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Lac Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada is the impact crater of one of the largest impacts of earths history, the sixth-largest to be exact. Known as the eye of Quebec, the Manicouagan reservoir was created near the end of the Triassic period when a 5km (3 mile) wide asteroid smashed into the earths crust
Art by me depicting a scene of the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia. A Hypsognathus (parareptile, left) and a Jupijkam (phytosaur, right) are startled by the Manicouagan impact happening far to the north. The scene of the impact parts the clouds and rises far above the tree line like an explosion no human has ever seen in their lifetimes. An explosion so large its scars can still be seen from space today. Map location of Lac Manicouagan. By Carport - Own work, usingFile:Canada Quebec location map.svg by NordNordWest.STRM-30 data for the relief, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23145609
September 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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We will be attending these open houses to protest the Renewables Integration and Grid Security project (Aka a liquid natural gas plant) and have the voices of #NewBrunswick heard!

Place & Time in image and Alt text.

#Canada can't afford new fossil fuel projects with wildfires raging around us.
Text over a minimalist power plant artwork: Dont Want A Gas Plant In Tantramar? Voice your concerns at the open houses! -Tuesday, August 12 from 4 to 8 p.m. at The Music Barn, 18 Station Rd, Tantramar, NB - Wednesday, August 13 from 4 to 8 p.m. Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre 182 Main St, Tantramar, NB MACC (maritimes against climate change) logo Words to boost engagement: Gas plant, Gas power, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, fossil fuels, climate emergency, Activism, New Brunswick, Sackville, Tantramar
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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WALK FOR THE PLANET

This Saturday we will take to the streets for the planet. Join us for our Climate Change Resistance March at 3PM. To protect Canada and our climate, we need to act now.

#ClimateStrike #ClimateChange #PeopleNotProfit #ClimateAction
Poster with raised fists over the planet with the text "Maritimes Against Climate Change Resistance March; 3PM Saturday, March 15th 2025; Bore Park to Moncton City Hall, In a warming climate, We need to act NOW." Image de poingts au dessus la Terre avec le texte "Maritimes Against Climate Change Marche de resistance contre le changement climatique 15h le Samedi 15 Mars 2025 du Parc Bore à L'hotel de ville Moncton. Dans un climat chauffant, IL FAUT AGIR"
March 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Reminder that MARCH 15TH 2025 at 3PM will be Maritimes Against Climate Change's CLIMATE CHANGE RESISTANCE MARCH!

Join us in Bore Park in Moncton to rally and fight the causes of climate change. With these dire times, join together and organize.

#ClimateAction #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
Poster of multiple raised fists over the globe with a red sky (symbolizing the warming climate. Text stating "Maritimes Against Climate Change Resistance March 3PM Saturday, March 15th 2025 Bore Park to Moncton City Hall" Poster includes Test stating "In a warming climate, We need to act NOW." the Maritimes Against Climate Change Logo and a QR Code to a Facebook link of the event: https://www.facebook.com/share/16GKTiS3Zt/ #Climate #climatemarch
February 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Email form to be kept up: forms.gle/4LxuDtufhFLr...

JOIN US MARCH 15TH AT 3PM for the Maritimes Against Climate Change Resistance March!

Rally, march and stand up against the causes of climate change in the city of Moncton, NB! March will start at Bore Park with speeches at Moncton city hall!
Poster stating "Maritimes against Climate Change Resistance March; 3PM Saturday, March 15th 2025 Bore Park - Moncton City Hall. In a warming climate, We need to act NOW." Poster includes the planet Earth, a red sky and multiple fists raising up in unison. #Climate #ClimateChange #Rally #Maritimes #ClimateCrisis #ClimateResistance #March
February 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Joggins, Nova Scotia, 300 Million years ago. Lepidodendron were vascular plants whose corpses comprised most of the peat in the area. The peat, after millions of years turned to the coal we have been burning for more than a hundred years. We burn the past without thinking of the future. #paleoart
Joggins, Nova Scotia, 300 Million years ago. As the first reptiles evolved in a world of amphibians, the abundance of dead plant matter would amass as peat at the bottom of slow moving water, like the sides of this river. Over millions of years of compression, these bits of Lepidodendrons and other plant matter form into the coal we use today. Joggins was once a coal mining town, in their pursuit of energy, they found fossils the earliest reptile Hylonomus Lyelli, of amphibians like Dendrerpeton and invertebrates like the tailless whip scorpion Weygoldtina. They also found colossal vascular plants like Lepidodendron, whos corpses were the bases for most of the peat in the area. The peat turned to coal, and the coal was burned for electricity. The trapped carbon in the burning coal turned into the carbon dioxide that warms our atmosphere to this day.
January 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I Turn 26 today. There's a lot of things coming for the year 2025, but it's always a good time to look back at all the good times of the past. Here's to 26 more years and beyond!
Warhammer and miniature painting has been a great outlet to forge creativity, despite the aches to my wallet. I hope it wont be a big distraction in the future, but a nice hobby to come back to after a long day. This is a Knight Abominant, a chaos knight from Warhammer 40k. Digital illustration got me where I am today on the other site, though it kind of got put on the back burner, paleoart and art in general i'll always be grateful for. This was a study of the skeleton and muscles of the dinosaur Citipati, one of the first big art projects I did for social media! Acoustic drawing my beloved. Jokes aside, pencil drawing has been my go-to all my life, an outlet for creativity and the best pastime I have. I always used it as an outlet to improve, to learn about the world and to learn about myself. This specific drawing is my favorite, Dimetrodon borealis, a Dimetrodon species from the Maritimes of Canada, specifically PEI Activism has now been at the forefront of my life, with the world changing, I might as well speak up and speak loud. Me and my partner Caroline stumbled upon small success with Maritimes Against Climate Change, and she always says I'm the ambitious one. My catchphrase now is "If I don't do it, who will?" and that has guided my life since.
January 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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With 2025 now here, we've reached the quarter-mark of the 21st century, and we still have so much to fight for. My team at Maritimes Against Climate Change will ramp up its activity and we implore other activist groups to do the same. It's never too late, we can still make change for the better.
Maritimes Against Climate Change Logo #ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow
January 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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One week ago my group Maritimes Against Climate Change held a rally to bring the community together and hold the fossil fuel companies, who get tax breaks while destroying our world, accountable. Thank you to all who joined and Sarah Lord for her speech. Fight for our future! #ClimateActionNow
Here was the speech I was supposed to do, but had to wrap it up due to me recovering from a cold and the weather: Hello everyone, thank you all for coming despite the weather. We can all see that Canada still has a little bit of cold left in her despite what were here for. Over the last couple of years, outright Climate Denialism has been waning. Many people see with their own eyes that "October used to be cold" or "we would get long lasting snow before December". Denying that humanity is the cause usually follows, that's easy to disprove, then denying that its a problem is next, which if you come across that I have some information to help argue that point: 1/4 2/4 Cost of Environmental Events: Atlantic Canada has experienced significant financial losses due to extreme weather events. For instance, Hurricane Fiona in 2022 caused damages exceeding $800 million, underscoring the vulnerability of our infrastructure and communities. CBC Fisheries and Aquaculture: Warming ocean temperatures and changes in salinity are affecting fish stocks and aquaculture operations. Notably, the lucrative lobster industry in Nova Scotia has faced challenges due to shifting populations and increased competition. Agriculture: Increased frequency of droughts and heavy rainfall events disrupt crop yields, impacting food security and rural economies. The 2023 drought in Atlantic Canada led to significant agricultural challenges, with some regions receiving only a quarter of their usual rainfall. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Fishing and agriculture are the backbones of our communities, farmers in particular are in tune and rightfully worried about the climate crisis, because their crops and their livelihoods are on the line. For more individual impacts to counter the "it doesnt effect me specifically" crowd: Insurance and Financial Services: The rise in climate-related disasters has led to higher insurance claims and premiums. In 2021, severe weather caused $2.1 billion in insured damages across Canada, with Atlantic Canada being particularly affected. IBC Health: Rising temperatures are increasing heat-related illnesses, while poor air quality during wildfire seasons poses respiratory risks. In 2023, Atlantic Canada experienced an unprecedented wildfire season, leading to health advisories and evacuations. CBC Housing: Coastal and riverine flooding threaten homes and necessitate relocation or expensive retrofitting. Sea-level rise projections indicate that the Atlantic region will experience the largest local sea-level rise in Canada, increasing the risk of flooding and erosion. CNN Thank you to Climatlantic for these statistics 3/4 As I say a lot in these marches, in New Brunswick, we have the forest to our left and the sea to the right, both integral to our survival but with climate change, can also be a risk. I have nightmares all the time of me, my parents, my grandparents, my friends, my future family being evacuated because their homes are no longer safe. I do not wish that upon anyone on this earth. Finally, the last state of climate denialism is also the one that hurts the most, because it comes not from a place of ignorance, but apathy, hopelessness. The viewpoint that we cant solve it, that its too late. And i get it, the world is a big place, a lot of moving parts, lobbying is so rampant it easily makes you feel small. But you are not alone. The average New Brunsweicker is closer to being homeless than ever having as much as the people who influence the world's politics, but the thing is, there are way more if us. And if we come together in solidarity and tackle the same problem, we can influence the policies that effect we the people. For many years we have seen that corporate greed has not only hurt the environment, but our communities as well. Multimillion dollar Companies continue to choose profits over the people that brought them to that place. Rising costs of everything has been straining all of us thin, and the climate crisis, exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry will not help. We need to be vocal that the reason that these companies as well as our politicians are at the place they are is due to the blood sweat and tears of the hardworking individuals of our communities. Every time we try to make companies pay their fair share, they make their customers or even their own employees shoulder the burden. We need to stand in solidarity with workers and demand for policies that not only change, but improve the lives of all New Brunsweickers. Making sure that the future of Maritimers aren't thought of with fear and worry, but hope. And how do we get our voices herd? Rallying our communities. Organizing events, bringing these towns, cities, communities together all under a single driving force, our future. Starting small with local governments, municipalities, up to provincial and hopefully to a national scale, we will bring the voice of the people to where it needs to be. Just as one kid rallied the world for climate action before covid, I plan to rally the maritimes for the same cause. Our voices need to be loud! Our mission needs to put the lives of New Brunsweickers first! The environment of will be a priority of course but we will never forget that this will be done by New Brunsweickers for New Brunsweickers. This fight needs to be workers, the everyday person, versus the companies and CEOs that effect us all. We need to show them that we stand together and wont stand for this treatment anymore! So rally your fellow workers, strike, picket, march, get involved with local government, local groups, everything. Because if we won't do it, who will? #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
December 21, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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Want Catachan Jungle fighters in your #broodbrothers #GenestealerCult armies without making them just Rambo but blue? With just 10 #Tyranid Adrenal Glands and a bit of paperclips you can make #Facehugger Catachan!

#warhammer #40k #AstraMillitarum #warhammer40k #Alien #miniaturepainting
10 Catachans in a Taurox for that scout move, perfect for GSC armies. The facehuggers are obviously a reference to Alien, but are also a callback to the Dakkarian Brain Slug of the GW forgotten fleets (1), as well as the Mind-Slavers (2) and Cortex Leeches (3) from GWs past 1: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Forgotten_Fleets#Dakkarian_Brain_Slug 2: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mind-Slaver 3: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Cortex_Leech What you need to do is shave off the face of the Catachan, glue the termagant adrenal gland on the head, cut a paperclip, bend it into the shape you want and glue it The Catachans are posed to look like shambling zombies due to the parasites, controlled by the hive mind to aid in the battle.
December 6, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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I would like to advertise an event we are holding, Maritimes Against Climate Change takes to the streets again! I know that Atlantic Canada can be a strong advocate against Climate Change, and that begins today!

www.facebook.com/events/92735...

#climatecrisis #ClimateChange #climateaction
Poster for the Maritimes Against Climate Change Event: "Moncton Climate Crisis March - Join Maritimes Against Climate Change and rally for our future! - When: December 14th 2024 3PM - Where: Bore Park 10 Bendview Court, Moncton NB, Canada"
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Backlog time! These pieces were all centered on the Maevarano Formation of Cretaceous Madagascar. The pieces include Majungasaurus, Simosuchus, Masiakasaurus, Madtsoia, Falcatakely, Rahonavis and Beelzebufo!

#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #Dinosaurs #Majungasaurus #Beelzebufo #sciart #art
A Majungasaurus defends its pilfered nest from a dastardly Simosuchus. The Simosuchus is caught red handed with egg on its face. A lot of speculation is used for this piece; the life appearance of the Majungasaurus with facial rugosities, the omnivorous pseudosuchian, the flora of prehistoric and arid Madagascar, and more big words that make me seem smart. Two Masiakasaurus try to fight a Madtsoia in the ancient Madagascar bogs. In the background I just realized that I put two Mahajangasuchus as well. This piece was inspired by the late Steve Irwin, whos videos I watched for reference for the snake and background. Good times, I should watch those documentaries again. A forest scene where Falcatakely comes back to their nest to find it ransacked and their mate attacked while a flock of Rahonavis watch ominously at what they did. Strangely another egg plundering art, its not a lot but its weird that I thought about making it twice. This one looking back feels too dark and I probably anthropomorphized the animals too much. The open mouth shock and the preening at blood feathers looks too much like theyre using their wing hide in shame. Lots of stuff id do differently. Still proud of the wings tho. A Beelzebufo on a log in the swamps of Madagascar, Rahonavis in its mouth. This must have been a mix of comedy by drawing the famous frog, on a log, as well as catharsis from the previous drawing where Rahonavis was used as a villain archetype. The reference photos were great to look up, horned frogs are adorable goofy, tho one study recently postulates that it could be closely related to Hylids, or tree frogs.
November 30, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Here is another archive, this time its pieces I made depicting the paleobiota of the Solnhofen Limestone! Here we can see depictions of Compsognathus, Archaeopteryx, Pterodactylus and Anurognathus!

#paleoart #sciart #paleontology #illustration #dinosaur #pterosaur
A Compsognathus longipes lays beside an Ardreosaurus skewered on a speculative Jurassic Tethys tree along a beach. This is a speculative behavior akin to shrikes where the predator impales their prey on spikes to consume later. A mother Archaeopteryx shields its chicks from the eyes of pterosaurs flying above. The Archaeopteryx nest can be seen at the base of a cycad. Shadows of the pterosaurs can be seen on the beach in the backgrownd. A flock of Pterodactylus swarm a crab along the Tethys beach. Seagulls were a very big influence for this piece. A lone lost Anurognathus rests tiredly on a cycad, hiding from the pouring rain. Drenched by rainwater, the small pterosaur must wait out the storm to cross the sea home.
November 20, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Here's another archive post, This set was pencil drawings all about formations during Triassic period, descriptions in alt text. Enjoy!

#paleoart #pencildrawing #paleontology #triassic #sciart #erythrosuchus #teraterpeton #placerias #gigatitan
A pencil drawing of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Subzone B. Two Male Erythrosuchus battle at the base of a waterfall as female Erythrosuchus watch on at the top of the waterfall. The waterfall has Triassic ferns surrounding it. A bloated corpse of an Erythrosuchus is floating in the foreground. A comical pencil drawing of the Wolfville formation of Nova Scotia. A Teraterpeton and a Hyperodapedon family are shocked at the eruption happening behind them. The Teraterpeton was eating insects from a rotting stump and a single adult Hyperodapedon is guarding over a burrow with its family hiding inside. A pencil drawing of the Chinle Formation. A herd of Placerias march through the Triassic desert as a Poposaurus watches on from a perched rock. Flies buzz around the eyes, nose and feces of the animals, the only source of moisture for miles. A pencil drawing of the Madygen Formation. A gymnosperm branch frames an encounter between a Kyrgyzsaurus and a Gigatitan. The Kyrgyzsaurus is holding a threatening stance while its tail wraps around the branch. The gigatitan approaches slowly and cautiously. There is a sunset and a hidden Longisquama in the background.
November 13, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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This is no better time than ever,

I am also the head of Maritimes Against Climate Change, a Canadian group who specializes in rallies and events to spread awareness about the threat of Climate Change.

I am calling on everyone who feels hopeless; if you don't stand up, who will?
#Climatechange
A logo for Maritimes Against Climate Change the letters MACC accompanied by an orca, butterflies, trees and a coastline. MACC is a group who specializes in marches and protests against Climate Change and advocates for a greener future.
November 6, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Here's another blast from the past, an old application for a paleoart competition back in the day. Speculative structures of the tyrannosaur lineage, caruncles, waddles and snoods oh my!

#paleoart #dinosaurs #art #sciart
"Faces of Tyrants" A graph showing a simplified family tree of tyrannosauroidea, including busts of Guanlong wucaii, Dilong paradoxus, Albertosaurus sarcophagus and Tyrannosaurus rex
November 4, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Here are some more angles!
October 31, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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For Halloween, even the #tyranids are in costume! Here is my kit-bashed Pyrovore of the Hive fleet Hydra; Splinter fleet Chimera Alpha. Splicing a lot of ork DNA, the norn queen has created an entity ready to fight and spew fire at their next meal.

#warhammer #hobby #kitbash #WH40k #40k #alien
A Pyrovore's body is a complex array of bladders and stomachs, driven by the instinctive need to feed, with a deadly maw dripping with corrosive acids strong enough to break down flesh, bone and armour into a smouldering mucous. They are often found on battlefields feasting on the dead and wounded, and can even devour metals and rocks. A Pyrovore has limited intelligence, driven only by the need to feed. Its flamespurt weapon-symbiote has a separate brain that functions independently from the Pyrovore, unlike many other Tyranid organisms, which mind-bond with their bio-weaponry. The flamespurt weapon actually possesses a larger mental capacity than its host, instinctively attacking any nearby non-Tyranid lifeforms whilst the Pyrovore gorges itself. -Codex Tyranids, 5th edition This kitbash used multiple parts, the leftover pyrovore bits from the biovore kit, tyranid warrior body and arms, as well as carnifex and norn assimilator bits The pyrovore itself is supposed to be mindless, controlled by the gun, so I made it blind and resemble an ork as well as a squig, but keeping the tyranid feeling all the while. One of my biggest inspirations, other than ork squig riders, was H.R. Geiger's pilot/engineer/space jockey from the first alien film. With the tyranid race taking a lot from xenomorphs how could I not use this as inspiration.
October 31, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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"Be careful on the roads tonight, you may stumble upon more than a moose"

For spooky season I wanted to dig up this old, cold encounter with a Pentaceratops that I created for #paleostream 's urban prehistory challenge.

#paleontology #scifi #art #dinosaur #pentaceratops
A driver is stopped on a snowy highway, high-beams illuminating a Pentaceratops, a huge and dangerous ceratopsian. Other Pentaceratops lurk behind the darkness as well as New Brunswick's famous highway moose-fences.
October 31, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Here's another artwork from the past! For this piece, we venture to the north of the Western Interior Seaway with a lone Pteranodon and a flock of Nyctosaurus. During their trek they stumble upon some Elasmosaurus who call these frigid waters home.
#paleoart #art #paleontology #sciart #pterosaur
A Pteranodon stands on an ice flow surrounded by multiple smaller Nyctosaurus, both being pterosaurs. The ice flow is in the middle of the ocean with some Nyctosaurs flying above and a few Elasmosaurus, long necked plesiosaurs, poke their heads out of the water.
October 29, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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Bluesky Art train time!

Having fun going back and archiving all my old and new art on here, I'll be here to stay!

#paleoart #pokemon #dinosaurs

Also mutuals, I summon the:

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October 25, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Also here is some WIP images!
October 25, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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#Mammoth #meme
October 25, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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"As the Pyramids rose, the Last Mammoth Mourned."

One of my favorite pieces I made over the years, this artwork depicts a lone Wrangel Island Mammoth. These were part of an isolated population that survived until 2000 BC while mainland mammoths were completely extinct.
#art #Paleoart #paleontology
A Wrangel Island Mammoth mourning a dead relative over their frozen corpse. Elephants do a similar mourning ritual where they stand over the bones of the fallen, touching them with their trunks.
October 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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"Triumph"

Here's another old paleoart, this time of Sivatherium!

#paleoart #paleontology #sciart #cenozoic #art #Sivatherium
A male Sivatherium parades around with the skull of a long dead rival still stuck between his antlers.
October 23, 2024 at 1:43 AM