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Brennan Stokkermans @brennanstokkermans.bsky.social · 6h

“The Bull”

This piece was done over the last year as a commission for the new card game “Zoic”

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 18h

Oh thank you!

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay, I am a palaeo / wildlife traditional artist and use stippling / pointillism for ink drawings. Here are a few recent drawings: @palaeoart 'dinosaur @fish

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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 3d

Guillemot and puffin scatter as a white-tailed eagle glides along a rock face.
#superseabirdsunday

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 2d

One of the main components of Great Hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) diet is stingrays. Sometimes they even keep a souvenir. 🤣🦈 Therefore, I submit to you my illustration for #Inktober Day 11: "Sting."

#shark #marinelife #sciart #hammerhead #sting #stingray #fish #fishart #animalart #nature #ArtYear

Great Hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) with a stingray barb stuck in its cephalofoil (head).

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WitmerLab at Ohio University @witmerlab.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven't read—or re-read in a while—Bakker's 1986 classic The Dinosaur Heresies, it's well worth doing. I read it in 1986 & again on my recent trip to Japan. Got a pb copy for $10 for the long trip (1st photo) rather than take my signed 1st ed (got John Gurche to sign his cover art, too!). 🦖

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 27

New #watercolor - the skull that launched a thousand papers - Aetiocetus weltoni, the ~25 myo toothed baleen whale that likely had teeth and baleen - from the Oligocene of Oregon. I started this last winter and only finally finished it yesterday. 🐡 🦖🐬 #sciart #whaleontology #whalewednesday #art

A watercolor painting of a toothed baleen whale skull in side view. The jaws are closed, and the skull has a rather large eye socket; the nose is still quite far out on the snout. There are a series of mostly conical teeth that interlock like a crocodile.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 5d

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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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 5d

The fierce carnivore Inostrancevia is one of the species of synapsids that went extinct in the Great Dying, known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction event. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

Mounted skeleton of fossil Inostrancevia with its body facing left. It’s skull shows large saver like teeth. It stands on a bed of shale fragments on a plinth with red plexiglass behind it. At the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 6d

It's Thingummy. The new one that sounds like shushing.

I suppose one kritosaurine looks much like another...

#Ahshiselsaurus

Very rough thumbnail sketch in pencil of the hadrosaur, Ahshiselsaurus. Like it's relative, Kritosaurus, it has a pronounced 'Roman nose' of a nasal ridge but an otherwise plain head.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 6d

This is Finley. He has a rare genetic mutation that causes patches of different colors in his coat. It is completely harmless, but it does make him completely handsome. 14/10 (IG: jaktlabben.finley)

a lab pup sits and looks up at the camera. his fur is a mottled blend of blond and black, and he’s standing on his leash with one front paw.

a closeup of baby finley resting his little chin on a blanket. one of his ears is curled under at the tip and his eyes look a little sleepy.

finley sits on a rock next to a body of water and squints slightly into the sun with his pink tongue sticking out.

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful!

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 6d

Last weekend I had the opportunity to find a Broad-banded Copperhead (Agkistrodon laticinctus) for the first time! What a beautiful snake!

#snakes #reptiles

Photo of the head of Agkistrodon laticinctus

Anterior body of Agkistrodon laticinctus

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 7d

New drawing of Early Jurassic #plesiosaur #Rhomaleosaurus. This was a big predator, around 7 m long (comparable to an orca). Rhomaleosaurs had shorter necks and larger skulls than many plesiosaurs, but were not as big-headed and short-necked as more derived pliosaurids like Kronosaurus. #palaeoart

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 8d

Feel like a fish out of water? Meet the giant mudskipper! This fish needs to breathe air & spends a decent amount of time on land! Found on the muddy shores of mangroves in parts of Southeast Asia, it uses its pectoral fins to “walk” across mudflats.

Photo: mysorekid, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

A photo of a mudskipper hauled out of water and onto a branch. The fish is brownish in color and has unusual facial features.

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MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · 8d

From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters

A colour illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The main body is painted black, with eyes painted to look bioluminescent

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 8d

A little before-and-after for this adorable little Black Devil Anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii).

She had been in the news a while back and I just HAD to do my version. 🤣🤙

White Prismacolor on black Canson paper.

#BlackDevil #anglerfish #fish #fishart #marinelife #sciart #nature #ArtYear #art

Outline of a Black Devil Anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) on black Canson paper

Finished illustration of a Black Devil Anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) in white Prismacolor on black Canson paper

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Jan Wilczur @janwilczur.bsky.social · 10d

‘Turkestan Shrike, adult male’

acrylic, 13 x 18 cms.

Turkestan Shrike, also known as Red-tailed Shrike, is a very rare visitor from Central Asia to the UK. Along with the closely related Daurian Shrike it was once considered one of the sub-species of Isabelline Shrike.
#turkestanshrike
#birdart

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 11d

Hi, I'm Sean! Multimedia and specialize in shark art (although I have been branching out lately). 🤣🦈🤙

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 9d

And Mike Benton was keen to say he liked it too:

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 9d

If you want to know the real Spinosaurus, the animal behind the myths, check out this upcoming book by @davehone.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social !!

Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 9d

And here's what @stevebrusatte.bsky.social had to say about it: