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Basil
@paleobasil.bsky.social
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Spec evo, paleoart, and all things prehistory - second year geology (and some day hopefully a paleontologist proper!)
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Rex, all hail the king #sciart
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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junlper.beer
remember when comedy used to be completely legal but rightwingers started a full on assault on the entire US media apparatus to “legalize comedy”
September 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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fangg.bsky.social
Results from the Flocking #paleostream yesterday!

Vesperopterylus shaking it's glorious floof in the rain.
Mammut americanum (American Mastodon) with a smilodon corpse hat (based on an Indian Elephant with a Monitor Lizard)
Umoonasaurus mother and her pod under the ice.
Dsungaripterus portrait
May 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
#ArtBoost today is for DJ Washington (I can't find him on BSky), palaeoartist and conservation biology graduate based in the US, producing striking, bold, sometimes stylized art of ancient animals. It sure would be incredible if a book called MESOZOIC ART II included a section of his art, right?
Striking blue and black profile if feathered maniraptoran, I think Deinonychus. Two hadrosaurs in side view, green background. Pterosaurs in flight at night, silhouetted against blue sky with moon. Profile of brachiosaur against green background.
April 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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romeck.bsky.social
Platadarus
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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theartofasty.bsky.social
Actually it was me who ate Amelia Earhart I just blamed the crabs for it
March 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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merrittk.com
i have zero interest in most modern low budget shlock because it’s doing this self conscious “haha so bad it’s good just like the 80s!” thing. but you can’t produce that intellectually. you need to be trying to make a normal movie and have it come out wrong because you’re a crazy person
March 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Started new job as a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Will be blasting pterosaurs with lasers for a living for a few years.
March 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
I was very much looking forward to this #paleostream! The tranquil of the Devonian Rhynie Chert fascinated me for a while.
This geothermal wetland preserves some of the specimens of early landplants and is witness to the conquest of land by animals.
March 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
I've FINALLY got my fine art printer up and running again!!! That's means I'll be able to start making prints of my artwork!!! I'd forgotten how nice the printing quality is! This is gonna be so fun to use!!!
#art #paleoart ##printing
A large printer printing a piece of artwork which has a pterosaur size chart on it. On top of the printer is an open laptop. A print of my kimuriella piece just coming out of the printer. A close up of the pterosaurs print, showing one of the pterosaurs and a list of named taxa.
January 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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skullbottleart.bsky.social
Hey there
Do YOU want a drawing like THIS?

Do you want to help a trans girl get out of a terrible living situation?

Consider commissioning me! I’m doing rush orders right now and will be working VERY fast to be able to afford a new place!
January 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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dynamoterror.bsky.social
My fifth phase 1.5 submission for this month’s #Lemuriadvent challenge (setting up prototypes/basal members of lineages in the Eocene to be used later in phase 2). Day 6 is Simosuchids, of which I made two. #specevo #Paleostream
Black-and-white pencil sketch infographic of two fictional terrestrial, herbivorous crocodiles. One is very tall and long in neck and limbs, the other is short and stocky and has a single horn on its head. Text was added later with my phone.
December 8, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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srutis.bsky.social
Tryna draw but...
November 29, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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coastalpaleo.bsky.social
Another new species for me from the king tides - a Tidepool clingfish! (Gobiesox maeandricus). 2 cm long (max = 16cm). These have a little suction cup under their head. They feed on chitons, limpets, juv. crustaceans, other fish, & live from Alaska to Baja, 0-20 meters. 🦀 🦑 #tidepooling 📸OlympusTG6
A small black fish with a flat bottom and smooth dorsal side; the head is quite flat, and the eyes are a deep turquoise blue color. There is a pale yellow stripe across the head, interrupted by the eye, and a second stripe behind the head. It's sitting on top of pink calcareous algae. A small black fish with a flat bottom and smooth dorsal side; the head is quite flat, and the eyes are a deep turquoise blue color. There is a pale yellow stripe across the head, interrupted by the eye, and a second stripe behind the head. It's sitting inside a plastic tub of water. A small black fish with a flat bottom and smooth dorsal side; the head is quite flat, and the eyes are a deep turquoise blue color. There is a pale yellow stripe across the head, interrupted by the eye, and a second stripe behind the head. It's sitting on top of pink calcareous algae. A small black fish with a flat bottom and smooth dorsal side; the head is quite flat, and the eyes are a deep turquoise blue color. There is a pale yellow stripe across the head, interrupted by the eye, and a second stripe behind the head. It's sitting on top of pink calcareous algae.
November 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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slimyswampghost.bsky.social
I feel like Erik Svetoft's SPA snuck past a lot of people's radars, and it's a shame, it's an incredible comic about a trip to a totally normal getaway spa. incredible creature design, darkly funny, surreal and wandering
One of the covers to SPA by Erik Svetoft. A woman in a bathrobe stands in a hallway, a giant head glaring behind her. it's all in red. two friendly repair people amongst a sea of pipes a cavalcade of swine-like monsters
August 20, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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joannabagniewska.com
Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
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a) Ethiopian wolf lapping nectar from a Kniphofia foliosa inflorescence; (b) nectar foraging in a large K. foliosa field of the Web Valley, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia; (c) deposition of a relatively large pollen load on the wolf's muzzle; (d) female adult (left) and female subadult (right) Ethiopian wolves foraging together for K. foliosa nectar. Picture credits: Adrien Lesaffre.
November 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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twarda.bsky.social
Today is my birthday! :D
I heard it's a Bluesky's custom to retweet the birthday post so here it is!
Some old, nostalgic, and fanart paintings I did over the years :)
#art #birthday
A weird crocodile-like creature Skarmory fanart Zapdos fanart A weird creature is sitting in the shadows, looking at the viewer
November 19, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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sketchy-as-fork.bsky.social
An angel dancing in a beam of light

#plesiosaur #paleoart #aquarium #digitalart #procreate #illustration
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
paleobasil.bsky.social
BLUESKY! CREATE GROUPCHATS, AND MY SCREENTIME IS YOURS
a man with red hair and chains on his arms
ALT: a man with red hair and chains on his arms
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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himarudolf.bsky.social
Monster Hunterified Zapdos, 2020
A pokemon Zapdos designed in the realistic style of Monster Hunter in a mid air diving pose. Text on the left read Kuro Voltas meaning Black Bolt as its title.
November 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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thepeanutpal.bsky.social
Prognathodon, 2022
November 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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mrstocky.bsky.social
Arttrade with a friend
November 9, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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kiabugboy.bsky.social
Ancyloceras aquarium
#Ammonite #ancyloceras #paleoart #cephalopod #art #illustration #prehistoric #SciArt
based on this absolute unit of a specimen
www.instagram.com/p/C_52b7wtAyk/
toddler-sized ancyloceras ammonite looking at an aqually curious toddler in an aquarium setting
November 9, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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draconostakeji.bsky.social
MonHunvember day 1: Herbivore

Clatonoth, a territorial brute wyvern-like herbivore that lived in the open plains.

#monsterhunter #conceptart #creaturedesign #monhunvember2024
Clatonoth: Ill tempered, and territorial, this large herbivores of the great Thorn plains lived in herds with one dominant Bull and 15 to 20 cows with related calves. During mating seasons, bulls tussle and wrestle one another. Lone bulls are dangerous even when got seperated from herds, they use their claws and front legs to grapple and wrestle predators and hunters into submissions. When enraged their crest getting hotter and will sports redish hue, their crest are hollow and have holes to excess heat when attacks and pumping their adrenaline.
November 9, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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sinasinasina.bsky.social
Sprinoor riders. A sketch of my spec-evo setting with sophont maniraptorans Gnizdars that have oviraptosaur mounts called Sprinoors (right here, those are tamed wild animals). #AESL
Sprinoor riders. A sketch of my spec-evo setting with sophont maniraptorans Gnizdars that have oviraptosaur mounts called Sprinoors (right here those are tamed, wild animals). Sprinoor mounts are used mainly in travel, as they are much more adapted for speed than gnizdars. They are also less aggressive or skittish that other similar animals in their habitat.
November 9, 2024 at 3:34 PM