Joan Turmelle

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A sphinx with white fur and pink hair with little dove wings does a big stretch. A small harpy flies overhead judgmentally.

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🏺 Loved this fresco when I was a child with a Minoans fascination but it's not so much 'restored', as mostly imaginary.
Look closely, only one figure has substantial original parts, and all the heads are made up!
The real fragments however share precise costume elements with more complete frescos.

Homo erectus KNM-ER 3883 #sciart

A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."

How to get into nature.

Fan art of Doraemon and Shizuka from the Doraemon franchise dressed as Caine and Ragatha respectively, characters from The Amazing Digital Circus. Instead of his eyes being in their usual position, Doraemon has large disembodied eyeballs floating in front of his open mouth. One of Shizuka's eyes has been replaced by a blue button, and she is looking with her other eye at her own hand in alarm.

Welcome to the Amazing #Doraemon Circus. Based on a suggestion from @killdeercheer.bsky.social. #TADC #ドラえもん

Long museum case with complete phytosaur skeleton centered, larger phytosaur skull to the left, and some sort of slab to the right. Chalk drawings above.

Long musuem case with Lycaenops and dicynodont skeletons, assorted therapsid skulls on the wall

Square museum case with Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, and other skulls. Header says Jurassic Dinosaurs: The Morrison Fauna.

Museum case with partial Diplodocus skeleton. It's a pelvis with some dorsal and caudal verts on either side and one attached femur. A skull on a stand beneath.

Some display cases in the old brontosaur hall at AMNH (1956–1990)

Life reconstruction of a disc-shaped ammonite (Placenticeras) with a straight-shelled ammonite (Baculites) in the foreground. These models are in a display case with text and figures apparent in the background.

Life reconstruction of an ammonite with a corkscrew-shaped shell with spines (Didymoceras) in a display case. Some text is visible in the background.

Life reconstruction of a squid-like cephalopod called a belemnite in a display case. Some text is visible in the background.

Some wax models of Cretaceous cephalopods for your enjoyment.

A brown stripey Apatosaurus walks through a glade of lush tree ferns, cycads, and conifers. Small theropods run past in the foreground.

An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison.

#sciart #paleoart

An enormous thanks to Darren for sharing some of this book’s contents. It is every bit as exciting as I hoped and I simply must find my own copy eventually. If anyone happens to own one and is willing to sell or knows of one for sale, please let me know.

Getting back into the swing of ungulates after a bit, here are four rhinos: Parvorhinus, Uintaceras, Megacanodon, Aprotodon qiui #paleoart #sciart

I firmly believe that art- art made for kids, art for adults, keeps us sane and grounded. Making art. Seeing art. Sharing art. Make art that represents the world you wish to live in, teach art and model the kindness you want to exist in the world. Art is an act of rebellion and resistance.

Messy start

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Happy New Year! Today we're channeling our 2000s-era edgelord atheism and reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, an album and associated series of music videos by artist Baba Brinkman 🧪🏺
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Oh look at that I made a daily dinosaur art/creativity/what have you prompt list for 2026 because people on tumblr asked and we all know how much I love to give #DrawDinosDaily

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It's my birthday today!

Please enjoy my OC animation attempt

Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists - British Ecological Society A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies.

Ecologist here, we know plenty about the diversity of life, and as the @britishecologicalsociety.org we actively support the inclusion of trans people alongside all the many ways of simply being human. Dawkins does not represent or speak for us.

Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore

We have a T. rex!

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

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Sandhill Cranes typically fly with their long legs trailing behind them. On very cold mornings, like this morning when it was in the single digits, they will tuck their legs in while in flight.

Tyrant Lizard Queen From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T Rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistor...

TYRANT LIZARD QUEEN

Stomping your way October 27th 2026

Pre-order the tale that the book's artist @korybing.bsky.social has called "epic enemies to lovers toxic dinosaur yuri" and reveals T. rex as "who she really was beyond the myths and monster movies" according to @annaleen.bsky.social.

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Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in
@royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.

This is haunting and beautiful and a reminder that there is absolutely still wonder out there.

Microsyops fur brush demo. Quick one. Brushes now available here villes.gumroad.com/l/rkrac

A long-horned bison with a shaggy beard trudges through the snow. Text below reads “Bison. An Ice Age relic still alive today.”

Another piece of wintry palaeoart to celebrate the season: William Scheele’s Bison! I’m pretty sure this is the impressively horned Bison latifrons, though the blurb suggests it’s one of the living species. Either way, an imposing and stylish reconstruction of an underappreciated animal!

Painting of my character, Pudgy Horse, a horse of baroque type appearance with luxuriant mane and tail, and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including short, slender legs with dainty hooves and an extremely generous girth; here painted in tribute to one of the famous horses in the Lascaux cave paintings using similar colours and simplified shapes.

A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.

Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃

#ArtAdventCalendar

Books.

Also books.

More books.

The Internet is becoming increasingly unreliable. Buy books and read them.

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Next on Joan's Journal: what is the nature of prehistoric cave art in Europe? Can the rock art of modern peoples give us any insights? 🪨🎨
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This is a good read! Just want to add that for general audiences, forgoing the tree altogether and using concentric containers is usually more successful at conveying the intended meaning.