A dimly lit scene of two maiasaura resting in a forest glen. The adult is laying down with its legs folded beneath it, while the juvenile trots away.

So glad to finally release this one from Patreon purgatory... I'm still supremely proud of it :'D

[ #art #paleoart #illustration #maiasaura #digitalart ]

An A6 card of a pink Maiasaura, looking down at her nest of eggs, with a hatchling looking up at her. Text reads: “Happy Mother’s Day” and “Maiasaura Good Mother Lizard”. The card is on a background of checkered green cloth, surrounded by some tulips and a cup and saucer.

My new Mother’s Day cards, featuring Maiasaura; the “Good Mother Lizard” 🪺

#maiasaura #paleoart #dinosaurs

Neonatal state and degree of necessity for parental care in Maiasaura based on inferred neonatal metabolic rates. Bert, H., et al. (2025). doi: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #maiasaura #peeblesorum #hadrosaurs #dinosaureggs #Hypacrosaurus

Casts of dinosaur fossils, juvenile on left, mother dinosaur on right. Maiasaura peeblesorum, also known as mother lizard.

Happy #FossilFriday! Like many #birds today, some non-avian #dinosaurs hatched out of their egg and came face-to-face with their parents. #Maiasaura peeblesorum, the state fossil of #Montana, provided the first evidence that ancient dinosaurs may have cared for their young.

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#theisle #theislegame #maiasaura #dinosaurs #dinosaurgame #dinosaursurvival #gaming #survivalgame #evrima #theisleevrima

Maiasaura moving together as a herd during seasonal movement.

#Maiasaura #DinosaurArt #PrehistoricArt #CreatureArt #DigitalPainting
#ColorStudy #ConceptArt #VisualDevelopment #CinematicArt
#FantasyArt #Weeramix

Playing Monster Hunter Stories Iceborne and then The Isle Evrima YouTube video by Carman Dirda

Two games on stream today!
#theisle #theislegame #dinosaurs #maiasaura #dinosaurgame #monsterhunter #monsterhunterworld #monsterhunterstories #mhwi #monsties #iceborne #gaming
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Linus on the Hunt

#ToyPhotography #ToyDinosaurs #ToyswillbeToys #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaurs #DinoPosting #JurassicPlastic #actionfigures #itsnotadollitsanactionfigure #JurassicWorldRebirth #Tyrannosaurus #Maiasaura

#DinoVember #DinoVember2025 Day 21 - Maiasaura Peeblesorum

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Maiasaura #Dinosaurs #Hadrosaurs #Extinct #Cretaceous #PrehistoricPlanet #DinosaurArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #BskyArt #Art

Fig. 2 from Horner & Makela, 1979. Maiasaura peeblesorum. a, Incomplete reconstructed composite skeleton of individual from test (PU 22400): 6 holotype skull (PU 22405), (Scale bar, 20 cm.)

Sorry for the less frequent posting - I have a little human hatchling due soon!

On that note: When most people think of dinosaur hatchlings, they think of #Maiasaura from the famous "Egg Mountain" locale in Montana. This was one of the first discoveries exhibiting dinosaur social behavior (1979)

A brown maiasaura with light stripes walking to the left but looking back on a solid white background.

A bit older sketch of my favorite dino, maiasaura.

#art #sketch #paleoart #dinosaur #dino #maiasaura

Gibt es irgendwo in Europa in einem #Museum ein #maiasaura-skelett?

The large lambeosaurine hadrosaur Lambeosaurus lambei, depicting hypothetical deflated (left) and inflated (right) aerostatic expansive external pneumatic tissues (balloon faces). These structures are always paired and parasagittal.

Generalized lambeosaurine hadrosaur skull in profile. Figures depict a strong midline ridge of solid bone with sculpted fossa on either side, and a small aperture, or fontanelle, between the nasal and premaxilla portions of the cranial crest, which may reflect an external aperture for the internal pneumatic cranial sinuses.

The hypothetical lambeosaurine hadrosaurid skull in profile shows the expansion and transformation of the cranial crest from a Lambeosaurus-like forward position to a Tsintaosaurus-like posterior position. The fontanelle is present in most, if not all, depicted lambeosaurines. Below, a Lambeosaurus skull in three-quarters anterolateral view, showing the skull as it is normally on the left, then overlapped with the internal nasal passage in the middle in light blue; followed by the same with the external extension of the nasal passage into an aerostatic expansive external pneumatic tissue that overlies the crest, bounded by various fossae on the surface.

Head and skull of the saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum, showing the aertostatic expansive external pneumatic tissue that arises direction from the anterior end of the nasal passage through the large nostrils, filling the circumnarial fossa, which extends posteriorly on the face to be limited by the bony upward projecting crest. In saurolophines like Brachylophosaurus and Saurolophus, this crest expands posteriorly and forms a long bar, but the ridge and its fossa remain present. These bony rods supported some form of external display tissue, and it's likely that was pneumatic in nature.

Aerostatic expansive external pneumatic tissues in hadrosaurs (and some other #dinosaurs) are not a novel theory of today's paleoartists. It goes back almost 50 years to the late 70s-early 80s. However, it was exclusive to hadrosaurine/saurolophine #hadrosaurs.
#Lambeosaurus #Maiasaura #SciArt

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A 2023 illustration of #Maiasaura & her hatchlings, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Benton (‪@princetonupress.bsky.social). 50% off here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Hadrosaurs #FossilFriday #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt

Grow to survive!🦕 Like tree trunks, #dinosaur bones have growth rings that reveal the age of the animal and how fast it grew.🌳🦴

🔍 For example, #Maiasaura went from 30 cm at birth to nearly 4 metres in just 2 years! It reached adult size — about 9 metres — between the ages of 6 and 8.

Maiasaura Fossil at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

Maiasaura Drawing for Mother’s Day

Maiasaura was a hadrosaur that was discovered in Montana and Alberta, Canada. As it was found with a nest of eggs, its name means “Good Mother Lizard” I bring this up because, well…
Happy Mother’s Day!
#mothersday #maiasaura

Here, we see a Maiasaura resting next to her nest of eggs. Her Daughter, Maya, walks up to her mother, and looks down at the eggs with wide eyes. Someday, she'll be just like her mom, someone who's always as caring as her, protective as her, and loving as her.

#Maiasaura #Dinosaur #Mothersday

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#DinosaursandMor @histo-holly.bsky.social is NOT talking about #Maiasaura. She is talking about how large theropods #Allosaurus & #Tyrannosaurusrex grew using #histology

Some speculative #Dinosaur embryos available on my shop, Scaled Beast! #Maiasaura #Tyrannosaurus #Deinonychus #sciart

Something that I don't think is discussed enough in #paleontology circles is just how much parental investment is seen in #hadrosaurs. Cause, like, they're doing quite a lot of work compared to what is typical of all other #archosaurs.

#Dinosaurs #Maiasaura

Hey all! My Newest video is out for your viewing pleasure! Check it out!!
I played Maiasaura and got into some good trouble!
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#FossilFriday #Maiasaura #TwoMedicineFormation. The #CretaceousCrossroads exhibit (opening mid-summer 2025 will feature Maia prominently! Mounted adult skeletal cast, babies, nests, eggs, augmented reality, and maia poop! Smell stations....wonderful...

Landscape image of the Willow Creek Anticline outcrops, with an image of Maiasaura peeblesorum fossil.

Happy #FossilFriday! The first known bones of #Maiasaura peeblesorum, state fossil of #Montana, were found in outcrops of the #WillowCreekAnticline. Recognized as an International Geoheritage Site, this area revealed the first #dinosaur eggs & babies in the western hemisphere.

Happy #FossilFriday from this juvenile #Maiasaura on display at the Field Museum in Chicago! Maiasaura are known from many skeletons of various life-stages, and as a result, are one of the most heavily studied and researched dinosaurs. These herbivores were native to Western North America ~77my ago.

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short-list of mounted skeletons in this exhibit- #Maiasaura #Daspletosaurus #Troodon #Orodromeus #Cerasinops #Sauronitholestes- but not :), #Mosasaurus #Plioplatecarpus. Also, mounted #dinosaur skulls- #Stellasaurus #Einiosaurus #Achelousaurus #Acristavus #Probrachylophosaurus #Brachylophosaurus

The Isle fan art digital sketch in grayscale featuring the design from the game and a more scientifically informed artist's impression with speculative features that might still not be accurate. Text on the image reads "The island's Maiasaura asset is well within accepted parameters. In some aspects, its variance from the ancestor serves to distinguish it from other hadrosaur assets. The ancestor might have had traits known in related genera such as only two nails on the manus and midline feature scales. The asset has two distinct separate eyebrow hornlets, wile the ancestor had a single straight across scoop shaped bony crest between its eyes that might have supported a soft tissue structure."

Asset vs. Ancestor: The Isle Maiasaura. #Maiasaura #Dinosaur #Paleoart

#FossilAdventCalendar day 5: Meet #Maiasaura peeblesorum, state dinosaur of Montana and "good mother lizard".

Museum of the Rockies cares for a 75 million year old dinosaur nesting ground where Maiasaura, #Troodon, and others laid their eggs 🥚🥚🥚.

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