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ybankole02.bsky.social
Sharptooth Shabazz
@ybankole02.bsky.social
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Lvl 21.African American & Nigerian. Paleontology.Paleoart.Not A Good Artist.Free Palestine, Congo, and Sudan.✊🏿🦖🦕🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩
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midiaou.bsky.social
Ultimately, I would revisit the facial tissue a few years later, adding more extensive narial carilage and prominent nasolabial muscles (and corresponding mystacial pad). This is important to note, as many mammal reconstructions undersell just how much tissue is present, aiding the animals in life
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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midiaou.bsky.social
Once the dental, skeletal base and it's muscular landmarks were created, the rest of the animal could come to life. The pattern chosen after much trial and error, would reflect the predatory nature of this species, living along the forest floor and understory.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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midiaou.bsky.social
Reconstructing a hypothetical adult took a lot of digging through literature surrounding the anatomy and build of related Proviverrine and Sinopine Hyaenodonts. This would inform the proportions, build of the muscles and key anatomical traits displayed in these families.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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midiaou.bsky.social
Lesmesodon edingeri, a cat sized Hyaenodont from the #Messel Pit. We only have 4 fossils from this species, all still suckling age. Would be an early horse’s nightmare as an adult though (dissection in thread) #sciart (done in 2021)
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ybankole02.bsky.social
Did a Nanotyrannus lethaeus restoration also btw.
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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chukapower.bsky.social
Nanotyrannus lethaeus
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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chukapower.bsky.social
Nanotyrannus lancensis
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
ybankole02.bsky.social
Sorry If I haven't posted anything here in a while. I've been a bit busy with school work and preparing for finals. But anyhow I've managed to do a restoration based on a paper from October 30th that finally proved the validity of Nanotyrannus. So I drew N. lancensis.
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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chukapower.bsky.social
On this day, 120 years ago, the tyrant king was named and crowned. This creature has inspired millions in the fields of science, fiction, and art of all kinds. I tip my hat to you. #Tyrannosaurusrex
October 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
ybankole02.bsky.social
I hope I'm not too late. I'd like to wish a Happy 120th Birthday to the Tyrant Lizard King itself🎂🎈💯🔥
#tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurusrex #tyrantlizardking #dinosaur #dinosaurs #Tyrannosauroidea #eutyrannosauria #pantyrannosauria
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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chukapower.bsky.social
Saurophaganax arises from its slumber
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#Saurophaganax #paleoart #dinosaur
October 23, 2023 at 12:52 AM
ybankole02.bsky.social
This past sunday, I learned that it was the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the Giganotosaurus and I quickly decided to do my own take of the animal. I haven't drawn much of the animal in the past so I'm glad I was able to draw it again both to honor Ruben Carolini and improve my art skills.
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
ybankole02.bsky.social
The other week a newly described Iguanodontian from the Early Cretaceous of England was described named Istiorachis macarthurae. So I did an illustration reading the paper first and closely following the skeletal and I even used Argus Monitors (Varanus panoptes) as a good reference for color scheme.
September 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
ybankole02.bsky.social
It feels like I haven't posted anything on here in a while, so I'll just show off this illustration of my OC Kota's 2nd transformation along with a sketch from @chukapower.bsky.social showing off the sketch he made yesterday.
#dragonball #dragonballz #anime #dragonballoc #dragonballdaima
September 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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chukapower.bsky.social
Mirasaura #paleoart
August 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2025-07...
North America's oldest known pterosaur unearthed in Petrified Forest National Park
A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight...
phys.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New post and #paleoart at #Patreon: countershading in Psittacosaurus: was it _definitely_ for camouflage? Not everyone is convinced. Read the discussion, see this piece in hi-res and check out the WIPs at www.patreon.com/posts/gettin.... #dinosaur #sciart #fossil #paleontology
A forest scene with a group of pudgy beaked dinosaurs moving through ferns and shrubs. They have red-brown backs, pale tail bristles and dark faces. Behind them are conifers of various species, including the trunks of Araucaria trees, and between you and them is a clearing filled with dead branches and fallen trees. Most of the group is ignoring you, but you've disturbed one animal by getting too close. It looks up, staring at you. After a moment, you realise it's not alarmed, but... judging you? It's looking at your hands: you're on your phone while walking in the woods, glued to social media even in this majestic, untouched setting. The dinosaur turns away, the flick of its upturned chin sending a clear message: reality is around you, buddy, not on your screen. The group walks off silently, leaving you alone. You look at your phone, embarrassed, and turn it off. You gather yourself, taking a breath. You feel the cool air of the woods for the first time, noticing the light of the clearing, the texture of the trees, the sounds of the forest. The Psittacosaurus was right. Psittacosaurus is _always_ right.
July 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs

www.patreon.com/posts/132334...
Because I'm a lazy, lazy man, I'm copying text from the start of my Patreon post that describes this scene. If you want to read the rest of the discussion, you need to visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/132334586 (I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid. OK, not _that_ stupid.) "It's nighttime in Early Cretaceous China, in the part of the world that will eventually be recorded as the Yixian Formation. A light dusting of snow covers the winter ground, and only the coniferous trees retain their leaves. The light of a full moon spreads through the misty sky, obscuring distant mountains but illuminating a large dinosaurian predator, Yutyrannus. It is consuming the bloodied remains of a small dinosaur that, from the silhouette, looks to have been a Psittacosaurus. Quietly surrounding the carnivore is a group of eight smaller dinosaurs: compsognathids. Their small size, long, stripy brown tails and facial masks betray them as Sinosauropteryx. They appear to be congregating in the hope of getting access to the Psittacosaurus carcass, some peering around the larger dinosaur at a respectful distance to identify pilferable morsels. The Yutyrannus is ten times their length and towers above them: surely it's best to wait until it's finished? Unless... wait: are these Sinosauropteryx enterprising opportunists, patiently waiting for the larger predator to have their fill? Or are they juveniles waiting for their parent – a tyrannosauroid – to finish with the carcass before they can have access, or even for it to provision them with food? What the heck has actually been depicted here?"
June 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
van der Linden, T.T.P. et al. 2025. Introduction to Diplodocoidea. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2):a27.

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Diplodocoidea
Introduction to Diplodocoidea
palaeo-electronica.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ybankole02.bsky.social
A big shout out to @chukapower.bsky.social for making this artwork for me featuring my OC Kota meeting the Briefs for the first time with Piccolo & Yamcha in the background along with the rest of West City. The background colors are inspired by some vapourwave art that I've seen before.
June 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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rapiopapi.bsky.social
Finished headshot commission! I’m having a lot of fun doing colorful shading :)

#art #artcommission #digitalart #dinosaurart #dinosaur #giganotosaurus #giganotosaurusart
June 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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pauloleiteart.bsky.social
If you're looking for something fun to do, I've a few coloring sheets available on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/pauloleite/s...

#dinosaur #paleoart #coloringsheet #art
A few digital sketches of dinosaurs. There is a couple of Giganotosaurus hanging out, a Spinosaurus, two T. rexes fighting, a scarred Giganotosaurus walking and a T. rex with its mouth open.
June 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
WIP of new Yutyrannus/Yixian Formation #paleoart that I'm working on. That psittacosaur will be fine, btw, he's just resting. (Sad to say this post is partly motivated by my art - like that of so many artists - being accused of being AI. AI doesn't have WIPs, folks) #dinosaurs #paleontology #sciart
A carnivorous dinosaur surrounded by the Adobe Photoshop workspace. The dinosaur is set against a misty, blue background, with the trunk of an Araucaria tree to its right. It is eating the bloodied, red remains of a smaller dinosaur, with a foot dangling from its jaws. A light covering of snow covers the ground, with hints of buried vegetation poking through.
June 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
More carboniferous bugs
June 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM