Latest posts tagged with #SpecZoo on Bluesky
My long review of the 2025 edition of Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs has just been published in Historical Biology. What is the 'use' of Speculative Zoology and how does this book connect to the history of dinosaur research? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YTPSK... #SpecZoo #SpecBio
I've also been able to write about the speculations, entertained by so many scientists and writers, that #dinosaurs might have evolved human-like intelligence had conditioned allowed. Here's one of several Tet Zoo articles on Russell & Séguin's dinosauroid.... tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/... #SpecZoo
Dougal Dixon's books stand as the primary benchmarks on the subject and have had an enormous impact. Tet Zoo has given me the opportunity to write often about Dougal's works and even to interview him _and_ see the unpublished prototype of After Man... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/6/... #SpecZoo #SpecBio
Went back and made a few corrections to the overall shading, plus eliminated some white areas I missed initially. Here it is! Hope you all enjoy it.
#DarwinIV #AlienPlanet #speczoo #speculativeevolution #scifi #scifiart #aliens #WayneBarlowe #fanart
Portrait of a pair of Darwin IV arrowtongues sprinting across a drying mud flat covered in groves of gourd trees and other plant or fungi-like organisms as a storm builds in the distance. This scene directly references a 1988 painting of two Tyrannosaurus rexes running by paleontologist Gregory S. Paul.
Greg S. Paul's Arrowtongues.
(Darwin IV expedition, 2388 A.D.)
#DarwinIV #speczoo #speculativeevolution #scifi #scifiart #aliens #WayneBarlowe #fanart
Panoramic scene of two creatures from Dougal Dixon's "After Man: A Zoology of The Future" (1981), a pair of Raboons (giant theropod dinosaur-like descendant of the baboon, right) and a Rundihorn (elephantine descendant of antelopes, left), facing off in an open savannah in Africa, 50 million years in the future. This scene is a direct homage to a 1928 painting depicting a Tyrannosaurus rex facing off against a Triceratops in a Late Cretaceous marshland by artist Charles R. Knight for the Field Museum in Chicago.
Charles Knight's Raboon Vs. Rundihorn (circa. 50 Million Years Hence).
#paleoart #homage #speczoo #specevo #scifiart #AfterMan
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New #terratomorrow entry!
Art and entry by clocanth
#specevo #speculativeevolution #SpeculativeFiction #art #digitalart #artist #digitalartist #writing #specbio #speczoo #scifi #scifiart #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #WritingCommunity
Depiction of a fictitious descendant of the modern dolphin from 15 million years in the future that has returned to living on land. The animal's body is covered in a light coat of sandy-yellow and brown-striped hair, with a small mane/crest of fur running down its neck and back. Its ancestor's blowhole has become a wet nose, the mouth has fleshly lips tipped with whiskers, two muscular walking limbs adapted from fins, and a prop-like tail adapted from its ancestral tail fluke to aid in walking.
An attempt from last year at making a terrestrial cetacean, in this case, a land dolphin.
This fella's the result of about 15 million years of evolution and seems to be re-adjusting nicely to terra firma. May or may not do a second take on this idea sometime later.
#specevo #speczoo #scifiart
Scene of a herd of toratons, giant 120-ton descendants of the tortoise from the 2002 documentary series The Future Is Wild, foraging and wading in a lush, green swamp 100 million years in the future. The scene itself is a reference to a famous painting depicting the sauropod dinosaur Brontosaurus made by Charles R. Knight in 1897.
Charles Knight's Toratons.
#TheFutureIsWild #fanart #speculativezoology #speczoo #specevo #scifiart
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Art by tortoiseman
New #terratomorrow entry!
#speculativeevolution #specevo #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #speczoo #art #artists #digitalart #digitalartists #writer #writers #writing #scifi #scifiart
Drift isle - Oceangoing
This is a cross section of one of the larger colonial Drift Isle species.
As shown, it can host corals and fish. Some are tens of kilometers(sq) in size and occupy all parts of the open ocean.
#speczoo #specbio #aliencreature #art #pencilart #drawing #diagram #illustratuon
Big guy
(it eats only plants and lives in tropical savanahs south of the equator)
#speczoo #speculativezoology #art #pencilart #human_for_scale #herbivore #animal #alien #colourpencil #Eerie(oc)
#oc
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Here’s the boldest #terratomorrow entry yet!
#speculativeevolution #specevo #art #artists #digitalartwork #worldbuilding #scifi #scifiart #creaturedesign #writing #artist #DigitalArtist #speczoo #specbio
Check out the discord! discord.gg/Mz6gUTkR
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Here’s the big announcement! A brand new #terratomorrow epoch! Thanks imperator for the map!
#specevo #worldbuilding #speculativeevolution #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #maps #mapmaking #art #artists #speczoo #specbio #digitalart #digitalartist
#TetZoo article on the #SpecZoo book Demain, Les Animaux du Futur, has ended up with around 30 reader comments, which is great. On SpecZoo scenarios in general, birds vs bats, translated editions, and more .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/...
Speculative Zoology Grand and Photoreal: Boulay and Steyer's Demain, les Animaux du Futur tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/... #SpecZoo #SpecBio
Having just republished the Tetrapod Zoology Dougal Dixon interview from 2014, I have also decided to republish my 2015 article on Demain, les Animaux de Futur .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/... #SpecZoo #SpecBio
The #TetZoo Dougal Dixon #AfterMan article now has 20 reader comments. Do come and interact if After Man (or other Dixonian works) were inspirational to yourself :) tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/... #SpecZoo
Sauropod montage showing Morrison diversity, with giraffe and human for scale.
Large Cretaceous Thai sauropod in sitting pose in desert environment.
Speculative sauropod with red and blue face, white legs, stripes back and tail.
Hadrosaur profiles together.
#ArtBoost tiday is for Paleoman @paleoman007.bsky.social, a palaeoartist based in Thailand who's doing #dinosaurs of all sorts (I've fixated on sauropods here), other prehistoric animals, and also #SpecZoo. Work shows rapid improvement over the past 2 years, is destined for greatness :)
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New #terratomorrow post!
Art by Tortoiseman
#creaturedesign #worldbuilding #specevo #speculativeevolution #writing #art #artists #artist #digitalart #digitalartist #worldbuilder #speczoo #scifi #scifiart #writer
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New map for #terratomorrow by dancing dragon on discord
#specevo #speculativeevolution #maps #cartography #worldbuilding #artist #Art #artists #digitalart #creaturedesign #scifi #scifiart #Science #writing #speczoo #specart #DigitalArtist #mapmaker #geography
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New #terratomorrow post!
#specevo #speculativeevolution #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #art #artist #artists #digitalart #digitalartist #writing #plants #speczoo #biology #scifi #scifiart #science #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #fiction #flowers #corpseflower
Paleontologist vs Monster Hunter: Could These Beasts Actually Exist? | Reality Check www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKx1... #MonsterHunter #monsters #dinosaurs #SpecBio #SpecZoo
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New #terratomorrow entry! Art by Tortoiseman
#specevo #speculativeevolution #speczoo #art #artist #artists #digitalart #DigitalArtist #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #WritingCommunity #scifiart #Biology #sciencefiction #science #writing #writer #scifi #writers
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New #terratomorrow post!
#specevo #speculativeevolution #scifi #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #scifiart #art #digitalart #speczoo #artist #digitalartist #writing #artists #science #speculativezoology #worldbuilder #worldbuilders #writer #writers #digitalartists
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New entry for #terratomorrow!
#speculativeevolution #art #artist #artists #digitalart #digitalartist #digitalartists #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #specevo #specbio #speczoo #futureevolution #plants #writing #scifi #scifiart #writers #writer
To anyone that’s seen #terratomorrow, what do you think?
#specevo #speculativeevolution #worldbuilding #creaturedesign #writers #writing #speczoo #evolution #scifi #scifiart #artist #scifiartist #digitalart #digitalartists #digitalartist #art #spec #speculativezoology #writing #sciencefiction
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@stealthygeek.bluesky.social enjoy #terratomorrow stalker child. I’m on bluesky too infant
#specevo #scifi #scifiart #art #artists #digitalart #digitalartist #writing #speculativeevolution #speczoo #worldbuilding #specbio #speculativebiology #writer #writers #spec
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Art by Tortoiseman
#specevo #scifi #dune #terratomorrow #speculativeevolution #speczoo #speculativezoology #art #artist #artists #digitalart #digitalartist #digitalartists #writers #writing #wspeclknn
Announcing a new contest for terra tomorrow!
#terratomorrow #specevo #art #artists #contest #speculativeevolution #speczoo #writers #writing #speculativezoology #biology #biologist #scifi #digitalartist #specbio #speculativebiology #fantasy #bestiary #author #authors
