Bleached Bones

Small thumbnail of a possible book spread with sketches of a T. rex in lateral view, a head, a tooth, and two infants.

When I accidentally make the T. rex thumbnail prettier than its neighbours and wonder what this will do to my reputation.*

*As someone who supposedly 'despises' T. rex.
<_<

a square image containing a mockup of a wahi tape featuring different gothic windows

a series of preserved skeletons

Some new washi tape :>

FISH GUTS: AN ENAMEL PIN COLLECTION From Maybels Art - FISH GUTS: AN ENAMEL PIN COLLECTION

fish guts launches later today! ill be streaming and playing some fish games as well!!

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...Kinda like how "woman" doesn't need a strict definition either. :)

So, if you're going to call old & new world monkeys both "monkeys" but demand we exclude apes - what does monkey even mean?

The simple answer is that - like the British turtle, tortoise and terrapin - it has fuck all to do with science & is just a descriptor of primates that look like monkeys.

So back to damn monkeys... There's two groups of "monkeys" - old and new world. They split millions of years ago. Then apes emerged and split from old world monkeys much later.

These two groups of "monkeys" are less related to each other than apes are to old world monkeys.

And yet Brits will correct others for calling box turtles ...turtles, because they have legs and are tortoise-shaped. But those are not tortoises. Tortoises are a specific group of turtles. Turtles is the group name (well, the common word anyway) for the lot of them.

It doesn't help that between regions or languages, animal names can be more or less specific. In British English for example, the word Turtle exclusively means the kind with flippers. All land walkers are tortoises, the half n half kind are terrapin. Nothing to do with science - this is language.

A lot of people forget that many names of animals and plants are based on some vague similarity noted hundreds of years ago. And so, they don't realise many common animal names are not about some absolute genetic truth and species get moved around groups all the time.

I've got some transphobe on the other site telling me of course I can't define a woman if I can't tell the difference between monkeys and apes (don't ask how we got there - I made a joke about their bored ape pfp), so I'm gonna use this opportunity to explain how apes are in fact monkeys. 🧵

Etsy Seller Tips

A while back I wrote down everything I knew about how to improve sales on Etsy. It's already helped a bunch of folks I know, so I've made it available as a PDF. There's no quick and easy eureka moment to be found in here and anyone trying to sell you that is a grifterrrrrr! ko-fi.com/s/a769c70733

It's really annoying when gym dweebs end up on my paleo feed. Go away, I wish to see extinct things.

Painterly digital illustration of a male Dilophosaurus with a colorful red and yellow crest offering a lepidosaur to a female Dilophosaurus as courting gift similar to roadrunners. Both are brown and gray. There is a forested background with ginkgoes and horsetails.

Dilophosaurus dinosaur illustration commissioned and art directed by James Stryker for a paleoart project. #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Dilophosaurus #SciArt

A poster with a Japanese giant salamander and the accompanying text "Resist the Torrent Giant Salamander Style."

Endure amidst the current
Be motionless in the tumult
When the shadow descends
Be muscle, be maw, be might
And fend with one's being entire

Keychain charm depicting a sinosauropteryx, a small dinosaur known for it's bright orange colour and feathers. The charm has a fluffy texture to represent this.

A fabric patch featuring the head of carnotaurus with the anarchist slogan "no gods, no masters".

A fabric patch featuring tiktaalik - an ancestral form of all tetrapods. The patch says "evolution was a mistake" - a reference to the paleo meme that our ancestors should have stayed in the water to avoid leading us to this current hell.

A button badge depicting what is now north America at the the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary with the text "born in the wrong generation".

I have made some new stuff. #paleoart #dinosaurs

Ceratosaurus nasicornis

This is now available on T-shirts bleachedbonesstore.etsy.com ✨

The critter is based on Purgatorius - rat sized mammals from around the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction famous for wiping out the non-avian Dinosaurs.

Our ancestors would have looked quite similar to little Purgatorius. 🧡

"Oh, my God"

"What is it?"

"It's a birdcage"

"For what?"

My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)

An illustration of purgatorius - an early primate relative and one of the small animals that survived the mass extinction event that destroyed three-quarters of all the plant and animal species on Earth. #bleachedbones

Our Ancestors Survived ☄️

#paleoart

My patch design featuring a Utahraptor and the words "fuck around and find out".

Screenshot of an amazon page with several products using my artwork without permission.

Email from Amazon confirming they were taking action to remove the products from their marketplace.

Amazon slop store "Fuck Around And Find Out Co." used my Utahraptor artwork without permission and it was surprisingly easy to take it down. Guess they should have taken their own advice.

Artwork depicting a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus battling with the T. rex being gored by the two long horns of the Triceratops. The image composed of oranges and blues with the blood being bright red. Underneath the image is the text "Death to the Tyrants".

Artwork depicting a Stegosaurs lifting an Allosaurus up with its tail with the implication its thagomizer spikes are imbedded in its stomach. The Allosaurus has a look of shock and regret at the decisions its made. The image is composed of pinks, purples and oranges. Underneath the image it reads "Fuck around and Find Out".

Artwork depicting an Ankylosaurus taking on three Acheroraptors. One of the raptors is being smashed in the stomach by the Ankylosaurus tail club and lifted into the air, the wind being knocked out of them and certainly some bones crushed with the impact. The other two raptors attempt to battled the armored behemoth. The composition is made up of red, purple, and orange. Underneath the image are the words "Don't Give Up the Fight".

Prints of these 3 designs are now available in my store.

Stickers are also up for preorder and should ship in 1-2 weeks.

I'll also have all of these for sale at ECCC.

Fight the System!!!

www.emmalerae.com/store.html

I'd have loved to apply for Dino Con this year, but the cost and duration of the train journey is exorbitant. 😩 It's frustrating that Tetzoo Con always clashed with other plans the past couple years. Hopefully one day the stars will align for me.

That's a ghost type Pokémon.

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

An illustration of dimetrodon - a synapsid often mistaken for a dinosaur - with the text "not a dinosaur".

not a dinosaur

#paleoart #dimetrodon #art

You know you _can_ just scroll on by. Your specific trauma doesn't require you to spill vitriol on something, discredit the poster, and frame it as a public service.

A dromaeosaur making use of simple tools to retrieve a delicious grub. #paleoart #dinosaurs

That's infuriating.

Someone told me Bsky is cool with links. Feels wrong. 😬 Feels like I'm gonna get punished by the algorithm

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A pen drawing of a Ceratosaurus. The drawing shows the dinosaur from the left side.

Inked the Ceratosaurus sketch 🦖
#art #paleoart #theropod #sciart