Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Dakosaurus #Alt4Me
While Dinamation did make a handful of cenzoic models, I think the spikes seen in this clip are from their Stegosaurus animatronic
Raging Bolt
I really like these twilight years of quetzalcoatlus depictions when the most certain thing anybody knew about it was that it had a long wingspan and a fairly long neck.
Three giant ichthyosaurs emerge from the water in front of a hazy, cloudy sky. The left animal has the arms of a large squid emerging from its mouth, and the right has surfaced far enough to show its front left flopper. The central animal looms above us, eclipsing the sun with its enormous snout. Two pterosaurs fly past the closest specimen, dwarfed by the emergent swimmer like pigeons circling a cathedral spire.
SPPOOOSSSHHH... PHHHFFFFFFF... SSSSSSHHHHHHHH...
To paraphrase Bob Ross, you have to make the noises when looking at #paleoart, otherwise it doesn't work.
2018 illustration of giant Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, surfacing in waters that once covered Nevada. #art #fossil #paleontology #sciart
Life reconstruction of a disc-shaped ammonite (Placenticeras) with a straight-shelled ammonite (Baculites) in the foreground. These models are in a display case with text and figures apparent in the background.
Life reconstruction of an ammonite with a corkscrew-shaped shell with spines (Didymoceras) in a display case. Some text is visible in the background.
Life reconstruction of a squid-like cephalopod called a belemnite in a display case. Some text is visible in the background.
Some wax models of Cretaceous cephalopods for your enjoyment.
Art commission for James Stryker! one of the few depictions of mine whose colors weren't suggested by claude lol
Amargasaurus #paleoart
Updated Allosaurus skull at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
It's worth noting that since this photo was taken, the skull on the Allosaurus mount has actually been changed to a cast of DINO 2560. Apparently the original skull cast was beginning to slide off the mount (and was lacking in a lot of detail) so it was replaced in Spring of 2016.
The Prehistoric Journey Art Collab Re-Prepared!
Calling all Paleoartists! I am assembling a team to reignite a paleoart collab I started years ago. Allow me to reintroduce the Prehistoric Journey Art Collab!
A collaborative mural featuring over 100 unique prehistoric animals to choose from.
More details below! (1/4)
6 different bacteria images in a watercolor grid
Fresh Bacteria in watercolor #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4430...
I would love to know why it was worse than imagined. I know what makes a good exhibit good, so I wanna know what makes a bad exhibit REALLY bad
I’ll be honest, I was expecting at least one in this comment thread
Do they have Krusty Neon-colored semi-viscous margarine product?
There is a building that looks suspiciously similar to this on the college campus I work at.
A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.
Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑
Corner display with a verdant mural of dinosaurs and other creatures in a swamp, over four cases with small fossils.
View of right side of mural, with resting T. rex in the center.
View of left side of the mural, with Pachycephalosaurus among some cypress
Big T. rex skeleton on platform, mural visible in the far distance
At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!
I was hoping they might be
What the hell, these guys aren’t giants, they’re regular sized!
It's been a while since my current stuff but way back in high school, I made a puppet of G2-9T from Star Tours.
Listen to/Living with The Land gets a free pass for having an actual greenhouse (same with the Living Seas pavilion’s aquarium) and so the science was literally alive. Universe of Energy got a facelift in the 90s but the science discussed within was pretty similar in both
I would lose my ever loving mind if somebody made a hybrid paleontology/health science exhibit that emphasized physiology and histology of fossils. (And if it already exists please, someone send me a video)
It’s also worth mentioning that the original design philosophy of classic Epcot was to “inform, entertain, and inspire” all at once. Not to say that there aren’t exhibits that do all of those things though, plenty do
Very few of the Epcot exhibits really emphasized up to date science, which is why they’re better off being considered separate from a museum type exhibit. Some of them, like Frontiers of Medicine in Wonders of Life were updated regularly but then closed when the pavilion lost its sponsor
It feels like what would happen if somebody tried to modify an Epcot Pavilion by removing the rides and adding some fossils and extra interactive displays. (which would still be a cool experience tbh)
While I must admit that while LOT is severely lacking in comparison to other exhibits from its time like Prehistoric Journey or Deep Time, it looks so aesthetically pleasing. It feels like an explosion of Utopian Scholastic aesthetics (which also didn't survive past 2004)
A carnival-like exhibit entrance with a dinosaur skull, coelacanth model, and pantodont skeleton in cases under freak show-style banners labeling them as "Mesozoic terror" and "the fish that wouldn't die'
I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.
When I was
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a Rockies game
You should bring back the walk through thread you had back on twt. It was cool seeing those photos.
Slightly crooked photocopy of a map of a museum exhibit. U-shaped space runs from Understanding Evolution #1: time through galleries on various periods of deep time.
Delighted to have found an actual floorplan of Life Over Time this morning!
Frosted MEGA-wheat
