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Illustrator and artist. Primarily Natural History & Paleo Art.
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Attenborosaurus. This genus of early Jurassic Pliosaurid is named after Sir David Attenborough, whose 99th birthday is today. Piece from 2023.

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"See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil" Somewhat cursed WIP with some layers off.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Old Ed. Edmontosaurus regalis.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The first image is a beautiful illustration by the talented artist @orribec.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient northern China, during the Neogene Period. During the dry season, with no trees in sight, a single amebelodontid proboscidean called Platybelodon grangeri is searching hard for a place to

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

This paper has a lot of nice data that does seem to indicate an overlooked distinctiveness, but to do taxonomic revisions without any genetic data on living species should not be a thing in 2025. Even if a species is so rare that such data is difficult to obtain it would seem better to wait.

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#PortfolioDay #paleoart

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

I am one of the artists that will be featured in this book. Out September this year. An excellent list of names to be included amongst and if you haven't seen volume 1 it is very much worth getting.

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

Here's the final cover we're going with on #MesozoicArtII, featuring an image by Anthony Hutchings. The book is already available for preorder online. Out September 2025, and oh boy is it a thing of beauty. #palaeoart #paleoart #books #dinosaurs

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“You’ll be visited by three spirits” the three spirits:

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Pliosaurus funkei. From November 2022.

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Ambulocetus. Mother and calf, looking out over the future. December 2023.

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

If you see this post your orange art.

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Final breath before the plunge. From June 2024.

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Trick-or-Treat. Happy Halloween.

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Close-up crop to show some detail of the interesting dentition. Also Mesosaurs like the one swimming for its life shown here are not currently known from the Gai-As Formation (not many vertebrate fossils of any kind are known here), but were abundant in the underlying Huab Formation.

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Gaiasia jennyae. The recently described giant stem tetrapod from Permian Namibia.

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With Halloween approaching its time to repost Gothronychus.

submitted 207 days ago • 3 comments

Meraxes gigas foot. A large carcharodontosaur from Late Cretaceous Patagonia. Notable for the enlarged curved claw on digit II. Also a speculative Welwitschiaceae species in background. December 2023.

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Ouroboros Spinosaurus. From December 2022.

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Theropods. May 2024.

submitted 209 days ago • 4 comments

Smilodon populator. In the harsh conditions of Tierra del Fuego a mother brings half a carcass of a King Penguin to her only surviving cub. From March 2023.

submitted 210 days ago • 6 comments

Zalmoxes (and caretaker).

submitted 213 days ago • 3 comments

As many others have done I have renewed motivation in actively using this site. I am primarily a natural history/paleo artist creating works that vary from stylized to realistic.

submitted 214 days ago • 6 comments

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Ghost of South Dakota.

submitted 518 days ago • 2 comments

Lurking Antarctosuchus. A large temnospondyl from Triassic Antarctica.

submitted 518 days ago • 3 comments

Lonesome Lusotitan.

submitted 552 days ago • 3 comments

From claw to crown.

submitted 558 days ago • 2 comments

Sleepy Sea Serpent. Jormungandr walhallaensis, the newly described mosasaur from North Dakota.

submitted 562 days ago • 2 comments

Pectinodon.

submitted 578 days ago • 1 comment

Scaling the art to life-sized is sobering. Adult male Lion skull in comparison.

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Giganotosaurus carolinii.

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For World Rhino Day: Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). Shown here with near maximum-sized nasal and frontal horns based on preserved specimens (not from a single individual). The frontal horn is usually depicted as much shorter than the nasal horn, but can exceed the length of the skull.

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