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☆ Astrapionté ☆

@astrapionte.bsky.social

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⭑ (Bi)ology (Zoology) student 📚
⭑ Lifetime wildlife lover 🦥🐘🦩
⭑ Artist ✏️
⭑ (Bi)lingual
⭑ Commissions open! DM me.

If you repost my art anywhere, CREDIT ME!

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☆ Astrapionté ☆

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A scene I did of Miocene Amazonia for a commission: an early Iniid River dolphin catches a frog right before a greedy arapaima does while Stirtonia-like monkeys hoop and holler at the commotion! Pretty interesting concept I must say. 🇧🇷

#paleoart

November 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM

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Almost done with this commission! 😁

#paleoart

November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM

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Warmups! Infernodrakon, Painted Dog, & Pyrrhuloxia.

#paleoart #dog #cardinal #pterosaur #azhdarchid

November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM

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THE YANGTZE BIG 3.

#paleoart

November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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GIANT FOSA - Prehistoric Planet styleee.

#paleoart

November 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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dodo and solitaire chicks.

#paleoart #pigeon

November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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PREHISTORIC PLANET : ICE AGE OUT NOV 26 only on Apple TV!
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#paleoart #pleistocene #megafauna

November 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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Birdtober 2025!

#birds #art #paleoart #procreate

November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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and then Papa Rhea falls nervous and a bit defensive when his chicks check out an absolute behemoth - a female Megatherium americanum!

Pleistocene Argentina, ~17,000 years ago.

#paleoart #iceage #sloth

November 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM

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a greater rhea daddy and his chicks hang out with a 1+ ton Glossotherium robustum about 17 KYA in Pleistocene Argentina 🇦🇷!
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#paleoart #iceage #sloth #megafauna #birds #art #procreate

November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM

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What more could you want?

November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Birdtober 31st - Black and White: Ua Pou Monarch from Polynesia. It’s probably extinct by now by guess who…

#birds #art

November 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM

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Species compilations. Which species do you recognize? Approximately to scale.

#paleoart

October 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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Birdtober 30th - Long, Thin Wings 🪽:

Pelagornis mauretanicus, a Plio-Early Pleistocene pseudotoothed bird known from Morocco 🇲🇦! They had extremely elongated wing bones that could stretch 16-20 ft from wingtip to wingtip.

#paleoart #birds #seabird

October 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM

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Birdtober 28th - Unique Foraging Technique! African Openbills have been recorded riding hippoback, snatching up snails and other creatures disturbed by the behemoths’ movements!

#stork #birds #hippo

October 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM

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Birdtober the 28th - Icterid.

Red-bellied Grackle from Colombia 🇨🇴.
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#birds #blackbird #art

October 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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Another great commission! Here’s a dodo at a zoo in an alternate timeline somewhere in the USA 🇺🇸. I can’t think of a good name for a dodo, so leave one in the comments!

#paleoart #birds #bird

October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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An Astroptherium magnum was relaxin near the bank of a river until a Macranhinga sp. hops on its back to gulp down its fishy catch in Early Miocene Argentina 🇦🇷 about 17 MYA.
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#paleoart #art #extinct #megafauna #anhinga

October 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM

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About 2.8 MYA in Late Pliocene India, a leucistic Sivatherium bull stares u down!
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#paleoart #giraffe #okapi #animalart #wildlife

October 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM

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Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), a functionally extinct freshwater turtle from Vietnam 🇻🇳 and China 🇨🇳. Only two known adults remain, and guess what? The opposite of the Northern White Rhinos, they’re both males. 🥺

#art #reptiles #extinct #river