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The Morrison Man | Tim
@themorrisonman.bsky.social
Biology student & Wikipedia editor with a love for the Morrison Formation, cetaceans and the natural world. Wants to study dead things some day. (he/him)

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Would you look at that, passed 200 followers! Thanks for stopping by everyone.

As a little thank you, a teaser for whats to come soon:
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It’s a bear. Finding the right rendering style for the fur took me a while, but I‘m so happy how it turned out.

It’s one of the patreon stickers for this month and will also be a print later.
#animalart #feralart
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I am running in the Palaeontological Association Council Elections, as an Early-Career Research Officer & Meetings Co-ordinator🏅If you are a member of the PalAss, and want me to be part of the council, maybe cast a vote or two? I'd love to fulfill the Early Career position 🤞
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Here's the second of the #botanicalillustration courses I'm teaching at #Cambridgeuniversity #botanicalgardens in the UK next year. This one is in May:

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le...

It's all about #illustrating #blue #flowers. Think #iris, #campanula, #bluebells....
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I found a capybara pebble🤎
October 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#whalewednesday The spectacular early toothed whale Xenorophus sloanii from the Oligocene (~28 mya) of South Carolina! This is a critical transitional fossil, known from about a dozen skulls and partial skeletons. Read more about Xenorophus here on my blog: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-...
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Preview of my latest #paleoart piece: a baby bison flees the deadliest predator of Ice Age Europe. Harrowing, harrowing stuff.
October 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Huge azhdarchoid paper, at long last, ACCEPTED!!!! Prepare for some BIG insights!!!
September 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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In half an hour this years #paleostreamcon starts!
Link to Twitch and the Disrcord server below!
March 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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This Saturday we will host once again #PaleostreamCon on Twitch and Discord!
We are very exited for these talks and discussions!
March 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Today's #ArtBoost: Australia-based Petite Palaeoartist aka Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social, whose work spans most palaeo subjects: plankton to #marinereptiles #dinosaurs and more. Recently published in landmark study on Australian theropods! Links at linktr.ee/ppaleoartist
March 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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#PaleostreamCon is upon us again! On the 29. of March we will hold it, on Discord, with a stream on Twitch! This year we want to experiment with new formats so we have a show-and-tell and poster session! Learn more and sign up below!
#paleoart #paleontology
February 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Since algorithms across various social media platforms are making it harder to see what you enjoy, here's a thread of #paleoart I think is underrated or a tad overlooked.
Kicking things off with Sam Milkovits' azhdarchid portrait
February 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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#artadventcalendar day 5&6 and #fossilfriday: watercolor paintings of the toothed baleen whale Coronodon havensteini (Oligocene, South Carolina) and a more ancestral archaeocete whale Zygorhiza kochii (Eocene, Mississippi). Each is 12x8". #paleontology🐡 #whaleontology #art #sciart #watercolor
December 6, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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This week I’m giving thanks for the Sling-Jaw Wrasse, and it’s amazing jaw #biomechanics!
🐟🦑🧪🌿
November 27, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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New #crocpaper alert ! 🐊🚨 Fossil crocodylomorphs lived in a wide diversity of environments compared to extant ones. This review (my first one !) focuses on those adaptations, from very early Triassic forms to crown group eusuchians ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.2... in
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A review of the non‐semiaquatic adaptations of extinct crocodylomorphs throughout their fossil record
Crocodylomorphs constitute a clade of archosaurs that have thrived since the Mesozoic until today and have survived numerous major biological crises. Contrary to historic belief, their semiaquatic ex...
doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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All the dragons from the HTTYD stream. Detailed images below... 🧵
#paleostream #specevo #creaturedesign #sketches
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Need some more hadrosaur #paleoart goodness in December? Well, here is the #Hadvent calendar! @thysannia.bsky.social cooked up the idea and together we created this art prompt list. Feel like creating some hadrosaur art? You're welcome to join in the fun!
#SciArt
November 20, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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What do you do in Antarctica when the snow seals you inside your tents?? First, you dig out. Then you bake a cake. In Antarctica this tasted like fine pastry. At home it would be a doorstop. Deception Glacier, Antarctica Jan 2019. #antarctica #paleontology 💙🧪
November 20, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Results from the #paleostream!
Yuanyanglong, Romaleodelphis, Anaptomorphus and Armatites.
November 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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- A male Voay robustus rests with a female C. niloticus during the breeding season about 1000 years ago.
He´s blissfully unaware that he is the last member of his species, but that's okay.
What's extinction compared to the love of a lady and the warm rays of the sun on your face? -
November 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Would you look at that, passed 200 followers! Thanks for stopping by everyone.

As a little thank you, a teaser for whats to come soon:
October 22, 2024 at 9:06 AM