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I really like how the fossil Anomalocaris looks and thought it would be suiting as the design for a fiend. Haven't quite finished it yet.
Famed paleontologist Richard Owen misidentified the #pterosaur Lonchodraco as Pterodactylus in the 1850s. #science #fossils https://t.co/OSK2nC3Mry
Next Fakemon to come, My second region, Edaskia Region's Fossils. SCARABETLE, HAWCON and TAURICOLA
#FossilFriday Before dinosaurs there were dinosauromorphs (although some remained living alongside dinosaurs for a while). These are most of the species that will appear in my book #paleoart
Prehistoric Dorset, as imagined by geologist Henry De la Beche, based on fossils found by Mary Anning ~ the first major scientifically-based pictorial representation of prehistoric life. Original 1829 watercolour by Henry at L, and later litho by George Scharf at R
Today’s warmup sketch, Patriofelis, a oxyaenid creodont from Eocene North America. Suggested by @Laelaps #paleoart #FossilFriday #mammals
A series of plesiosaur #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Jurassic marine species Attenborosaurus and Plesiosaurus, and the coastal/freshwater adapted Leptocleidus. It's very cool to think some plesiosaurs would be visible in rivers, lakes and estuaries.
@realDonaldTrump @SVP_vertpaleo In 2009, the world's only juvenile #Parasaurolophus was discovered in #GSENM by crew at the @alfmuseum. I was able to see and help excavate this #fossil specimen on my first #dinosaur dig. It was...incredible seeing it in the monument before it was excavated.
I am super loving the beta of #fossilhunters and I love the guy who sells you lamps
This is the living fossil I drew today, an echidna. They are mammals and lay eggs. Awesome. #WeekDayDraw
This week I'm going to draw living fossils. Behold the horseshoe crab. #WeekDayDraw
The largest land mammal ever was MASSIVE!!! This is the 30 million year old Paraceratherium! (Image left H. Osborn: Right via Wiki) #FossilFriday
Deinonychus killing claw and portion of skull with teeth. The real inspiration for the 'raptors' in #JurassicPark With excellent reconstruction (with feathers) by @paleofan #FossilFriday
Material at the Yale Peabody Museum.
#FossilFriday + #BlackFriday = Black Fossil? Meet the 'Black skull' KNM-WT 17000 Paranthropus aethiopicus from West Turkana, Kenya (got dark due to fossilization in a manganese-rich soil). Original (photo by Robert I.M. Campbell) & reconstruction (Paul Szpak).
I've noticed that we often restore the babies of extinct animals with proportions much like our own tubby, dumpy offspring. This doesn't always fit fossil data, as evidenced by surprisingly leggy Protoceratops hatchlings (snout-vent c. 10 cm). #paleoart #dinosaurs
New blog post for #FossilFriday: Can we predict the horn shapes of fossil animals? Perhaps, with enough data, we have more insight on horn sheath shape than we realised. Stars Triceratops, because it's a post about horns. Also features new #paleoart!
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#FossilFriday Here's a neanderthal skull fragment trawled from the bottom of the north sea https://t.co/TSGnga7Aoe
#FossilFriday WIP. My take on the basal abelisaur Eoabelisaurus mefi from the Cañadon Asfalto Formation - Middle Jurassic (Oxfordian) Argentina 🇦🇷. Already looking VERY abelisaurid! Look at that head! #paleoart #dinosaurs