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Lee
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Lee, 28, Floridian, he/him. Check out cmaidaartworkblog on Tumblr, OnlyScarcelyScaly on Reddit, and Pr0totaxities on Twitter to see my previously-posted artwork while I try to catch up on here
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Print of some really weird birds… (drawn for a friend)
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Mirasaura
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Yao probes, Adam escalates, Talita is alone.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin
Yao: Oh, the velvet came off your antlers. Talita looks down at Yao's snap-on antlers. Talita: …Yeah? Yao: Was it bloody and painful? Talita pauses vacuuming and rubs her arm awkwardly. Talita: Er… there’s… blood… But it doesn’t hurt when the skin comes off. After the bone finishes growing, there’s not really any pain receptors left. Adam, who is standing to her left, looks up at her resentfully. Adam reaches up and grabs Talita's antler, yanking on it hard enough to swing her head around. He smiles smugly. Adam: So you can't feel this? Talita recoils from him with a hand in front of her face, staring in shock. Yao gapes and then looks away fearfully from the two of them. Talita: What the fuck⁇ He throws his hands up defensively, still smiling. Adam: Hey, calm down!I thought you said it doesn’t hurt! Talita's face bristles in rage. Talita: What!? That doesn't mean you can YANK on me! Adam: Ugh, ok! Since you grabbed me, I thought you'd be fine with it! He waves a hand dismissively and walks off, flanked by Phoebe and Dominic. Yao follows after them at a distance, looking back at Talita uncertainly. Phoebe and Dominic whisper to Adam, still unaware Talita can hear them. Phoebe: You trying to get fired? Dominic: Screw that– are you trying to get gored?? Adam: Whatever. We’re getting “fired” soon either way. It’s not like it’s gonna use those things, anyways. Talita tenses at his words with an electric shock of fury, gripping her face and clenching her jaw as if she could curl inwards until she imploded. Then the temps are gone. She slumps down to the floor of the changing area. The massive vehicle bay room is empty.
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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hugopaleoart.bsky.social
New art is arrived !

A large Yutyrannus is being cleaned up by a group of Hongshanornis. A curious Gegepterus approaches.
In the foreground, a Zhongjianosaurus seems interested in the small birds.
#paleoart #SciArt #dinosaur #digitalart #yixian #china #feathered
Zhongjianosaurus yangi, Yutyrannus huali, Hongshanornis longicresta and Gegepterus changi
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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biiiiig stretch!
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A *liiiitle* late to the party, but not as late as the finished piece will be: corpses of an adult Nanotyrannus and juvenile Tyrannosaurus washed together after a flood, similar in size but anatomically distinct. Very much a work in progress, lmk if anything looks especially disproportionate
Grayscale digital painting on a vertically tall canvas, depicting two Tyrannosaur corpses seen from directly above. They lie on their sides more-or-less facing one another, the Tyrannosaurus juvenile (left) missing its lower jaw, leaving its tongue to flop out onto the ground, and the Nanotyrannus adult (right) missing its right foot and most of the shin. The ground is dark and damp beneath them, shadows casting shortly but sharply leftward, with puddles blurrily reflecting a pale grey sky with pterosaurs wheeling overhead, and various branches and small animal remains scattered around them too. The Tyrannosaurus is generally darker (for now) with haphazard stripes on its tail and flank, and more deliberate feathers and tubercles on its head and neck. The Nanotyrannus has no patterns for now, but has an upward- jutting crest in front of its eyes and larger arms and two-fingered hands than its relative.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
onlyscarcelyscaly.bsky.social
A *liiiitle* late to the party, but not as late as the finished piece will be: corpses of an adult Nanotyrannus and juvenile Tyrannosaurus washed together after a flood, similar in size but anatomically distinct. Very much a work in progress, lmk if anything looks especially disproportionate
Grayscale digital painting on a vertically tall canvas, depicting two Tyrannosaur corpses seen from directly above. They lie on their sides more-or-less facing one another, the Tyrannosaurus juvenile (left) missing its lower jaw, leaving its tongue to flop out onto the ground, and the Nanotyrannus adult (right) missing its right foot and most of the shin. The ground is dark and damp beneath them, shadows casting shortly but sharply leftward, with puddles blurrily reflecting a pale grey sky with pterosaurs wheeling overhead, and various branches and small animal remains scattered around them too. The Tyrannosaurus is generally darker (for now) with haphazard stripes on its tail and flank, and more deliberate feathers and tubercles on its head and neck. The Nanotyrannus has no patterns for now, but has an upward- jutting crest in front of its eyes and larger arms and two-fingered hands than its relative.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Psephoderma doodlings #sciart
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Sinonyx at dawn...
#paleoart #sciart
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Greater Apes
Tension rises between the neighboring erectus family and a court of Gigantopithecus. Two weeks ago the cunning fleet-footed hunters managed to kill one of the young ponginae. This particularly huge dominant male won’t let it happen again. Illustration for Ben G Thomas.
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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algal bloom
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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WIP something something Tethys ocean
Flying over the Tethys ocean, at some point in the Mesozoic...
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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”Bloody Mary” Nanotyrannus #sciart
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, and Genyornis.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Mongolestes and Andrewsarchus, hoofed generalists
#paleoart
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Half hour environment sketch, Tasmania, late Cretaceous. Leaellynasaura mid-molt out of summer browns and into winter whites scans the landscape in the weak fading Antarctic sunlight.

🎨 #SciArt #PaleoArt
Rough digital illustration of jagged angular rocks emerging out of low brushy plants. At the peak of the rocks, a small fluffy mostly-white dinosaur with a short beak and compact body perches, grabbing the edge of a rock before it decides to move forward. Its extremely long tail hangs down the rock face.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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An expansive view of how White Sands National Park may have appeared in the Pleistocene. Art by Karen Carr.

(from: www.karencarr.com/portfolio-im...)
Caption in website: "Shown: Aerial view of ancient Lake Otero, in what is now the central valley of New Mexico." Columbian mammoths and a baby C. mammoth are on the edge of a pond in the bottom right. The landscape is dotted by lots of ponds, green vegetation, white sand, megafauna and other animals. Enormous mountains and clouds are in the distance.
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.

A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.

(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Detail from a pencil drawing of Anchiornis, a small feathered paravian dinosaur from late Jurassic China. It is mostly black and white with a red head crest and pins down a small lizard with one of its feet. The drawing is small and very intricate.
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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The ancient streets of Karazad- known for its pyramidal slate roofs, corbel arches, and tower forts since time immemorial. Now known best for the omnipresent sound of bells, leading the dead through their unending labours…
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface.

This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago.

Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Two Denversaurus meet at sunset. Referenced from a photo I took in Montana this summer.

Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Nothing brings the comfort of autumn like a fall feast! And our Pterodactylus aren't missing the party. We offered our last pumpkins at the zoo filled with bugs and fish, and the winged reptiles balance their weight and challenge themselves for a treat. 🐟🧠 ##ArtemisPaleozoo
Alt Text: Suspended in the air using rope, a carved pumpkin is used as an enrichment source for three Pterodactylus, flying reptiles with toothy beaks that are poking inside for food.
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM