Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.

*more in comments*

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining

Once again I am trying to understand the bonkers #fossil kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, using pics of the incredible Green Waterhole Cave specimen @ South Australian Museum.

#paleoart , kangaroo, #mammals peeps! Wanna start a 🧪🧵discussion on sthenurine roos here?

How does this roo do?

They’ve only waited 120Ma.
A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians.

Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Artwork by Jonathan Metzger.

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Finished today with a nice little job: rebuilding an ulna of the largest-ever kangaroo, Procoptodon goliah. Shame about the missing bit in the middle!

#FossilFriday rearticulated arthrodire placoderm head. Very cool, and not just for playing with the hinges like a suit of armour