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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸

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Chicago-based paleoartist. He/him. Email for commissions/inquiries at liam_elward@yahoo.com

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · Nov 24

I'm Liam Elward, paleoartist looking for work in scientific illustration & paleontology. Specializing in detailed, well-researched digital paintings of extinct & extant organisms.
portfolio: www.artstation.com/prehistoryby...
email: liam_elward@yahoo.com
#paleoart

Digital painting showing a fiery, apocalyptic landscape somewhere in North America, several months after the Chicxulub Impact. Two partridge-like birds forage in the foreground, illuminated by the orange flow of distant wildfires. Looming above waves/piles of carcasses & logs is the charred skull of the iconic horned dinosaur Triceratops.

Reconstruction of the pycnodont fish Scalacurvichthys naishi in the style of classic scientific illustration plates.

Digital paintings of the trilobite Gabriceraurus, the gastropod Trochonema, the crinoid Iocrinus, the cystoid Pleurocystites, the nautiloid Plectoceras, the bryozoan Constellaria, & the brachiopods Hiscobeccus & Platystrophia in a poster format on a white background.

Digital painting of the huge ceratopsian dinosaur Titanoceratops ouranos foraging in the swampy jungles of what is now New Mexico, some 75 million years ago.

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Bringing Extinct Animals To Life: Is Artificial Intelligence Helping Or Harming Palaeoart? www.iflscience.com/bringing-ext...

"생성형 AI가 팔레오아트에 도움이 될까?" 라는 주제의 글. (스포일러: 그딴 거 없다)

Is Artificial Intelligence Helping Or Harming Palaeoart? We Asked The Artists

Scientifically, artistically, and environmentally speaking, there’s a lot to take into account.

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January 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM

Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸

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If you need inspiration, look into the deep sea explorations of the NOAA!
#marinebiology

January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM

Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸

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I feel like artificially-lit deep sea #paleoart is a unique artifact of our time where photography/video of the deepest & darkest parts of the ocean is fairly commonplace and accessible
#sciart

"Transition of Power" - the last ichthyosaurs survived until the Early-Late Cretaceous transition, around the time mosasaurs began to bloom. These represent generic/hypothetical species from the Campanian (Julio Lacerda)

Ediacaran biota of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland (Henry Sharpe)

A juvenile Edgarosaurus has a rare and surprising encounter with an Onchopristis saw skate (Tosha Hollmann aka fishboy)

Marjum Formation, deepest of House Range Embayment deposits from 10m years after Burgess Shale (Christian M.)

January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM

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Some pencil studies/sketches in preparation for an exciting commission I can't say too much about 👀
#paleoart #sciart

December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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One of the greatest wildlife artists ever - Stanley Meltzoff
#sciart

December 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM

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An old #WIP of the Devonian shark Cladoselache. Mainly referenced the work of Ewa wahine'oniuhinui & Tyler Greenfield to reconstruct this. I suck at shading but liked how it looked at this stage
#sciart #paleoart

December 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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I feel like we take hammerhead sharks for granted. They are insane!!! How does this evolve!!!

December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The body mass-maximum speed relationship and the athletic capability of giant proboscideans and sauropods - Scientific Reports

Estimating the maximum speed capability (athletic capability) of very large fossil animals is challenging. While large animals have limbs favoring longer stride lengths and higher speeds, their body m...

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December 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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The absolutely mammoth reference sheet I made to help visualize & understand extant cycads & their morphology, diversity, & ecology. Trying to give these beautiful plants the same attention I'd give any group of animals as far as research goes
#botany #paleobotany

December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Finally, taking a look at cycad seed/fruit development, pollination & ecology. Many cycad species have close relationships w/ insects like weevils, fungus beetles & occasionally butterflies

December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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A few rough looks at cycad habits (their growth shapes). Starting at the top left with the classic botanic garden look, and trying to variously explore the different ways above-ground stems can grow stems
#paleobotany #botany

December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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There are surprisingly few if any quality diagrams freely available on cycad morphology. It's important to understand things like male vs female cones, life cycle at a macro scale, how seeds/fruit develops, & basic plant parts/shapes

December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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More Jurassic cycad studies, looking at cones & stems/trunks primarily. There are some fossilized cycad cones (Androstrobus, Leptocycas, etc) and plenty of extant forms to draw inspiration/reference from.
#paleobotany