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3d printing for SciComm (and fun) Animal Anatomy Sometimes GameDev Former adjunct Too many pets 3d Prints (from USA): blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com Merch: blueappaloosa.threadless.com Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa Links: blueappaloosa.neocities.org

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!

Etsy: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa

#PaleoArt #BSNM #ArtShop #Invertebrates

Two 3d printed tiktaalik skulls. On the left, smaller, white colored, mouth closed, facing camera. On the right, larger, tan colored, mouth propped open with a stick, facing right-ish.

A 3d printed model for demonstrating the cranial kinesis (movement) of a hawk skull, with different parts in different colors.

A musk deer (a deer-like animal with large upper fangs) skull, tan colored, facing left.

Two 3d printed Lined Earwig designs. The earwig is an insect with a reddish head and thorax, a dark abdomen with pincers on the end, tan legs and a pair of tan stripes down the back. Each earwig has a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring though the abdomen. The left design is facing upish, the right design is facing down. In between them is a US penny for scale.

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Mangoo 🍉 @unacctmango.bsky.social · 1d

#invertober day 13: Banded sugar ant 🐜🌸
(ft stickers)
#art #sciart #insect #ant

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Mangoo 🍉 @unacctmango.bsky.social · 1d

#invertober day 14: Bobbit worm
Good ol freaky/cute alien worm 🪱
#art #sciart #worm

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Spookyskelebloke @spookyskelebloke.bsky.social · 23h

#PaleoMori day 14!! Drew one of these last year and I knew I improved at digital art a lot but HOLY SHIT what a difference. In case it wasn't obvious, I based the coloration and patterning on the Walking With Dinosaurs interpretation.

Digital sketch of a blue-green and tan, countershaded Placerias on a plain brown background.

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Janosch H. Irrlichtwinter @irrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 21h

WIP of day fourteen of #invertober
Bobbit Worm

Grief support group did a number on me yesterday, and I didn't manage to finish this one. But I'll try and refine it once I have the energy.
(also, once again, oil pastels be stinky!)

#invertober2025

unfinished drawing of a worm. It has five tentacle-antennae thingies and four pincers on its head. It is very long, curling all over the page, and the segmented body has an iridescent sheen.

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Situldis @situldis.bsky.social · 21h

#Paleoctober2025 Day 15
Plectronoceras

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 20h

#paleoctober2025 day 15 : Plectronoceras !

Cephalopods were late bloomers compared to other major mollusk classes, only becoming really abundant during the Ordovician. Plectronoceras here is the oldest cephalopod, dating back to the Cambrian, and its anatomy has been much debated.

A drawing of Plectronoceras, the oldest cephalopod known. Due to conflicts of interpretation of its soft parts, the head is reconstructed as the typical cephalopod head.

Fossil fragments of Plectronoceras shell, showing the individual chambers.

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Filippo Nicolini 🎃🍂🧬 @filonico.bsky.social · 19h

Couldn't help myself but to draw the astonishing sexual dimorphism of this buddy. I'm not even that into #butterflies, but I fully get why ppl go crazy for them! #bugsky

Halfway through #invertober2025🥹 behold: the magnificent Queen Alexandra's birdwing, in its male and female morphologies #SciArt

A vectorial digital drawing of Ornithoptera alexandrae, or Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, set against a pale blue background. The image is a split representation showing the dramatic sexual dimorphism of the species.
The left half (male) features a wing that is brilliant teal, turquoise, and black, with iridescent markings.
The right half (female) features a wing that is much larger, colored a solid dark brown/black with large, irregular patches of creamy white and subtle yellow markings.
The butterfly's central body (thorax and abdomen) is also split, showing the distinct coloration difference between the sexes. The male symbol is under the male side and the female symbol is under the female side. The text "invertobter2025 - Day 15" is in the bottom right corner.

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 18h

day 15 of #paleoctober2025 is my personal favourite so far, plectronoceras, the earliest known shelled cephalopod 🐚

a black and white sketch of a cute cephalopod, text reads 'paleoctober day 15, plectronoceras (little wizard guy)'

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Hexerite @hexerite.bsky.social · 8h

Day 15: Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae)

[ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

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🏳️‍⚧️ Revolutionary Transgirl Yuritza 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilihellagay.bsky.social · 8h

Invertober Day 15: Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

Man I love butterflies

#Yurizart #invertober #invertober2025

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Piratedllama @piratedllama.bsky.social · 5h

#birdtober day 9: hamerkop 🦉

a realistic digital painting of a hamerkop bird facing left on an abstract background.

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Mangoo 🍉 @unacctmango.bsky.social · 2h

#invertober day 15: Queen Alexandra's Birdwing 🦋
#sciart #art #butterfly

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jam🐸 @teflonpan.bsky.social · 2h

continuing #invertober day 8-15

#invertober2025

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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 17h

It’s the Tulli Monster! Who else loves this strange fossil find?

Just one of the many prehistoric weirdos I feature in my new book: Dinosaurs 📚🦕

Grab a copy of the book here: a.co/d/cePiNFG

#fossiladdict #prehistoric #evolution #sciart #paleoart

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Dino Pulerà @dpulera.bsky.social · 15h

It’s #WorldAnatomyDay today. Here’s an illustration depicting the anatomy of antlers. Fall is deer breeding season which is a time when antlers harden for buck’s to use in fighting and establishing dominance. #WorldAnatomyDay, #anatomy, #SciArt, #antler #deer

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Fernando Carvente @carvente.bsky.social · 6h

Some crocky guys on the old sketchbook, some pseudosuchians and deinosuchus as honor guest #paleoart #sciart

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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social · 1d

Burning Visions 🔥

#Hannibal #spooktober #art #darkart #drawing #ravenstag

My take on the Ravenstag from NBC’s Hannibal. Pencil

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2h

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

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★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug @erujayy.bsky.social · 7h

‼️UPDATE FOR US CUSTOMERS‼️

Thanks to my good friend willing to be a test subject I can now confirm that I CAN SEND THESE WITH A STAMP AND INCUR NO TARIFFS ON THE MAIL!

(Provided youre ordering just flat mail stuff)

So what you pay on Etsy should be the final price with no surprise emails <3

★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug @erujayy.bsky.social · 19d

After a long week of struggles I've finally finished this very special Autumn collection 🍁

My very first sticker sheets!
‼️Only available until Nov 1st ‼️

One of the Irish wildlife that hibernates under leaf litter, and another of gummy bugs

www.etsy.com/ie/listing/4...

#inverts #sciart #smallbiz

A sticker sheet on top of colourful fallen leaves. It says: "Leave the Leaves! Erujayy's Doodle Den. They're gibernating! An Irish ecology sticker sheet."
There is several species present: a hedgehog, frog, bumblebee, usopod, moth, caterpillar snd flat backed millipede.
Tags: 🪲🛒

A sticker sheet on top of colourful fallen leaves.
It says: "Gummy Bugs. Erujayy's Doodle Den."
It presents various bugs drawn as gummy sweets. There's a moth, snail, beetle, cebtipede, stars and hearts, and a sour gummy spider.

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Viv 🌲 @vivtanner.bsky.social · 8h

Flying to the land of dreams.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 16h

Happy 16th #NationalFossilDay!

Fossils connect us to the lands we live on and the ecosystems we’re a part of. They show us that everything around us is here because of a 4.5 billion year story that’s still ongoing. I just think that’s magical. ☮️ ❤️ 🦕 🦣

Poster for National fossil day. Lower text says discovery/science/prehistoric life, October 15 2025. Illustration has a bush baby-like primate in a branch in the foreground and horses, a stream, and a mountain behind.

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Kieran (But Spookier) @toadally.bsky.social · 5h

And older spider fellow. He’s very polite.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 5h

From paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich ecosystem of art + science on Bluesky with the SCIART STARTER PACK.

150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.

🎉And no gen AI or NFTs.🎉

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 5h

#invertober 15, queen alexandra’s birdwing \o/

#invertober2025

symmetrical art of a male queen alexandra's birdwing from the back with its wings open. there are leaf and flower patterns on the yellow-green gradient background

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 14h

It has become a bit of a tradition for me to miss social media portfolio days, so, as usual, here's my contribution one day late.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Cambrian #Sauroposeidon #Psittacosaurus #Thecodontosaurus #Triassic #PortfolioDay

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