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Basil
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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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Rex, all hail the king #sciart
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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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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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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#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?
April 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Platadarus
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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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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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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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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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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
January 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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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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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
December 8, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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Tryna draw but...
November 29, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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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
November 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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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
August 20, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸
November 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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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
November 19, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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November 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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
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November 14, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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Monster Hunterified Zapdos, 2020
November 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Prognathodon, 2022
November 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Arttrade with a friend
November 9, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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November 9, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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MonHunvember day 1: Herbivore

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

#monsterhunter #conceptart #creaturedesign #monhunvember2024
November 9, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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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
November 9, 2024 at 3:34 PM