James Pascoe

mirgaia walks through a fern field illuminated by fireflies

WELCOME BACK, MIRAGAIA 🥳
new material from portugal - along with a review of prior material - has led costa et al. to conclude that miragaia is distinct from dacentrurus, listing over a dozen differences between the genera
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(art by @ferrutxoart.bsky.social)

The Fossil Files: A new head banging dinosaur A newly discovered fossil from the Cretaceous of Mongolia tells us an interesting story about the purported head butting behaviour of dinosaurs. Pachycephalosaurs are famous for their thick domed heads but it has been disputed how or when this evolved. The beautifully preserved Zavacephale rinpoche has a well preserved skull and dome but also loads of details of the body and tail as well. What is suprising is that this individual is much smaller, and occurs much earlier, than other pachycephalosaurs. We take a look at this new fossil and what this means for interpreting the evolution of dinosaur behaviour.  This week's paper is "A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia" by Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig and colleagues from Mongolia and North Carolina, published in Nature in September 2025. Wide screen palaeoart by Masaya Hattori.

#Fossil Fans! A new #FossilFiles pod just dropped! It's on that super cool and exciting recent dinosaur paper in Nature!! .... Nooo... not that one... Zavacephale of course! Check out mine and @fossilrob.bsky.social's take wherever you get your podcasts: fossils.libsyn.com/a-new-head-b...

The stegosaur from the shoulders up reaching for leaves with its tongue extended like an okapi in a forested environment with rim lighting.

#Paleoctober2025 day 30 paleoart sketch with the long-necked stegosaur Miragaia / Dacentrurus

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Stegosaurid #Miragaia #Dacentrurus

Smiling rogue, full of mirth, long of beard. Holding a display featuring a brightly coloured and patterned Stegosaur in a forest

Smiling bearded rogue in a subtle waistcoat, surrounded by many of the most beautiful and talented people that worked the event

Mary Anning Statue

The wonderful Lyme Regis Museum

Accommodation booked for next years Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, can’t wait to be back in beautiful Lyme Regis again!! Don’t know what I’ll be doing but I’ll be there with a smile 🏴‍☠️🖤

Looks like the Grant Museum in London, it’s rather lovely and stacked everywhere with delightful artefacts!

YouTube video by DinoandDog Dr. Dave Hone talking about the Fodonyx

The one shown here is available for free, and I recorded a short video talking about this animal and what we know about rhynchosaurs. They never get the love they deserve, so check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzSS...

A ton of thanks to @jamespascoe.bsky.social for putting us together.

Two of the people who have helped me the most with my outreach and modelling work teaming up to produce some truly incredible models! Can’t wait to get these printed and it was my pleasure to help a little bit with bringing this dream team together for this incredible colab!

#MasterPaleoartAppreciationPost
We need to give Aldrich Hezekiah (Kiabugboy) the budget to do a 2h IMAX no-narration docu film about various invertebrates, fish and basal tetrapods in the style of 'Voyage Of Time'!
THEIR VFX AND VIDEOS ARE PEAK

Pumpkin carved in the shape of a Icthyosaur from Crystal Palace featuring a pronounced sclerotic ring

Icthyosaur models at Crystal Palace Gardens in London, the first examples of life sized Palaeoart and absolutely iconic

So this years palaeo pumpkin ended up being a homage to one of my favourite places in the World, the incredible @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social !

I decided to go for a breaching CPD Icthyosaur with the sclerotic rings in the classic pineapple ring style.

IDW Shockwave from his brutal creation to the story of his time travelling logic driven pantheon creating villainy. It was such an incredible arc to follow along with

Pterosauria tree (black edition) ~ 🦅🌳
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A few of you mentioned that you wanted to see close ups of the design and see all the extra details, so here you go! 😊

#paleoart #sciart

A very tiny posy I made in a thimble using flowers I grew in my garden, including lily of the valley, forget me not, cow parsley, sorrel, Mexican fleabane/erigeron, snowberry and buttercup.

When humans look at something we find beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood & if we connect with what we're looking at oxytocin, giving us a sense of belonging.
A tiny posy I made in a thimble, with real flowers I grew👇
If you like it it'll alter your brain biochemistry for the better:

One of the best things I made this year for sentiment and passion alone, a gift to an incredible young Palaeo enthusiast and her wonderful family who I got to surprise with this at Lyme Regis. I like working with marine scenes, and I’m really happy they liked it ☺️

Pterosauria tree (black edition) ~ 🦅🌳
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I’m so excited to reveal the finished design, based off of vintage natural history illustrations with a gothic twist!
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What do you guys think? Do you have a favourite pterosaur?
#paleoart #sciart

YouTube video by Dead Sound "Hunted by Moonlight" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2025)

Another absolutely spectacular entry in David James Armsby’s incredible “Dinosauria” short film series. This might mark the first time Scutellosaurus has a prominent role in a work of dinosaur media, and it makes for a very memorable debut.

If you need any help with sculpting or things like that am always happy to help, making things is my thing 😅

I’d go high density polystyrene and a hot wire cutter, just for the basic shapes, since it’s nice and light but can still push curtains aside!

For this #FossilFriday, it's unsurprisingly Spinosaurus as I gear up to the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on this most controversial of dinosaurs and the other spinosaurs. It's out in just a couple of weeks (in the UK, Jan 2026 elsewhere).

I’ve not seen them anywhere to compare, I’ve got a Flatline arriving so I’ll let you know then…

Probably more intimidating with the bright colours 💕

Apparently some people find me very intimidating, hiding behind pillars or fleeing desperately at the merest hint of my presence. Perhaps it’s the ready smile and piratical beard? So err probably a 6?

Oh that really does have limbs that would pass child safety testing, it is wonderfully toyetic!!

Model of Archaeopteryx

Trackways suggesting feather traces and some more beautiful William Stout art

Another glorious Jurassic diorama

Various models and busts

Feathered traces in trackways, and some more beautiful Dinosaur models and dioramas. A book absolutely packed with art including the margins of the text itself in places.

Spinosaurus in an arid environment drawn by William Stout

Gular pouch and using its hands to help swallow prey whole

Beautiful feathered Syntarsus and it’s nice to show a small Theropod tackling small prey items

Feathered Kukuri in repose

From Donald Gluts 1982 edition of the Dinosaur dictionary, feathered Dinosaurs from 1976 from the legendary William Stout, and Mark Hallet also producing a fully feathered Theropod. This book was embracing the idea of with footprints, Archaeopteryx and in some of its wonderful artwork

@palaeogames.bsky.social Have done a very successful TTRPG featuring prehistoric creatures, a really great group of people involved in their current project too (including some friends of mine)

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A beautiful oak tree

One of the most beautiful trees in
Europe is the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham

My youngest son is at university in the City, and took this photo 30mins ago

Post a green transformer

Smiling bearded rogue in a subtle waistcoat pointing at the podcast hosts of Terrible Lizards. The fantastic author, podcaster, and presenter Issy and all round Palaeo Titan and official “mate” Dave Hone. They are holding surprise gifts they later swapped around due to sentimental reasons 🥰

Dinosaur models crafted by my partner in Palaeoart crime Karen Fawcett, what was the crime? She stole the show….

Miragaia or possibly Dacenturus in a garden, under the Lyme Regis sunshine

A brightly coloured Irritator holding up a display of brightly coloured Irritators

A definite highlight of this year was the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, getting to help run a the Palaeoart Workshops and Museum quarter was a joy. Thanks to @nataliajagielska.bsky.social for the trust and opportunity, @davehone.bsky.social and @iszi.com for being wonderful and very popular!! 🦖 🎨

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