhD (send her strength!) There won't be #paleoctober this year so I made #prehistoctober! The rule is pretty simple, each day a new prehistoric specie to draw! Use the hashtag #prehistoctober2026 Good luck! #paleoart #Sciart

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime ! Today's entry is one of the most famous eurypterid, Megalograptus ohioensis! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #arthropod #ordovician #paleoart #eurypterid #sciart #bugsky 1/4

This famous arthropod was one of the biggest eurypterids during the Ordovician period, and its genus was first identified as a graptolite. It’s well-known for the long spines on its second pair of legs and for the semi-lunar shape of its telson.

Size : a bit more than 50cm of body length
Time period : Late Ordovician
Paleoart speculativometer : Almost a carbon copy

The animal drawn looks a bit like a scorpion but without pincers, with instead large spiny arms

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime! Today a special thematic post about some chelicerates' names and why they can sometimes sound a bit similar! All the basic infos are here but there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #arachnid #arthropod #etymology #invert #bugsky 1/4

WHY DO SEVERAL CHELICERATES' NAMES SOUND SIMILAR?

HORSESHOE CRABS
Limulus
Guangyuanolimulus
Limulitella
Austrolimulidae
root "limulus" for "horseshoe crab"

PALEOZOIC AQUATIC CHELICERATES
Lunataspis
Chasmataspis
Diploaspis
Magnicornaspis
root "aspis" for "shield"

MITES
Endeostigmata
Prostigmata
Mesostigmata
Astigmatina
root "stigmata" for "breathing opening"

SPIDERS
Mesothelae
Opisthothelae
Hexathelidae
Macrothelidae
root "thelae" for spinneret

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nao70shark TCM2(10/8〜14) KF2026(10/10) @nao70shark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ウミクワガタとかいうあまりにも海のクワガタすぎる生き物海に住んでるし虫じゃないのにあまりにも顔がクワガタすぎる

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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Chengjiang Biota Labeled version in replies #paleoart #sciart #art #cambrian

A digital painting of the Chengjiang Biota, featuring Lyrarapax, Isoxys, Leptomitus, Hazelia, Yuyuanozoon, Nailiana, Choia, Allonnia phrixothrix, Allonia erjiensis, Yunnanocephus, Cricocosmia, Alalcomenaeus, Beidazoon, Fuxianhuia, and Pisinnocaris

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I need to atone for my sins (taking too many vertebrate projects this year) so I'm doing an #InverteFest special - Crabmons give me a word/archetype/whatever and I'll do a crab when I can crabapple & skeleton, prompts by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social in the middle of a Slay The Spire 2 run

two crab doodles. on the left is crabapple, a red apple sliced in half facing the front as a face, two leaves on top as eyes, two smaller partially eaten apples as claws, apple slices as legs. on the right is skeleton, a crab whose face is made out of a single vertebra with its gaping hole acting as a mouth. on the sides are rib bones as legs, on the front are shoulder blades as claws

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Are you having a good time? Let me change that with bug body horror 🪲🤯 A japanese Reddit user had the surprise to discover that one of his pet diving beetles (Dytiscidae) emerged as an adult... with a larval head! 1st photo is the individual, 2nd a normal adult, 3rd shows the larva and adults.

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Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/

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Camille ⭐ @ouarmy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Giratina commish :] #pokemon

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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don't recall if I ever posted these on Bluesky, but here's a set of illustrations I made for the Meiolaniidae wikipedia page back when I expanded the information for those animals The goal was to showcase the overall diversity in cranial ornamentation #sciart

An illustration featuring four species of meiolaniid turtles. Niolamia has large, frill-like horns, Ninjemys smaller horns with a very pointed nose. Warkalania is shown with a knobby but ultimately much more reduced cranial ornamentation while Meiolania has short, recurved horns resembling a cow

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Orthograptus - unfinished sketch - using the documentary drawings of Ruedemann (1895) and the functional interpretation decipted by Maletz (2014) #graptolite #Ordovician #invertebrate #plankton #research #Palaeozoic #fossil #digitalpainting #sketchbook #drawing

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

L'éclipse est aussi l'occasion de ressortir l'une des cartes les plus drôles/tristes de l'une des précédentes.

Deux cartes des USA. Sur l'une d'elle on voit le trajet de l'éclipse, et sur l'autre, la même forme se dessine et la légende indique "recherche Google demandant "mes yeux me font mal""

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MidKil @midkil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Liquified Neurons

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ferrutxoart.bsky.social @ferrutxoart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A massive Delapparentia is left behind after getting stuck in the mud. It’s not a natural trap; he’s simply very old, and his weakness and difficulty moving do the rest on a surface that the herd has crossed without any trouble—a herd that will leave him behind without a moment’s hesitation

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

little one i haven't seen a lot of art with pterosaur embryos, so i tried to give it a try. and damn, was it hard without good references. random species since i was trying to figure out things in general. might get back to it later and draw another if i learn more about it! #paleoart #sciart

A realistic digital drawing with pterosaur embryo, 3 stages of development are shown. The left one is still tiny and barely resembles a pterosaur. It has a big and not fully developed yet eye, a thin neck and a tiny body. The second one, in the middle, starts looking like a pterosaur already. It's a little more developed, has a beak, and already has a thin membrane between the wings and legs. The yolk with blood vessels is also shown there. The last drawing on the right shows the late stage of development, it's already fuzzy, curled up with it's head between folded wings. The exact species is unknown.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Visiting Shanghai? Pop over to the travelling palaeontological exhibition, Touch the Deep Ocean “触探深海” on the evolution of life in the sea

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

(2025) Seadusa, the Fatal Pokemon Fakemon design inspired by the Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) and Femme Fatales. Meant to fit Generation 7's dex.

Seadusa
The Fatal Pokemon

Ability: Stinging Touch

Egg Group: Amorphous
Gender: Unknown

Height: 6'04'' / 1.9 m

Seadusa earily float at the water's surface. Any creature unlucky to get tangled in its tendrils is stung repeatedly until they are fully paralyzed.
Its body is made up of multiple organisms: several make up the tendrils, another makes up the bulbous electrical sack, but the central figure controls them all.

It is a feminine appearing pokemon, much like a jellyfish, that looks like its wearing a cocktail dress with gloves and a choker. It has long eyelashes, a stoic gaze, a large hat-like sail, and several stinging tentacles that look like snakes: they even have eyes.

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Kinda Ashley (18+ / No Commissions) @hadmyway.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I drew @vergolophus.bsky.social's Seaduca fakemon

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🎃Tomycase👻 @tomycase.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Beta Dialga and Palkia, based on the recently resurfaced DP concept-arts

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My lion render became a plash image for Blender 5.2 LTS!

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 20/06/2026

A special message from the Digital Circus cast ✨

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ARK: The Sunken World @arksunken.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Happy Sunken Scoop Day! In this edition, we're going over everything that came with the latest update to the mod! We've got Sunfish, Sargassum and more, check it out! survivetheark.com/index.php?/f... #playARK #ARKSurvivalAscended #ARKModding #UE5 #TSW #SunkenScoop

An in game screenshot of a sunfish and a pair of lepidotes swimming together

Icon art for the Sargassum resource, an oceanic thatch equivalent

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My Kalosian Druddigon concept before we realized PLZA wouldn't be creating Kalosian regional forms. Disney's Gargoyles was an inspiration of course.

This energetic Pokémon bursts out from its statue form when the sun sets, ready to take on any foe. Gangs of Druddigon prowl around at night, scavenging in ancient castles, caverns, and unfortunately, trash cans.

Though it lies perfectly still, its eyes and nostrils pulse with an ever increasing draconic aura. It does not particularly like the coldest winder months. Even in this petrified form, it appears to shiver.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hey look, it's a casual non-pterodactyloid pterosaur tree I did for pterosaur skulls during my PhD!

Pterosaur skulls on a mock phylogenetic tree

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📍 rimith ⭐ @rimith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

❕❕ JOYEUX JUIN 💛🤍💜🖤 #art

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Ian Baylatry @thepeanutpal.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The Fishes of the Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, commission for El-Sayed et al., 2026. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026

Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.

them.us

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Kicks Off Pride With “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” Campaign

The campaign will highlight existing protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers.

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Tweee @tweeezs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

3 months later dinosaur mod hobby time again

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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Flocking! All Paravians! Kank, Velociraptor, Plumadraco, Chloridops regiskongi (The King Kong Grosbeak) #paleoart #sciart #paleostream #art

A digital painting of a Kank fishing at sunset

A digital painting of a Velociraptor on a rock

A black and white digital painting of a Chloridops regiskongi being attacked by a buch of flies

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Fossilfriday! Today, the only trigonotarbid from the Southern Hemisphere, Gondwanarachne argentinensis! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more below!⬇️🧵 #trigonotarbid #carboniferous #paleoart #sciart #bugsky #invert 1/4

This species is, for now, the only named trigonotarbid from South America, and shared a similar look with some of the most derived trigonotarbids.

Size : 2 to 3-ish cm of body length
Time period : Late Carboniferous
Paleoart speculativometer : Some Missing parts

The animal drawn is a trigonotarbid looking like a heavy spider-like animal, with segmented abdomen and numerous tuberculation on its skin

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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Map of the now submerged ice age world of Doggerland. Shoreline extrapolated from bathymetry data to sealevels 15,000 years ago - glacial rebound taken into account. #gis #maps #sciart #geology

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Mimo @mimopeyrani.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

une affiche pour un festival pour juin

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Mimo @mimopeyrani.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

some wreslers

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Fossilfriday! Today a special thematic post about eurypterids' fossilization! We know a lot of these guys but they aren't that much of fossil material at first, so let's talk about that below!⬇️🧵 #eurypterid #arthropod #fossilization #invert #bugsky 1/5

Eurypterids are fossilization cheaters

Eurypterids are the most abundant extinct chelicerates outside of amber conservation cases, but this relatively high representation in bare rocks is kinda intriguing on several points. Mainly 3 factors can explain such abundance in the fossil record:

TAPHONOMIC
The mass moult hypothesis: highest available material to be fossilized in singular localities.

ECOLOGICAL
Maybe the most diverse aquatic chelicerate order regarding of occupied ecological niches.

CHEMICAL
One of the highest fat concentrations in exoskeleton among chelicerates, slowing down decomposition.

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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Ice Age World Map - paleolithic variant? #sciart #geology #maps view in better quality: basaltweaver.myportfolio.com/lgm

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Mimi @flydxndelion.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Esquie à la plage ☀️👙🏖️

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📍 rimith ⭐ @rimith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🖍️ Voilà les dessins en question !! #art [1/5]

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Results from the #paleostream! Kalakocetus, Qianjiangsaurus, Caipora and Cartelles, Tarkops and Forstercooperia. And yes, these last two pieces are Star Wars themed #MonkeyCruise paintings ;)

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📍 rimith ⭐ @rimith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Commi Skeb par @battan8.bsky.social !! 🥹📍⭐ je me tairai jamais vous vous rendez pas compte ... #colorimith

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