🏳️‍🌈CloudyPetrel

fuzzy hadrosaur

Dude, shave (Haolong dongi)

Digital Drawing. In the centre, a thylacine/tasmanian tiger is depicted mid-run. Behind it are the silhouettes of thylacine bodies lined up in rows against a red background.

Thylacine

happy #FossilFriday. It is very early in the year and I already have a favorite paper with the newly described Haolong. HOWEVER, this is *not* a feathered dinosaur! The structures on Haolong are very different from filaments. A 🧵

Wonder Woman ✨

WIP of a little woolly boy

Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974)

My handmade lepidoptera collection of hair clips, pins and magnets. I've been working so hard on the designs, so I am really happy to finally show them. 🦋😭 They are available in my Ko-fi shop as made to order items!
#hairaccessories #butterflies #moths #lepidoptera #polymerclay #crafts #hairclips

A digital painting of an ice cube, followed by several hands closed over each other with water pouring from them. Bold text on the art reads: "ICE MELTS".

so don't get too comfortable.

#art

Should have just gotten a dog

The zone meme

When you emerge from "the zone" after a multi hour drawing session.
#drawing #meme

Your freckly/splotchy skin looks cool ngl.

Yes please - if only for @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social and myself

It's good luck me thinks.

A pair of great blue herons intertwining their necks just after one flew in carrying a stick for the nest, which it is depositing here. The nesting sites have all been quite busy for months now. #birds

★ MINERVA STORY SYNOPSIS ★: In an avian humanoid society, (name) is bird-ish. Her beak is bendable instead of ridgid, and her ‘feathers’ are hair that bears resemblance to real feathers. Instead of tail feathers, she has a prehensile tail. (1/4)

Morrison Uncovered: Uteodon aphanoecetes

Start your week with a rare sight from above – a lion family caught on camera during one of our aerial patrols. Our pilots cover vast stretches of Tsavo, monitoring wildlife and keeping watch over everyone from orphaned elephants to apex predators.

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Rhamphorhynchus by Xenosupial

💜 if there's still room

A close-up of a porcupine walking right to left across a snowy field.

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
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A mostly black bird with iridescent bluish head and yellow eye (a common grackle) is flying from right to left in wings down position, all against a featureless gray sky.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescent (birds with iridescent colours). To demonstrate, here is a dull black Common Grackle. 😉

#birds #photography

Ton an.

A reminder that speedpaint portrait and halfbody c0mm slots are open! 👇Links & info below

The frozen dragon rises ❄️

#dragon #fantasy

a pair of copepteryx on a shoreline, with more of their kind behind them. they are large, penguin-like, flightless seabirds, though their skulls look more like those of cormorants

a mounted copepteryx skeleton

happy #fossilfriday! this is copepteryx, a flightless seabird from the oligocene of japan. as a suliform, it was related to gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and cormorants, though it and other plotopterids displayed remarkable convergence with the anatomy of penguins
(art by mark witton)

S'cute!

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.