Nature's Compendium

#Spinosaurus and #Tameryraptor were both found in the Bahariya Formation, representing Cretaceous Eygpt. While Tameryraptor had teeth specialized for slicing flesh off of large animals, Spinosaurus had conical teeth more suited for fish! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXMC...

YouTube video by Nature's Compendium 13 Brand New Dinosaurs of 2025!

🦕I'm going to try and make an active effort to post on here more often! For starters, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who watched my latest video recapping new #dinosaurs discovered in 2025! Be sure to checkout the whole thing on YouTube right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXMC...

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

Lesmesodon edingeri, a cat sized Hyaenodont from the #Messel Pit. We only have 4 fossils from this species, all still suckling age. Would be an early horse’s nightmare as an adult though (dissection in thread) #sciart (done in 2021)

It's grandpa! 👴🐟

Learn all about Tiktaalik and see how you'll be able to customize Vivariums with just a few clicks in this week's Dev Report.

📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/48smJ07

I love the pterosaurs!

Elasmosaurus
#rkgk
#illustration
#イラスト

Digital illustration of the late Cretaceous tyrannosauroid dinosaur Nanotyrannus lanciensis in a foggy flooded open forest. The dinosaur is surrounded by warm fall foliage, palmettos and reeds. It is pulling sharply at a bit of sinewy meat from the neck of the carcass of a large softshell turtle, Axestemys in some shallow water. A small possum-like mammal, Didelphodon, is disturbed by this, hissing and splashing at the tall dinosaur

Digital black and white lineart of the late Cretaceous tyrannosauroid dinosaur Nanotyrannus lanciensis in a foggy flooded open forest. The dinosaur is surrounded by warm fall foliage, palmettos and reeds. It is pulling sharply at a bit of sinewy meat from the neck of the carcass of a large softshell turtle, Axestemys in some shallow water. A small possum-like mammal, Didelphodon, is disturbed by this, hissing and splashing at the tall dinosaur

A foggy morning in late Cretaceous Montana. The carcass of a large softshell turtle becomes a battleground for Hell Creek's two most ferocious apex predators...

I'm a little late to nano hype but I've got to fill my quota for one non-avian dinosaur per year

#paleoart #sciart #backinhell

Steppe lion enjoys the last days of summer.
But mornings are getting colder, winter is coming.

I've been working on a fully animated video about #Nanotyrannus since the paper dropped. I wanted to share a scene of a #Tyrannosaurus rex & N. lethaeus walking alongside each other, mainly for visual comparison. (Walk cycle animation rig made by @tylerstoneart.bsky.social in #aftereffects)

Just posted some new #paleoart to #Patreon (www.patreon.com/c/markwitton), full images coming soon. For now, here's a nigh-on-midnight special preview of one new piece, just for other folks who really should be off their screens already: a baby mammoth chasing ducks. Some mammoths are just jerks.

Illustration depicting a late Cretaceous arctic beach where several species of birds are nesting and several other dinosaurs are around

Bird nesting in the Cretaceous! This is the illustration I did for a new paper by Lauren Wilson and colleagues that is published TODAY in Science

The new paper describes an assemblage of fossils that includes both chicks and adults from multiple species of Late Cretaceous birds!

#paleoart #birds

New walk cycle animation I did for @naturescompendium.bsky.social. His new video on Carnotaurus drops TOMORROW and is going to be awesome!

#paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur #carnotaurus #animation #aftereffects

As a bonus, here’s the walk cycle of Paralititan I also did for @naturescompendium.bsky.social. We’ve got a lot more on the way this year, so stay tuned!

#paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur #carnotaurus #animation #aftereffects

Tune in Saturday, March 15 to watch my latest video on #Carnotaurus! patreon.com/Natures_Compendium

All 2D! The puppet was provided for me by @naturescompendium.bsky.social. He draws all the assets for the videos himself.

A momma Homotherium accompanied by her two playful cubs on a snowy field. The animals are rusty-colored with some light cream and white lighlights, mirroring the colors of the environment around them.

Even though I did kinda jump on the badwagon back when the frozen Homotherium cub was published, I decided to focus on the adult interpretation, though I knew eventually I would like to do something featuring cubs. And here it is! A nice family portrait.

#paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

Screenshot of a work in progress Allosaurus fragilis head sculpt.

Working on a lil Allo lady

A small baby deer standing in front of a female Megaloceros.

Our second Dev Report is now live on Patreon!

Come take a look at our first paleo plant from the scrubland biome and see even more baby animals. They're so a-deer-able! ❤️

📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/4aP1BS8

A group of tiny, feathered Velociraptors babies standing next to an adult.

Our first Dev Report is now live on Patreon!

Tune in to get a glimpse at even more ADORABLE baby animals and see what the team's been up to this past week. 🐣

📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/3EiAnr5

Studies of the elephants for which we actually know what the size and morphology of external ear looks like. From left to right woolly mammoth, asian elephant, savannah elephant, forest elephant. Scaled to around same head size

Mammoths

How them ideas start

Discovery of a potential open ocean nursery for the endangered shortfin mako shark in a global fishing hotspot - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Discovery of a potential open ocean nursery for the endangered shortfin mako shark in a global fishing hotspot

Discovery of a potential open ocean nursery for the endangered shortfin mako shark in a global fishing hotspot 🦑🐟🌿🧪🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey Bluesky, this is our first post here!

Prehistoric Kingdom is a zoo building/management tycoon game with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, currently in Early Access on Steam and Epic!

🦕Steam (30% off!): bit.ly/pk_steam
➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/3Wqev3o
📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

Work in Progress #Paralititan animation by @tylerstoneart.bsky.social for one of my upcoming videos this year! 🦕

Reconstructions of the mesozoic ferns Coniopteris and Todites

Reconstructions of the Mesozoic trees Elatides and Ginkgo

I've got the go ahead to post concept art I did for the Video Game Prehistoric Kingdom. I helped with the design of their Palaeobotany system. First up are the ferns and trees from the 'Coastal' biome. Check out the Dev Diary below to see some of those plants as in-game models!

To give you an idea what kind of landscape Giganthopithecus lived in, and what you can expect next Saturday...

#paleostream #sciart #paleoart

A painted bust of T. rex

Normally, I hate blue on my big predatory theropod dinosaurs, but I gave my T. rex slightly blue-ish highlights, and it’s not… terrible

(I still hate blue)

A large elephant-like animal wades through a misty swamp at sunset. The sky is orange with blue encroaching from above, against which large orange and red cypress trees stand out. White egrets fly around the mastodon, which has a grey-purple body and orange face. Its tusks curve into the air, while at its feet are projecting cypress "knees".

Just to keep things ticking over while I wrestle with Christmas deadlines, here's #paleoart of the American mastodon, sans hair, for which there is virtually no fossil evidence. Mastodon were not denizens of cold climates, like mammoths, and they may have looked very different in life. #sciart