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Dear pterosaur people: What is this ligament and where is it attaching to in the torso? I thought the ligament from the pteroid was supposed to connect to the deltopectoral crest, but here that's a totally different ligament, so guess not? #pterosaurs #anatomy #paleoart

22/06/09 02:40

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It's time for another #WIPwednesday, and this time you get to decide which one I pick back up and finish for the wiki? Poll in the reply (because you can't have polls and images in the same post for some reason). #wikipedia #paleoart

22/04/06 18:00

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Pyroraptor Saga: An Epilogue In light of the article by Brilhante et al. (2022) I felt it was worth not only revisiting the old Pyroraptor but also reconstructing an alternate version of the taxon as an unenlagiine. Sizewise there isn't a huge difference. #Sciart #Paleoart

22/03/12 23:09

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#Portfolioday strikes again! Hello, I am a Finnish paleoartist, speculative zoology artist, illustrator, creature designer, what have you. Odd and extinct animals, creatures and monsters are my speciality. instagram.com/metteaumala osmatar.deviantart.com

22/01/12 00:18

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Last year was a weird sequence of dry spells followed by bursts of activity, with lots of big projects left unfinished, which this monthly breakup doesn't really reflect very well, but it is what it is. #ArtSummary2021

22/01/01 22:10

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I'm enjoying drawing weird rhino horns too much to stop. This time I decided to estimate something of a minimum and maximum reasonable horn for Elasmotherium sibiricum. I guess it could in theory get even taller in old individuals. #Sciart #Paleoart

21/12/27 02:27

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Here is the actual Elasmotherium sibiricum reconstruction I used as a basis for the holiday greeting. It's hard to say what the horn would have looked like in lif, but I figured the animal might rub it against objects resulting in a slightly curving shape. #SciArt #Paleoart

21/12/26 08:30

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Finished, just in time. Happy 25th! #joulu #yule #paleoart #coproliteposting #elasmotherium

21/12/26 00:11

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It's time for #AnimalArtistsUnite for the last time this year!

21/11/19 09:44

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I know this isn't Dinovember material, but I felt the need to add some color before I send my Bothriodon out into the world. #paleoart #anthracotheriidae

21/11/07 08:34

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Now that SVP 2021 Annual Meeting is more or less over, it's time to reveal the piece depicting a Gryposaurus with a speculative puffin-esque rhamphotheca @terryagates requested of me for his and @tree_fossil's talk on potential hadrosaur facial keratin sheaths. #paleoart

21/11/06 17:51

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Joinging the #flockofartists bandwagon because I've also drawn four things that qualify as birds. Probably. I assume.

21/09/23 05:40

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#Smaugust is almost over, and I haven't posted anything dragon-related! To make up for it, have this WIP of the long I have been working on for way too long. Pun totally intended.

21/08/26 06:49

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Say hello to Ningen. He's the friend of all children. All children that don't eat whale meat, anyway. But who does, right? #Mermay #kaiju

21/05/05 17:11

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I was so bummed about the 'Ebenezer' specimen being trapped in pseudoscience hell that to forget that I finished the sculpt of my Allosaurus with inflatable air sacs in the lacrimal horns. It's a bit out there but not sauropod trunk out at least. #paleoart #FreeEbenezer

21/03/23 19:23

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How to supraorbital membrane. #paleoart #anatomy #dinosaurs #sauropsida

21/03/20 22:40

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I finally put together a month-by-month retrospective of my 2D art from the last year. Considering how much I had to leave out, I guess I have been reasonably busy. I just hope I can keep this up in 2021. #paleoart #sciart #speculativezoology #speculativebiology

21/01/02 07:50

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At last #DrawDinovember gets to tackle a whole new taxon, the weirdo birdo Falcatakely forsterae. An animal so strange we don't know if it's a bird or a noasaur. I went with a speculation that it had additional premaxillary teeth and no rhamphotheca at the tip. #Sciart #Paleoart

20/11/28 08:20

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#Smaugust final concept: parasite. The Ear Wyrm has a unique parenting strategy. It lays its eggs inside the ear canals of large animals, where the tiny hatchling latches on a surface vein and remains attached feeding on blood until it is able to fly. #Smaugust2020

20/09/01 07:38

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#Smaugust ecological concepts: giant high-browser. The Lunggurmr is the largest terrestrial dragon. It gave up flight long ago and its wings have turned into columnar limbs to support its immense frame. This freed its forelimbs to function as tools and weapons. #Smaugust2020

20/08/30 09:15

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#Smaugust concept clearup: marine filter-feeder. The Draketos is the largest know dragon with the ability to launch itself into the air. Usually these marine giants glide through the water after zooplankton using their wings modified into giant fins. #Smaugtober2020

20/08/29 07:05

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I gave up on the prompt list, but not on #Smaugust! This here is a cursorial biped known as the Cockerel Wyvern. A hunter of small prey on the savanna it resembles seriemas and secretary birds. While still able to fly, it rarely does, rather relying on its feet. #Smaugust2020

20/08/28 06:02

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Since I can't art right now, I thought it might be a good time for #faceyourart (even though some would argue that animal heads aren't the same thing as faces...)

20/08/17 18:10

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#Smaugust day 9: Ice The Glaciamuth is one of the heaviest terrestrial dragons largely due to its lineage having given up flight entirely. These apex predators of the north are almost as much at home in the frigid arctic waters just as they are on the ice. #Smaugust2020

20/08/10 07:14

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#Smaugust catchup Flower dragons, also known as petal dragons, are very small insectivores that mimic large flowers to fool prey and predator alike. Flower dragons mainly feed on pollinating insects and their skin also contains UV patterns to draw them in. #Smaugust2020

20/08/10 02:23