Diego Ortega

¡Hola!😄 I am Diego Ortega, a space engineer and amateur photographer, naturalist and paleoartist. Here are my threads, grouped by topic⬇️ ¡Hola!😄 Soy Diego Ortega, ingeniero espacial y fotógrafo, naturalista y paleoartista aficionado. Aquí están mis hilos, agrupados por temática⬇️

I still have this small painting of a Goldfinch that I did some years ago, in case anyone might need it :) Watercolor and colored pencil on board 5.1″ x 5.1″  (13 x 13 cm)

A fully marine stem amphibian from the Late Triassic of China www.nature.com/articles/s41... Gerrothorax maritimus n. sp.

Carnotaurus ~ bull lizard 🐂🦎 . My dancing pair are done! It was exciting to work on my first piece that feature two of the same species and using colours and patterns to help distinguish the male and female in this seducing dance! 💃🏻

Dinosaurs Survived! Here are all 20 designs together. I have ideas for a few more. Prints and Stickers: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Apparel: emmalerae.threadless.com

Jurassic bennettitale and pterosaur ink wash painting #paleoart #sciart

Creepers in the Woods: Galahadosuchus

Eurypterid sketches

Argentavis Magnificens about to fed on a glyptodont carcass. I forgot to record the rest of the process 🥲 #paleoart #paleoarteargentino #argentavis

Reimagining the classics. Two new interpretations of the original Crystal Palace dinosaurs - Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. Pencil and digital illustrations. #SciArt

Here's an alternative style I've been toying with - more of a homage to old entomology prints, but perhaps a bit too contrived. What do you think?

Invisible Extinction Thousands of Egyptian vultures may conceal a much smaller genetic population. In this study, they surveyed approximately 3000 birds and estimated that they have an effective population size (genetic diversity) of only 9 individuals (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We had a family of Superb Fairywrens flying here there and everywhere in our garden yesterday, they're so beautiful! #fairywren #bluewren #birdart #drawing #australia

Speaking from my field, environmental law, we actually are making so much progress despite all the news: renewable energies are more affordable than ever before and the technology keeps improving We also DID manage to eliminate the +6, +5, +4 degrees scenarios in 20 years: we need to keep going !!

In the world of #paleaort and #dinosaur depictions there’s always been interest in The Age of Reptiles mural on show at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut, sometimes called the Zallinger Mural. I'm here sharing a thread orignally posted at Twitter.... 1/n

Something I can finally share, a commissioned piece I did some months ago, of 8 mothe species with their associated caterpillars. I had so much fun with all the little details of these wonderful insects! Watercolor and colored pencil on pressed board
 13.8" x 18.1" (35 x 46 cm) Original available

🔭 VENTANA AL COSMOS | Los cometas pasan, sus huellas permanecen. Hechos de hielo, polvo y roca, al acercarse al Sol liberan gas y polvo que forman sus colas. ✍️ Imágenes: Daniel López / IAC. Texto: Raquel Conde Viera / IAC. #VentanaAlCosmos #IAC #Cometas #Astronomía

“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

I finished this piece earlier today, For the Love of Doves 🩶🕊️ featuring pigeons and doves found across the UK: feral pigeons, stock dove, rock dove, woodpigeon and collared dove 🪶 signed prints are available in aid of the brilliant EJ’s Pigeon & Dove Rescue & Rehab 🪽

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I am sharing my own image not as a flex, but to enhance your viewing pleasure. How I became subve-- seduced to Team Fish is an interesting tale, known to but a few

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #juveniles, so here're four juvenile peregrine falcons on the spire of Our Ladye Star of the Sea, Greenwich, London, a few years ago. These four would hang out together in the early morning before flapping off to terrorise the local pigeons. #birds #birdphotography

Annoyed Barbet 🐡🎨🪶

🌀 Storm Austen captured this morning at 09:30 UTC by Meteosat-12. This view shows the storm over central Europe after hitting the UK and Ireland. Geostationary satellites like Meteosat observe severe weather systems to help support timely public warnings and forecasts. 🛰️🌍 @tonyveco.bsky.social

Welcome to Toulouse, the Pink City! 🇫🇷 The French city owes its nickname to the terracotta rooftops, which give it a distinctive reddish-pink colour. In this high-resolution Pléiades Neo image, you can spot the Garonne River, its bridges and canals! Take a closer look 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Kelenken Guillermoi #piopiotober26 #paleoart #paleoarteargentino #kelenken #terrorbird

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Ever wondered if a wildlife photo was staged? "Photography game farms" use captive animals for awards and stock photos, misleading viewers. Learn more in this episode of the 'Conservation, Entangled' series by Izzy Sasada. Find all the episodes in Mongabay's YouTube! mongabay.cc/Conservation...

Sometimes, when you stare into the abyss... the abyss stares back.

Dimetrodon #paleoart #art #sciart

Two Gannets Acrylics on board 9.8″ x 9.8″ (25 x 25 cm) #wildlifeart #animalart #wildlifepainting #animalpainting #realisticart #animalillustration #wildlifeillustration #traditionalanimalart #naturalhistoryillustration #naturalhistoryart #birdart #birdpainting #birdillustration #gannet

🌕⛵ Why is Europe's lunar lander called Argonaut? Like Apollo and Artemis, the name is inspired by Greek mythology 🏛️. The name recalls the Argonauts, legendary explorers who set sail into the unknown... 🌙

1/4 Human hunters do not replace apex predators Hunting and natural predation do not have equivalent ecological effects. Apex predators are associated with diverse and robust animal communities; hunting is associated with the opposite. (paper) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Been quite inspired by japanese gyotaku and decided to give it a go with jurassic Macromesodon. Would love to do other pycnodonts as well

ISS Transit Directly Past Jupiter. There are Seven People in the Frame of This Picture Credit Correct_Presence_936 www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/...

Some more pretty pics from back in the day. With the removal of Soyuz from CSG, that book is firmly closed, but the memories remain... #VS01 #IOV #Galileo #ESA

Happy Wednesday, everyone! 🌿 A Spanish moon moth (Graellsia isabelae) resting on a pine branch, celebrating one of the most spectacular moths of the Pyrenees. Mixed media on peper 300 gr, A3. Original SOLD

#OTD 21 October 2011, the first two Galileo navigation satellites were launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport, notably the first Soyuz launch outside Russia or Kazakhstan🧪🌍️🛰️ www.esa.int/Applications... @euspa.bsky.social @esa.int @transport.esa.int @navigation.esa.int @ec.europa.eu

I have been working on visualizing the appearance of proposed space mirrors on the night skies. As the beam approaches it appears as a column of light emerging from the darkness. At the beam center of a 600 km high 54 m. mirror the reflection gives a light similar to that of 38 Full Moons, 9.5 Lux.

Liocranchia with some eggs (evidently spawning & not brooding according to squid squad) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 980 #samplinggap #MarineLife

'Hell Chicken' is actually an elegant, dignified little creature, if you please. 🤓☺️ The recently described oviraptorosaur, Infernogallus. Qualifying as an honorary #Boktober. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 132 × 85 mm.

Flysch cliffs, Zumaia, one of the most amazing geological formations I've seen. These vertical layers run for 8 kilometres along Basque coast, each a page, forming a book covering 60 million years of our planet's history. Created when Iberia crashed into Europe and things went all squishy.

#Pokemon #Pokemonart #pokemonfanart #corsola #galariancorsola #Cursola