Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿
@palaeojules.bsky.social
British Palaeobotanist, palaeobotanical illustrator and consultant, currently researching Mesozoic plants.
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BSc, MRes, PGR Student at OU
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BSc, MRes, PGR Student at OU
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patreon.com/JulianneKiely
https://palaeoflora.blogspot.com/
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And with that, it's the end of #2025!
Don't really have much to say other than #HappyNewYear.
I suppose I had a really good year: I did probably more art than I ever have before, spoke at a few events, did a podcast, won an award, and stated a PhD!
#paleobotany #paleoart #ArtVArtist
Don't really have much to say other than #HappyNewYear.
I suppose I had a really good year: I did probably more art than I ever have before, spoke at a few events, did a podcast, won an award, and stated a PhD!
#paleobotany #paleoart #ArtVArtist
And with that, it's the end of #2025!
Don't really have much to say other than #HappyNewYear.
I suppose I had a really good year: I did probably more art than I ever have before, spoke at a few events, did a podcast, won an award, and stated a PhD!
#paleobotany #paleoart #ArtVArtist
Don't really have much to say other than #HappyNewYear.
I suppose I had a really good year: I did probably more art than I ever have before, spoke at a few events, did a podcast, won an award, and stated a PhD!
#paleobotany #paleoart #ArtVArtist
December 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And with that, it's the end of #2025!
Don't really have much to say other than #HappyNewYear.
I suppose I had a really good year: I did probably more art than I ever have before, spoke at a few events, did a podcast, won an award, and stated a PhD!
#paleobotany #paleoart #ArtVArtist
Don't really have much to say other than #HappyNewYear.
I suppose I had a really good year: I did probably more art than I ever have before, spoke at a few events, did a podcast, won an award, and stated a PhD!
#paleobotany #paleoart #ArtVArtist
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Merry Christmas from the Lapworth Museum! 🎄🦖
We hope you have a wonderful day filled with peace and joy. 🕊️
#LapworthRocks #Christmas #Dinosaur #Museum #Geology
We hope you have a wonderful day filled with peace and joy. 🕊️
#LapworthRocks #Christmas #Dinosaur #Museum #Geology
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Merry Christmas from the Lapworth Museum! 🎄🦖
We hope you have a wonderful day filled with peace and joy. 🕊️
#LapworthRocks #Christmas #Dinosaur #Museum #Geology
We hope you have a wonderful day filled with peace and joy. 🕊️
#LapworthRocks #Christmas #Dinosaur #Museum #Geology
After illustrating quite a few ferns, I've now moved on to cycads! Here are some examples of Jurassic cycad morphology. With great thanks to @lepidodendron.bsky.social for his insightful blog post about cycads for #paleoart!
#paleobotany #cycad
#paleobotany #cycad
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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🐸 NEW PAPER OUT!
This time it’s all about FROGS and their melanosomes!
Falk et al., 2025, iScience: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220
#palaeontology #frogs #deeptime
This time it’s all about FROGS and their melanosomes!
Falk et al., 2025, iScience: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220
#palaeontology #frogs #deeptime
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🐸 NEW PAPER OUT!
This time it’s all about FROGS and their melanosomes!
Falk et al., 2025, iScience: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220
#palaeontology #frogs #deeptime
This time it’s all about FROGS and their melanosomes!
Falk et al., 2025, iScience: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220
#palaeontology #frogs #deeptime
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New paper alert! 🚨 🐌
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
New paper alert! 🚨 🐌
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
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You can watch the full episode of Live Lessons - Walking With Dinosaurs right now! Doesn’t the Museum look great!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
You can watch the full episode of Live Lessons - Walking With Dinosaurs right now! Doesn’t the Museum look great!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Sharing cus, yeah....
I don't have much to say, and honestly for personal reasons no not want to have to think of this person; but he has been doing this for 10 years now and has committed plagiarism in every major pice of artwork he's done within that time. This also extends to his writings.
I don't have much to say, and honestly for personal reasons no not want to have to think of this person; but he has been doing this for 10 years now and has committed plagiarism in every major pice of artwork he's done within that time. This also extends to his writings.
it appears plagiorizer William Toosey tries his shit again, that's my Propalorchestes in his "Journey through the Cenozoic".
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
December 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sharing cus, yeah....
I don't have much to say, and honestly for personal reasons no not want to have to think of this person; but he has been doing this for 10 years now and has committed plagiarism in every major pice of artwork he's done within that time. This also extends to his writings.
I don't have much to say, and honestly for personal reasons no not want to have to think of this person; but he has been doing this for 10 years now and has committed plagiarism in every major pice of artwork he's done within that time. This also extends to his writings.
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Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right.
#paleobotany
#paleobotany
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right.
#paleobotany
#paleobotany
Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!!
Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart!
#paleobotany #paleoart #podcast
Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart!
#paleobotany #paleoart #podcast
In this episode, David Armsby's back and better than ever, Darren Naish's hair is slicker than ever, and Gemma interviews palaeobotanist and artist @palaeojules.bsky.social, who's here to save us all from painfully generic and/or inaccurate flora in palaeoart.
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 45 – Heinrich Harder and Julianne Kiely
Gemma, Natee, and Marc are back for another attempt at entertaining prehistorically inclined people with carefully edited commentary and interviews with people who actually know what they’re …
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December 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!!
Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart!
#paleobotany #paleoart #podcast
Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart!
#paleobotany #paleoart #podcast
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This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet #fossils #paleontology #paleobotany #lichens #devonian #evolution
This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet
An artistic reconstruction of Spongiophyton during the Early Devonian in the Paraná Basin in present-day Brazil. J. Lacerda/Bruno Becker-Kerber et al., “The rise of lichens during the colonization of terrestrial environments,” in Science Advances, Vol. 11, No. 44; October 29, 2025 Scientific American Magazine has an interesting story about the spread of terrestrial plants during the Early Devonian Period. A…
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet #fossils #paleontology #paleobotany #lichens #devonian #evolution
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Prehistoric Planet was awesome. But being a smartass seems to go with the territory. #prehistoricplanet
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Prehistoric Planet was awesome. But being a smartass seems to go with the territory. #prehistoricplanet
OooooOOOOOoooooohhh!!!! This looks cooooool!!!!!
Fossil Friday #293: Mazon Creek Lepidodendron Cones from the River #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #lepidodendron #cones #paleobotany #carboniferous
Fossil Friday #293: Mazon Creek Lepidodendron Cones from the River
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #293. Expect this to be a regular feature of the website. We will post fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Bluesky/Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! We have a couple rare cones from the Mazon River for this week's Fossil Friday.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
OooooOOOOOoooooohhh!!!! This looks cooooool!!!!!
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Cellularly preserved chlorophyte from the 518 million year old Chengjiang biota onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Cellularly preserved chlorophyte from the 518 million year old Chengjiang biota onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"No species in Prehistoric Planet last forever"
#prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts
#ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet
#prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts
#ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"No species in Prehistoric Planet last forever"
#prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts
#ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet
#prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts
#ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet
Hehehe, I always do this to some extent! It gives my eyes a lovely shape even if it's only a small little one. And adding kohl to the waterline of the corner of your eye and accenting it with white can really make it pop!
(Also, sorry, I couldn't find a better photo rn. This was just yesterday's)
(Also, sorry, I couldn't find a better photo rn. This was just yesterday's)
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Hehehe, I always do this to some extent! It gives my eyes a lovely shape even if it's only a small little one. And adding kohl to the waterline of the corner of your eye and accenting it with white can really make it pop!
(Also, sorry, I couldn't find a better photo rn. This was just yesterday's)
(Also, sorry, I couldn't find a better photo rn. This was just yesterday's)
Yes, this!!!
While Mark's talking about restoring #invertebrates in this thread, everything he says is EXACTLY the same with plants.
#Palaeoartists aren't disinterested in inverts or #plants or #fish, there just aren't any (or many) accessible resources on them. #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
While Mark's talking about restoring #invertebrates in this thread, everything he says is EXACTLY the same with plants.
#Palaeoartists aren't disinterested in inverts or #plants or #fish, there just aren't any (or many) accessible resources on them. #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
I feel this is a major factor in why certain groups - select Mesozoic reptiles and mammals - are so popular in paleoart. It's not just that these clades are charismatic and popular, there's a wealth of resources produced by professionals and amateurs attempting to explain their basic anatomy.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Yes, this!!!
While Mark's talking about restoring #invertebrates in this thread, everything he says is EXACTLY the same with plants.
#Palaeoartists aren't disinterested in inverts or #plants or #fish, there just aren't any (or many) accessible resources on them. #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
While Mark's talking about restoring #invertebrates in this thread, everything he says is EXACTLY the same with plants.
#Palaeoartists aren't disinterested in inverts or #plants or #fish, there just aren't any (or many) accessible resources on them. #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
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Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students.
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Yay!!! Thoughtful palaeobotany rep in #paleoart!!!!
@sauriancyh.bsky.social I adore the final piece you created! It's gorgeous and I love how you've displayed your work process!!!
@sauriancyh.bsky.social I adore the final piece you created! It's gorgeous and I love how you've displayed your work process!!!
The dinosaurs are passing through burnt Weichselia reticulata, a tree fern some believe formed mangroves in the Bahariya Formation. One paper suggests these mangroves often faced forest fires (Atfy et al., 2019) doi.org/10.1186/s425...
(images by @tomozaurus.bsky.social & @palaeojules.bsky.social )
(images by @tomozaurus.bsky.social & @palaeojules.bsky.social )
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yay!!! Thoughtful palaeobotany rep in #paleoart!!!!
@sauriancyh.bsky.social I adore the final piece you created! It's gorgeous and I love how you've displayed your work process!!!
@sauriancyh.bsky.social I adore the final piece you created! It's gorgeous and I love how you've displayed your work process!!!
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Huge congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social for publishing the results of your Masters thesis. The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social 🧵1/2
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Huge congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social for publishing the results of your Masters thesis. The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social 🧵1/2
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
#paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #fossilfriday
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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The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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
#paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #fossilfriday
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.
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#FossilFriday #paleobotany
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#FossilFriday #paleobotany
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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
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#FossilFriday #paleobotany
A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching!
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching!
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! This is SUPER interesting!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet another REALLY cool recent palaeobotanical paper which I need to read!!!
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants
Yet another REALLY cool recent palaeobotanical paper which I need to read!!!
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants
Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5
#paleobotany #botany
@umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5
#paleobotany #botany
@umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
Production of root suckers in Glossopteridales from the late Permian of Antarctica
Premise
The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed plants that dominated mid to high latitude floras of the supercontinent Gondwana during the Permian (298–251 million years ago). Reconstruct.....
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November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! This is SUPER interesting!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet another REALLY cool recent palaeobotanical paper which I need to read!!!
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants
Yet another REALLY cool recent palaeobotanical paper which I need to read!!!
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants
So, an unexpected development, but I'm gonna be giving a talk tomorrow at SVP in Birmingham!!!!! I'll be speaking about palaeobotany in palaeoart, so hopefully it goes well despite being slightly rushed😅.
Anyway, if you're gonna be around for #SVP tomorrow, come say Hi!!! #paleoart #palaeobotany
Anyway, if you're gonna be around for #SVP tomorrow, come say Hi!!! #paleoart #palaeobotany
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So, an unexpected development, but I'm gonna be giving a talk tomorrow at SVP in Birmingham!!!!! I'll be speaking about palaeobotany in palaeoart, so hopefully it goes well despite being slightly rushed😅.
Anyway, if you're gonna be around for #SVP tomorrow, come say Hi!!! #paleoart #palaeobotany
Anyway, if you're gonna be around for #SVP tomorrow, come say Hi!!! #paleoart #palaeobotany
I haven't posted much in a while because, probably unsurprisingly, my PhD has kept me busy! But I was just using this drawing of Wielandiella angustifolia from last year, and I realised that I've never shared a close-up showing all the details of the leaves! So anyway, enjoy! #paleobotany #paleoart
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I haven't posted much in a while because, probably unsurprisingly, my PhD has kept me busy! But I was just using this drawing of Wielandiella angustifolia from last year, and I realised that I've never shared a close-up showing all the details of the leaves! So anyway, enjoy! #paleobotany #paleoart