Food for thought on #FossilFriday: infographic summarising theropod growth rates based on D'Emic et al. 2023. Some theropods raced to giant sizes in just 20 years, but others plodded towards max size over 40-50 years. Interesting implications for ageing #paleoart reconstructions.
A pair of Tetrameryx shuleri seen in the early hours of the morning. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleoart
Practice sketches of various dicynodonts, honestly love these things, but wow, they don't look like anything I usually draw (and that makes then cool:D) #paleoart #sciart #dicynodont #triassic #permian #sketch #synapsid #fossilfriday
Here's #Mirarce sitting on its distant relative #Utahceratops while i work on new things #birdsaredinosaurs #fossilfriday #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoart #bird #fossil #ceratopsian #sunset
For #FossilFriday, here's #paleoart of Bentonyx, a UK rhynchosaur. This piece is doing PR rounds for a new study showing that rhynchosaurs wore out their teeth with age, like elephants. If they lived long enough, they starved to death. Er... Happy Friday! bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/june…
Digging back to 2018 for this week's #FossilFriday #paleoart: my mural of a hyper-busy Jurassic sea for Scarborough's Rotunda Museum. Rhomaelosaurus takes the starring role.
New blog post: a review of "Prehistoric World of Zdeněk Burian, Volume 1". This 4kg(!) book might be the best #paleoart collection ever compiled. Worth every penny of the (admittedly high) cover price, parts 2 & 3 can't arrive fast enough. markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2023/05/book-r… #FossilFriday
Happy #FossilFriday! Please enjoy this Teleoceras aepysoma from the @GrayFossilSite going for a swim! #paleoart
Slightly experimental drawing of Quetzalcoatlus inspired by the manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō which I recently read, check it out if you like calmer stories and interesting angles on the end of humanity #paleoart #sciart #FossilFriday
I'm up to my eyes in #paleoart commissions at the moment but can't share any of the results for #FossilFriday. Here's a take on the K/Pg event from 2020 to keep things ticking over. That's not a good place to swim, Prognathodon.
I'm working on something big-ish atm which'll hopefully be useful, but unfortunately I'm not sure when it'll be finished (hopefully soon). So to hold you over till then here's another one of the diagrams from it! #paleobotany #paleoart #plants #Spinosaurus #FossilFriday
For #FossilFriday: I've never been clear how large the scales of Triceratops were, so took some notes and photos of a touchable skin cast at the Field Museum. Here's the result: big, 8 cm wide tubercle scales surrounded by c. 3-5 cm scales. Should be a useful #paleoart reference.
FINALLY!!! My comic that I've had planned is finally on the way!!! 🦕🦖👀✨ deviantart.com/gogomrdodo/art… #artistsontwitter #dinosaurs #fossilfriday #dinosaur #paleoart #Sciart
Finished for now! Behold! The marvelous diversity of #Angiosperm leaves from the #Bahariya Formation of Egypt! These are all from #plants which coexisted with #Spinosaurus. #paleoart #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleontology
Happy #FossilFriday, and here's another illustration for @Palaeofox/ PalaeoGames' new #TTRPG sourcebook! palaeogames.com This is a restoration of Nelumbites, a #Cretaceous #lotusflower🪷. Unlike modern lotus flowers, fossil species can have heart-shaped leaves. #paleoart
Happy #StPatrickDay and happy #FossilFriday! I thought I'd share an illustration I've done for @Palaeofox/ PalaeoGames new TTRPG sourcebook! palaeogames.com This is #Marsilea, a type of aquatic #fern found both today and during the Mesozoic.#paleobotany #paleoart #botany
Another skeletal reconstruction for #FossilFriday: this is a hypothetical hatchling Tyrannosaurus. It's a little under a metre long and has proportionally long legs and arms. It also has a longer snout than v. young Tarbosaurus, following our youngest juv. T. rex skull material.
