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Michael Tripoli
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Illustrator and Graphic Designer |
He/They | Natural History, Scicomm and Creature Design

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Michael Tripoli @triloboii.bsky.social · Sep 20
Hey everyone, I'm Mike and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator interested in paleoart! Follow for obscure Paleogene ungulates and ~vibes~
Volaticotherium, a small gliding mammal from the Jurassic, clings tightly to a tree branch. Vector illustration of Rodhocetus, an early protocetid whale, swimming through the water A digital painting of a pair of Hexaprotodon hippos in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka strolling across the bottom of a mangrove forest under murky water, followed by a small school of masheer. On their way they disturb a pair of softshell turtles and an asian water monitor Digital illustration of Numidotherium, a very strange dome headed elephant relative, staring awkwardly at the viewer
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Mammoth spotted in South Poland!

Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️

#sciart #paleoart
Digital painting of two fuzzy, dark brown American Mastodon eating pumpkins in a small pumpkin patch. The style emulated watercolor and pencil paintings. In the foreground the larger mastodon is leaning over to crush a very large orange pumkin with its weight, while the mastodon behind it snacks on pumpkin chunks. The forest around them is mixed with tall conifers and deciduous trees in various shades of fall reds, oranges and yellows
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️

#sciart #paleoart
Digital painting of two fuzzy, dark brown American Mastodon eating pumpkins in a small pumpkin patch. The style emulated watercolor and pencil paintings. In the foreground the larger mastodon is leaning over to crush a very large orange pumkin with its weight, while the mastodon behind it snacks on pumpkin chunks. The forest around them is mixed with tall conifers and deciduous trees in various shades of fall reds, oranges and yellows
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
Prehistoric Planet Smilodon populator. Prehistoric Planet Gigantopithecus. Prehistoric Planet Megaloceros as seen from a cave interior. Prehistoric Planet giant adjutant stork.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia.

#Art #SciArt #artbyjulio
A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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a greater rhea daddy and his chicks hang out with a 1+ ton Glossotherium robustum about 17 KYA in Pleistocene Argentina 🇦🇷!
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#paleoart #iceage #sloth #megafauna #birds #art #procreate
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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and then Papa Rhea falls nervous and a bit defensive when his chicks check out an absolute behemoth - a female Megatherium americanum!

Pleistocene Argentina, ~17,000 years ago.

#paleoart #iceage #sloth
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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On the coast of Pliocene California, a Homotherium pounces upon a newborn Herpetocetus morrowi. These are Cetotheres, small baleen whales that thrived during the Miocene/Pliocene. For the sabertooth, such a tiny calf so close to shore is a rare treat. #paleoart #sciart #pliocene #california
Black-and-white pencil drawing of a predation scene in the shallow coastal waters of California during the Pliocene. Near a large rock, a mother Herpetocetus morrowi (four-meter-long baleen whale) rests at the surface with her newborn calf balancing on her back. She has just begun to curve downwards in a dive, as a relatively large Homotherium sabertooth-cat is leaping towards her tiny calf with its front paws outstretched. The large cat had been crouched atop the nearby rock. In the distance, a massive cumulus cloud sits just above the surface of the open ocean. On the seafloor below are two small sea urchins, and on the base of the large rock near the seafloor is a Pacific Rock Crab.
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The reality of being a freelancer is that you end up working a lot of evenings and nights, something #mammals have been doing since the Mesozoic. Here's new #paleoart of two #Jurassic gliding Mammaliaformes, Arboroharamiya, starting their day as the sun sets 160 million years ago. #sciart #fossil
An evening chase erupts above the forests of Late Jurassic China between two gliding mammal-like animals. The sun sets between them, highlighting the leaves of the ginkgo tree they have leapt from. The mammals are darkly coloured, reflecting data from palaeocolour studies suggesting dark brown hues across most or all of their bodies.
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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"Rhinoceroses have been around for over 40 million years and have been found on all continents except South America and Antarctica. This recently discovered Arctic rhino lived about 23 million years ago, during the Early Miocene."
🌄🦴🦏 #Rhinoceros #Canada #Paleontology #Prehistory #Biology
Rhinos once lived in Canada
A newly discovered species of Arctic rhino lived 23 million years ago.
www.popsci.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Some work out recently made, cetotherium riabinini is a small baleen whale from the Late Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys sea (Ukraine), a almost complete individual show it had remarkable body proportions unlike modern elongated species in a minuscule size.
Some work out recently made, Cetotherium riabinini is a small baleen whale from the Late Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys sea (Ukraine), a almost complete individual show it had remarkable body proportions unlike modern elongated species in a minuscule size.
October 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Second installment of #gomphtober2025 skeleton of gomphotherium from Mt. Diablo, California. Was on display at UC Berkeley, don't know if it still is.

#fossilfriday #prehistoriccalifornia #gomphotherium #cenozoic #miocene #elephant #fossil
October 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A Girl and her Dinocrocuta

Messing around with some new brushes

#paleoart #sciart
Digital illustration of a young girl with a backpack cuddling with the giant miocene hyena Dinocrocuta on a solid yellow background with pink hearts. She is hugging the hyena's head warmly, and the animal looks content Digital linework of a young girl with a backpack cuddling with the giant miocene hyena Dinocrocuta
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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To cool off we leave the tropics and enter the Temperate Pluvial Forests to the south of Lemuria. Between ancient trees we come across a fantastic sight, as a mixed herd of noasaurids and large multituberculates come to the shore of a small stream to drink.
October 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Manouria morla. A new tortoise from Early Miocene Czechia. Link to paper below
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Qilin tungurensis- A newly identified new genus of giraffe from the Miocene of Inner Mongolia, China.
An extinct giraffe from the Miocene of Inner Mongolia stands in a clearing among trees and bushes.
September 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Better late than never! The tropical rainforest is our most diverse as well as one of the most challenging environments of Lemuria. A complex tangle of flora and fauna that got more than 500 submissions! i am still not 100% happy with this but at some point you have to let go...
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The domestic Mabanwo bapu (commonly known by its English mondegreens “lobapu” and “lofafu”) is a breed of fowl-sized Alektoriid. Commonly kept for meat and eggs, it represents an ancient Columbimorph lineage endemic to Salotum, where it is seen everywhere from backyard gardens to industrial farms.
A paim drops feed pellets into a bowl as some large large, mottled ground birds called domestic bapu emerge from a coop. Half of the flock is already out foraging or resting. Both sexes have crests emerging from their reddish-pink beak. The flocks keeper knows giving them extra food this time of year will promote egg laying.
September 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank

Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox).

Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!
Ink-like digital illustration of an otter-like animal standing on a riverbank. The animal - a giant otter shrew - is coloured, while the background is lineart.
September 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A aum sits down on the steps of his apartment to take a smoke break away from his family. He looks across the street at a pair of teenage boys making a ruckus and scratches his neck in annoyance. He’s told them off a hundred times before in his mind, but they’re asking for another telling off…
A aum sits on some concrete stairs and looks into the distance with a rough expression. In his mouth he smokes a cigarette. He wears a white tank top, blue jeans, and a gold wristwatch. The short fur on his horn is starting to fall off with age, leaving the tip bald and with thick skin.
September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Koristocetus
#paleoart
August 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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It’s time to move it-move it yall.

Aepyornis maximus and Pachylemur jullyi for an upcoming piece… 👀
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#paleoart #madagascar #lemur #bird #pleistocene #megafauna
August 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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A Thylacoleo and Her Joey
A Thylacoleo carnifex rests with her young joey in a cave, the joey lying with its head on its mother's arm. Some light shines on the cave floor through an opening somewhere. Thylacoleo was a carnivorous marsupial (sometimes known as the marsupial lion) that once lived in Australia.
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Somewhere in late Miocene Australia, a pair of Dromornis stirtoni renew their bond by dancing and gifting each other in the rain.
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#paleoart #ink #art #extinct #bird #duck #megafauna
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis giganteus)

I recently read Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen that recounts in dramatic fashion the voyage of Steller, the discovery, subsequent extinction, and the discovery of the skeleton of one and how it ended up In Helsinki. A wonderful book you should read.
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM