Axel Sauro
@axelsauro.bsky.social
Naturalist, paleontology enthusiast, animal keeper.
Cover by Mette Aumala
Cover by Mette Aumala
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Apple TV have released a new #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge video that discusses our use in filming of technical reference puppets; I make a cameo during my role as a woolly rhino puppeteer .. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5T...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3: Puppet Behind The Scenes | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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December 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Apple TV have released a new #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge video that discusses our use in filming of technical reference puppets; I make a cameo during my role as a woolly rhino puppeteer .. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5T...
I always find it fascinating how Komodo dragons hunt buffalo. While they usually ambush or chase smaller prey, they openly circle around buffalos, trying to find an opening to bite at their tendons and muzzle. They also don't really care about isolating "weak" individuals, as seen here.
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I always find it fascinating how Komodo dragons hunt buffalo. While they usually ambush or chase smaller prey, they openly circle around buffalos, trying to find an opening to bite at their tendons and muzzle. They also don't really care about isolating "weak" individuals, as seen here.
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This image is a recreation from the Late Pleistocene when this meme format was last relevant.
#PrehistoricPlanet #IceAge #coproliteposting
#PrehistoricPlanet #IceAge #coproliteposting
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This image is a recreation from the Late Pleistocene when this meme format was last relevant.
#PrehistoricPlanet #IceAge #coproliteposting
#PrehistoricPlanet #IceAge #coproliteposting
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'Everything has its proper name. I shall call it “Armadillo” till I found out the real one…’
Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.
Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm.
#ArtAdventCalendar
Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.
Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm.
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
'Everything has its proper name. I shall call it “Armadillo” till I found out the real one…’
Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.
Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm.
#ArtAdventCalendar
Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.
Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm.
#ArtAdventCalendar
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I WAS WAITING FOR THIS
Gigantopithecus is back, just as Jon Favreau intended.
#PaleontologyCoproliteposting #PrehistoricPlanet #Memes
youtu.be/bPVX2yTJyWc
#PaleontologyCoproliteposting #PrehistoricPlanet #Memes
youtu.be/bPVX2yTJyWc
Prehistoric Planet's Gigantopithecus is a Big Chungus
YouTube video by Mette Aumala
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December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS
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Result from the Irdin Manha Formation #paleostream.
While you might never heard it's name you most likely have heard of some of the fauna from here. First and foremost Andrewsarchus.
The fossils were so far largely excavated by the amnh in northern China (Inner Mongolia) during...
While you might never heard it's name you most likely have heard of some of the fauna from here. First and foremost Andrewsarchus.
The fossils were so far largely excavated by the amnh in northern China (Inner Mongolia) during...
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Result from the Irdin Manha Formation #paleostream.
While you might never heard it's name you most likely have heard of some of the fauna from here. First and foremost Andrewsarchus.
The fossils were so far largely excavated by the amnh in northern China (Inner Mongolia) during...
While you might never heard it's name you most likely have heard of some of the fauna from here. First and foremost Andrewsarchus.
The fossils were so far largely excavated by the amnh in northern China (Inner Mongolia) during...
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Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)
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Tonight's #paleostream aired under the topic: "The things Apple denied us. Featuring creatures that could have appeared in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge but didn't make it.
Deinotherium, Maokopia, Hadropithecus and Paranthropus the toolmaker.
Deinotherium, Maokopia, Hadropithecus and Paranthropus the toolmaker.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Tonight's #paleostream aired under the topic: "The things Apple denied us. Featuring creatures that could have appeared in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge but didn't make it.
Deinotherium, Maokopia, Hadropithecus and Paranthropus the toolmaker.
Deinotherium, Maokopia, Hadropithecus and Paranthropus the toolmaker.
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I’ve made a diagrammatic reconstruction of one of my favorite prehistoric animals, Aquilonifer spinosis.
I’ve noticed many of the reconstructions of this animal appear to be based solely on the fossil model, resulting in some errors that contradict the actual description.
#paleoart #sciart
I’ve noticed many of the reconstructions of this animal appear to be based solely on the fossil model, resulting in some errors that contradict the actual description.
#paleoart #sciart
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Ooh! "New" (re-interpreted problematic skull) gracilisuchid!
Telkaralura coniceti www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...
Telkaralura coniceti www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...
November 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Ooh! "New" (re-interpreted problematic skull) gracilisuchid!
Telkaralura coniceti www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...
Telkaralura coniceti www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...
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New possible stem-falcon Masillaraptor buchheimi: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/616a40... 🪶🧪 (📷Li et al.)
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New possible stem-falcon Masillaraptor buchheimi: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/616a40... 🪶🧪 (📷Li et al.)
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Yesterday we had a special #MonkeyCruise stream in honor of Jane Goodall! Her contributions to primatology and our understanding of animal intelligence changed the worldview of whole generations and her caring and critical voice will be missed.
Referenced artworks below...
Referenced artworks below...
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday we had a special #MonkeyCruise stream in honor of Jane Goodall! Her contributions to primatology and our understanding of animal intelligence changed the worldview of whole generations and her caring and critical voice will be missed.
Referenced artworks below...
Referenced artworks below...
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Sharpe et al. on the soft-tissue "crest" of Edmontosaurus and its correlates.
I was just having a look at the original paper and and connection with the newer Sereno paper on shoulder/back integument reconstruction.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I was just having a look at the original paper and and connection with the newer Sereno paper on shoulder/back integument reconstruction.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity
Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non-crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non-crested” hadrosaur is known to ha....
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sharpe et al. on the soft-tissue "crest" of Edmontosaurus and its correlates.
I was just having a look at the original paper and and connection with the newer Sereno paper on shoulder/back integument reconstruction.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I was just having a look at the original paper and and connection with the newer Sereno paper on shoulder/back integument reconstruction.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Much as I have enjoyed playing with convergence in thescelosaurs, elasmarians, and other basal ornithischians radiating into megafaunal niches following hadrosaur extinction 15 mya…
Hadrosaurs are consistently more hardcore than I could imagine: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hadrosaurs are consistently more hardcore than I could imagine: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity
Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non-crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non-crested” hadrosaur is known to ha....
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Much as I have enjoyed playing with convergence in thescelosaurs, elasmarians, and other basal ornithischians radiating into megafaunal niches following hadrosaur extinction 15 mya…
Hadrosaurs are consistently more hardcore than I could imagine: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hadrosaurs are consistently more hardcore than I could imagine: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Concept sketch on this weird bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion from Pleistocene Africa.
As you can see, this taxon was closely related to modern wildebeest. Also, like wildebeest, Rusingoryx was a migratory species.
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
As you can see, this taxon was closely related to modern wildebeest. Also, like wildebeest, Rusingoryx was a migratory species.
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
June 6, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Concept sketch on this weird bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion from Pleistocene Africa.
As you can see, this taxon was closely related to modern wildebeest. Also, like wildebeest, Rusingoryx was a migratory species.
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
As you can see, this taxon was closely related to modern wildebeest. Also, like wildebeest, Rusingoryx was a migratory species.
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
As much as I want a proper representation of terror birds as apex predators, seeing two lil guys outsmarting the big cat felt really great AND incredibly bird-coded. Also smaller terror birds have always been underrepresented.
Of all the wonderful depictions of Pleistocene life shown in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, few can compare with the beauty and realism of these psilopterines. I don't think I'm exaggerating to say this is the first and only time terror birds have been done properly in a documentary.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
As much as I want a proper representation of terror birds as apex predators, seeing two lil guys outsmarting the big cat felt really great AND incredibly bird-coded. Also smaller terror birds have always been underrepresented.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Also, can I say seeing giant armadillos rearing up is genuinely incredible? It's one of those entirely plausible behaviors which are never shown because no one thinks these things would do anything athletic. They also look incredibly cute.
"it's a shame that there aren't hominins in prehistoric planet: ice age" what do you mean? the show is full of featherless bipeds
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Also, can I say seeing giant armadillos rearing up is genuinely incredible? It's one of those entirely plausible behaviors which are never shown because no one thinks these things would do anything athletic. They also look incredibly cute.
Also, slightly unrelated, the giant fossa is probably a top 3 photorealistic mammals in this series, look at how gorgeous it is
The thing I really love about the term "apex predator" is that it's completely relative. The giant fossa would be a mesopredator in a lot of the other ecosystems explored in PhP Ice Age, but there were no larger predators in Pleistocene Madagascar (except crocodiles).
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Also, slightly unrelated, the giant fossa is probably a top 3 photorealistic mammals in this series, look at how gorgeous it is
Ngl, I don't agree with the harsh criticisms on the lack of humans in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
I understand the argument, and I'm certainly not against a series on prehistory implementing humans. But let's be real, it inevitably shifts the focus of the series.
I understand the argument, and I'm certainly not against a series on prehistory implementing humans. But let's be real, it inevitably shifts the focus of the series.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ngl, I don't agree with the harsh criticisms on the lack of humans in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
I understand the argument, and I'm certainly not against a series on prehistory implementing humans. But let's be real, it inevitably shifts the focus of the series.
I understand the argument, and I'm certainly not against a series on prehistory implementing humans. But let's be real, it inevitably shifts the focus of the series.
This is the actual biggest flaw of the series... I WANT MORE! Apple, you better be committing long term! It has endless potential.
OK, soooo at some point in the future we'll start talking about the animals and sequences that were considered for #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge but didn't make it over all the hurdles. We're talking giant lemurs, deinotheres, paranthropines, additional cats, zygomaturines and more.
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is the actual biggest flaw of the series... I WANT MORE! Apple, you better be committing long term! It has endless potential.