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James-Tarleton
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Irish PaleoArtist, Learning Game Development, Colour Blind
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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · 11d
ive been on the quiter side of thing for a while so here is some Spec Evo stuff i worked on a few months ago, some Oligocene dinosaurs and whales
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ive been on the quiter side of thing for a while so here is some Spec Evo stuff i worked on a few months ago, some Oligocene dinosaurs and whales
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Quickie little guide to T. rex faces. I feel like I've gotten into the habit of only sharing big final works but let me know if you'd like me to post more of my little sketches.
sketch of a T. rex skull and soft tissue from front and side views. Being able to draw a good T. rex should be a mandatory skill one has in order to graduate art school.
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025
"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A Thylacoleo and Her Joey
A Thylacoleo carnifex rests with her young joey in a cave, the joey lying with its head on its mother's arm. Some light shines on the cave floor through an opening somewhere. Thylacoleo was a carnivorous marsupial (sometimes known as the marsupial lion) that once lived in Australia.
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Mirasaura #Paleoart #Art #Paleontology
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Pterodaustro Doodle
June 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!!

today we sketched Himalayasaurus, Typothorax, Lunataspis (i drew L. aurora), and Kunpengopterus (drinking the nectar from a Weltrichia)

#paleoart #sciart #invertart #paleobotany #plantart
a Himalayasaurus has killed a smaller ichthyosaur, it swims away with the corpse still bleeding in its mouth Himalayasaurus is a kind of ichthyosaur (fully marine reptiles with four flippers, dorsal fins, and tails used for swimming), specifically a shastasaurid (a group of the largest ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic). Himalayasaurus was found in Tibet and unlike other shastasaurids had ziphodont teeth (teeth made for cutting) suggesting it ate large prey, rather than having no teeth like other shastasaurids a Typothorax is laying eggs in its mound nest, its cloacal osteoderms move away to make sure they dont crush the delicate eggs. Typothorax is a kind of aetosaur (armoured herbivorous relatives of crocodiles and dinosaurs) that possessed an upturned snout and most curiously osteoderms around its cloaca two Lunataspis aurora move towards the camera. the nervous system of the left Lunataspis is visible through its thin carapace, the one on the right is climbing over the left individual allowing the viewer to see its underside Lunataspis aurora is an extinct species horseshoe crab from the Late Ordovician of Canada. it was flatter than modern horseshoe crabs and lacked a fused abdomen, instead its abdomen was made of individual segments much like other arthropods. it was also very small being around only 3-4cm long a Kunpengopterus sticks its tongue into a Weltrichia to lap up the sweet nectar within the cup of the flower-like structure, pollinating it in the process. two other bennettitale branches are seen in the back, all the branches are similar to the genus Kimuriella in growth form Kunpengopterus is an arboreal pterosaur (flying reptiles that flew using a bat-like wings) with a long tail, soft tissue crest, and potentially an opposed "thumb" on its hands Weltrichia is a male form genus of bennettitalian (flower-like plants). most species were probably wind pollinated, however, some were beetle pollinated, it's possible they could've also been pollinated by animals too. the female form genus counterpart of Weltrichia is Williamsonia, which is known from the Tiaojishan Formation, where Kunpengopterus is from. Weltrichia has been associated with the genus Kimuriella, however, no species are contemporary with Kunpengopterus, so this depiction of a Kimuriella-like whole plant is speculative
May 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Happy birthday Sir David :) God ray not added in post I swear.
Sir David Attenborough and Darren Naish at a filming event.
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Virtual #Paleoart Gallery Participants (4/5)

Just about one more week to go with artwork from
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Get your tickets here tinyurl.com/4zw5m89e, spread the word & join the event!

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May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Lunar Colony - Rock TurnTable
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #Blender
April 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Lunar Colony - Robot Turntable
#Gamedev #Artist #3DArtist #3D #Modeling
April 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Final UE5 Environment - Abandoned Lunar Colony
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #UE5
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"A local river giant"

A revamp of a piece i did 2 years ago. Featuring Baryonyx circa 125 million years ago. England.
April 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Two small ornithischians: the super long-tailed (probably) Leaellynasaura amicagraphica from Eatly Cretaceous Australia and the well known Hypsilophodon foxii from Early Cretaceous Europe

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
Reconstructions of Leaellynasaura (top) and Hypsilophodon (bottom)
April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Fuel Pipe -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine
March 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Habitat -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

Shape language and overall inspiration taken from Paul Jouard on Artstation

(I do apoligize for the weird glitchy look)

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine
March 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Keyboard -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine
March 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Fuel Depot -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment
March 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Nice when someone buying one of my artbooks (still available) asks for something interesting as a sketch. This is Squaloraja, a weird Early Jurassic 'shark ray.' Was fun to do.
February 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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My predecessor as State Paleontologist, Dave Gillette passed away on Feb. 10th. He will be missed. He oversaw the excavation of the Huntington Mammoth. @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Still a better Spinosaurus than those in a certain forthcoming movie.
Humorous drawing in brown pencil of a Spinosaurus, a very large dinosaur with a crocodile-like snout and a large sail-like structure on its back, perched on a tree branch.
February 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Meganthropus palaeojavanicus of Sangiran, Central Java, Indonesia. A hominid that lived during the early-middle Pleistocene.

Brush test from last year. The fur brush is by Ville Sinkkonen, which you can get from his gumroad. Easily my top 5 brushpacks.
February 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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stop re-opening jurassic park you dumbasses
February 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Geez you look away for one second and suddenly you have over 5k followers! In light of recent events I do not want to post on the other place anymore, gunna try to update on here more often. Here is some herbs and ground plants I made for Saurian!
January 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Happy Lunar New Year!! 🐍
#art
gingko spirit wrapped by a snake shawl
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM