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🦖Carlota Forte🐋
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Hello! My name is Carlota and I'm a paleoartist and scientific illustrator based in Portugal, currently working on my Masters degree in Applied Biology.
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🦖Carlota Forte🐋 @corvuserpens.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hey, it's #portfolioday! I'm a scientific and paleo-illustrator about to (finally) conclude her Master's in Applied Biology!
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lindseywakefield.bsky.social
Had some time off, so I made something fun and wildly out there just in time for Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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anireal.bsky.social
🌊The Angler's Bride🌊

My heart is a sunken altar. There, I thrive. There, I keep a ledger of bones. The deep remembers what the surface forgets.
A sea siren sits above a pile of bones with schools of fish, bones, and a giant angler fish around her.
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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peternickolaus.bsky.social
A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface.

This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago.

Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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patsux.bsky.social
markers are so fun!!!
a scanned collection of eight cartoonish drawings of women surrounded by fish. all are drawn using alcohol and acrylic markers.
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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underrated feature of old twitter was people with a decent following being able to bully brands into acting right
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
crab
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
The real “Dolores”? I was recently commissioned to create a pencil sketch of Aquilops - a dinosaur which I’d never really paid proper attention to. In the l course of my research I became a bit obsessed and felt compelled to also create this more detailed illustration as a personal project.
#SciArt
A digital portrait of Aquilops americanue - a small herbivorous dinosaur, related to triceratops. It has a small boney frill behind its head, with tiny quills sprouting from it. Its beaked jaws have a distinctive spike jutting forward, which may have been used to forage for food.
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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psalidodont.bsky.social
another discord comm. #digitalart #art #intothedeadlands #illustration
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social et al 2025 for the publication of their Oxroadia paper! And thanks for bringing me onboard to do some restorations of this relative of Lepidodendron and Isoëtes from the Carboniferous of Scotland.
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#FossilFriday #paleobotany
a figure showing a life restoration of an adult oxroadia, which has many sinuous green stem branching across the ground, and two smaller diagrams of a juvenile plant and a close up of the rooting system.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Thanks so much for bringing me onboard for this Sandy! It was great working with you again, and I really grew to love Oxroadia: it's a fascinating plant and I loved the resolutions we were able to get with these restorations!
#paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #fossilfriday
sandyheth.bsky.social Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 23d
Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social
The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
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Left, a zoomed out image of the habit of the green branching lycophytes Oxroadia. Right, a zoomed in image of the highly branched rooting system
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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abigaillarson.com
Take me with you 🫀

man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein
illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". The scene depicts Frankenstein's monster carrying Elizabeth Lavenza.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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agatebloodlines.bsky.social
Be weary of the beardogs! These swift pack hunters are not to be taken lightly. New update (backers only) posted to our Kickstarter! Link in thread
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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gogomrdodo.bsky.social
DINOVEMBER 2025 - DAY 18: DEINOCHEIRUS
(Big Goose! With goslings)

#dinovember #dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleoart #paleoartist #paleontology #sciart #prehistoric #prehistoricanimals #prehistoricplanet #deinocheirus
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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dactylioceras.bsky.social
The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica

Illustration by Guilherme Gehr

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November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
🚨NEW TURTLE🚨
a warm welcome to shakiremys colombiana, described by cadena et al. from the colombian la venta biome, and known from a complete skull with an articulated carapace!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(art by juan giraldo)
art depicting a pair of shakiremys by some shallow water a figure from the paper showing the phylogenetic position of shakiremys
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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thdenwheja.bsky.social
Happy #fossilfriday, everyone! The next ##Sketchasaurs short looks at the bat-like Anurognathus, perfectly adapted to catch flying insects... in the right habitat.
#blender3d #animation #sciart ##artistsonbluesky
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Mammoth spotted in South Poland!

Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
Garfield Minott at microphone, holding sauropod model. Photo from Simcoe Muskoka Family Connections Black History Month event. Carcharodontosaurus head model by Minott, as used in technical paper by Kent Stevens. Minott Carcharodontosaurus head model from Paul Sereno lab website.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Another of my original artworks in the @changelingart.bsky.social 'Deck the Halls' auction ending tomorrow, 12pm EST.

An older Holiday Hadrosaur from 2011. Sepia ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 209 ×128 mm.

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Drawing in sepia ink of the hadrosaur, Parasaurolophus, laden with pannier baskets filled with Yuletide gifts and decked with seasonal greenery. Two festively costumed human figures accompany the hadrosaur: one in a feathered turban and waist sash carries a wreath, the other, in western European 16th century clothing, wears a sword at the waist and carries a long staff decorated with sprigs of holly.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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4yvle1.bsky.social
Frankenstein studies
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
🚨NEW NOTHOSAUR🚨
a warm welcome to lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, a long-necked nothosaur described by shang et al. from a new early middle triassic locality in southwestern china!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
(art by kelai li)
art depicting four nothosaur species known from the same area as lijiangosaurus (central and the largest nothosaur in the image); the other nothosaurs are nothosaurus yangjuanensis, n. luopingensis, brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis, and lariosaurus hongguoensis
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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alinemghilardi.bsky.social
Nosso bebê nasceu 🥹

Uma nova espécie de pterossauro do Araripe, encontrada dentro de um vômito fossilizado de dinossauro 🤍. A natureza é linda! Kkk

Seja bem-vindo, Bakiribu waridza!

Acesse o artigo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Digital paleoart scene showing two pterosaurs with long, comb-like teeth standing in shallow water, using their jaws to filter food. Several similar pterosaurs fly in the background and a large theropod dinosaur resembling Irritator walks along the shore chasing them. The landscape is semi-arid with distant mountains under a cloudy sky. Photographs and interpretative drawings of a fossil regurgitalite from the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin). Panels A and B show part and counterpart of an oval limestone concretion containing disarticulated and partially digested remains of pterosaur bones and fish. Panels C and D are line drawings highlighting bone clusters and digestive residue, illustrating the internal organization of the regurgitated mass.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM