Torvosaurus cast skeleton with a seemingly giant head in a space with purple and blue lights
Neck and head of Brachiosaurus cast skeleton make a cool shadow on the wall
Supersaurus reconstructed skeleton peers around a rock form, casting a shadow under blue and purple lights
The Jurassic but more purpler #FossilFriday
A hen harrier perched on a branch
A kestrel
Red tailed hawk perched on a branch
bearded vulture on a branch
I have some time free if anyone wants to commission any bird art -
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A quilled Velociraptor with tightly folded arms stands atop a pile of loose stones, backed by an intensive purple and orange sunset.
A leathery-winged, white-furred Dimorphodon with red legs soars above rough waves. In the distance, jutting stones pierce a sulphurous sky.
A red-headed Albertosaurus moves alongside a herd of Lambeosaurus, splashing through a shallow woodland stream. The sky is a smoky blue with wisps of clouds strewn about. The massive form of a colossal asteroid hovers menacingly above it all.
An emaciated Triceratops with ragged skin sits in a low squat, shown in stark white against an almost entirely black composition. A cutaway view shows a tangle of roots piercing deep into the ground, a visual representation of the sickness penetrating the dinosaurs body.
I donβt think I love anything as much as the surreal, alien palaeoart of the 70s into the early 90s. These compositions are all naturalistic, but theyβre strange and hypernatural in a way that transcends realism. Itβs a bizarre but profoundly moving approach to reconstructing the past.
All of these Beaked Whales are for a project featuring all 24 known species thatβll be out soon!
#cetacea #ocean
the sabre-toothed cat yoshi chases a gazelle through scrubland
happy mario day! this is yoshi, though he might look a little different from how you remember him π± yoshi was a metailurin sabre-toothed cat that lived in late miocene eurasia, and its cursorial adaptations were well-suited to open habitats
(art by mauricio anton)
I present to you: Ramariβs Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon eueu) sucking up a squid of the Mastigoteuthis genus.
#dolphin #cetacea #whale #ocean
Composite skeleton of the Early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur Astrodon
#FossilFriday #PaleoFest Composite juvenile skeleton of the Early Cretaceous sauropod Astrodon at the Maryland Science Center
Boomerang made from mammoth tusk with 5 cm scale
A boomerang made from mammoth ivory, from ObΕazowa Cave, Poland. Dating to around 40,000 years ago, the object was shaped and well-used, with signs of polish in the areas where a right-handed person would have handled and thrown it.
Photo: Sahra Talamo and coworkers (2025, scale=5cm)
A robustly built Carcharodontosaurus stands on a white background, posed in a relaxed stance that shows off its muscular body and clawed hands. It has a three-toned countershaded pattern, black on top, grey-blue in the middle, and a cream underside. The crests above its eyes blue, and its eye is a piercing red.
An Argentinosaurus with an alert posture strides across a white background. It has a long, whip-like tail that ends in black and white bands. Its head is held high, adorned with a similar pattern as the tail. The rest of its muscular body is patterned with terracotta browns decorated with yellow streaks and black spots.
Here's a sneak preview of the upcoming Jurassic World Institute Dinopedia artwork article, to give you an idea of just how high-quality the images I've received are. This is Carcharodontosaurus and Argentinosaurus, two of the dozens of animals Timothy Bradley illustrated for the JP Institute site!
I'm very fond of duikers and had the privilege of seeing quite a few in the forests of central Africa
A close-up of a dark seabird with a long hooked bill, dark blue eye, and a bright turquoise throat patch. Photographed in La Jolla, California.
A Brandtβs Cormorant rocking that electric blue!
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
art depicting megapterygius swimming just below the ocean surface
a photograph of the megapterygius holotype as it was displayed at the national museum of nature and science in tokyo
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is megapterygius, a mosasaur from late cretaceous japan. at least 5 of its posterior dorsal vertebrae have neural spines that project anterodorsally, suggesting that it may have had a dorsal fin reminiscent of some delphinoid cetaceans
(art by @adamrl.bsky.social)
A photo of a spectacled bear approaching the viewer. The animal is stocky with black fur. Its face is marked with gold, the pattern of which somewhat resembles a pair of spectacles.
Meet the spectacled bear! Also known as the Andean bear, itβs distinguished by the glasses-shaped marking on its face. An inhabitant of the tropical Andes, itβs currently the only extant bear species in South America.
Photo: Melvin TOULLEC, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Fossils of Alberta
Woodblock style illustration featuring Spinosaurus
Revamped Spinothingie!
Cover of book.
Back cover, showing green and red sauropod.
Full page pic of rearing Amargasaurus.
Double pages of book showing drawings and text.
Also new here at Tet Zoo Towers... what, _another_ Greg Paul dinosaur book from Princeton? Yup, Sauropods and Prosauropods. It's for review. Like everyone, I have mixed feelings on these books; Paul's idiosyncratic taxonomy is an issue. #dinosaurs #books
Womp womp
Art by Todd Marshall
Fossilized bones and skeletal diagram of a small dinosaur.
New specimen of Alnashetri shows it to be a late-surviving non-alvarezsaurid alvarezsaur retaining unreduced forelimbs and representing an independent evolution of miniaturization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... π§ͺ (π·Makovicky et al.)
Today, according to my 12yo, is Spangled Coquette Awareness Day!
The males of this South American hummingbird have a spectacular crest.
This article says βsedentaryβ which confused me for a hummingbird but I read further to realize that simply means itβs not migratoryβ¦ not a couch potato.
I remember these like it was yesterday! Do we know the name of the person who actually did these? Such a specific style
An excellent three-post take on one of the many facets of the recent Spinosaurus/Myhrvold/Epstein controversy. Science journalists, this story really needs covering! #scicomm #science #ethics #epstein
Boar taxiderm model, and piglet, in NHM London.
Italian boar statue at Ashmolean in Oxford, flipped for comparison.
I've never paid much attention to the European wild boar included in the artiodactyl display but today it occurred to me that its pose _might_ be based on that of the famous Italian statue shown here, first written about in the 1550s, stolen and taken to Oxford, and cast many times in bronze...
Blue whale model at NHM London.
Blue whale model at NHM London.
I've written at length about the Blue whale model, the very first of its kind and built to accompany the Irish skeleton from 1891 now known as Hope. So I'll avoid talking about it again... there's tons to say. It was constructed by Percy and Stuart Stammwitz in 1937 and 38...
Dolphin model at NHM London.
Dolphin model at NHM London, close-up of head.
Everyone loves Lagenorhynchus... err, I mean Cephalorhynchus cruciger, the brilliant Hourglass dolphin of the far south. I've always enjoyed looking at the NHM model of it, but today I noticed... you can see its teeth!! I never noticed this before.
Risso's dolphin model at NHM London.
Squid arm scar on Risso's dolphin model.
Today I noticed - I think for the first time - that some of the scars on the Risso's dolphin (a species I've seen in life, once at close range) are very specifically meant to be squid arm scars... brilliant detail!
Selection of whale models suspended from the ceiling, NHM London.
Selection of whale models suspended from the ceiling, NHM London.
One of THE best things in the whole museum is the collection of life-sized whales, made in the NHM workshops during the 1930s. They're phenomenally good...
Mantellisaurus in foreground, Hope the Blue whale behind.
Mammal Hall, with Blue whale model at left and proboscideans at right.
Sophie the Stegosaurus.
I had a few errands to run at London's Natural History Museum this morning. There is so much amazing stuff there I always notice and appreciate something new, so here's a thread on things I saw...
A phylogenetic framework of the lower vertebrates.
"We describe the only known example of a three-dimensionally mineralized heart, thick-walled stomach, and bilobed liver from arthrodire placoderms, stem gnathostomes from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
π§ͺ βοΈ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
Corythosaurus - digital bust
#scicomart
Aplomado Falcon, Brazil
In my mind, the Aplomado Falcon is the prettiest falcon out there. I was fortunate to see my first ones in Brazil nearly a decade ago, and have photographed them a few times since.
