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Caxela
@caxela.bsky.social
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Artist with an interest in natural history and paleontology 🌿🦕
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Entangled
Digital Drawing. A fish (Aspidorhynchus) has pierced the wing membrane of a pterosaur (Rhamphorhynchus) with its rostrum. Both have become stuck and are unable to free themselves as they descend together. The movement creates a trail of bubbles. The scene is based on the multiple fossils that preserve the two animals entangled with one another.
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Megalania enjoys a soak off the coast of Australia.
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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(Recent art) Ceratodus nargan Illustration!

Ceratodus is a wide spread prehistoric lungfish species that is related to the extant queensland lungfish. Here lies a species in the Early Cretaceous of Southern Victoria, Australia, in the Euremella formation.

#paleoart #sciart #illustraation #fishart
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Moa Remains
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.
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Waning Hours
Digital Drawing. A large dicynodont (Ischigualastia) is knelt on the ground, struggling to lift itself up with its forelimbs. A gash is visible on its thigh. Three small dinosaurs (Eodromaeus) observe from nearby. The sky is a pale blue - the sun has already moved below the horizon.
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Helveticosaurus Lair
A gathering of marine reptiles (Helveticosaurus zollingeri) lie on exposed rocks within a sea cave. Foamy sea water rushes in from the left, swirling beneath their perch.
October 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Majungasaurus
A digital high-contrast portrait of the abelisaurid Majungasaurus
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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yutyrannus
A digital lineart drawing of a Yutyrannus, a large feathered tyrannosauroid.
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A Thylacoleo and Her Joey
A Thylacoleo carnifex rests with her young joey in a cave, the joey lying with its head on its mother's arm. Some light shines on the cave floor through an opening somewhere. Thylacoleo was a carnivorous marsupial (sometimes known as the marsupial lion) that once lived in Australia.
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️
Two juvenile giant moa (Dinornis robustus) run energetically along a beach, creating some splashes as they go. Small waves roll in behind them.
August 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Reptiles of old
A trio of extinct reptiles wearing 19th century European style clothing stand next to one another in a line. From left to right the animals are Pterodactylus antiquus, Iguanodon bernissartensis, and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus. These Mesozoic reptiles were discovered in the early years of paleontology.
July 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A Once Green Antarctica
The sauropodomorph Glacialisaurus (known from very fragmentary remains) strolls through a dense assemblage of flora at the edge of a forest. The plants are meant to represent Otozamites and Clathropteris. The scene takes place in Early Jurassic Antarctica.
July 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Plesiosaurus
A pod of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus swims near the surface of the ocean. A young individual can be seen nestled within the group.
June 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Carboniferous
June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Upland Moa
An upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) walks across a mixture of rocks and tussocks in a high-altitude setting. Towering mountains are seen in the background, their snowy caps fading into the sky. A small rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris) sits on a rock near the moa.
May 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Persecution

Camptosaurus and Ceratosaurus

(paleoart comm!)
May 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Theropod crests and horns 🦖
A collection of stylized theropod dinosaur portraits. Each one has some form of crest or horn.
May 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Koreaceratops
A very speculative depiction of a Koreaceratops hwaseongensis laying under some shade. Koreaceratops is an early ceratopsian dinosaur known from the partial remains of its tail, hip, and hindlimbs. The front half of the animal is unknown.
May 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Heavy Footed Moa
A heavy footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) father sits with a recently-hatched chick, the two of them looking at one another. The ground is covered with plant matter and bits of eggshell fragments.
April 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Antarctic theropods 🐧
Digital illustration of an emperor penguin and Cryolophosaurus ellioti facing each other. Little bits of terrain are shown beneath each animal: the penguin stands on snow while the Cryolophosaurus is surrounded by some ferns (indicating the much warmer climate of Antarctica during the Early Jurassic).
February 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Persistent Light
A Lystrosaurus peeks out of its burrow in the middle of a barren landscape. The silhouettes of a few trees can be seen in the far distance, in front of the glow of ongoing wildfires. The sun can be seen shining through the dark, smoky sky. The foreground is illuminated by the sun. The scene takes place during the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
February 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Pampaphoneus biccai - Anteosaur from Brazil's Rio do Rasto Formation.

#permian #brazil #paleoart
A brazilian anteosaur, Pampaphoneus, swimming just bellow shallow waters.
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Year of the Snake 🐍
A variety of extinct snakes are arranged on a plain background. The snakes depicted are 1. Pterosphenus 2. Archaeophis 3. Eupodophis 4. Sanajeh 5. Wonambi 6. Najash 7. Titanoboa
January 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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
January 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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...

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January 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM