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I like pineapples on pizza and I hope Italian people in here don't hate me with this

Illustration of Haolong dongi with Laura Dern for scale (the animal is about the size of a large dog or a minature pony)

Haolong dongi shown alongside the fossil with various close-ups of the preserved skin from Huang et al. 2026.

The new iguanodont with novel skin coverings. In addition to the large scute-like scales on the tail, the body is covered with what the author's describe as "spikes". The largest ones are about 4 cm long but almost a cm thick, resembling short quills. The smaller ones are hair or eyelash-like.

#Paleoart commissions are always open.

I have experience working on various books and papers, with the most notable artwork being the cover of the 4th issue of Volume 44 of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Feel free to contact me!

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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Life reconstruction of Haolong in dark forest environment, by Fabio Manucci.

Montage showing scales and spikes of Haolong, with anatomical position marked on life reconstruction of whole animal. From Huang et al. 'Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous'. iguanodontian dinosaur

Really taken with Haolong dongi, out today from Jiandong Huang, Pascal Godefroit and team. Just submitted news article on it. An iguanodontian with abundant hollow spikes across the neck and body, projecting from among conventional basement scales, and with rows of plate-like scales along the tail.

악의로 가득찬 사람은 그냥 나쁜말 좀 하고 내치면 그만인데 악의 없는 사람에게 대놓고 뭐라고 하기도 힘듦

악의가 없는 사람이 다른 사람을 힘들게 하는 쪽과, 악의로 가득찬 사람이 다른 사람을 힘들게 하는 쪽 중에서 장기적으로 봤을 때 감당하기 힘든 건 전자가 아닐까.

아까먹은거

미크로랍토르의 새로운 비행(...는 활공)모델
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart

After checking presence of spines on posterior part of the forewing, This specimen also could be assigned into C. spinosa

Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...

Huang, J., Wu, W., Mao, L. et al. Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur. Nat Ecol Evol (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

뭐 라온플이 순수노잼인건 맞긴 한데, 그렇다고 후속작도 그렇지 않을까 하고 일단 맹목적인 내려치기부터 시작하기엔 일단 뚜껑을 열어봐야죠.

Haolong dongi

수많은 서적들을 저런 식으로 써놓고서 겨우 지금 정도의 문장 생성 퍼포먼스라는 결과를 생각해보면 진짜 한심하기 짝이 없다

YouTube video by Netflix The Dinosaurs | Official Trailer | Netflix

Finally, I can break silence! I did a lot of creature design work for this show (collaborating, of course, with the production team) and think the animals are looking pretty good here! This was a lot of fun to work on - will be watching on Mar. 6!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

Therizinosaurus

Opinion might be biased, but according to my good memories, paleoentomologists who I've met in real life, from professors to grad students.

2월 5일은 군대에 끌려갔던 날. 벌써 8년이 흘렀다. 그 곳에서 보낸 1년 8개월에 대해서 굳이 기억하고 싶진 않지만...

Photo of yellow and grey sandstone slab with three toed dinosaur footprint fossils

Photo of yellow and grey sandstone slab with red worm-like trace fossils

Photo of yellow and grey sandstone slab with black worm-like trace fossils

Photo of yellow and grey sandstone slab with three toed dinosaur footprint fossils

The world is on fire so please enjoy these nice middle #jurassic trace #fossils. @ichnologist.bsky.social one for you! #geology #paleontology #dinosaur

X에서 이민 왔다요

Pleistocene x modern animals

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A tiny fossil representative of Insecta from the Permian with an unusually regularly segmented trunk - PalZ The myriad representatives of the group Insecta dominate modern day terrestrial ecosystems. The fossil record of Insecta dates back to the Devonian, with large diversification events and corresponding...

To my great surprise, an article on a tiny (larval?) mysterious insect #fossil 🦖⚒️ from Permian of Germany, on which we were working since about Triassic, suddenly got published. Check out cute critter, its OA @cocomacro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

제가 유일하게 보는 웹툰 <고대동물기>의 첫 번째 이야기들을 다룬 단행본이 도착했습니다.

두 권의 표지를 붙여두면 주인공들이 서로 마주보는 구도가 나오는 건 제가 제안했던 건데, 저렇게 반영된 모습을 보니 뿌듯하네요.

제가 본격적으로 자료조사나 감수를 도와드리기 시작한 네 번째 이야기부터도 빨리 단행본이 나왔으면 좋겠군요.

Submitted for the ilustra.see competition last year. This was an experiment on depicting Paleontology with Wayang kulit, a traditional shadow puppet art form from my country. Here a scene reminiscent of my City, Surabaya's founding myth is depicted, but instead of a shark fighting a crocodile, it is a Permian Spiny shark fighting an early armored sea reptile. Surrounding them are brachiopods, tabulate corals, and horn corals found throughout Permian strata in Java and Timor, while the Gunungans in the back have a simple wavy pattern to indicate the scene is taking place underwater. The wayang cutouts are drawn in Photoshop, imported as transparent PNG objects in Blender and rendered in Cycles to achieve the shadow puppet look

Wayang purbakala
The iconic myth from my hometown (a shark fighting a crocodile) depicted as Javanese wayang shadow puppets of Permian animals.
#wayang #wayangkulit #3D #blender3d #Surabaya #Indonesia #Permian #paleoart #SciArt

Result from the Joggins Formation #paleostream! This Canadian site is an absolute classic and even if you are not familiar with its name you probably know at least one of its major players...

I'm interested in making subtitles if it happens someday. Will there be any announcements about this if the time comes?

Reconstructed skeletal diagram and fossilized bones of a strange herbivorous dinosaur with large claws on its two-fingered hands.

Four photographs of a ground-dwelling, somewhat partridge-like bird on a forest floor. The bird is mostly brownish in color, with a dark gray "mask" over its eyes and the top of its head.

Digital model of the skull of an extinct bird, shown in multiple views.

Line drawing (above) and photo (below) of the fossilized skeleton of an extinct bird similar to a songbird. Feather remains are preserved around the skeleton.

Is it fashionably late to post a year-end retrospective in February? Probably just plain old late. Such is my yearly roundup of new maniraptoran research... albertonykus.blogspot.com/2026/02/revi... 🪶🧪 (📷Kobayashi et al., Morais et al., @torresaurus.bsky.social et al., @ksepkalab.bsky.social et al.)