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Digital Drawing. A depiction of an upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) based on the type specimen. The head and right foot are represented as mummified remains while the rest of the body is drawn more like a life appearance, in the style of a monochromatic sketch.

Moa Remains

Results from the #paleostream! Three pieces here, another one below for people who don't wanna see hadrosaur sexual behavior.
Ankylosaurus, Makrodactlyus and Joaquiraptor

And here we go, result from the Judith River Formation #paleostream! This late Cretaceous formation might be full of charismatic megafauna but it is currently understudied and a total mess when it comes to stratigraphy. In this scene I wanted to focus on two aspects...

a Nanotyrannus lethaeus rolls around in a shallow pool of water, foliage can be seen in the background Nanotyrannus is a species of dinosaur once thought to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, however, it recently was concretely proven to be distinct from Tyrannosaurus, as well as being quite far removed from it on the tyrannosaur tree being a member that diverged much earlier. Nanotyrannus lethaeus is a species that can be differentiated from Nanotyrannus lancensis in a variety of ways, however, in this piece the most notable way is its more slender skull as oppose to the more boxy skull of N. lancensis

a female Pteranodon flies above the sea, repositioning a belemnite in its jaws. the panicked belemnite squirts a jet of ink in an attempt to escape. it has a pathology on its back that shows it's escaped predation in the past, but this attempt will be futile Pteranodon is a large sea-faring pterosaur known for its long crest and long peak, it is the most well known behind Pterodactylus. there is a massive debate about which specimens actually belong to the genus, however, it is accepted that the smaller crested mature specimens most likely represent females belemnites are a group of extinct cephalopods with hard internal guards that helped in buoyancy and structure of the body, they're homologous structures to the pens of squid

a Phosphorosaurus investigates an underwater camera at night in very cloudy water. the light of the camera illuminates a cloud of particles in between it and the small mosasaur, obscuring its body sans the lighter colouration on its face, neck, flippers, and belly. its eye reflects the light back into the camera Phosphorosaurus is a halisaurine mosasaur (small slender marine reptiles that looked vaguely like reptilian seals). Phosphorosaurus had particularly large orbits and forward facing eyes, leading many to speculate that it was nocturnal

from above the surface of the water at night, a camera illuminates a school of aulacoceridan belemnoids swim away from a juvenile Helicoprion. the juvenile has caught caught one, using its buzzsaw-like whorl of teeth to slice through the cephalopod's guard, the cephalopod squirts a jet of ink in a futile attempt to escape, however, it's already too late for it Helicoprion is a cartelagionous fish that is often mistaken for a shark, but is actually closer related to chimaeras. it's most well known for its whorl of teeth that puzzled Palaeontologists for decades, we now understand that the whorl sat on the lower jaw and was used in a saw-like motion to cut cephalopod prey against the teeth on its palatoquadrate (upper jaw) aulacoceridan belemnoids are a group of extinct cephalopods with hard internal guards that helped in buoyancy and structure of the body, they're homologous structures to the pens of squid

this week's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!! i had two busy days in a row after Saturday so these are a tiiiny bit late, but yeah flocking is back!!!

this week we sketched Nanotyrannus (i sketched N. lethaeus), Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus, and Helicoprion (i drew a juvenile)

#paleoart #alttext

DINOVEMBER 2025 - DAY 14: GUANLONG [also Yinlong]
(T.Rexs Grandpa/ also there's a little guy)

#dinovember #dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleoart #paleoartist #paleontology #sciart #prehistoric #prehistoricanimals #prehistoricplanet #guanlong #yinlong

ANNOUNCING!

Project Skyfire - Part II: The Dreamstrider

I can finally start teasing Part II of Project Skyfire.

Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it

Progress on the short story is going pretty well.

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A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia.

#Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

It's fine!

There was a brief description of Scylla in the story but I feel like this is a lot better, and earlier on in the story.

A description of Scylla.

Discriptions is the next move. There are some things I wanted to add as I was reading through it last night so. Yeah, I can see it. Thank you.

Ah ok, some more discriptions of the characters, maybe specifying distictive marks and such. I do have a bad habit of knowing what the characters look like in my head. But maybe that's not translating to pages. Maybe going back and rereading the scenes a bit more and adding more character

Is there anything in particular that you like or don't like about the story thus far?

Now that the preview is out in the wild. How are we feeling about it friends?

Oviraptoridae teaser. Dark things are abound.

Project Skyfire Preview | Ellipsus Ellipsus makes it easy for anyone to write together.

As a thank you for all who have supported me and those interested in Project Skyfire, here is the first four chapters in their entirety! Read free now! Tell me what you all think!

write.ellipsus.com/edit/ccc690d...

Ancestors of Asian Forest Tortoises Evolved in Europe, New Fossil Discovery Suggests | Sci.News Paleontologists from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have described a new species of the tortoise genus Manouria based on the ...

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www.sci.news/paleontology...

Project Skyfire Preview | Ellipsus Ellipsus makes it easy for anyone to write together.

As a thank you for all who have supported me and those interested in Project Skyfire, here is the first four chapters in their entirety! Read free now! Tell me what you all think!

write.ellipsus.com/edit/ccc690d...

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12:00 PM Central US time...

Tomorrow... 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐

June is a true gem within this oviraptor family.