Four incomplete fossil fish specimens on a black background. The specimens preserve scales, vertebrae, spines, and so on, and are dark gray on lighter gray to mustard-colored slabs.

Remarkable. Report of a Brazilian spiny-rayed fish dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, preceding the oldest known acanthomorphs by ~20 million years. Gondwanacanthus extends the roots of one of today's most prominent vertebrate radiations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Jamal Adams trade would have ended a mere mortal

Nanotyrannus, 3D render

#dinosaur #3dart #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #paleoart

The ontogeny of Smilodon fatalis- illustrating the unique life history of a saber-toothed cat's development.

Nanotyrannus (1:1) wip #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Underwater painterly illustration of an Ordovician seafloor with various animals including crinoids, coral, trilobites, and nautiloids.

Ordovician illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.

#Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Ordovician

Quetz sketch!

This is not the case for, say, tyrannosaurus rex. In AMNH 5027 the incisors are more strongly recurved and the tooth line actually flattens out slightly at the premaxilla. Individual variation is certainly a factor, but other tyrannosaurs are similar.

A reddy-brown spotted Yutyrannus runs along a mountainside, past tall conifers.

A Yutyrannus in pursuit.

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An interesting anatomical quirk of nanotyrannus I haven't seen get talked about is that all the lethaeus and lancencis specimens that preserve the premaxilla have a tooth line that would have caused the less- recurved "incisiform" teeth to project slightly forward, even slightly past the premaxilla.

last dino (well, not really) doodle on the lineup for now. one of my favorite creatures ever, quetzalcoatlus

#paleoart #art #pterosaur 🎨 🦖

Nanotyrannus lethaeus chasing down a Triceratops prorsus.

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Finally got a hold of his description!, first modern skeletal reconstruction of this animal

coming along an entire overhaul of its wikipedia page!

SHACKLETON'S KING OF ANTARTICA

Nanotyrannus lethaeus chasing down a Triceratops prorsus.

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Tyrannosaurus family

Its a doodle kinda day today

Of course and thank you

Some other thing

I think I’ll call this commission “Turla Munchersss”!

Millions of years ago during the Miocene, somewhere off the Pacific coast of SA, a gigantic Purussaurus sp. cautiously passes by a titanic female Otodus megalodon, each with freshly caught sea turtles.

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But I won't lie it is incredibly time consuming and requires a lot of patience either way so I don't necessarily recommend it!

It depends on the piece but drawing the negative space rather than the outlines of scales can help. That way it's a lot of dots rather than connected circles.

Thank you!

A dimetrodon among a grove of horsetails

Just a little guy

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

Digital Drawing. A depiction of all 9 species of moa. They look as if they are floating in the air, moving towards a glowing point in the bottom left corner. In the background are some twisty-ish trees, all leaning to the left. There is a dark border around the whole piece. At the bottom are the skulls of all 9 species (they're probably not exactly to scale with one another). On the left and right of the skulls are pairs of kōwhai leaves. The rest of the border is filled with simple lines. All 9 species of moa are (left to right): Mantell's moa Bush moa Eastern moa (bald one with blue head) Heavy-footed moa (behind eastern moa) South Island giant moa (has blue on the neck) Stout-legged moa North island giant moa Crested moa Upland moa

Moa

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