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Alex James
@palaeosculpting.bsky.social
Postgraduate currently researching prehistoric whale teeth and cat legs | paleozoological modeller and scientific consultant | Work featured in Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate and Ecos: La Brea

Pronouns he/him

Email: alexanderjames2000@gmail.com
For this #FossilFriday, a #paleoart post of the American cave lion - this time, a video showing the soft tissue reconstruction laid over a reconstructed skeleton based on the specimen LACMP23-555, scaled next to Charles Darwin.

It may get a short mane yet..
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Been building the American cave #lion Panthera atrox from the bones up - still a ways to go, but it’s at least presentable!

What I want to know: in your #paleoart, would you give it a mane, or leave it bare?
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Any tree disease experts able to ID what killed this tree?
(I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes)

(There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Paenungulata is a spectrum
June 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Look at this totally legitimate skeletal mount of Homotherium serum which is definitely from the early 20th century and is very much real

#Sciart #Paleoart #Paleontology
March 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Sneak peek - how muscular was Homotherium serum, exactly? And should we return to the slope-backed look?

Skeletal and soft tissue exploration coming soon (when I have some time away from my thesis!)
February 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Finished the reconstruction of a Panthera atrox (American lion) skeleton, a commission I did for someone :)
#SciArt
#Paleoart
January 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Normally, I hate blue on my big predatory theropod dinosaurs, but I gave my T. rex slightly blue-ish highlights, and it’s not… terrible

(I still hate blue)
December 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Work in progress - demure Dimetrodon
December 16, 2024 at 3:40 AM
T. rex sketch

#SciArt
December 12, 2024 at 2:10 AM
My last four Twitter notifications... I'm done with that app.
November 24, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Absolutely graceful
November 24, 2024 at 1:22 PM
I freaking love fate sometimes
November 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Another WIP - Homotherium licking its chops
November 14, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Why do CT scans of cats always look like goblins (this is a snow leopard - cleaned up a bit)
November 7, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Working on a new Homotherium (will show in more detail later on)
November 5, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Old but gold, Homotherium yawning
November 3, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Learning to convert CT scans to meshes!
October 29, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Bengal tiger skulls make fantastic clamps to hold your food packets shut
October 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM
An older couple of models, but I still like them - anatomical studies of Teratophoneus and megalania approximately to scale.

#SciArt #PaleoArt
October 22, 2024 at 11:56 AM
An introduction for new followers and those who don’t know me: I’m Alex (or AJ), a Masters zoology student who studies research, modern animals and 3D scans of fossils to reconstruct prehistoric animals and their bones!
October 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Looking to bring back our old stripey friend (after a fashion)

#SciArt
October 18, 2024 at 2:56 AM
A range of Ice Age herbivores, sculpted by yours truly - includes Stephanorhinus, the Aurochs, Irish elk, and the straight-tusked elephant.
October 18, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Old Ceratosaurus drawing using a Remarkable tablet
October 11, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Old sketch of a random troodontid
October 11, 2024 at 2:03 AM