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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿
@palaeojules.bsky.social
British Palaeobotanist, palaeobotanical illustrator and consultant, currently researching Mesozoic plants.
🌿Commissions and consulting open!🌿
BSc, MRes, PGR Student at OU
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patreon.com/JulianneKiely
https://palaeoflora.blogspot.com/
So, an unexpected development, but I'm gonna be giving a talk tomorrow at SVP in Birmingham!!!!! I'll be speaking about palaeobotany in palaeoart, so hopefully it goes well despite being slightly rushed😅.

Anyway, if you're gonna be around for #SVP tomorrow, come say Hi!!! #paleoart #palaeobotany
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I haven't posted much in a while because, probably unsurprisingly, my PhD has kept me busy! But I was just using this drawing of Wielandiella angustifolia from last year, and I realised that I've never shared a close-up showing all the details of the leaves! So anyway, enjoy! #paleobotany #paleoart
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oh wow, I just found out that Alderblattina simmsi got published a year ago! This still might be one of my best pieces of artwork; certainly one of the ones I'm most proud of. It went on to win an award, and it's one of the best environmental pieces I've done! #fossilfriday #paleoart #paleobotany
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday!
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
OMG, thank-you so much to everyone who congratulated me! I still can't quite believe that I'm here, but I'm already enjoying it sooo much!!! Sorry for the lateness of the reply, and the lack of individual thanks - first two weeks have even pretty busy, but I'm basically settled in now! Thanks y'all!
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yeah, I haven't really thought about it too seriously before. I've sometimes wondered if the feathers just kinda splay out to the sides, as they do in some fancy pigeons? But of course they are different in both their arrangement and morphology.
youtu.be/oHVt2yn8zaA?...
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Continuing my recent trend of #Yanliao beasties, here's an updated, more serious attempt at #Jeholopterus for #FossilFriday!!! The camouflaged colouration is based in #Ginkgo bark, which would have grown in contemporary forests.
#paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaur #Jurassic #paleobotany
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
And here we have the original Dead Darwin, which was just a relatively quick pen sketch! #paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs #jurassic #sciart #FossilFriday
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A very happy #FossilFriday to everyone except this poor Darwinopterus, which has unfortunately succumbed to whatever ailed it. This is actually a redrawing of a Dead Darwinopterus which I drew years ago, only with updated anatomy. #paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs #jurassic #sciart
October 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Some good news from me; I've just started a PhD on plant evolution at @openuniversity.bsky.social!!! I'll be posting a lot more soon, but for now here're some of photos from my first week! I can't believe I'm finally here!
#phd #paleobotany #paleontology #research #botany #plants #leaves #evolution
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It's been a busy week, and I have a LOT of photos to post, so I'll be catching up over the weekend. But in the meantime, here's a Palaeobotanical Bouquet, which I drew earlier this week during an icebreaker event!!!!!!
#FossilFriday #paleobotany #plants #paleontology
October 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Happy #FossilFriday! Here's a little goober I haven't shared here yet: a Tianyulong jumping of a broken branch of Yimaia capituliformis (a relative of ginkgo). This is based on an unpublished specimen which did the rounds online a few years ago. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology #dinosaur
September 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So, we finally have more iridescent mammals!!!

This is really useful for paleoart as it helps to show what #iridescence on monofilaments looks like, which is difficult to tell from just birds.

Now I just need to try and access the paper.
share.google/jWVQz8BtmVmY...

#paleoart #mammals
September 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I re-illustrated #Anchiornis again, and it looks quite a bit different from usual!!! This still matches the known data for this #dinosaur, but I really wanted to avoid it looking copy-pasted this time. I've given a full description of it on my Patreon.
#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If anyone wants to get a closer look at any of these or find out a little extra information about them, I've added all of these drawings at their original resolution to my Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/137343...
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Here's an assortment of #Jurassic critters for #FossiFriday, which I recently put together! Honestly, I particularly love my #Heterodontosaurus (the best dinosaur!) and the wittle #moth Archaeolepis! And of course, there are plenty of #plants. #paleoart #paleontology #paleobotany #sciart #dinosaur
August 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Behold our Lord and Saviour, @davehone.bsky.social !
August 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Nanjinganthus was originally described as an Early Jurassic flower but was very quickly suggested to be a conifer cone. However, it's never been drawn the latter way - this undoubtedly warps people's perspectives of it as male #conifer cones don't look the way we imagine them! #paleoart #paleobotany
August 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh HIIEEEEEE!!!! Yeah, here it is; this is the talk I gave and an additional diagram I made. I hope they're helpful!
youtu.be/_p4jmlj-Fkk?...

#paleoart #paleontology
August 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Speaking of this: I'm still really proud of my geological and palaeogeographic maps, and the strat column I created for my undergrad Dissertation! They're all inspired by the Sheikah Slate map in #Zelda: Breath of the Wild!!! It took me a long time to match their style, but I'm very pleased with it!
August 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Aaaand here's the final haul from @dinoconuk.bsky.social!!!! Omg there were so many gorgeous things, but I was good, and didn't get too much.... most of these are gifts or sticker swaps from some of the amazing palaeoartists at #dinocon: thank-you so much, Everyone!!!!! I had a wonderful weekend!! 🥰
August 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Almost a week on, and I had a simply AMAZING weekend at the first ever @dinoconuk.bsky.social! Ahhhhh!!! I can't believe how well it went!!! So many nice people! So many great stalls! So many fantastic talks and workshops! It was incredible and I can't wait for next year!!! #FossilFriday #paleoart
August 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We're all prepped and on our way to @dinoconuk.bsky.social!!!
See y'all soon!!!
#paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology #comicon #stall #dinocon
August 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I had an idea.... I made said idea.... I made myself a LOT more work....and I'll have Palaeobotanist badges at @dinoconuk.bsky.social !!!!!

#paleoart #paleobotany #paleobotanist #badges #convention #comicon
August 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM