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Chukapower @chukapower.bsky.social · 10d

On this day, 120 years ago, the tyrant king was named and crowned. This creature has inspired millions in the fields of science, fiction, and art of all kinds. I tip my hat to you. #Tyrannosaurusrex

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · 9d

I hope I'm not too late. I'd like to wish a Happy 120th Birthday to the Tyrant Lizard King itself🎂🎈💯🔥
#tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurusrex #tyrantlizardking #dinosaur #dinosaurs #Tyrannosauroidea #eutyrannosauria #pantyrannosauria

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Chukapower @chukapower.bsky.social · Oct 23

Saurophaganax arises from its slumber
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#Saurophaganax #paleoart #dinosaur

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · 22d

This past sunday, I learned that it was the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the Giganotosaurus and I quickly decided to do my own take of the animal. I haven't drawn much of the animal in the past so I'm glad I was able to draw it again both to honor Ruben Carolini and improve my art skills.

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Sep 5

The other week a newly described Iguanodontian from the Early Cretaceous of England was described named Istiorachis macarthurae. So I did an illustration reading the paper first and closely following the skeletal and I even used Argus Monitors (Varanus panoptes) as a good reference for color scheme.

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Sep 5

It feels like I haven't posted anything on here in a while, so I'll just show off this illustration of my OC Kota's 2nd transformation along with a sketch from @chukapower.bsky.social showing off the sketch he made yesterday.
#dragonball #dragonballz #anime #dragonballoc #dragonballdaima

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Chukapower @chukapower.bsky.social · Aug 12

Mirasaura #paleoart

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Jul 7

phys.org/news/2025-07...

North America's oldest known pterosaur unearthed in Petrified Forest National Park

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight...

phys.org

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jul 1

New post and #paleoart at #Patreon: countershading in Psittacosaurus: was it _definitely_ for camouflage? Not everyone is convinced. Read the discussion, see this piece in hi-res and check out the WIPs at www.patreon.com/posts/gettin.... #dinosaur #sciart #fossil #paleontology

A forest scene with a group of pudgy beaked dinosaurs moving through ferns and shrubs. They have red-brown backs, pale tail bristles and dark faces. Behind them are conifers of various species, including the trunks of Araucaria trees, and between you and them is a clearing filled with dead branches and fallen trees. Most of the group is ignoring you, but you've disturbed one animal by getting too close. It looks up, staring at you. After a moment, you realise it's not alarmed, but... judging you? It's looking at your hands: you're on your phone while walking in the woods, glued to social media even in this majestic, untouched setting. The dinosaur turns away, the flick of its upturned chin sending a clear message: reality is around you, buddy, not on your screen. The group walks off silently, leaving you alone. You look at your phone, embarrassed, and turn it off. You gather yourself, taking a breath. You feel the cool air of the woods for the first time, noticing the light of the clearing, the texture of the trees, the sounds of the forest. The Psittacosaurus was right. Psittacosaurus is _always_ right.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jun 26

New at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs

www.patreon.com/posts/132334...

Because I'm a lazy, lazy man, I'm copying text from the start of my Patreon post that describes this scene. If you want to read the rest of the discussion, you need to visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/132334586 (I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid. OK, not _that_ stupid.)

"It's nighttime in Early Cretaceous China, in the part of the world that will eventually be recorded as the Yixian Formation. A light dusting of snow covers the winter ground, and only the coniferous trees retain their leaves. The light of a full moon spreads through the misty sky, obscuring distant mountains but illuminating a large dinosaurian predator, Yutyrannus. It is consuming the bloodied remains of a small dinosaur that, from the silhouette, looks to have been a Psittacosaurus. Quietly surrounding the carnivore is a group of eight smaller dinosaurs: compsognathids. Their small size, long, stripy brown tails and facial masks betray them as Sinosauropteryx. They appear to be congregating in the hope of getting access to the Psittacosaurus carcass, some peering around the larger dinosaur at a respectful distance to identify pilferable morsels. The Yutyrannus is ten times their length and towers above them: surely it's best to wait until it's finished? Unless... wait: are these Sinosauropteryx enterprising opportunists, patiently waiting for the larger predator to have their fill? Or are they juveniles waiting for their parent – a tyrannosauroid – to finish with the carcass before they can have access, or even for it to provision them with food? What the heck has actually been depicted here?"

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Jul 1

van der Linden, T.T.P. et al. 2025. Introduction to Diplodocoidea. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2):a27.

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

Diplodocoidea

Introduction to Diplodocoidea

palaeo-electronica.org

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 27

Here's the timelapse

Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 27

A big shout out to @chukapower.bsky.social for making this artwork for me featuring my OC Kota meeting the Briefs for the first time with Piccolo & Yamcha in the background along with the rest of West City. The background colors are inspired by some vapourwave art that I've seen before.

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 22

This looks like a character you'd see in Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends

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RapiOPapi @rapiopapi.bsky.social · Jun 5

Finished headshot commission! I’m having a lot of fun doing colorful shading :)

#art #artcommission #digitalart #dinosaurart #dinosaur #giganotosaurus #giganotosaurusart

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Paulo Leite @thek560.bsky.social · Jun 12

If you're looking for something fun to do, I've a few coloring sheets available on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/pauloleite/s...

#dinosaur #paleoart #coloringsheet #art

A few digital sketches of dinosaurs. There is a couple of Giganotosaurus hanging out, a Spinosaurus, two T. rexes fighting, a scarred Giganotosaurus walking and a T. rex with its mouth open.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jun 12

WIP of new Yutyrannus/Yixian Formation #paleoart that I'm working on. That psittacosaur will be fine, btw, he's just resting. (Sad to say this post is partly motivated by my art - like that of so many artists - being accused of being AI. AI doesn't have WIPs, folks) #dinosaurs #paleontology #sciart

A carnivorous dinosaur surrounded by the Adobe Photoshop workspace. The dinosaur is set against a misty, blue background, with the trunk of an Araucaria tree to its right. It is eating the bloodied, red remains of a smaller dinosaur, with a foot dangling from its jaws. A light covering of snow covers the ground, with hints of buried vegetation poking through.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jun 8

More carboniferous bugs

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 6

While I mostly pay attention to learning about dinosaurs, I don't think the general public isn't focusing enough on Cenozoic mammals' and that especially includes the ones from South America because they're the weirdest aside from Australia. So hopefully we can all change that soon.

Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 6

from many lineages. Now I won't study all of them, but I can at least read up on a few of them to give me an idea on how these animals were able to survive and thrive while South America was still isolated from the other continents until the Great American Biotic Interchange during the Pliocene.

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 6

as a result, I've learned about some of the different stage names and fossil formations that are found all throughout South America such as the Sarmiento, Pebas, Urumaco, Chicaltay, San Jose, and other formations. Each of them have a wide variety of mammals, fish, reptiles, and birds that come-

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 6

forgive for not doing enough research on these weird ass mammals. In fact, since April, I've actually been taking an interest in trying to study extinct mammals that inhabit the south american continent and learning about South American Land Mammal ages or SALMA. It's pretty interesting and-

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 6

As for the coloration, I took some creative liberties and used greyish-blue which is a color scheme that you won't find in extant armadillos. You'll usually see brown, tan, yellow-brown, or pink in some of the smaller ones but blue is a color that you don't see in most if not alxenarthrans so-

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just finished a Stegotherium drawing specifically the species S. notohippidensis, which was described in a 2009 paper. It comes from the Santa Cruz formation of the Santacrucian stage of the Miocene epoch 17.5-16.3 MYA. I used the Nine-Banded Armadillo for reference as they're closely related.

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Sharptooth Shabazz @ybankole02.bsky.social · Jun 5

This looks good, are you planning on designing more hybrids?

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