NEW ARTWORK for #FossilFriday
Here's "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.

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A few of my old drawings, from the 1990's.

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New 190-Million-Year-Old “Sword Dragon” Rewrites Ichthyosaur Evolution A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among Jurassic marine reptiles. A nearly complete skeleton discovered along the UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a previously unknown and rare species of ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile that once dominated ancient seas. The dolphin-sized species, named [...]

Well... some words (in Swedish) about this painting.
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#SciArt #Paleontology #Paleoart #Tetrapods #Highseas #Ichthyosauriformes #Ichthyosaurs #Ammonites #Temnospondyls

Meet the Dolphin-Sized ‘Sword Dragon’ That Might Explain the Evolution of the Ichthyosaurs Learn more about Xiphodracon goldencapensis, a long-snouted, sharp-toothed marine reptile that may serve as the missing link in the ichthyosaur lineage.

Meet the Dolphin-Sized ‘Sword Dragon’ That Might Explain the Evolution of the Ichthyosaurs #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Ichthyosaurs #Evolution #Paleontology

Nisser of the Jule, if you’re listening, I’ll put out extra rice pudding, should this treat appear beneath my tree!😉🎄🎁🙏🏻📚💙🖋️📚🧪
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Shonisaurus popularis

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Ichthyotitan illustration for Wikipedia
(Warning: speculative)

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#Kronosaurus #Kev explores #Capricorn #Dinosaur Park and finds some #ichthyosaurs #CooberrieParkWildlifeSanctuary

Ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Britain Published in Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

My Historical Biology review of Ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Britain is now published and online at .... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7IVFE... #ichthyosaurs #marinereptiles #books

My @historicalbiology.bsky.social review of Weedon & Chapman's 2022 #Ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Britain is now online -- these are exciting times for those interested in this charismatic group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Pdf available for those who want it (of the review!)

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Popular press coverage from Phys.org about adaptations in #fossil #ichthyosaurs to allow them to move through the water quietly

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One of the coolest cases of convergent evolution was just published yesterday, so I was inspired to draw them together - Temnodontosaurus trigonodon and Tyto alba.

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Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur - Nature Analysis of a fossilized front flipper of the Jurassic ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus that preserves details of soft tissue indicates the presence of a serrated trailing edge that would have reduced noi...

Among my favourite marine reptiles are the temnodontosaurs, mostly big, predatory #ichthyosaurs, mostly from the European Early #Jurassic. WHAT were they doing, how were they making a living? An extraordinary new #OA paper in Nature provides some answers... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ophthalmosaurus icenicus

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This is how #science works.

You have to see enough trees to realize you're looking at a forest.

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Temnodontosaurus bromalites from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy and prey preferences in a macropredatory ichthyosaur Fossilized food items found in or passed through the digestive tract of an animal (bromalites) offer a window into the dietary habits and ecological role of the producer taxon. Bromalites have been d...

Temnodontosaurus, ein riesiger Fischsaurier, war im Unterjura einer der Spitzenprädatoren in den Meeren Europas. Jetzt wissen wir: Er hat wohl bevorzugt seine kleineren Verwandten Stenopterygius gefressen.
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#paleobio #ichthyosaurs #fossils 🧪

Thaisaurus

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Miss Anning made things happen!❤️❤️❤️
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Eurhinosaurus

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of #Crinoids drifting on deadwood.

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copies of Ancient Sea Reptiles, the book, with some marine reptile models nearby.

I'm in Bournemouth tomorrow to talk Ancient Sea Reptiles. Late notice but more info at .... bnss.org.uk/event/dinosa... #marinereptiles #plesiosaurs #ichthyosaurs

ResearchGate badge on winning 'most read' items in the department I'm affiliated with.

Yee-ha, winning again. Strangely, my 2014 paper with Valentin Fischer et al., on the #ichthyosaurs Simbirskiasaurus and Pervushovisaurus, has been really popular lately...

Plate for my book (in preparation) depicting 3 species of ichthyosaurs (Guizhouichthyosaurus, Guanlingsaurus and Qianichthyosaurus) and 3 species of Placodonts (Cyamodus, Sinocyamodus and Psephochelys) arranged in a stylized evolutionary tree

Part of the tetrapod fauna of the Xiaowa Formation. Late Triassic, Asia

This is a plate of my book on Tetrapods of the Triassic. As you know I have been working on this book for many years and I am still working on it

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I created a bunch of paintings for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. I painted 4 murals & 3 illustrations for graphics boards. Here's one of the illustrations featuring Baptanodon.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Baptanodon #Ichthyosaurs #JurassicWorld

"02.17.18 (a) - National Mall, Washington, D.C." /// Digital Photograph /// 2018

From the archives /// Ichthyosaur in DC, 2018 /// More at: permiandesigns.com/photography-prehistory

#paleontology #prehistory #prehistoric #fossil #fossils #darkart #darkartwork #boneart #bone #skeleton #skeletons #naturalhistory #photography #darkphotography #marinereptile #ichthyosaurs #mesozoic

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's the full packaging art & ichthyosaur pop-up for my Temnodontosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint & the Natural History Museum

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series.

#SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #MaryAnning #Ichthyosaurs #Plesiosaurs #Pterosaurs

a dolphin with a long nose is swimming against a blue sky ALT: a dolphin with a long nose is swimming against a blue sky

#Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that ruled the seas during the #Mesozoic era, resembling modern dolphins with their streamlined bodies. 🐬🦎

They evolved from land-dwelling ancestors and thrived for over 150 million years before going extinct. 🦖

Some species grew over 50 feet long!

#Paleontology