Dynamognathus

Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart

To-scale illustrations of the four species of Wirras, quadrupedal open-habitat Macropods from the fictional world of #Tyrannoc (commissioned by a friend). All are open-habitat adapted animals on the Australia-equivalent continent of Warraka. #specevo #fantasy #creaturedesign #wildlifeart #kangaroo

THE NEXT PINELANDS PROTECTORS: Scenes from today’s Pinelands-themed, World Water Monitoring Challenge, where approximately 200 students slipped on waders, used nets to catch and release fish and learned about the Pinelands at Batsto Lake. 🐟 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #nature #water #education

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.

Kitty #specevo #art #wildlife

Pampaluctor calibar, newest and youngest thylacosmilid #paleoart #thylacosmilidae

El Salvador during the Pleistocene. A colossal, searing shockwave from the eruption of the Ilopango caldera surges outward, incinerating and devastating everything in its path, giant ground sloths, gomphotheres, and columbian mammoths all met their doom on this day. #paleoart

Anyone needing a commission?

#SundayFishSketch 🐠🐟And the series is now complete! Here is a selection of 21 pycnodont fish, showing their diversity through time Species in the Alt text #paleoart

Big news: @chrismanias.bsky.social and I are planning a #PALEOART MEETING in London for early next year: a whole day devoted to palaeoart practice, science, history and culture. Interested? Please complete and share this survey to help shape our plans! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

A study led by @therhinoscaros.bsky.social just released: It revises several ichnospecies derived both from erosive marks from invertebrates, and bitemarks from large Sebecids and Dyrosaurids sucessfully crushing hard-shelled turtles in the Paleocene of Bolivia :P (link below)

A large species of water panther, a hyaenodont found in the khalin sea, is one of the terrestrial apex predators of Blackfish Island.

Stumbled across one of the most delightful little friends in a nearby pine savanna, a Little Gem Roach (Aglaopteryx gemma). Not often found because they rarely stray from pines and because they’re fast enough to be considered facultative teleporters. #bugsky #roaches #insect #wildlife #alabama

Pelagosaurus typus The basalmost known metriorhynchoid, small piscivorous pursuer, sea noodle, very numerous in specimens (a 2006 thesis listed 88 specimens, with even more being figured since then), and yes the arms were that tiny. One specimen shows a gnarly healed broken jaw

Hot off the presses! I reviewed the history of early ray-finned fishes, with a focus on their morphology, fossil record, and taxonomy. My principal goal is a guide for other workers to make the rich record of early actinopterygian evolution more broadly available. dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

Oops, it’s September already! #SciArtSeptember 1: Malachite. A Columbian mammoth wading through aquatic plants. Originally a sketching practise, referenced mainly from the beautiful Eofauna figurine. #SciArt

I use inordinate ammount of time studying anatomy. I justify this by telling myself that its all in the name of being better at my craft but in all honesty I just really really enjoy it. pierolapithecus.

Quick sketch of Westlothiana lizziae, grabbing some lunch in early #Carboniferous Scotland. Formerly known as an early reptile-like amniote or maybe an amphibian, “Lizzie” was just reinterpreted as more early-diverging tetrapodomorph, possessing fishy gills and spiracles. #sciart #paleoart #fishart

I did the art for this!!! It’s nice to finally be able to talk about this

Out today: We show that Westlothiana lizziae or "Lizzie," described 35 years ago as the world's oldest reptile - is not a stem amniote at all, but a stem tetrapod. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant #nativeplants, get cool native buddies! #bugsky #inverts

A hypothetical earliest Tylosaurine, just after the split with Plioplatecarpines. No fossils of such basal Tylosaurs are known, but based on other early #Mosasaurs it’d be leggy and noodly. Inspired by @tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social’s research/discussion on the Skeleton Crew. #sciart #paleoart #lizard

The symposium, “Wild Harvest in a Changing World: Food, Value, and the Future of Sustainable Use,” at #TWS2026 will probe the assumptions, trade-offs and emerging ideas shaping the future of wild harvests.

At the beginning of the month Drexel University made public that they want to close the Academy of Natural Sciences at the end of the month. The academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas and this would end more than 200 years of research and outreach.

New idea: in the late Cretaceous this clade of Tritylodonts would have developed a muscular lip-pad as a digging/soil-foraging tool, and then right after the k/pg it gets elongated and co-opted for browsing until you could reasonably call it a trunk. #specevo #cynodont #cretaceous

Please consider to raise awareness and apply pressure onto Drexel university for their plans to close the Academy of Natural Sciences! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the woodlands of late Triassic Tanzania, a resting Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda is run over by two small dinosaurs (it couldn’t care less). Inspired by the very recent publication of this new African dicynodont, and the @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social video about it! #sciart #paleoart #mesozoic

Hadrosaurus, Platecarpus, and Chasmosaurus. All are from Academy of Natural Sciences and they need your help. The Museum is approaching its closure and the last thing we want is a historic museum to be lost forever. #SaveANSP

Cheers to @dynamoterror.bsky.social for these two beautiful illustrations of a great white hunting a ridgeback runnendrake, and a mother great grey with cubs testing the resolve of a polecat:

Cheetahs are remarkable predators, with peerless speed and surprising adaptability. Though wild cheetahs are extinct in the known world, they are quite successful in realms beyond, thriving in the badlands such as deserts, mountains, and arid forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSu...

Our new video is finally here! Dominic had the pleasure to interview the legendary Jonathan Scott for Big Cat Diary’s 30th anniversary. Learn more about the show, the process in making it, and general advice for wildlife documentary presentation: youtu.be/rWCzW6Ld5gE

Some Kaimeran cheetahs and their prey:

A commissioned lineup of the proboscideans of Sukaya (the Africa-equivalent continent of a friend’s #worldbuilding project). Elephants are definitely becoming some of my favorite animals to draw! #specevo #Tyrannoc #elephants

The Permian Islands have a great many domesticated flora and fauna. Among the most important are the manticores ridden like horses, gorgons used for meat and labor, and fauns with long wool. Link to episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm0y...

Cuvieronius was an elephant relative with spiral-shaped tusks! The genus was found in parts of North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch

Some paleoart I made of two types of mammoths! The Midwest wasn't home to just one type of mammoth during the Pleistocene epoch. Woolly mammoths lived further north during this span of time while most of the Great Plains and central lowlands were home to herds of Columbian mammoths!

Deinosuchus riograndensis, a robust, and very menacing 9+ meters long eusuchian from the cretaceous, with proportionately giant jaws compared to its body, it was very at home in water, including seas

Dinofelis mandible dating to 1.9 million years ago from Koobi Fora, Kenya for #FossilFriday

FINALLY, I can reveal that we weren't showing C. spelea, but another, larger species: the newly announced Cryptoprocta bevatabe Lewis et al., 2026. We got the scoop on this animal years back, deliberately portrayed it in the show... cont

Ichneumonid wasps A few wasps I've seen in recent years. These parasitoid insects are incredibly diverse, yet poorly known with possibly as little as a quarter of living species even named. They're famous for making Charles Darwin doubt the existence of God simply by existing in nature.

Physeteroidea indet. from the late Miocene of the Paraná Fm. Very, very hypothetical, consists in two teeth, MAS Pv 1361 and MACN Pv 8926, in the size range of modern Physeter and are somewhat similar, largest one would have been 19-20 cm long with the tip. #paleoart #sciart