New #paleoart at #Patreon! Here's an image that I'm sure won't cause any upset at all among tyrannosaur fans: giant azhdarchid pterosaurs drive T. rex away from a juvenile Triceratops carcass. High-res version, WIPs and discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103222863#sciart#dinosaurs
@futurebird@mike I've personally lost a lot of lunch to fearless chickens. You can see my anguish channelled into the distressed face of the tyrannosaur.
I've never thought to mash these skeletals up before, but this is what it looks like when you pitch the giant azhdarchid Quetzalcoatlus northropi against the predicted dimensions of a hatchling Tyrannosaurus. More evidence that the Mesozoic hated baby dinosaurs. #sciart#dinosaurs
A #paleoart Temnodontosaurus suplex for #FossilFriday. Temnodontosaurus are very familiar ichthyosaurs to many of us and this might overshadow how remarkable they were. Among the last of the large/giant ichthyosaurs, they were top predators in early Jurassic seas. #sciart#fossil
I had a lot of fun working on these pieces - lots of discussion between myself, Liz Martin-Silverstone and Paul Barrett to get Ceoptera nailed down as well as we could from the digitally prepared fossils. Be sure to check out the open-access Ceoptera description as well: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2298741
Today is the 200th anniversary of a Geological Society meeting where two amazing events occurred. The first named dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was described while, simultaneously, the first complete skeleton of Plesiosaurus was revealed to the world. What a day for vertebrate palaeo! #paleoart#sciart#dinosaurs
A #paleoart tribute to those extinct dinosaurs that only knew one way to secure a Valentine's date: biting, clubbing and fighting one another. It seems that many aggressive/defensive features and injuries in dinosaurs were related to intraspecific bouts, not predatory acts. #sciart#ValentinesDay
For #FossilFriday, the concepts and final versions of the 2018 PR #paleoart for the then-new Tanzanian sauropod, Mnyamawamtuka. I can't remember why the first two ideas didn't make the cut, but we probably ended up using the best of the three. #sciart#dinosaurs
New art and essay at #Patreon: were fossil elephant skulls the source behind the Greek cyclops myth? I explore the evidence and conclude "probably not". Still, it's a good excuse to draw a Greek-accurate Polyphemus. See the high-res version at https://www.patreon.com/posts/97434332.