Volume rendered model of the Muttaburrasaurus langdoni (QMF6140) cranium, from Herne et al. 2026.
Late to the party as usual, but the new paper on Muttaburrasaurus is fascinating (peerj.com/articles/207...). I'm struggling not to equate that giant nasal capsule with the face-altering cartilage noses of lizards. Is this an ossification of a structure that could have been common to some dinosaurs?
New paper: possible track evidence of a small reptile or salamander being pursued by an azhdarchid-like pterosaur. Validation of the Witton and @tetzoo.bsky.social model of azhdarchid foraging? Maybe.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From 2026: the dinosaur-like reptile Nyasasaurus sprints after a tiny beaked reptile, a rhynchosaur, in Triassic Tanzania. Trees, living and dead, erupt from shallow banks surrounding a shallow stream, across which Nyasasaurus has splashed.
My old 2012 take on Nyasasaurs, produced in association with Sterling Nesbitt and Paul Barrett. Here, Nyasasaurus examines the remains of an uprooted cycad, while rhynchosaurs munch foliage in the distance. I'd been producing palaeoart semi-professionally for a few years when I created this, but drawing was still a side gig. It wasn't long after I made this image that I began taking my art more seriously, investing in better equipment and leaning more into it as a career.
I get a lot of licensing requests for my 2012 #paleoart of (what might be) the oldest known dinosaur, Nyasasaurus. 2012 was a professional lifetime ago, so I've prepared a nicer version for new clients. Nyasasaurus is so poorly known that you could take a recon. in several directions. #sciart
A night scene of warring marine reptiles inspired by the palaeoart of the 19th-century painter John Martin. A full moon peers through a bank of cloud to illuminate two figures rising from a turbulent sea: a long-necked plesiosaur and the spiralling tail and body of a mosasaur (fun historofact: fossils of mosasaurs were among the first Mesozoic reptiles to be put on record, but they weren't restored in palaeoart until the 1850s, decades after other marine reptiles). They threaten and bellow at each other with whipping tongues and clawed flippers because John Martin. A rocky arch can be seen on the right, and a third reptile, its identity uncertain, arches from the water on the left. Go draw some Martineseque Mesozoic animals, folks, it's hellafun.
First new #paleoart piece finished for 2026: a super modern, 100% accurate take on Mosasaurus and a plesiosaur.
In unrelated news, I had the spirit of the early 19th-century palaeoartist John Martin exorcised from my house over the weekend.
#paleontology #fossil #sciart #retropaleoart #art
Spinosaurus mirabilis, the newly-described tall-crested Spinosaur variant, wanders past a rivebank covered with tiny, dark-green glowing insects. She's seen this show before, so pays no attention. The Moon, conversely, is watching intensely. REAL intensely. Like, back off a bit, guy, give the bugs some space.
New at #Patreon: #paleoart of Cretaceous fireflies and #Spinosaurus mirabilis. Fireflies have existed for 100 million years and, thanks to some cool science, we know what colours they illuminated themselves with. Details (+ more new art) at www.patreon.com/markwitton. #dinosaur #fossil #art
Update! the #Teppen art archive is now on internet archive!
With this, the game's art has quite definitively been preserved so long as nothing terribly interesting happens
You can find it here on my profile. It's not as pleasant to browse as the google drive FYI
archive.org/details/@eir...
#Capcom
Only 1️⃣ day until "Jam Kuradoberi " joins the fight in GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- !
⬇️Watch her trailer now!
https://youtube.pulse.ly/6l0sljeu5g
#GGST #GuiltyGear #MotionIntroductionVideo
The Wyrm King, a mighty elder dragon, older than any other dragon, older than many kingdoms. He sleeps for centuries until he awakens, and his fury and madness unleashes chaos upon the world
#fantasy #dragon #worldbuilding
Finally, I can break silence! I did a lot of creature design work for this show (collaborating, of course, with the production team) and think the animals are looking pretty good here! This was a lot of fun to work on - will be watching on Mar. 6!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...
Streaking through the sky like a bell-bottomed black-suited disco-ninja, the "four-winged" dinosaur Microraptor attempts to grab an early bird, the pintailed Yuanchuavis, from the Cretaceous sky with taloned feet. Fossils show that Microraptor had a diverse diet that included birds, alongside lizards and fish.
My social media silence is not because I'm dead, kidnapped, or abducted by aliens; I'm working around the clock to make Book 7 all that it can be before submission later this month. Here's a new #paleoart take on Microraptor and Yuanchuavis to show what I'm up to.
OK, break over: back to work...
The recent PR #paleoart for Lei et al. on four-eyed Cambrian fishes: is this AI? Asymmetrical eyes that aren't fish-like and have eyeshine (can't happen underwater); eye and gill anatomy doesn't match fossils; absence of anterior ventral fin; dorsal fin wraps onto the lateral face of the tail...
Enormous reptiles, neither quite lizard nor mammal-like in form, rear, grapple and tear at one another in front of a setting sun at a rocky, foreboding shore. One, the horned Iguanodon, roars so widely that its grotesque tongue protrudes from its mouth like a tentacle; the other, a Megalosaurus, tears a string of dark flesh from its opponents' chest. They are surrounded by other snarling, roaring beasts: plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and a distant, spike-backed Hylaeosaurus. Palm trees and ferns dot the top of rocky escarpments alongside perching pterosaurs with translucent, bat-like wings. The remains of ammonites and skulls of reptiles decay into water and rocks.
Another John Martin-style #paleoart piece painted for fun. This riffs on 1830s views of the British Wealden, where giant dinosaurs (Iguanodon and Megalosaurus here) engaged in violent combat in grand natural amphitheatres. Pterosaurs and other animals watch on. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? #sciart
In a yellowing Cretaceous ginkgo tree, a chestnut, black and white Sinornithosaurus perches on a branch beneath a black, iridescent Microraptor. It has a small mammal in its jaws, which the Sinornithosaurus covets. Another Microraptor, all four wings spread, approaches to land. Ginkgo leaves fall around them, and X-shaped Microraptor silhouettes glide in the skies behind.
More new #paleoart and discussion at #Patreon: the colour schemes of Sinornithosaurus and Microraptor. What do we know, and what do their colours tell us? www.patreon.com/posts/sinorn...
#sciart #dinosaurs #paleontology #fossils
ゴルゴニクティスに続いてマニアックな古生物のフィギュア作りたいわね！
候補の一つはテトラケラトプス
Framed print of Peter Scott's painting of snow geese in California: a flock of geese landing next to a lake in front of happy, puffy clouds.
Peter Scott's pencil signature on the print. Real Peter Scott!!!!
The entrance to Chez Witton-Maclean, where framed prints of John Conway's titanosaurs (left), Katrina van Grouw's great hornbill (right) and Peter Scott's snow geese welcome you to our home. Ammonites and bird models sit atop the shoe tidy. Shoes sit within the tidy, ironically in haphazard fashion.
Just took delivery of a signed Peter Scott snow geese print from 1939. It joins van Grouw and Conway to make our hallway a small natural history art gallery. Starting to wish we had more walls. With @gizz47.bsky.social.
Hey #PortfolioDay my name is Leo and I’m an illustrator, character/creature designer looking for work✨ #art #CreatureDesign #CharacterDesign
link to portfolio in my bio 🌐
Happy New Year 2026!
#monsterhunter
遺忘の灯火
#モンハン #MonsterHunter
#ゴグマジオス
明日コミケよろしくお願いします！！！！
新刊セットとアクリルボード2限、
その他(新刊単品含む)限数なしです！！
thank you! i am drawing monster and girls, nice to meet you!
ありがとう！モンスターと女の子を描いています、初めまして！
sooonさんに描いて頂いたひじき子
skeb.jp/@sooon/works...
stylized illustration of rathalos in a sick-ass spiral composition pose
closeup of his smile that could melt any icy heart
closeup of his tail plate armor scales
Still really proud of this drawing - gotta remember how I did this 🙃
Two cards I made for Hearthstone and are dear to me as they depict dinosaurs, fantasy, and greenery featuring wood and landscape thriving with life, could I ask for better themes 🤭🌱
Made for Blizzard in collab. with Mooncolony, AD: Ekaterina Shapovalova
© 2025 "Hearthstone"/ Blizzard Entertainment
The Surge (Steam) giveaway begins on Lenovo in ~1 hour (10 AM PT). Waiting room is open (click link before 10 AM PT for a greater chance in getting a code) buff.ly/77Oe6k7
A mother ichthyosaur swims upside down, straining with the effort of expelling the last of her eleven babies. She is darker on her upper surface and pale below, while her offspring are entirely dark. She is giving birth in a shallow lagoon with abundant, low-growing green algae and patches of phaceloid corals. The births are unlike those of mammals in being relatively bloodless, though the amniotic sacs that contained each baby float in the water. The newborn ichthyosaurs still have their yolk sacs attached, which their siblings are eating as their first meals. Some of the eleven are swimming away from their mother, already independent and able to forage for themselves.
New #paleoart for #FossilFriday, to be posted to #Patreon soon: countershaded #ichthyosaur Stenopterygius spams a lagoon with uniformly dark offspring (colour schemes suggested by fossils). Some ichthyosaur specimens have been found with 11 embryos, each 25% of adult body length. Yikes. #sciart
Dunkleosteus 2024〜2025
デザインはバラバラだけど全部同じ化石がベース
ちなみにそれぞれのモチーフは上からタライロン、ヨゴレ、ジョーズカンディル
