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A portrait page with a full restored branch onto the left. It has 6 palm like leaves at the end of one branch, hiding a cone, with a second mature cone below it. On the top right is a male floral organ, which is start shaped, and in the bottom right is a cut-way of the female cone showing its development.

I have another #paleobotany restoration guide for this #FossilFriday. This time, it's Kimuriella densifolia, a whole plant bennettitalean from the Late #Jurassic of Japan.
This plant is composed of three organ taxa: Williamsonia, Zamites, and Weltrichia.
#paleoart #sciart #botany

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

Agaricocrinus is a common Mississippian crinoid, but very beautiful. This specimen is from the Edwardsville Fm of Indiana near Crawfordsville. Each arm has delicate pinnules that would filter water for food.

#FossilFriday

Latest paleoart watercolor is Daemonosaurus. Felt compelled to make this after learning Dr. Hans Sues, who described and named this dinosaur, passed. 🎨🦖

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Screenshot of Dimetrodon from Surviving Earth and the concept art of it

Screenshots of baby Ischiguastia and my concept art of it

As the time to talk #SurvivingEarth nears, I wanted to say that I’m extremely proud to have been part of the amazing team who worked on it

I was commissioned by Tim Haines (producer of Walking with Dinosaurs) and his team, to create the concept art for MANY animals for this project!

#paleoart

Spinosaurus mirabilis cuz this dude rocks

[ #art #paleoart #digitalart #dinosaur #spinosaurus #drawing ]

A digital illustration of a couple of Limusaurus walking next to each other and making noises. Both of the dinosaurs have their mouths wide open.

A couple of loud guys.

2026 dinosaur prompt list:
www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...
#Limusaurusinextricabilis #Limusaurus #dinosaur #art

It's finally time to meet one of history's most beloved dinosaurs: the Stegosaurus! 🌿

Learn all about this long-awaited giant and its alternate species in February's development diary.

➡️Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/3OyapVN
📝Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

drawing of a browt from pokemon, but it's an ugly falcon chick

welcome to the world, my scrungly son

Drawing showing biodiversity from the Carboniferous of Puertollano, which includes plants, arthropods, fish and tetrapods. From left to right, top to bottom: - The giant millipede Arthropleura walking through the forest floor, next to an amphibian (maker of the Puertollanopus tracks) and insects - General view of the swamp landscape, with a volcano erupting in the background - A early synapsid, maker of possible Dimetropus tracks - Pecopteris monyi, leaves of a tree fern - A pair of Acanthodes swimming through vegetation and smaller fish - The temnospondyl Iberospondylus schultzei swimming next to some platysomid fish - Small clam shrimp Euestheria - Two lycophytes Omphalophloios puertollanense next to some swamp creatures - The xenacanth Orthacanthus hunting in the murky waters - Juvenile shark Lissodus hiding from the fish Progyrolepis speciosus - Puertollanichthys richtei, a small fish, swimming through the vegetation

🌴🦈Carboniferous Puertollano🐸🌋
In the lands of La Mancha, fossils from the Late Carboniferous known from old coal mines reveal a tropical coastal swamp ecosystem, rich in aquatic and plant life
#paleoart #FossilFriday #Carboniferous #Puertollano
🧵Thread for additional explanation

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)

Pokemon dayまであと4日！

It is now February 27th in Japan

On this day, 30 years ago, Pokémon Red & Green were released in Japan and the franchise began.

Happy Birthday Pokémon!

#PokemonDay #Pokemon30

Art Comission by James Stryker Colors suggested by @cascoclauda :3

Outmuscled

(Argentinosaurus & co.)

EVERY CURRENT ART OF THIS ANIMAL IS WRONG!!!!!!!

for this to have the normal tail its usually depicted with, it would need a string of like 150 caudal vertebrae, instead of the expected 30-40

it had big manual claws and a big bone support for a MEAN angry brow over the eye

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down.

Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

I'mma just be drawing random majungasaurus from now on
TAKE THAT, DEPRESSION

#TheDinosaurMann #paleoart

Native grape vines will grow onto them and weigh them down to the point of pulling limbs down, knocking several trees in the process. And the smell they leave on your hands is abhorrent. They look similar to native Walnuts when they're young, so the smell is the easiest way to tell them apart.

They're also brittle to the point of fragility. I learned as a kid that they shatter, whole tree, if struck by a bat. So I'd go through taking them out (I've was a very environmentally cautious kid and hated these invasive trees). But they drop so many branches in storms, it's dangerous.

The only way to rid them is to rip the roots from the earth itself, but the roots spread for so long, they've made a web underneath my entire lawn. If I go more than a week without mowing in summer, there will be foot tall trees by the hundreds all over. I've dug and dug and dug but there's too many

I have cut them down and sprayed copious amounts of herbicide into the stumps, and it does not kill them. I have literally salted the earth around them and they continue to grow. The thicket near my house is so well established, they're as tall as the 50 year old Loblolly pines which surround them

Their roots spread for meters and meters, sprouting new trees all along their length. There was a room on my house that we tore down after 10 years due to bad construction and the roots that were under that foundation continue to sprout new trees despite having been under a HOUSE for a decade.

There is a HUGE thicket of these trees by my house and they have haunted me for my entire life. They're fast growing, damn near immortal, and unbelievably smelly. They attract spotted lanternflies by the thousands (you stand under them and it feels like it's raining from all their... droppings?)

A colorful poster illustration featuring 15 species of animals from the Cambrian period 541-485 million years ago. These are mostly unusual looking invertebrates, such as Hurdia, Wiwaxia, Anomalocaris, Peytoia, trilobites, Marrella, Nectocaris, Hallucigenia, Opabinia, Plectronoceras, Lyrarapax, and Naraoia. An early chordate (Pikaia) is also included. The animals are brightly colored on a dark black background. White numbers with a key label each species.

Creatures of the Cambrian period!

Drew the new spinosaurus! And the old one while I was at it!
#spinosaurusaegyptiacus
#spinosaurusmirabilis
#sciart #paleoart

#pixelart #ドット絵