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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies
@palaeoplushies.com
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🪡Maker of Palaeoplushies™; soft realistic extinct creatures🦖🦤 (and increasingly more extant ones🐟🪲)
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Finished up some plushie Small-Spotted Catshark/Lesser-Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) this morning!

These are all printed at-home- this gives me the freedom to use different fabrics and slight colour variations!

They're for sale over here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/smallsp...
Three realistic plush catsharks lay on their side, showing their pale bellies and silly little mouths. Three plush catsharks. Their soft velvet fabric is printed with slightly different tones of dotty brown. They have grey eyes.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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PLUSHIE CATSHARKS available on my website; www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/smallsp...
A 90s style advert for plushie catsharks. It's eyestrain purple and pink, with red, black and yellow text. Three plushie catsharks are in the middle, with text layered over them reading: "Small-Spotted CATSHARK Cuddly Plush Friend. Smooth both ways... Just like the real thing!" ... yes I know sharks aren't actually smooth. It's a joke. If you know, you know.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Shark shark shark shark
Four printed plush cat sharks. One is finished, the other three are flat pieces just cut out. They're all slightly different shades of dotty brown.
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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My thought processes when I made this. I swear I sat down to finally pattern the dunk but I just can't focus on it. My focus slides right off.
An angel and devil float above the shoulders of a cartoon thylacine representation of the author. The angel says "Make Dunkleosteus.. everyone wants that!" And the devil replies "No, you know how much you love complexity... Leafy sea dragon!!". The clueless thylacine replies "Uhh I'll make CATSHARKS!" with a bad drawing of a Catshark.
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Working on something FISHY
A unstuffed Catshark plushie. It consists of white and brown fabric with printed details. It's flat. A stuffed Catshark plushie! It now has plastic eyes!
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Seven different tetra plush decorations with red cord and decorative beads. The beads are blue, gold, silver and red. The Tetras are Neon Tetra, Ember Tetra, Bloodfin Tetra, Glowlight Tetra, Black Neon Tetra, Cardinal Tetra and Penguin Tetra.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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So I've been busy finishing a bunch of FISHMAS decorations! I've put together some sets of four and sevens.

If you'd like to hang a bunch of tetras from your fishmas tree this winter, you can find them over here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/fishmas
Realistic plush decoration tetras made from hand-painted printed fabric, they hang from red cord with blue, silver, gold and red beads decorating the lower end.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Golded feeesh
A stack of plushie goldfish. I'm so tired please buy one.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I've been working on a Spotted Eagle Ray pattern. Their shape is surprisingly hard to get right.

I have two listed on my website, they are made of super soft minky and are weighted with plastic beans.
www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/eagle-ray
A realistic plush eagle ray. It's top half is brown with white dots and circle patterns on the "wings". It has a long tail with stripes, as well as a pointy nose. The underside of the eagle ray. It has a lighter belly with ocellated patterns around the tips of the wings. It has a mouth that looks like a 3 and is very cute.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A whole shoal of goldfish have made their way over to www.palaeoplushies.com

These cute carp won't grow too big for your cuddles, and unlike the real thing they don't need a pond (or a real big tank) to be happy.
A selection of realistic plush goldfish- yellow, orange, white and colours in-between. Some have short fins, some have long fins. They all have hand-painted (digital) artwork, with each scale individually shaded. Don't ask how long it took.
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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These male smooth newts are in their breeding colours! Is it the right time of year? No! But they're plushies so it doesn't matter.

For sale here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/lissotr...

The artwork for these were painted traditionally using watercolours and ink pen.
A photograph of a realistic plush Smooth newt. The fabric is printed with a design originally created with watercolours and inks, giving it an "illustrated" appearance. It has glassy gold eyes. The newt plushie's bright orange dotty belly is displayed for the world to see.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I've made two big cuddly plushie wild boars!

They're for sale over on my website; www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/sus-scr...
A photograph of a realistic plushie wild boar. It is made of assorted brown faux fur fabrics. It is labelled with the name "Hilda". She has gengle eyes and big tusks. A photo of a realistic plushie wild boar named "Horace". His ears are big, black and fluffy. His mane is luxurious and his face is shades of grey, whilst his body is brown.
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The first few goldfish I've printed here at home are available on my website:
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These plushies were designed and painted digitally based on photos, printed with special ink onto sublimation paper with my modified Epson Inkjet and then heat pressed onto fabric.
A compilation of four plush goldfish. They are realistically detailled with printed patterns. One is orange, another orange and white, canary yellow and the last is white with a red dot on the head.
October 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A realistic plush beetle on a pile of leaves. It is painted to look blue-purple iridescent.
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I've got some giant plush beetles looking for homes!

Unlike their real counterparts they don't need to be kept on a substrate of leaf humus and rotten wood... Though this one seems to be enjoying the leaves!
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A realistic plush beetle nestled among a pile of maple leaves. The beetle is yellow with brown patches, it has black leg and head.
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Been painting scales again!!!

This time my favourite domestic carp: goldfish! (Sorry Koi)

Been working on these prototypes at home. Hopefully will have a few up for grabs next week! Then more colours in future...
A realistic plush toy goldfish in a traditional orange shade This plushie goldfish is being held up, it's canary yellow!
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I've got three prototype smooth newt plushies up for sale www.palaeoplushies.com

The original artwork for these was watercolour on paper! Next time I'll design the pattern first before painting it because I ended up having to modify it more than I intended. Silly.
Three plushie newts sit on a desk and a sewing machine. They are made of printed minky fabric, the design was originally watercolour painted. A newt is scruffed showing off the orange underbelly
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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They're a few cm smaller than normal due to an order error so I've got these up for £10 off the usual price! :)
A row of realistic plush thylacines
September 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Got some beanie Thylacinies up for sale over on www.palaeoplushies.com !!
A photo of a plush Thylacine in the sun. It is made of realistic printed fabric and is laying on its belly
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Panko and Pixie!
A photo of two pale rats with ginger hooded markings, one (Panko) stands on a table looking at the camera next to a small plush cow just a Kelly bigger than her. The other (Pixie) is sitting with her head sticking out of a round hole in a plastic box, looking like Porky pig saying "that's all folks"
September 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Honestly I think this is my best attempt yet at recreating this beautiful extinct creature.
A realistic plush thylacine sits on a lawn, looking into the camera. It looks a little like it's smiling. A realistic lifesize plush thylacine stands on a lawn. It's made of short velvet fabric, printed with realistic digitally painted artwork.
September 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Using my new thylacine sewing pattern I have created another lifesize thylacine plushie!

This big friend is available over here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/thylaci...
A lifesize thylacine plushie stands on a lawn. It is made of printed fabric, with highly detailled artwork.
September 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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It's funny because I've noticed that my pet rats, in certain lights, have a patch of fur on their foreheads/shoulders that catches the light in a way that gives it a blue/green sheen... I never realised this could potentially be structural iridescence!
A close-up of the forehead of a domestic black-coloured Rattus norvegicus. The fur appears to shimmer blue-green. A wild-coloured domesticated Rattus norvegicus looks out of a cage, in sunlight. It's forehead has a blueish sheen. A black-furred domestic Rattus norvegicus looks at the camera, light shines on it's forehead with a blue sheen.
September 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Previously only seen at Dinocon- two new Palaeoplushies make an appearance!

The famous Anomalocaris, and the jawless fish Zenaspis!

These two are available for the first time over on my website!
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A realistic plush anomalocaris, made of printed fabric and plastic safety eyes. It is red and orange with blueish flippy flappers and big beadie black eyes A realistic plush devonian jawless fish- this creature has a big horseshoe-shaped head and articulated scaled body and fins. It has two shining golden eyes staring from on top of the shield-head. it's mottled brown with a hint of blue.
August 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I won't be attending #dinocon in person this year, but stop by @thylacereal.bsky.social 's stall to see some of my new designs alongside their lovely plushies!
A pile of plushie Zenaspis and anomalocaris alongside some ichthyosaurs, sitting on an ironing board.
August 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM