Rudolf Hima

Raptorial Headache

Big tort 🫶

Manouria morla sp. nov., the Ancient One: an Early Miocene large tortoise from the Swamps of Ahníkov, Czechia - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Tortoises (Testudinidae) are a clade of turtles highly specialized to terrestrial environments, mainly living in semi-arid conditions. Herein, we present Manouria morla sp. nov., a new species of the genus Manouria, which is considered to be the most basal extant testudinid genus. The studied material comes from the Ahníkov I fossil site, formerly known as Merkur or Merkur-North, located in the Most Basin in NW Bohemia (Czechia), dated to the Early Miocene (Burdigalian, MN 3). Manouria morla sp. nov. is the oldest member of the Manouria lineage, which nowadays inhabits SE Asia only, and therefore its biogeography and plausible European origin are discussed. The specific type of multiplication of plastral scutes in the inguinal region is discussed as a new morphological character diagnostic for the genus. Based on zoological studies, specific environmental requirements of the genus Manouria allow us to use this taxon as a proxy for the paleoclimate reconstruction of the Ahníkov I fossil site which suggests a broadleaf evergreen tropical wet forest. The simplified use of fossil testudinids as a proxy for reconstructing semi-arid palaeoclimate is therefore disproven.

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

Pre-Targon Aurelion Sol

A coalition of Giganotosaurus carolinii patrolling on the nearby hill with a squadron of azhdarchids flying overhead seeking shelter from incoming storm.

Southern Sun

From the Deep

An older piece for Month of Monsters 2, 2021.

#darkart
#horrorart
#gore
#monsters
#monthofmonsters

Color picking the mosasaur, lighten it and brush away

Thank you so much 🙇‍♂️

Thank you!

Jormungandr walhallaensis

Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage Smyth et al. report wing injuries in neonatal pterosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen assemblage, likely caused by storm events and supporting precocial flight ability. Taphonomic analysis reveal...

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Hatchling vs lightning, here’s illustration I made for the paper “Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage” by Smyth et al., 2025. Paper below👇

Thank you Mindy 🙏☺️

Shantungosaurus intraspecific combat

Shandong Schism

Great artist and an even greater, humble person 🙏 So glad you’re here Lewis!

Cover to my first art book collection Carbon Based. Hoping people will dig it & hoping it’ll allow me to catch up on some things & hopefully seek relief for my back problems I’m always whining about. Thanks guys! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

Evolutionary Arms Race

This kit is so beautiful…. 🥹

Two original ink drawings by Natee Himmapaan set one above the other on a wooden tabletop. My hand frames the bottom left corner. Both are silhouette-style renderings of dinosaurs, the top of Sinosauropteryx leaping after insect prey in thick underbrush, and the bottom of Parasaurolophus trotting over low-growing foliage as a trio of pterosaurs soar in the background. The drawings are astonishingly detailed, with ingenious use of negative and positive inking to suggest patterns on the animals, skin folds, densely overlapping undergrowth, and so on.

It's finally here! 😍 Everyone's favorite hadrosaur, painstakingly rendered with ink and brush by the unparalleled Natee @himmapaan.bsky.social, has now joined Sinosauropteryx in my collection. Go full-size and zoom...the details are finer than my fingerprints, conjuring a world from a silhouette. 🖤

A striking bird with deep blue and chestnut plumage perches among broad green leaves. Its long, sharp bill and red eye stand out against its smooth, sleek feathers and pale crown.

An incredible experience today. The Agami Heron is a very rare species and one that's difficult to see. But today I made a new friend who discovered a rookery with over 300 of these incredible birds that are on a new property he bought.

Agami Island #CostaRica

#birds #nature #herons #heron

Thanks so much! Sure thing ^^

next episode 😉

Carboniferous

Gerarus danielsi

An illustration of Spinosaurus - a large sail-backed dinosaur splashing through an inland sea. Huge clouds of spray are thrown into the air, and the sunlight produces a rainbow above the dinosaur.

Today seems like an appropriate day to repost my old Spinosaurus illustration, complete with rainbow. 🌈

Beautiful brushed kitty.
The base for fur is laid it, now time to mess it up!

Detail from a drawing in brown and graphite pencils of a Deinonychus standing on a broken tree trunk. Deinonychus is one of the most famous dromaeosaurs: feathered theropod dinosaurs that are perhaps most readily likened to ground dwelling predatory birds, but with a theropod snout instead of a beak. One of their most distinctive features is the large, sickle-shaped claw on their second toe. The drawing is detailed and intricate, and is photographed with a penny for scale, and one of the pencils it was drawn with.

Apparently, it was #DinosaurDay, which also coincides with the beginning of #Pride month, so yay for us LGBTQ+ dino folk. Though really, every day is Dinosaur Day. 🦕🦖

I don't think I've posted this older Deinonychus drawing here. From 2019, the tail end of the days Before Covid.