Gen
@trigonotarbida.bsky.social
Palaeoart & various other biology art. Palaeontology student (3rd year) and into a range of hiking and nature stuff (though I particularly like strange arachnids and crustaceans).
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Gen
@trigonotarbida.bsky.social
· Apr 8
Happy #PortfolioDay!
I'm a palaeontology student and mostly draw various unusual animals (both extinct and extant), and like doing interesting vegetation and backgrounds! I also do some more technical scientific illustration.
Contact for commissions is gencoelacanth@gmail.com
I'm a palaeontology student and mostly draw various unusual animals (both extinct and extant), and like doing interesting vegetation and backgrounds! I also do some more technical scientific illustration.
Contact for commissions is gencoelacanth@gmail.com
I think scorpion from my 3rd year research project (well the genus) was there in the arid episode of prehistoric planet season 3... it was there to get briefly eaten by a vertebrate of course 😔
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I think scorpion from my 3rd year research project (well the genus) was there in the arid episode of prehistoric planet season 3... it was there to get briefly eaten by a vertebrate of course 😔
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A poster with all the whale and dolphin species found around Andenes, Norway. It was a nice challenge depicting the animals in a dynamic way, keeping the scale of each whale correct.
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 AM
A poster with all the whale and dolphin species found around Andenes, Norway. It was a nice challenge depicting the animals in a dynamic way, keeping the scale of each whale correct.
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil
#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
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November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Never not a good time to post old watercolor bug doodles
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Never not a good time to post old watercolor bug doodles
Prints (some mine, some not) at CAVEPS
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Prints (some mine, some not) at CAVEPS
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And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I began this drawing as a simple sketch to test some paper (a new batch of Fabriano Artistico 300lb). The red crest was such a treat to draw after using so many greys! I see and/or hear red-bellied woodpeckers almost every day, but it never gets boring :)
I’m happy with the paper. #SciArt #Birds
I’m happy with the paper. #SciArt #Birds
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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(Old art) Brown Honeyeater!
(Lichmera indistincta ocularis)
And Weeping Bottle-Brush!
(Callistemon/Melaleuca viminalis)
The Brown Honeyeater is a local species to my home, a common, "drab" (I beg to differ), beautifully voiced bird.
Top: Male
Middle: Juvenile
Bottom: Female
#sciart #birdart #bird
(Lichmera indistincta ocularis)
And Weeping Bottle-Brush!
(Callistemon/Melaleuca viminalis)
The Brown Honeyeater is a local species to my home, a common, "drab" (I beg to differ), beautifully voiced bird.
Top: Male
Middle: Juvenile
Bottom: Female
#sciart #birdart #bird
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
When someone asks how you got good at drawing and 'debilitating lifelong perfectionism' isn't a constructive answer so you're just like oh I practiced a lot
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When someone asks how you got good at drawing and 'debilitating lifelong perfectionism' isn't a constructive answer so you're just like oh I practiced a lot
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Well, today is a holiday, so I'm taking my time enjoying my art. Since this piece is digitally colored, it'll be finished soon. Unlike analog art, it gets done much faster💪
#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Well, today is a holiday, so I'm taking my time enjoying my art. Since this piece is digitally colored, it'll be finished soon. Unlike analog art, it gets done much faster💪
#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
Unfortunately my name is not short for genyornis.
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Unfortunately my name is not short for genyornis.
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Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.
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Windfucker 🌬️🪶 - Kestrel painting from last year
March 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Windfucker 🌬️🪶 - Kestrel painting from last year
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Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.
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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
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#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
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#FossilFriday #paleobotany
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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.
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
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.
This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago.
Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
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Autumn Leaf 2
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Autumn Leaf 2
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
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Omens are bad for my upcoming book which includes the full version of this, the driest painting ever made. I can hear the distain creaking through your fingerbones whenever you type the phrase ‘copied a photo’, do you think I sat by a busy roundabout for 12 hours in November, is that what you want?
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Omens are bad for my upcoming book which includes the full version of this, the driest painting ever made. I can hear the distain creaking through your fingerbones whenever you type the phrase ‘copied a photo’, do you think I sat by a busy roundabout for 12 hours in November, is that what you want?
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Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭