Pencil sketch. Foreground: two dacentrurine stegosaurs drinking from a stream in front of an embankment covered in a Gleichenia thicket. Equisetum grow by the streamside. In the background an adult and juvenile Stegosaurus wander through osmundaceous ferns. A Ptilophyllum-type bennettite stands from among the ferns.
Sketch: dacentrurine and stegosaurine stegosaurs coexisting in the Morrison Formation
Alnashetri cerropoliciensis pencil sketch
Alnashetri cerropoliciensis
good choice queen
Spinosaurus mirabilis sketch
Tired but couldn't help myself, so quick Spinosaurus mirabilis sketch. Proportions just taken from the paper (Sereno et al. 2026).
Taurovenator violantei pencil sketch. Large ventral and caudal scutes are like those found on Allosaurus and Concavenator. Vertical pointing "arrowhead" shaped scales inspired by those seen on Juravenator.
Taurovenator violantei sketch (very much based on skeletal by Dan Folkes)
Black Beauty would be in my top 3 for sure
They just don't get it
Pencil line reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex based on AMNH 5027, gaps filled with the holotype.
Tyrannosaurus rex 2026
AMNH 5027 is the best one, sorry. In my mind there is no contest.
The specimen is pretty small but it is a juvenile. It is likely the adult was a more typical iguanodont size. I'd be facinated to see what the integument looked like on the adult.
Illustration of Haolong dongi with Laura Dern for scale (the animal is about the size of a large dog or a minature pony)
Haolong dongi shown alongside the fossil with various close-ups of the preserved skin from Huang et al. 2026.
The new iguanodont with novel skin coverings. In addition to the large scute-like scales on the tail, the body is covered with what the author's describe as "spikes". The largest ones are about 4 cm long but almost a cm thick, resembling short quills. The smaller ones are hair or eyelash-like.
I think yours looks closest to my interpretation after reading the paper. I think a lot of people are making the spikes too large and too dense.
We've only got a trailer to go off but is the new monster from the Monarch show the best original kaiju Legendary has done?
I do like the MUTOs and I though the ones from the first season of monarch weren't bad either.
Well I guess it'll save me 21 dollars a month or whatever it is now if I have to switch to Krita or Affinity or whatever
The fact that "edtwt" is not a bunch of people supporting each other in their eating disorder recovery journeys, but instead a frighteningly large community of very mentally ill girls in social competition with each other over who can eat the fewest calories is a genuine horror story to me.
Yeah people use it, it just sucks ass cause it turns out "a twitter for people who mostly use instagram" as a deeply evil concept
Passage from The Lost World by Michael Crichton describing Lewis Dodgson as an unscrupulous hack whose only talent is stealing ideas from other people and presenting them as his own.
I just read this passage in The Lost World (the Crichton one) describing the main villain, and it's hysterical how perfectly this describes Elon Musk.
So tiktoks now have little button thay just says "AI" on them 🙄
I'm scared to even find out what it does
Dead internet but also dead real life theory.
I know it's like pretentious or w/e to imply other people have no inner lives but the concept of two people texting each other both using ChatGPT generated messages (which we all know is definitely happening) fills me with a deep feeling of contempt.
This is part of my argument haha
Not only are they not aliens or alike to the other Pandoran animals (yes even with the prolemuris) but they are very clearly hominids closely related to Homo or even potentially evolved from Homo.
Also though, to be fair to Cameron and crew, this is true of the vast vast majority of alien planets in film and not at all unique to Pandora.
I kind of want to rant about how (though I like it) Pandora doesn't work at all as an Alien planet and only makes any sense as a planet that was terraformed from earth some time in the distant past. Though gauging from what I've seen on Twitter the spec-evo people might get mad at me.
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Earliest Cenozoic ammonoids:
Machalski, M., Olszewska-Nejbert, D., Landman, N.H. et al. Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark. Sci Rep 15, 45802 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Top 2 are obviously respectable. The main thing I remember about Godzilla 2000 is he spends like half the movie fighting a giant flying turd.
Bucklandia indica, a thick, scaled, cycad-like stem with a Ptilophyllum-type leaf attached.
The specimens of the new speices, Ohania is much smaller than this. The authors suggest it was probably shrub-sized. However, there are other large, thick trunks with Ptilophyllum leaves attached/associated so something like Brougham depicts is definitely on the table.
Why did they even make Minya so busted? Like they didn't have to do that. Godzilla Junior isn't busted
Check out this piece by Jason Broughham from 2013 btw, he was cooking. He even describes it as having Ptilophyllum leaves.
Frankenstein or Frankenstein's monster or the creature, whichever pleases you, standing taller than trees as he fights Baragon, a Godzilla sized monster with big ears and a large horn on its snout and ridges running down its back in the 1965 movie Frankenstein Conquers the World
Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands."
Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."
Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.
Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.
