Alex James
@palaeosculpting.bsky.social
Postgraduate currently researching prehistoric whale teeth and cat legs | paleozoological modeller and scientific consultant | Work featured in Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate and Ecos: La Brea
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Email: alexanderjames2000@gmail.com
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Email: alexanderjames2000@gmail.com
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Alex James
@palaeosculpting.bsky.social
· Oct 21
An introduction for new followers and those who don’t know me: I’m Alex (or AJ), a Masters zoology student who studies research, modern animals and 3D scans of fossils to reconstruct prehistoric animals and their bones!
For this #FossilFriday, a #paleoart post of the American cave lion - this time, a video showing the soft tissue reconstruction laid over a reconstructed skeleton based on the specimen LACMP23-555, scaled next to Charles Darwin.
It may get a short mane yet..
It may get a short mane yet..
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
For this #FossilFriday, a #paleoart post of the American cave lion - this time, a video showing the soft tissue reconstruction laid over a reconstructed skeleton based on the specimen LACMP23-555, scaled next to Charles Darwin.
It may get a short mane yet..
It may get a short mane yet..
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Everyone go watch 'Nightfall'! I did the majority of the VFX and supervised the animation team for this film! I'm very proud of how all the dinosaurs came out and I hope you like them!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...
NIGHTFALL | A DINOSAUR HORROR SHORT FILM
YouTube video by Digital Duck
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November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Everyone go watch 'Nightfall'! I did the majority of the VFX and supervised the animation team for this film! I'm very proud of how all the dinosaurs came out and I hope you like them!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...
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For #FossilFriday an amazing fossil from the largest dino Museum in the world' Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, China. This Beipiaosaurus specimen knocked my sox off. Play with this 3D model, we made out of my photographs through the glass. sketchfab.com/3d-models/be... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
For #FossilFriday an amazing fossil from the largest dino Museum in the world' Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, China. This Beipiaosaurus specimen knocked my sox off. Play with this 3D model, we made out of my photographs through the glass. sketchfab.com/3d-models/be... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
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Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?
Any tree disease experts able to ID what killed this tree?
(I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes)
(There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)
(I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes)
(There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Any tree disease experts able to ID what killed this tree?
(I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes)
(There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)
(I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes)
(There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)
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Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
Paenungulata is a spectrum
June 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Paenungulata is a spectrum
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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
June 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
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April 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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#ArtBoost is for Juan Nobre, palaeoartist based - I believe - in Brazil. Is creating wonderful and complex portraits of prehistoric animals of many sorts, often in beautifully rendered environments. Not sure if is on BSky - will tag if I find him :) #paleoart #palaeoart
April 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#ArtBoost is for Juan Nobre, palaeoartist based - I believe - in Brazil. Is creating wonderful and complex portraits of prehistoric animals of many sorts, often in beautifully rendered environments. Not sure if is on BSky - will tag if I find him :) #paleoart #palaeoart
Ville's art here is outstanding as always!
Hecking good puppers, our bestest boys. Currently working on special illustrations for our upcoming science comic ”The Mind of a Dog” .We bring the most recent and best dog behavior science to people in fun and easy to read format suitable for all ages. You can preorder it here arador.info/mindofdog
March 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ville's art here is outstanding as always!
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Hecking good puppers, our bestest boys. Currently working on special illustrations for our upcoming science comic ”The Mind of a Dog” .We bring the most recent and best dog behavior science to people in fun and easy to read format suitable for all ages. You can preorder it here arador.info/mindofdog
March 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hecking good puppers, our bestest boys. Currently working on special illustrations for our upcoming science comic ”The Mind of a Dog” .We bring the most recent and best dog behavior science to people in fun and easy to read format suitable for all ages. You can preorder it here arador.info/mindofdog
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Can’t believe it took me so long to try putting the kelp crab on a pink beanie… it’s so cute 😭
🦀🦑🐙🐡
🦀🦑🐙🐡
March 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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#2025MMM #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social #mammals #sciart
March 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
#2025MMM #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social #mammals #sciart
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#2025MMM #Sweet16 #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social #mammals #sciart
March 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
#2025MMM #Sweet16 #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social #mammals #sciart
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Had a great time teaching my second of 5 classes of my Drawing Shorebirds in Colour course. Everyone had a lot of fun drawing this avocet this evening. 🌿🪶 #SciArt
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Had a great time teaching my second of 5 classes of my Drawing Shorebirds in Colour course. Everyone had a lot of fun drawing this avocet this evening. 🌿🪶 #SciArt
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Deinosuchus, about to smooch the snoot
(#paleoart commission!)
(#paleoart commission!)
March 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Deinosuchus, about to smooch the snoot
(#paleoart commission!)
(#paleoart commission!)
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"Swimming Duck"
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#photography #art #birds #wildlife #SciArt
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#photography #art #birds #wildlife #SciArt
March 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"Swimming Duck"
Order prints at
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#photography #art #birds #wildlife #SciArt
Order prints at
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#photography #art #birds #wildlife #SciArt
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We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning!
Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴
Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴
March 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning!
Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴
Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴
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I had to reconstruct the new two-fingered therizinosaur Duonychus published yesterday
I have been working on various Therizinosaurus for a current commission that I cannot talk much about so I felt I had to reconstruct this taxon as soon as I saw it
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaur
I have been working on various Therizinosaurus for a current commission that I cannot talk much about so I felt I had to reconstruct this taxon as soon as I saw it
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaur
March 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a #Thescelosaurus amidst the #Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous #Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are #Triceratops and #Quetzalcoatlus.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a #Thescelosaurus amidst the #Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous #Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are #Triceratops and #Quetzalcoatlus.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld
March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a #Thescelosaurus amidst the #Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous #Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are #Triceratops and #Quetzalcoatlus.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a #Thescelosaurus amidst the #Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous #Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are #Triceratops and #Quetzalcoatlus.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld
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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know