Dynamognathus
@dynamoterror.bsky.social
Wildlife, rewilding, spec-evo, and paleontology enthusiast/artist.
Pinned
Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart
Reposted by Dynamognathus
This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵
January 8, 2026 at 5:52 AM
This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵
Reposted by Dynamognathus
So It Begins...
January 7, 2026 at 2:21 AM
So It Begins...
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Exhibit #SciArt 🎨 Florida Pleistocene
Paleontologists have found Pleistocene fossils in almost every county in Florida, speaking to our state’s rich biodiversity during this period.
🗝️ Check out the exhibit art + key, and fossils from our collections:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
Paleontologists have found Pleistocene fossils in almost every county in Florida, speaking to our state’s rich biodiversity during this period.
🗝️ Check out the exhibit art + key, and fossils from our collections:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Exhibit #SciArt 🎨 Florida Pleistocene
Paleontologists have found Pleistocene fossils in almost every county in Florida, speaking to our state’s rich biodiversity during this period.
🗝️ Check out the exhibit art + key, and fossils from our collections:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
Paleontologists have found Pleistocene fossils in almost every county in Florida, speaking to our state’s rich biodiversity during this period.
🗝️ Check out the exhibit art + key, and fossils from our collections:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
The first flocking #Paleostream of 2026: speculative new discoveries that we hope to see this year. Intermediate/half-way-there pterosaur, ancestral bat, late-surviving radiodont, and arthropleura-size house centipede were the chosen prompts, which were all very fun to ponder and draw.
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The first flocking #Paleostream of 2026: speculative new discoveries that we hope to see this year. Intermediate/half-way-there pterosaur, ancestral bat, late-surviving radiodont, and arthropleura-size house centipede were the chosen prompts, which were all very fun to ponder and draw.
Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart
January 2, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial
Arnold et al. present evidence that Late Pleistocene hippos from the Upper Rhine Graben
show close genetic ties to modern African hippos. Although hippos have been thought
to have gone extinct around ...
www.cell.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial: www.cell.com/current-biol...
For my last #NearbyNature2025, I’ve drawn one of the rarest birds in North America: the Whooping Crane. They are the tallest bird on the continent at nearly 5 feet, a bit taller than the more abundant Sandhill Crane. On this New Year’s Eve, I saw these magnificent birds for the first time. #alabama
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM
For my last #NearbyNature2025, I’ve drawn one of the rarest birds in North America: the Whooping Crane. They are the tallest bird on the continent at nearly 5 feet, a bit taller than the more abundant Sandhill Crane. On this New Year’s Eve, I saw these magnificent birds for the first time. #alabama
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Gigantohierax hunting Odocoileus virginianus
December 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Gigantohierax hunting Odocoileus virginianus
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Megalonyx and Rangifer tarandus
December 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Megalonyx and Rangifer tarandus
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Macrauchenia (with Lama guanicoe, Theristicus melanopis)
December 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Macrauchenia (with Lama guanicoe, Theristicus melanopis)
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Castoroides and Ursus americanus
December 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Castoroides and Ursus americanus
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Two Aenocyon and Canis latrans
December 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Two Aenocyon and Canis latrans
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Haven't been as active art-wise since a lot of my time has been going into wikipedia editing since almost nobody else does ray-finned fish and early eocene mammal groups. Though some of these were done last year, most of them are from throughout 2025.
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Haven't been as active art-wise since a lot of my time has been going into wikipedia editing since almost nobody else does ray-finned fish and early eocene mammal groups. Though some of these were done last year, most of them are from throughout 2025.
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Megalonyx wanders through a flock of Clark's Nutcracker as they're caching pine nuts for the long winter.
#prehistpricplaneticeage had me thinking about Megalonyx in the rockies, and I tried to extrapolate what a summer coat may look like for them. #sciart #paleoart
#prehistpricplaneticeage had me thinking about Megalonyx in the rockies, and I tried to extrapolate what a summer coat may look like for them. #sciart #paleoart
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Megalonyx wanders through a flock of Clark's Nutcracker as they're caching pine nuts for the long winter.
#prehistpricplaneticeage had me thinking about Megalonyx in the rockies, and I tried to extrapolate what a summer coat may look like for them. #sciart #paleoart
#prehistpricplaneticeage had me thinking about Megalonyx in the rockies, and I tried to extrapolate what a summer coat may look like for them. #sciart #paleoart
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
Reposted by Dynamognathus
We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄
My reconstruction of the Toronto Subway Deer (formerly Torontoceros hypogaeus), after a paper published this October looked at its dna and found it to be within Odocoileus, potentially a more steppe-adapted cousin of Mule Deer. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #canada #deer
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My reconstruction of the Toronto Subway Deer (formerly Torontoceros hypogaeus), after a paper published this October looked at its dna and found it to be within Odocoileus, potentially a more steppe-adapted cousin of Mule Deer. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #canada #deer
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Young Ba'khar Honor the Terms of the Tegu-Snubnose Truce. @dynamoterror.bsky.social, 2025
December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Young Ba'khar Honor the Terms of the Tegu-Snubnose Truce. @dynamoterror.bsky.social, 2025
Reposted by Dynamognathus
The pibald water monitor is a highly versatile generalist that arrived in the Seridic wetlands 1.5 mya. They're second best at everything, employing this flexibility to elbow their way between the truce established by snubnose monitors and giant tegu during the Anchored Period.
December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The pibald water monitor is a highly versatile generalist that arrived in the Seridic wetlands 1.5 mya. They're second best at everything, employing this flexibility to elbow their way between the truce established by snubnose monitors and giant tegu during the Anchored Period.
Reposted by Dynamognathus
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Dynamognathus
Some days ago I made a thread on Pleistocene crocs in honor of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and now I'm bringing it here too.
Let me prefice this by saying that I of course understand their absence, obviously more unique fauna takes priority and I don't begrudge the team their choice
Let me prefice this by saying that I of course understand their absence, obviously more unique fauna takes priority and I don't begrudge the team their choice
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Some days ago I made a thread on Pleistocene crocs in honor of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and now I'm bringing it here too.
Let me prefice this by saying that I of course understand their absence, obviously more unique fauna takes priority and I don't begrudge the team their choice
Let me prefice this by saying that I of course understand their absence, obviously more unique fauna takes priority and I don't begrudge the team their choice
The finished size chart of most of the fauna from the Mammoth Site, a Pleistocene fossil locality within an ancient sinkhole in South Dakota that preserves dozens of entrapped mammoths alongside scattered remains of other animals. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #Paleostream
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The finished size chart of most of the fauna from the Mammoth Site, a Pleistocene fossil locality within an ancient sinkhole in South Dakota that preserves dozens of entrapped mammoths alongside scattered remains of other animals. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #Paleostream
Reposted by Dynamognathus
At a forest clearing, you're greeted by the guardian, the wise old man of the forest, Gigantopithecus blacki. Recent commission of the big guy, inspired by #prehistoricplaneticeage. Although this guy is a Pongine-->
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
At a forest clearing, you're greeted by the guardian, the wise old man of the forest, Gigantopithecus blacki. Recent commission of the big guy, inspired by #prehistoricplaneticeage. Although this guy is a Pongine-->