Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor

I just want to amplify this, it's excellent.

I did it wrong: Dimetrodon had a longer neckDr. Scott Hartman's Skeletal Drawing.com A bunch of years ago I carefully planned out how to do more short-form content for this blog, and one of those ideas was for a series of You’re Doing it Wrong… posts highlighting common errors in do...

An update to my Dimetrodon skeletal, plus proof that my blog does, in fact still work: www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/i-did-i...

Guilty as charged. It shouldn't take another half decade for the next post, either.

Humorous drawing in brown pencil of a Spinosaurus mirabilis with a laughing eyes and a sparkling scimitar crest exclaiming, 'I'm a unicorn!'

The scimitar-crested, 'unicorn spinosaur,' _Spinosaurus mirabilis_.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mammothssss

The wrist is about as folded as I'd be comfortable (or more importantly, it would be comfortable) with. You could rotate the shoulder back a bit, or open the elbow if you want the wing pointing up and back more. I'll have more on the pose another time.

Yeah, it's a thing I figured out anatomically in like 2020-2021, but it's taken a while to propagate it across most of the relevant skeletal.

I realize saying "I hopefully have a blog post coming" isn't very comforting when I haven't posted to my blog in half a decade...

I have a blog post hopefully coming soon on that, but I think the transition from typical theropod posture to avian posture happened in fits and starts in maniraptorans.

They're probably about twice the weight of a wild turkey, so that's pretty apt!

Thanks, you're not bad yourself... Oh wait, you mean Velociraptor!

Updated skeletal reconstruction or Velociraptor

Revamped skeletal drawing of a little known dinosaur named Velociraptor.

A male Nanotyrannus lancensis sports their sharp and contrasting breeding season colors. They lift their head up and catch the whiff of the promise of hope... a female...

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
“Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” —

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

YouTube video by Apple TV Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV

Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

YouTube video by Apple TV Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV

The Prehistoric Planet trailer is out! It was an honor to work with this incredible team: youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv...

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

It's been interesting!

And one without the typo...

Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.

A close up of a hand holding a plush Triceratops skull.

Not a stuffed animal I expected to see at my local Half-Priced Boos, but a welcome one.

If you’ve never seen the comic, here it is:

Drawing of a brown and white hatchling hadrosaur dinosaur sitting in the nest, waving a bony forelimb while yelling ”eeeeeep!”. In the background, there are a few unhatched eggs.

Kids, being cute but demanding since the Cretaceous.

A quick little doodle of a baby Maiasaura, inspired by the recent study reinforcing the idea that they stayed in the nest for a good while and needed intensive care.

Based on the lovely skeletal by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social

YouTube video by Dead Sound "Terrible Lizards" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2025)

David James Armsby has done it again! Dinosauria is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of what paleo-media can be. I can't wait for the next one!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH57...

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

"Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report...The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions." - Damian Carrington

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Speaking of the importance of context, pretty proud of my research on the FPA in the late 1980s. #FossilFriday Perhaps the best understood square mile of Upper Jurassic in North America. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Two illustrations of a Tyrannosaurus rex on a white background. The first is significantly shorter and heavier than the second, which was produced with close reference to accurate skeletal drawings. Both have drab grey/brown bodies with striped tails, and prominent red colouration to the neck and head.

And this, dear reader, is why we use references. The top illustration was done some time ago, largely from memory. A museum wanted to licence it, but I insisted on reworking it first, to make it more accurate and appropriate for an educational setting. The difference is kinda dramatic! 😳

Artwork of a common raven sitting atop the skull of a Allosaurus with the words "Dinosaurs Survived" printed underneath.

Dinosaurs Survived!

A modern day dinosaur sits atop the skull of Allosaurus fragilis.

The common raven can seen deserts in the deserts of current day Colorado flying above the Morrison Formation where the remains of Allosaurus are found.

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BBC One - Walking With Dinosaurs - Dino guide: Creating Utahraptor by Jay Balamurugan, series assistant producer

The third article I wrote for Walking with Dinosaurs is out! This one is about Utahraptor and it's gloriously fluffy appearance - and includes some of my colour concept artwork!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...