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New to the internet #paleoart for #FossilFriday: the complete version of a Hupehsuchus nanchangensis image I drew last year. Hupehsuchus is a super weird Triassic marine reptile with an armoured back and incredibly thin lower jaw. There's no crazy like Triassic crazy.

Over at #Patreon, I've just started sharing details of #paleoart I produced for @DorsetMuseum last year. Here's a preview of a larger hunting scene I've just uploaded, featuring Pliosaurus, Nannopterygius and belemnites. See the full image in HR at https://t.co/QBpA1npT2m.

Spending my day working on a #paleoart commission of darwinopteran pterosaurs - critters like Darwinopterus, Kunpengopterus, and Cuspicephalus (below). These are fun animals to draw thanks to having all the best bits of pterosaur anatomy: big heads, big crests, and long tails.

For #FossilFriday, some #paleoart from 2016: the azhdarchid that would eventually become Cryodrakon is scavenged by a variety of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. I should do top-down views more often, they're fun to execute and interesting to look at.

Some moa (Dinornis) #paleoart from 2018 for #FossilFriday. Note the extreme sexual dimorphism of the two frontmost birds: that's real, not speculative. And no, I don't know what's happening to the right of this image. Possibly someone just opened a really big bag of birdseed.

Last up for today's #paleoart at #Patreon #FossilFriday extravaganza: a high-res version of my PR art for last week's hatchling pterosaur paper is now available. It shows, obviously, the terrific Pterodaustro - one of the best flying reptiles, surely. https://t.co/Ar9owkZRKB

But other pterosaur-bearing rocks, like those of Solnhofen, preserve both young juveniles AND adults. We can't, therefore, entirely rule out parental care in sp. like Rhamphorhynchus or Pterodactylus. Maybe they did look after their young. Maybe they didn't.

This is an area where we need more data. Some pterosaurs - like Pteranodon, below - are essentially only known from adult specimens: we have one juvenile among thousands of adults. So they _may_ not have been looking after their offspring.

For #FossilFriday, a thread on the new paper I published yesterday with @TetZoo and @gimpasaura, on the flight capabilities of hatchling pterosaurs. You may have seen this in the news already. Our PR #paleoart is below, & the full paper is at @SciReports: https://t.co/iHhgLuRVx0

OK, last one for a bit: yet more new #paleoart at #Patreon, this time starring everyone's favourite extinct sloth, Megatherium. This is a tweaked version of an image I started last year - check out https://t.co/EAEiiHXiGN to read the back story.