Emi the Chordate

It's been a while! But I’m back with some massive 🧪 news: 15 papers on the Cabrières Biota have been accepted in Lethaia.

They show the incredible complexity of life 470 million years ago (e.g., sponges, algae, worms🪱, arthropods🦐) and will be rolling out soon!

🎨 by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass with the word huh on it Alt: Le dude qui touille son café avec le texte "huh ?"

Les tech bro's : "L'IA gen me permet enfin d'exprimer mes idées et ma créativité !"

Moi, qui sors des livres en bonhommes bâtons depuis presque 20 ans :

The one rule regarding dinosaur integument is that we should never underestimate its diversity

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...

Rauisuchus, the one who started it all, a friend-sized fella

(do not trust any other repurposed past skeletal reconstruction of this animal)

a wide herizontal image showing a group of 3 young hatzegopteryz chasing an adult zalmoxes on the beach. The zalmoxes seems to be getting away, as the 3 hunters stumble and about to crash-land into each others.

Crash Landings

#paleoart #berensart2026

Commission for Gecko Mola!

Gigantoraptor #Paleoart

Coloration based in the Brown lory, specifically individuals with blue-ish tones, thanks to @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for suggesting that!

Result from the Djadochta Formation #paleostream! This iconic place gave me a fantastic challenge, not just in terms of environment but also because besides the dinosaur the really cool stuff from here is actually rather small. I ended up with a rather unusual composition...

a pregnant Mixosaurus catches a single belemnoid out of a small school, the cephalopods squirt out clouds of ink in an attempt to confuse the ichthyosaur as they dart away. the Mixosaurus has many scars from previous encounters with other animals, and two circular scars made from lamprey bites Mixosaurus is a kind of ichthyosaur (marine reptiles that looked like sharks and dolphins) that was integral to our understanding of ichthyosaur evolution as it preserves a dorsal fin, this is important as its anatomy bridges the gap between more elongated ichthyosaurs and more compact dolphin-like forms belemnoids are relatives of modern cephalopods that looked like squid but had bony phragmacones that helped with buoyancy and to keep the structure of their body

a bilateral gynandromorph Tetrameryx dashes away at top speed in an attempt to escape something off-screen. the left side of the animal has speculative female horns while the right side of the animal has large male horns that Tetrameryx was named after Tetrameryx is a kind of extinct pronghorn which had two incredibly long prongs on its head, though these prongs had no branching, this morphology matches extant pronghorn prongs, where the inner cores are a singular straight line and the keratin sheath on top has two prongs that curve inwards. given this trait it's most parsimonious to assume that Tetrameryx also had a similar morphology as i have reconstructed here

my sona (i am 5' 4") holds a Hyperodapedon infront of an orange background with lighter halftones Hyperodapedon is part of an often forgotten about lineage of reptiles very distantly related to crocodiles and birds which possessed very wide heads and very unique oral anatomy (though in this image ive obscured the mouth for sake of my own sanity) it appeared something like a tegu with the head of a giant mole rat with a beak reminiscent of softshell turtles

here's the results of this week's #Paleostream flocking!

this week we sketched Platycerabos (check the replies), Mixosaurus, Tetrameryx, and Hyperodapedon

#paleoart #sketches #sciart

Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period - Nature Early vertebrates, particularly myllokunmingids, possessed four camera-type eyes (a pair of lateral eyes and pineal and parapineal organs), which indicates that these structures functio...

Lei, X., Zhang, S., Cong, P. et al. Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Alain Bénéteau. Audoin Desforges pour le Monde.

Oh no, la nouvelle triste du jour c'est le départ bien trop tôt de l'illustrateur Alain Bénéteau 💔
J'avais livesketché une de ses conférences avec les StripSciences et LyonScience il y a qq années.
Pensées à ses proches.

Son compte insta :
www.instagram.com/alainbenetea...

a Tapejara opens its mouth to yawn as the dawn's light bathes it in a gentle warm hue. the setting moon appears to be in its beak due to the framing of the shot. the sky behind the pterosaur is a deep clear blue as the night retreats from the day Tapejara is a kind of tapejarid pterosaur (pterosaurs with large fleshy crests from the front of their face to the back oftentimes paired with smaller ones on the bottom of their beaks) that inhabited Cretaceous Brazil, here ive depicted it with a healed injury on its crest at the back

an angry Ajkaceratops charges towards the camera while a shocked seated person (my sona) recoils in fear (i am 5' 4" (~163cm) tall) Ajkaceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur (relatives of Triceratops) known only from skull material, unlike it's better known relatives it may or may not have had a frill proper and also lacks a distinct rostral bone which is a characteristic of virtually all ceratopsians

a male Hoplitomeryx is seated amongst some short grass at the edge of a game trail, the morning sun carpets the foreground and midground of the shot in a bright yellow light while the heavily foliaged background remains in relative cool darkness. the small ungulate has swivelled its neck around to look at the camera Hoplitomeryx is a kind of small deer-like ungulate that had five large horns on its head; two behind each of its eyes and one between its eyes on the middle of its head. they also possessed small fangs much like fanged-deer as well as scent glands infront of the eyes like most ruminants. they lived in Italy during a time in Earth's history where the sea levels covered most lowlying areas, forming islands that are now attached to the mainland in the modern day

a Protoceratops kicks up fine sandy dust as it walks towards the camera, it's illuminated from the back by a bright yellow light as this shot is set at night Protoceratops is one of the most well known ceratopsians dinosaurs behind Triceratops due to being one of the two species in the 'Dueling Dinosaurs' fossil where a Velociraptor and Protoceratops were preserved mid fight by a falling dune. Protoceratops lacked any horns, but had a very wide and broad crest, as well as a raised "sail" on the top of its tail

results of this week's #Paleostream flocking!

this week we sketched Tapejara, Ajkaceratops, Hoplitomeryx, and Protoceratops (i procrasinated on posting whoops)

#paleoart #sketches #sciart

Just remembered I can draw whatever I want

Results from the #paleostream!
Only wishes tonight! 3 by others one for me :3
Mesonyx and Tritemnodon (for Vex), Mountain Anoa (for Desert leaper), spec evo animals for Din0boy1 and Manipulonyx, going after bees nesting in an egg but not the egg ;)

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

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Result from the Agate Fossil Beds #paleostream!
This early Miocene lagerstätte from Nebraska (USA) is a fantastic window into our understanding of the transition from forest communities to grassland biomes...

A Squid rising out of a shell with an Octopus and Argonaut on either side.

my girlfriend gave me this amazing illustration by @franzanth.bsky.social for Christmas. We share a love for Classic art and silly tentacl-y animals I guess

A microraptor leaps on a decorated large cicad

False eyes 👁️‍🗨️

Art commission for James Stryker! one of the few depictions of mine whose colors weren't suggested by claude lol

Amargasaurus #paleoart

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
This one was gorgonopsid heavy!
Dinogorgon, Viatkogorgon, Njalila and Hippidion

Despite being ill I think this first formation #paleostream of the year turned out pretty good.
The Upper Elliot Formation from the early Jurassic of South Africa is an important piece for our understanding of sauropod evolution but beyond that it's just a really cool assemblage...

Les trois rois mages. Premier (chic) JE SUiS MELCHIOR, ET J'APPORTE L'OR AU ROI QUI VIENT DE NAÎTRE Deuxième (chic) JE SUiS BALTHASAR, ET JE SUIS VENU AVEC LA MIRRHE Troisième (embêté, phylactère en pointillés) PUTAIN LES GARS, ON AVAiT DiT "5 EUROS MAXIMUM" POUR LES CADEAUX! Il tient une poche Nature & Découvertes, avec écrit dessus : ENCENS – 15 BATONNETS

Bonjour, c'est la galette.

I’m already seeing faked images of Maduro’s capture mixed in with real ones, so just a reminder to be careful when looking at image and video feeds today.

Artwork depicting 3 Ceratosaurus dinosaurs teaming up to take down a larger Ceratosaurus. The artwork is made of blues, pinks, and oranges. Below the artwork it reads "No War But Class War".