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A poster showing 14 crabs of various shapes and colors

Got reminded by @jopabinia.bsky.social that this is the 1st anniversary of my poster showing the diversity of fossil crabs.

True crabs, false crabs, cute crab, long crab, pointy crab, crab in ammonite, we have it all. 🦀 🎨 🐡

Poster available from: www.redbubble.com/people/franz...

Navigator of the River Lethe
#Nanotyrannus

Drawtober Day 30: Deep Sea

The Innsmouth Look
#drawtober #Halloweenie

The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Silhouette drawing in black ink of a cat sitting on a tuft of grass, facing left, with one forepaw raised, its head tilted back, and its mouth wide open as though emitting a cry. A circle of ink dots frames its head, halo-like.

It's #BlackCatAppreciationDay.
Granted, this one is a silhouette and it could theoretically be a cat of any colour, but...

Ink on watercolour paper, 64 × 89 mm, 2019.

Highlighting fantastic palaeoartists:

渔火 on xiaohongshu, a mixed-medium artist from China. Magical depictions of theropods. Pictures are panels from their Spinosaurus comic.

A free bird 🪶

A Shringasaurus enjoys the warm sun on its back while relaxing at a river.

Digital animated painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

Great news! Plesionectes longicollum is a new genus and species of plesiosaur from Holzmaden, Germany.
www.sachspal.de/plesionectes...

This paleoart features two Plesionectes hunting near a colony of Seirocrinus.

Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

two hominids; a neanderthal and a homo sapien, inside a cave. the wall of the cave is full of hand prints and doodle artworks. The two hominids place their hands on the wall, tracing the line of hand prints. they seems to be lost in their own reveries.

A homo neanderthalensis and a homo sapiens. Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

#berensart2025

crabs

A superb explanation about why artists by and large detest AI imagery, from @theoatmeal.bsky.social: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Painterly hour long digital sketch of the massive ichthyosaur in cool ocean waters with much smaller ammonites swimming past.

#Paleoctober2025 day 6 paleoart sketch of the giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #ichthyosaur #Ichthyotitan

This was supposed to be the #SundayFishSketch ...
The bumby snailfish is refusing to get painted at the moment :/ ... I may return to it later or try again.

a cartoony drawing of my siamosaurus OC, Gwenhwyfar

Smoll Gwenhwyfar

#berensart2025

Sepia-toned, monochrome drawing of a unicorn in side view, standing in a field of tall grasses, facing right. The unicorn has a rich dappled coat and a gentle expression. Beyond it, a tree is framed in a roundel. The foreground grasses are drawn in negative, with the dark areas around and between them forming their shapes. The whole piece is small and intricate.

'Still'
Brown pencils on ivory cartridge paper, 150 × 105 mm.

Belated #Junicorn

Monochrome, sepia toned drawing in brown pencils on ivory toned paper. A unicorn with a rich, dappled coat walks quietly through the grass, its head and neck held slightly lowered, almost in line with its body. Its demeanour is gentle, almost cautious.

'Hoping'

Brown pencils on ivory cartridge paper, 150 × 105 mm.

#Junicorn

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

Manouria morla. A new tortoise from Early Miocene Czechia. Link to paper below

Unlike Any other Dawns Before

#paleoart #sciart 🐡

Sketch Comp illustration for a small black and gray marked marine mammal called the Vaquita.

Big news for the vaquita porpoise, the most endangered sea mammal! 💙

The time is now to come together to try and save these animals! I believe fully art can help bring awareness.

Join us on Oct 25th for Save the Vaquita Day!

#SaveTheVaquita #SciArt #MarineMammals

New tiny pterosaur, Makrodactylus

A herd of mammoths, with three large individuals up front, and lots of smaller, more distant individuals in the background, surrounding a shallow Pleistocene lake. They stand on browning, yellowing grass in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky. The mammoths are variable in colour, some being dark, some pale. A juvenile mammoth, blonde all over, has broken ranks and started chasing mallards around a pond. He has made a little grebe nervous. Why has this baby mammoth started attacking other species? Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-...
#fossil #sciart

3D render of a suchomimus standing in some rocks. The dinosaur does not have it's right hand.

Suchomimus. Sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Blender. Background assets are from Megascans. #dinosaur #suchomimus #paleoart #paleontology #3dart #3d

As of September 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized by 157 of the 193 member states of the United Nations

These are the 36 member states that DO NOT recognize Palestine:

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Things keep getting scarier and scarier for trans people with no end in sight. I’m slowly building an emergency fund in case West Virginia becomes totally unsafe for me and my family, and anything you can spare would be greatly appreciated. Commissions are open, just DM me!

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The paltry fossil record of narwhals (Monodon) and the evolutionary history of white whales Narwhals are certainly among the strangest and most immediately recognizable of all marine mammals, owing to their fantastic tusk. Narwhals ...

NEW blog post! The evolution and fossil record of narwhals and belugas - the white whales! Emphasis on the surprising fossil record of belugas and the evolution of the bizarre tusk in the weirdest modern cetacean. 🐬🧪🦖 #whaleontology Read it here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-...

Its mating season, and the Ceratosaurs are particularly ready with their colorfull crests and mouths, this young female was atracted by the male's constant rumbling, will he be able to impress her?

Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.