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Artist with an interest in natural history and paleontology πŸŒΏπŸ¦•
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Antarctic theropods 🐧

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Pampaphoneus biccai - Anteosaur from Brazil's Rio do Rasto Formation. #permian #brazil #paleoart

Year of the Snake 🐍

Devonion fishies Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) and couple of bothriolepis swimming by. Needs updating but still thinking this is one of my better paintings I have done

AND HERE IT IS! It was really hard to not tell everyone because I knew for more than 2 years now. Please welcome Tameryraptor, a new name for Stromers carcharodontosaurid. Based on Stromers descriptions, drawings and newly found photographs the authors conclude... #paleoart #sciart #scicomm

Tower of Ferns First piece of the year! Featuring Tempskya and Ferrodraco

No one: Still no one: Me: What if leaf tailed gecko, but the leaf is carnivorous? #specevo #specbio #sciart #lizard #uroplatus #leaftailedgecko

first art of 2025 is a fish! starting off strong a female Oncorhynchus rastrosus, the spike-toothed salmon. it's commonly misrepresented as a massive sockeye salmon with tusks slapped on, but we know that they didnt undergo any drastic levels of sexually dimorphic remodelling #sciart #fishart

Saivodus sp. pencil drawing is finally finished #shark #paleoart #traditionalart #sciart

Coelophysis portrait. First piece of 2025. Watercolor/gouache mixed technique #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #art

Little experiment with brushstroke economy, staring some Ichthyornis and Hesperornis enjoying a Xiphactinus buffet

Dinocember Day 13 (the final day!): Tyrannosaurus

Dinocember Day 12: Gonkoken

Tanystropheus

Forest Interior with Jinzhousaurus. Miguel, 1924. My last piece of the year, inspired by Ludvig Munthe's 1870 painting "Forest Interior". #paleoart #hadrosaur #sciart

Dinocember Day 11: Deinonychus (This Deinonychus wishes you all a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!)

Dinocember Day 10: Mononykus

Assortment of some of the heaviest birds that ever lived! #paleoart #birds #animals #art

the last #paleostream flocking of this year, very sleepy, and... very blue. Parapuzosia, Aerosteon, Carinodens and Perucetus. #paleoart #sciart

Dinocember Day 9: Haliskia

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

Dinocember Day 8: Avisaurus

Dinocember Day 7: Navaornis

Giganotosaurus forages for nesting material in the ancient Candeleros swampland. #SciArt #Paleoart

Dinocember Day 6: Yuanyanglong

On the Martlin Digital painting

Syncerus antiquus

Resting tyrannosaur in watercolor-for a gift exchange at work! #paleoart #paleosky #dinosaurart #tyrannosaurus

Dinocember Day 5: Coahuilasaurus

Dinocember Day 4: Asiatyrannus

Early Bird #SciArt #paleoart #artbyjulio

Dinocember Day 3: Megapterygius

Queensland lungfish I painted up a while back

Some dino flirting ✨ their colors are based on the red-shafted northern flicker

Dinocember Day 2: Lokiceratops

It's time! Dinocember Day 1: Alpkarakush This year will be a little more easygoing and won't have as many drawings (not doing one for every day).

ANTARCTIC LYSTROSAURUS BURROW: This pair of L. murrayi have lots to do before their burrow is ready for the sun setting on Early Triassic Antarctica.

Sick World Channeled my inner Wayne Barlowe for this one. #SciArt #paleoart #artbyjulio

Arthropleura, the largest known arthropod to ever exist at an estimated 2.5 metres long, walks slowly along an ancient Carboniferous coastline looking for food.

Dromaeosaurids

sketchin #birds #nature #art #illustration #sciart #wildlife

Some Carboniferous fauna πŸ› (From February 2024 with an updated Arthropleura)

- Ceratosuchus burdoshi - A Paleocene-Eocene alligatorine from North America. It has the largest squamosals of all the Alligatoridae, surpassing Acresuchus pachytemporalis. #crocodilia

Procession of the Leviathans (Ichthyotitan severnensis)

Kaprosuchus saharicus