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Sharptooth Shabazz
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Lvl 21.African American & Nigerian. Paleontology.Paleoart.Not A Good Artist.Free Palestine, Congo, and Sudan.✊🏿🦖🦕🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩
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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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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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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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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
Did a Nanotyrannus lethaeus restoration also btw.
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Nanotyrannus lethaeus
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Nanotyrannus lancensis
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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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October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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
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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Saurophaganax arises from its slumber
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#Saurophaganax #paleoart #dinosaur
October 23, 2023 at 12:52 AM
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
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
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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Mirasaura #paleoart
August 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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
July 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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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...
June 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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
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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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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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
June 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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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
June 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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More carboniferous bugs
June 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM