🦕Emilyosaurus 🏳️‍⚧️🦖

i’m regretting this……. #moss #sciart

four panel false knees comic by joshua barkman 1. barn owl A: “do you think i’m cute?” 2. barn owl B: [staring at barn owl A] 3. barn owl A turns her head completely upside down in a fashion i assume she means to be charming and endearing 4. barn owl B: “you’re cute in an intense way”

also, lol, was reading comics this morning and found a picture of me looking for validation from the poor souls forced into friendship with me

(Ew, It’s Beautiful @falseknees.bsky.social)

sand bath!!!

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two homotheres interacting in a snowy landscape.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two Woolly rhino, a calf and old adult.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a glyptodont.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a mother sloth climbing up a rocky surface, baby on her back.

It's true, #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age is coming to #AppleTV for November 2025. These images show how good our animals are, but... believe me, this barely scratches the surface!! It has been a massive thrill and privilege to help bring this series together... you're in for an incredible treat.

a pair of machairodontines laying in a snow-covered field; they look quite robust, but i'm unsure if they are smilodon or a different taxon like homotherium

a baby elasmotherium and mother

a glyptodont in a grassy plain

a baby giant ground sloth (unsure of taxon) clings to its mother's back as the mother climbs a cliff-face

AMAZING NEWS!
apple tv has just announced a NEW pleistocene-focused series of #prehistoricplanet! streaming on november 26th

Soooo happy to finally see Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age has a streaming date: November 26!

I’m so happy for you all to see this amazing show and I am super proud to be once again among the amazing group of talented people who put this show together!

😍😍😍

Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic

Geologic Periods

xkcd.com/3120/

Sketches showing Mirasaura and Longisquama together with Vallesaurus,Megalancosaurus and Drepanosaurus all with dorsal crests formed plume-like structures like those present jn the first two taxa

Could extraordinary plume-like structures like those on Longisquama and the recently described Mirasaura be present in other drepanosauromorphs? I think it is not completely out of the question!

#paleoart #art

Disability is not a moral failing

It’s not something a person chooses, nor can they “try harder” out of it

Most of us will experience disability at some point in our lives

You can be born disabled, it can happen suddenly due to accident or illness or be the result of aging

It’s a part of life

can we start a whale fall art train?
any other whale fall freaks out there?

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, Mirasaura

Today is a very good day for long-standing enigmatic weirdos being pretty conclusively figured out. Longisquama is a drepanosaur, Nectocaris is a chaetognath, and Palaeocampa anthrax (metal name) is an aysheaiid (!!!)

Fossil of Nectocaris. It has two big ol' eyes on short stalks, two tentacles on its face, a funnel-like structure coming out of the bottom of its head, and two fins running down the sides of its body. Courtesy of Martin R. Smith

Phylogenetic analysis of invertebrates. Timorebestia and Nectocarididae are recovered as members of stem-CHaetognatha. The lower schematic shows the evolution of the body plan and jaw apparatus in these animals. From Vinther et al. 2025

Nectocaris is a very hard-to-interpret Cambrian invertebrate. It's been suggested to be a cephalopod, radiodont, chordate, or its own ranch. Today, the closely-related Nektognathus was described, showing anatomical features uniting the nectocardidids with Chaetognatha

A pin badge design: a black background with a black and white hand drawn illustration of a large sauropod dinosaur. The text on the badge reads “KEEP PALAEOART HUMAN, NO TO AI DINOSAURS” along with a “no AI” icon.

A new pin badge design. I’ll be selling these at @dinoconuk.bsky.social next month if anybody wants one…

Fossil Friday #275: Crenulopteris acadica #fossils #paleontology #FossilFriday #MazonCreek #fern #truefern #paleobotany #pennsylvanian #carboniferous

www.esconi.org/esconi_earth...

"what is a Triceratops?" with a drawing of a brown Triceratops skull

"most people would say Triceratops is a species of dinosaur..." with a drawing of a green triceratops in profile view

"...but there are actually two* known species of Triceratops!" "*currently accepted" with a drawing of the previous green Triceratops looking surprised at a more yellowish Triceratops walking into frame

"Triceratops is actually a genus - the level above species" with drawings of both the green and yellow Triceratops from before in profile view. The green one has a blunter horn and wavy horns and is labeled "Triceratops horridus" and the yellow one has horns curved forwards with a longer horn and is labeled "Triceratops prorsus".

what is a triceratops? 1/3

New art!
Mirasaura grauvogeli, the new Triassic Drepanosaur and close relative of Longisquama!
#paleoart #SciArt #art #reptiles #drepanosaurs

two white border stickers on a wooden table backdrop. One is of a mosquito holding a test tubes and pipettes wearing a labcoat. The other is a drawing of a yellow brontosaurus with orange spots, very angry, with a brush and paint bucket, scratching an AI sign with red paint, text below says "NO GenAI images, all human made!".

we should have a photo-op with all anti-AI pieces at DinoCon, you can pass by and grab one of them stickers

shoutouts to metroid fanartists who primarily draw samus wearing her power suit, and when they don't draw her wearing it they make sure she's buff and/or butch as fuck

A pencile sketch of a large drepanosaur clinging to a mossy branch by hind limbs and prehensile tail (and tailtip claw!) with its haevy clawed forelimbs raised in a defensive posture, a tall crest of "feathers" on its shoulder hump. A speech balloon filled with grawlix comes from its birdlike face.

Between Mirasaura and Longisquama, it's entirely possible (though still speculative!) that these sorts of feather-like structures are present in other drepanosaurs. So with that in mind, I couldn't resist sketching an annoyed Drepanosaurus with a flamboyant crest.

(He angy.)

Meet Palaeocampa anthrax, a newly discovered Carboniferous lobopodian, and 150 year old mystery fossil!

Palaeocampa is an exceptional lobopodian - it lived in rivers and lakes, bristled with thousands of poisonous spines, and more. 🧵

Open access: nature.com/articles/s42...

he stubbed his toe & died like a true gay icon

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Black and white drawing of a Diplocaulus, a boomerang-headed amphibian from the Permian period

New Art!
everyone's favorite boomerang-headed amphibian, Diplocaulus! 🐸🪃
#paleoart #SciArt #art #amphibians #prehistoric #Diplocaulus

Paleoart commissions opened! Feel free to contact me.

I have experience working on various books and papers, with the most notable artwork being the cover of the 4th issue of Volume 44 of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Black and white drawing of an Amargasaurus cazaui, with stripes going down its back and neck and large eyespots on the neck sail. The legs and end of tail are banded.

New Art!
Amargasaurus cazaui 🦕
#paleoart #SciArt #art #Dinosaurs #Sauropods #Amargasaurus

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

Reconstructions of Velociraptor running (top) and Shri rapax jumping (bottom)

The newly described (just a few days ago) Shri rapax (bottom) and its close relative the famous Velociraptor mongoliensis (top) 🪶

#paleoart #dinosaurs #art

Four doodles of gorgons in various levels of stylization

Sketches at the kitchen table from last night, thinkin bout stickers

A feral pigeon sitting on top of a dinosaur skull

A dinosaur has a visit from a distant descendent.