This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.
The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.
The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.
Amalthea doodle warm up
The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.
Gonna start a little thread for my historical fiction project #PARADOXICA
Set in late victorian England, Time travel to the mesozoic has become quite the industry, for both scientific research and (for better or for worse,) tourism.
Here we have Lana Carter taking her friends dromeosaur for a walk ๐
Always beautiful, always inspirational. Go watch David James Armsby's newest masterpiece.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc-R...
Digital painting of a tabby cat standing on a tiled floor. It has a small white bird in it's mouth with a human's face. blood stains the bird's breast and the tile below
I caught a spy my liege
When I see c/a/leb mains getting attacked for not having an problem with his trope ๐
Digital art of two orange and blue unicorns joining horns in the middle, one being sun-themed while the other is night-themed.
year of the horse
orb
ใใฏใใ๏ผGood morning! Buenos dรญas! Bonjour๏ผ
Egun on! Bom dia! ๆฉๅฎ! เธชเธงเธฑเธชเธเธตเธเธญเธเนเธเนเธฒเธเธฃเธฑเธ!
Chร o anh! Buongiorno! Jรณ reggelt!
Illustration of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 4, walking down a hallway full of zombies, looking at the camera. Teal and Red tones.
Give my regards to your god // #ResidentEvil #RE4 #leonkennedy
The Silver Wing in Pokopia looked more like bird feathers than I expected, so I started imagining what Lugiaโs wings are really like..๐ชถ
#pokopia
Quick #paleoart sketch for a patron. Bout 1-2 hours on this one.
#TheDinosaurMann
#LifeOnOurPlanet #TheDinosaurs
The Peloroplites sequence naturally and masterfully showcases two nodosaurid behaviours within the range of reasonable speculation that had never been shown on screen before: immersing in water and using sound to attract mates.
Highlighting fantastic palaeoartists:
ๆธ็ซ on xiaohongshu, a mixed-medium artist from China. Magical depictions of theropods. Pictures are panels from their Spinosaurus comic.
Thank u yaoi sensei ๐
Slowly but surelyโฆ.
Kal @Kaldruen Follow *Leon casually suplexing a 60 year old man* "Guess that's The Last of Him." The Seinen Hero @TheHeroOfSeinen โข 2d Who'd win in a fight :
requiem for vanished birdsong
Wip of a zebra on clip studio paint
Wip of a quagga on clip studio paint
I promise im drawingโฆ. I just draw slow asf but i wanted to post some wips for a year of the horse piece im working on cuz i rendered the FUCK out of these and i need someone to see ok thanks bye #art
CONGRATS!!!!! SO PSYCHED FOR YOU๐๐
Feb patreon print!
A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.
I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime:
Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart!
Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm
Devonion fishies Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) and couple of bothriolepis swimming by. Needs updating but still thinking this is one of my better paintings I have done
wishful thinking
An illustration in blues and reds of a bucking saddled horse. Smoke is pluming from it's mouth. Below it reads: 'Year of the Horse, 2026'
Happy Lunar New Year
2026 Year of the Horse โด๏ธ
Astra and her unicorn taking a stroll by some mandarin trees
ๆญๅๅ่ดข!
happy year of the horse!! ๐งง๐๐๐จ
"Sweet mother, I cannot weave โ slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." #francheala
