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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 3d

In advance of the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social, "Spinosaur Tales" (Nov 6th), for #FossilFriday, here's a nice close up of a tooth of Baryonyx sitting in the jaw of the holotype. More spinosaur goodness coming in the next weeks as I desperately try to promote the book.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 19h

Next week, on Oct 19, see @markwitton.bsky.social at @newscientist.com Live to discuss his book, King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex. Stop by Our Planet stage at 11:55 am BST to hear about his fascinating research on the world's most famous dinosaur!

Learn more here: buff.ly/4YBFj1U

King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex by Mark P. Witton

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 3d

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2025. The bodies of the adults have large blocks of colour, without prominent stripes.

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2019. The body of the stag has a dark stripe extending from the shoulder to the thigh.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 3d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 5d

Really excited for everyone to see this next year. My baby looks so good! 😍😍😍 So happy and proud to have been one of the talented group of people who worked in this show!

Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 6d

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 6d

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 7d

My new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus and their relatives is out a month today! It's available for preorder, so now is the time to get in on this amazing and well-illustrated book on these oddest of #dinosaurs. But don't take our word for it, here's what others have to say:

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 10d

Komodosaurus. A genetically modified monitor lizard, engineered to mimic the appearance of a theropod dinosaur. Very popular amongst wealthy collectors, and a very, very bad idea.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 10d

To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data...

#sciart #fossils #paleontology

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 9d

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WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW ANDREY ATUCHIN TRICERATOPS ARTWORK JUST DROPPED

Portrait illustration of Triceratops prorsus by Andrey Atuchin.

A beautiful mural by Andrey Atuchin. Environmental reconstruction of the latest Cretaceous showing an adult and juvenile Triceratops prorsus along the banks of a river with a herd of duckbilled Edmontosaurus annectens in the background.

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 9d

#MasterPaleoartAppreciationPost
ANDREY ATUCHIN × DMNS = FLAWLESS BEAUTY

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 30

I’m so excited and proud to have my illustration of Mirasaura in the cover of NATURE! Just wow! Especially happy to do that with such an amazing species and such wonderful research!

#paleoart #art

Cover of the latest issue of Nature, showing my illustration of Mirasaura

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 30

More exciting news! I am now able to share with you more of the concept art I did for the amazing upcoming NBC Universal show “Surviving Earth” premiering next year! This time for a fan favorite, Dimetrodon!

I can’t say much more than this for now 🙊

Concept art for the upcoming show Surviving Earth depicting Dimetrodon in various orthographic views as well as details of the skin, the eye and the head

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · Jul 30

DIMETRODON FROM #SurvivingEarth !!!
(Art by Gabriel Ugueto)

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Jul 30

It's true, #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age is coming to #AppleTV for November 2025. These images show how good our animals are, but... believe me, this barely scratches the surface!! It has been a massive thrill and privilege to help bring this series together... you're in for an incredible treat.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two homotheres interacting in a snowy landscape.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two Woolly rhino, a calf and old adult.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a glyptodont.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a mother sloth climbing up a rocky surface, baby on her back.

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · Jul 27

Queen of the Steppe
(yes it's a 3d render)

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

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Gergely Katona @gergelyk.bsky.social · Jul 19

Excellent video summary of the new study by @jgn-paleo.bsky.social.
youtu.be/glJFX5OEVss?...

Did birds inherit the key to flight from their dinosaur ancestors?

YouTube video by Skeleton Crew

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ok… so the cat is out of the bag and I can FINALLY start talking about this. I just confirmed with Tim I can say that I did a lot of concept art, like this baby Spinosaurus, for the new docuseries #SurvivingEarth coming out in 2026!

So excited for you guys to see this!

Concept art of baby Spinosaurus for the upcoming NBC Universal docuseries Surviving Earth

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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.

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Skeleton Crew Paleo @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social · Jul 9

Exciting new research out today in Nature on the evolution of theropod wrist bones by Skeleton Crewmembers James & Alex!!

Tune in to our livestream at 8pm et TONIGHT to learn more as we play a topically relevant board game (Wingspan) together!

Art by Henry Sharpe; link to paper in the next post.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Triassic #pterosaur relative Scleromochlus taylori is an animal I've drawn several times over the last decade, making it a yardstick for where my #paleoart was vs. where it is today. The images here are from 2025 (finished this morning), 2015 and 2014, respectively. #fossil #sciart #paleontology

Art from 2025: Surrounded by sweeping, shadowed dunes tinted gold by the rising sun, rival gangs of Scleromochlus intimidate one another from afar. They leap into the air, exposing their white undersides and showing their vigour. These animals differ from the Scleromochlus in my previous paintings thanks to recent anatomical reinterpretations of this hitherto poorly-known species.

Art from 2015: an image of two Scleromochlus leaping around like tiny reptilian kangaroos. This means of locomotion is no longer considered likely. This image is a light reworking of the image to the right.

Art from 2014: a single Scleromochlus bounces over a dune in front of Triassic desert vegetation.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today is #WorldCrocodileDay and to celebrate here is Plesiosuchus mansellii, a super interesting marine crocodilian relative that lived during the Late Jurassic in Europe

Plesiosuchus was a thalattosuchian, a group of crocodylomorph that evolved extreme aquatic adaptations

#paleoart #art

An illustration depicting Plesiosuchus swimming in shallow coastal waters viewed from below. Several ammonites are in the scene as well

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Gergely Katona @gergelyk.bsky.social · Jun 11

‘Dragon prince’ dinosaur may be missing link in T. rex evolution | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Dragon prince’ dinosaur may be missing link in T. rex evolution

Newly described fossils point to ancient movement between Asia and North America

www.science.org

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