#plesiosaur

[twelvebooksstuff]

Beautiful!

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the Plesiosaurus coin art . . .

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

BIG PLESIOSAUR NEWS I'm delighted to finally reveal the illustration I produced for the paper "Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur"!

While already excavated in 1940 this specimen was only really prepared in 2020 and new analysis methods revealed a wealth of details, many unseen until now.

Some of the coolest finds are thickened skin folds, remands of a possible tail fluke and scales on the paddles.

Beyond these superficial elements these specimen also has cellular details preserved. Among them melanophore traces hinting at the pigmentation of the animal.

You can read more about it in the publication! Also, stay tuned for more stuff regarding fossils from Holzmaden!

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00001-6

[lowpolyanimals]

Lapras from Hey You, Pikachu!

[plusie]

🐟 - prehistoric marine animals

[bjekkergauken]

Mary Anning's ghosts

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! If you’ve been inside the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins, you may have noticed this marine reptile hanging overhead. Meet Thalassomedon haringtoni, a long-necked plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous some 85 million years ago. This behemoth had a relatively small head and many sharp teeth. Its long, flexible neck probably helped in grasping rapidly moving prey. Plesiosaurs, a group related to lizards, lived in the sea. Although they weren’t dinosaurs, they became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous around 65 million years ago, at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs.

The Museum is open daily from 10 am–5:30 pm! Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Surprised nobody has made this joke yet

Plesiosaur grindset

[mjhartwork]

acrylic painting of a hydrothermal vent with an abyssosaurus

[sketchy-as-fork]

River of Souls

[macaronichewtoyz]

New beast just dropped !!

[meloboye]

Aska

I can't post in prime time anymore because I found out sleeping in prime time is much better This is Aska, I drew her in May (maybe...) She will charge your marine battery, because contains and produces electricity inside her body ⚡

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the limited edition print I designed and signed.

[chameleocoonj]

*draws two theropods in a row* SHIT okay hold on whats the most opposite thing i can do... ah, chunky little spiky guy!! there we go B)

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Christmas eve #paleostream, on which we covered recent discoveries from this December.

Unktaheela, Yechilacerta, Bustingorrytitan and Meilifeilong

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Have some nice holidays!

[shattersaurus]

collection of all the prehistoric ocean period sets

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Pleather is made from plesiosaur skin, and contributed to their extinction during the pleather fashion craze of the 1970s.