Tyler Stone

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Pictured: me, reading the registration email for this year’s SVP meeting, knowing full well that I can’t afford to go. Maybe next year…

So cool to see my art attached to a peer-reviewed study again!

Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis

Parasaurolophus walkeri

Edmontosaurus regalis

Baryonyx walkeri

And Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Edmontosaurus, and Baryonyx. I’ve got 8 of these left that I’ll post as I go. Can’t wait to see my art at the zoo!

Plateosaurus trossingensis

Apatosaurus louisae

Struthiomimus altus

Scutellosaurus lawleri

Plateosaurus, Apatosaurus, Struthiomimus, and Scutellosaurus…

I still have 8 drawings to do (this came up VERY last minute, but the folks at the zoo have been super flexible with me because of that), but here are the rest of the 15 I’ve done so far.

Heterodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Zhenyuanlong, and Yi…

Blank Park Zoo’s new “Dino Park Zoo” logo.

Ankylosaurus magniventris

Brachiosaurus altithorax

Protoceratops andrewsi

The dinosaurs have arrived at Blank Park Zoo, so here’s the project I’ve been working on this week. I was commissioned by the zoo to draw 23 silhouettes for signage comparing their animals with dinosaurs as part of their new “Dino Park Zoo” branding. Species labels in alt text.

#paleoart #sciart

24 If any, or hopefully all, of this is interesting. They you might want to know that c. 6 months from now I'll have a book about all this and much more, written with, and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's available for preorder now in all the usual places online.

Thanks for reading.

With the trailers for both #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorld Rebirth apparently showing swimming Spinosaurus, I thought it might be time to go over why I think these animals were not good swimmers. After all, it's something I've written a fair bit about (with @arctomet.bsky.social) 1/many

I adore your work and am grateful for the support you’ve given me over the years, and I hate seeing you constantly targeted by these people. I hope the love you get when you speak up outweighs the noise from angry smooth brains.

I see what they did there… #WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025

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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries: it’s one of Adobe’s flagship programs. With a powerful desktop workstation and as much memory freed up as possible, there should be no limit to what you can create with it. So, why does After Effects still run like complete ass?

We got the one before ancient Hoplophorus, ancient Hoplophorus, Hoplophorus… wait, I’ve seen this one before.

Parapropalaehoplophorus is really hard to pronounce.

Jumping on the latest trend.

That’s a 10-year-old tentative master plan that doesn’t match with the current zoo and the expansions, renovations they have announced.

YouTube video by Blank Park Zoo Blank Park Zoo Expand the Impact Capital Campaign Press Conference

(2/2) The current otter exhibit is tiny and really showing its age, and the current bald eagle exhibit is a converted education pavilion. Compare that with what’s in the wild Iowa renderings. It’s night and day.

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(1/2) AFAIK there are no plans for gorillas. Still, rhinos seemed like something that would never happen when I was a kid, so who knows what the future will bring?

Yes, the only new animals in Wild Iowa will be bobcats. However, the new river otter and bald eagle enclosures will be very welcome.

It’s an EXCELLENT zoo. Small but mighty. It’s grown a lot since I was a kid, and always for the better. Well worth a visit if you get the chance.

Here are some pictures I took when I visited with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. She loved it.

Lion go blep

Cat go blep

Bonus: corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures.

A male and female lion on a rock in a zoo exhibit, with a news camera recording them in the foreground.

A male and female lion lounging on a rock in their exhibit at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa.

Close up of the eyes and nose of a male lion.

A male lion looking off in the distance.

Spent my morning covering the groundbreaking for the new lion conservation center at Blank Park Zoo. After 10 years without a visit, I’ve somehow ended up at the zoo 3 times this month. Guess I’m making up for lost time.

Anyway, time to flex with some shots I got of the kitties.

The dead speak! The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late TROODON FORMOSUS.

Somehow, Troodon returned.

Being a paleoartist with a social media following is fun, because you get to have people who don’t understand your field accuse you of lying and tell you that T. rex actually had wings and was a dragon. #paleoart #paleoartist #meme #skit

I know I already responded on Twitter, but… you’ve always been one of my idols, and your kindness and support of my work has meant the world to me. I know many others can say the same. I hope you feel all that kindness in return while you grieve.

Work in progress sketch of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus).

#WIP Sketching some obscure canid that I definitely haven’t had any strong feelings about recently. #paleoart

Looks like I’m officially adding “Iowa Broadcast News Award winner” to my resume!

Skeletal, muscular, and life reconstructions of Deinosuchus riograndensis.

Me with my illustration of Deinosuchus on the cover of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Shamelessly using the new Deinosuchus paper as an excuse to share my illustration of it again. I did this for Adam Cossette and Chris Brochu back in 2020. It was my first commission out of college, and while there are some details I wish I could correct, I’m still really proud of it. #paleoart

Suchomimus by Jan Sovak

Iguanodon by Jan Sovak

Andesaurus by Jan Sovak

Chasmosaurus by Jan Sovak

Apparently paleoartist Jan Sovak has passed away. Growing up in the period between Jurassic Park and the soft dinosaur revolution, I don’t think anyone captured the way dinosaurs FELT when I was a kid as well as he did. It’s a hard feeling to describe, but Sovak nailed it.

That estimate feels far too generous.

Those Dire Wolves Aren’t an Amazing Scientific Breakthrough. They’re a Disturbing Symbol of Where We’re Heading. We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.

Colossal’s bungled wolf announcement isn’t a conservation win. It’s a sad reminder of how the offensively rich want to foist their vision of the future on everyone. My latest for @slate.com

Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks

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