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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.)

Vomiting Dimetrodon sketch

New chicken-sized dinosaur baffles paleontologists The tiny Foskeia pelendonum was a plant-eating dinosaur with a “weird” anatomy, scientists say

The tiny Foskeia pelendonum was a plant-eating dinosaur with a “weird” anatomy, scientists say

Disc-shaped fossils with concentric grooves scattered through a limestone block.

Image of the apex of the Great Pyramid, taken from the base of the southeast corner. The layers of massive blocks of limestone composing the pyramid are clearly visible. The pyramid is set against a sunny blue sky.

I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.

Wolfgang Amaltheus, the skinny slim ammonite

A motley crew of fossils illuminates an ancient, mysterious extinction event 512-million-year-old marine fossils highlight life and death at the Cambrian explosion’s close

512-million-year-old marine fossils highlight life and death at the Cambrian explosion’s close. https://scim.ag/4t6j94X

Whatever it goes on, relating this controversy to his previous academic suggestions that enthusiasts don't like looks very pathetic and frustrating to see

I strongly encourage my palaeoart peers who work in the museum display sector to write explicit "no AI modification" clauses into their contracts.

Even if your employee contacts at a given museum are trustworthy, you can't rely on outsourced 3rd parties to not butcher your work without said clause.

#Sciart #Paleoar #Dinosaur Foskeia

Foskeia pelemdonum

#Sciart #Paleoart #Dinosaur Foskeia

Very exciting discovery of Early Cretaceous (~130 mya) dinosaur tracks in South Africa, representing theropods & (possibly) ornithopods & sauropods. 🦖🦕🐾🪨

Apatosaurus

In a yellowing Cretaceous ginkgo tree, a chestnut, black and white Sinornithosaurus perches on a branch beneath a black, iridescent Microraptor. It has a small mammal in its jaws, which the Sinornithosaurus covets. Another Microraptor, all four wings spread, approaches to land. Ginkgo leaves fall around them, and X-shaped Microraptor silhouettes glide in the skies behind.

More new #paleoart and discussion at #Patreon: the colour schemes of Sinornithosaurus and Microraptor. What do we know, and what do their colours tell us? www.patreon.com/posts/sinorn...

#sciart #dinosaurs #paleontology #fossils

Jurassic Predators Feasted on Baby Long-Necked Dinosaurs 150 Million Years Ago Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the role of young sauropods.

Jurassic Predators Feasted on Baby Long-Necked Dinosaurs 150 Million Years Ago www.discovermagazine.com/jurassic-pre...

The smallest tetrapod from the Middle Triassic of South America: a new procolophonoid parareptile from the Ladinian of Southern Brazil
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction - Nature The Huayuan biota exhibits extraordinary biodiversity, illuminating the impact of the Phanerozoic mass extinction around 513 million years ago and offering critical insights into the transformation of...

Zeng et al. (2026-01, Nature)
「顕生代最初の大量絶滅後におけるカンブリア紀の軟体性の生物群」
A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

ファ！？？？Natureにとんでもない論文が出ています！！
約5億1200万年前の新たなカンブリア紀のラーガーシュテッテ，Huayuan biotaを報告！16門にまたがる153種の動物が産出し，そのうちの59%は新属または新種とのこと！一部進化的にも超重要なのが出ていそうです！

물론 대중과학으로서의 고생물학과 연구로서 접근하는 고생물학을 동일선상에 올려둘수는 없는 노릇이지만 어떤 학문이든 유튜버들을 위해서 존재하는 게 아니에요

그리고 고생물 정보를 얻을 때 유튜브나 특정 블로그에 대한 의존도가 높은 경우는...구태여 말할 가치가 느껴지지는 않네요

A random assortment of pterosaur skulls 🐊

고생물 그 자체를 좋아한다기보단 추억을 그리워하는 것 같아요

アニメ化と韓国での発売、全部実現したらいいなと思います。

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