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Heitor Miguel

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Also known as Heitor Miguel. Brazilian paleoartist. 18, De/Mon.

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · Feb 7

Pampaphoneus biccai - Anteosaur from Brazil's Rio do Rasto Formation.

#permian #brazil #paleoart

A brazilian anteosaur, Pampaphoneus, swimming just bellow shallow waters.

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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 17h

Oh hey, it’s #PortfolioDay … again.

The less typical diorama stuff this time, annotated... and the thumbnails are going to suck.

Diorama featuring a bunch of wildlife that lived there, daytime scene

Diorama featuring a bunch of wildlife that lived there, nighttime scene.

Skorpiovenator diorama detailing nesting behaviour and some ontogony

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DrongoJackBirb_art @drongojackburb.bsky.social · 7h

Koolasuchus cleelandi Illustration!
In this Illustration, I have depicted a scene of koolasuchus making a desperate attempt to flee the dangers of a fellow Koolasuchus. The seasonal flooding has brought new hunting grounds, and so more competition and fights for those hunting ground rights #paleoart

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 3d

Spontaneous Carcinometamorphosis, commonly known as Mancini's disease after the famed boxer-turned-crustacean Bruno Mancini, is a disease that will slowly turn skeleton to exoskeleton, hands to claws, lungs to gills, until a human being finds itself where all the roads of evolution lead: crab.

A textbook anatomical drawing of a human with a large crab claw for an arm. Some of the organs inside appear to be that of a crab's.

A black-and-white photo of a patient in a hospital, being held by two nurses. The man's arms are now crab claws, and his skin is turning into an exoskeleton. His eyes are now at the end of stalks.

A textbook showing three black-and-white pictures of a person's arm turning into a crab claw. The three stages read "Presymptomatic patient", with a regular man's arm, "Exoskeletalization", where the arms turns hard and segmented and the fingers start fusing, and "late stage transformation", where the arm is fully crab-like.

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 2d

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

getting sleepy, thinking about scuttling into the ol’ hole

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 4d

World octopus day, you say? Very well, then... here is an octopus (possibly a male argonaut). No clue what the jellyfish is. The jellyfish is swimming down to try and get away from the bright flashing lights.
Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao.

🦑🌿 #Invertebrates

A jellyfish, upside down because it's swimming downwards. On top of its bell is an octopus; it is translucent/white with some visible brown organs.

#Nature #Wildlife #Macro #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography

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Yoel @yoelofellow.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been months since I’ve drawn anything 🫠, but I found these old Mortifan concepts on my IPad.

I love this pigeon-loving, ghost-like, mortician. He’s more of a symbolic, character in Malignant Remedy, and tends to appear during the most dire moments.

#MalignantRemedy #Sverenne

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Menina canceriana @meninacanceriana.bsky.social · 4d

Eu tenho até um adesivo

www.meninacanceriana.com.br/pd-97d8e9-ad...

Uma figura escrita ia é coisa de corno numa elipse
Embaixo uma mão cheia de flores

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 3d

Neste estudo mostramos alguns equinoides (ouriços-do-mar) fósseis da Formação Jandaíra (Cretáceo Superior, Bacia Potiguar) que foram perfurados por gastópodes (caramujos) durante ações de predação e até mesmo relações parasíticas ocorridas há cerca de 80 milhões de anos!

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 3d

🚨New paper Alert! 🚨 (still in pre-proof!)

Gastropod predation and parasitism on echinoids from the Jandaíra Formation (Turonian–Maastrichtian), Potiguar Basin, Northeast Brazil

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

GASTROPOD PREDATION AND PARASITISM ON ECHINOIDS FROM JANDAÍRA FORMATION (TURONIAN-MAASTRICHTIAN), POTIGUAR BASIN, NORTHEAST BRAZIL

Fossil echinoids bearing boreholes offer valuable information about the paleoecology of both the echinoids and their tracemakers, assisting paleobiolo…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 6d

So this AMNH Andrewsarchus display from the 60s is sick as hell, allowing for the outdated reconstruction and all that.

Museum display with a long-snouted, toothy skull in front of a mural of an awkward, dog-like creature.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 7d

🎣 Monographie der Medusen
Jena: G. Fischer, 1879-1881.

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Historical scientific illustration of the jellyfish Desmonema from "Monographie der Medusen" (Jena, 1879-1881). The image shows four detailed views: a large, bell-shaped jellyfish with numerous long, flowing tentacles extending downward; a top-down view of the bell revealing internal structures and radial symmetry; and two cross-sectional diagrams highlighting intricate anatomical features with labeled parts. Rendered in light brown and blue-gray tones, the illustration emphasizes the jellyfish's complex tentacle arrangement, delicate undulating bell margin, and internal organ systems typical of the Discomedusae group. The drawing is finely detailed for scientific study and identification.

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 10d

#Trilobites of the Pimenteira Formation, Devonian Brazil.
#paleoart #sciart

Vintage illustration of numbered trilobites of various sizes, their fossils, and a short description on the bottom.

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 10d

A brilliant palaeontologist, Dr Tsogtbaatar, is facing a tough battle and needs help with medical expenses. Please consider donating or sharing the link: every bit truly helps. Thank you!

Donate to Help Dr. Tsogtbaatar, Icon of Mongolian Paleontology, organized by Lindsay Zanno

Renowned Mongolian paleontologist Dr. Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar is fig… Lindsay Zanno needs your support for Help Dr. Tsogtbaatar, Icon of Mongolian Paleontology

www.gofundme.com

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 13d

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma

( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14d

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 14d

What episode is this?

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 23d

Remingtoncetid protowhales #sciart

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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · Apr 20

Another striped loss.
The thylacine or Tasmanian wolf/tiger is a marsupial that inhabited Australia and Tasmania. It was finally exterminated in the first half of the 20th century.

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 15d

Wait, why is there a stick figure there?

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 19d

Say hello to Makrodactylus oligodontus, a new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan from the Mörnsheim Formation, Late Jurassic of Germany!

palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

@davehone.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social

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Ida @rusalkai.bsky.social · 15d

I had a dream I had two nephews named Michael and Henry. I went to an amusement park with them and tried to keep them safe in all the scary rides because they were still so young.

Anyway this is what they looked like:

An MS paint drawing of a green caterpillar named Michael and a white pill named Henry.

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Stephen H Kawai, PhD @stephenhkawai.bsky.social · Mar 23

New work!
'Verriculum II' (20"x26") dry pigment on paper.
This work depicts part of the pattern adorning a cone snail (Conus archiepiscopus f. verriculum). Details in comments below.
#art #contemporaryart #fineart #sciart #drawing #artist #worksonpaper #seashells #seashell #mollusk #mollusc

A colour drawing of a shell pattern on a white background. Orange-yellow 'tents' are joined by thin, brown-red lines. Many thick black bands are also present in the tenting.

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