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@heitoresco.bsky.social

Ilustrador e Paleoartista 🇧🇷 https://linktr.ee/heitoresco

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Tom Sharpe@tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 2w ago

#FossilFriday: the displaced vertebrae at the base of the unexpectedly long neck of the Plesiosaurus discovered by Mary Anning in 1823 which caused some discussion at the time, and Henry De la Beche's fun interpretation of how the bones came to be displaced in his 1829-31 lithograph Duria antiquior.

Left, photograph of the long neck of a plesiosaur skeleton with a scatter of vertebrae (circled) at the base of the neck; right detail from an 1830 reconstruction of a plesiosaur with its neck being bitten by a large ichthyosaur.
Claude ✡️🦖🦕@cascoclauda.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨THERIZINOSAUR NEWS🚨 an incredible study by liao et al. describes kayrasaurus changliensis from the early cretaceous yixian formation of china! the holotype is almost complete, missing only a few hand bones as well as the legs, offering valuable insight into its biology 😍 (art by kohei futaka)

art depicting the newly described kayrasaurus alongside other therizinosaurians from the yixian formation, including beipiaosaurus, jianchangosaurus, and lingyuanosaurusa skeletal diagram showing the known material from kayrasaurus
@joshuapaleorojas.bsky.social · 3w ago

The first image is a spectacular illustration by the talented artist @heitoresco.bsky.social. Long ago in a Late Cretaceous ecosystem in Northwest Africa, lit by dramatic golden light against a dark, stormy sky, with tall, ancient conifer trees and fallen logs surround some shallow water are two

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@joshuapaleorojas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The first image is a spectacular illustration by the talented artist @heitoresco.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient southern China, during the Pleistocene Epoch. Moving through a swampy, tropical wetland, wading behind fallen logs and shallow, reflective water. With the bright sunlight illuminating

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Diego Ortega@diegooa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some time ago I started a series about fossil sites in Spain, showing the biodiversity known from different eras. So far I have completed the Paleozoic chapter, made of this 4 pieces: - Ordovician of Cabañeros - Devonian of Teruel - Carboniferous of Puertollano - Permian of Mallorca #paleoart

Ordovician creatures known from Cabañeros National Park (Spain)Devonian creatures known from Teruel province (Spain)Carboniferous creatures known from Puertollano (Spain)Permian creatures known from Mallorca (Spain)
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a very interesting small Jurassic diorama from the Royal Ontario Museum. Obviously very old, but I find it oddly intriguing, from what's actually happening to the colors/textures/lighting. Photo by Keith Schengili-Roberts

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Mark Witton@markwitton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Still alive as work on Book 7 enters the last few days, though I am quite sleep-deprived. And which joker organised daylight savings so close to my deadline? Thanks, jerk. Here's some #paleoart of the Jurassic pterosaur Balaenognathus soaring over dinoflagellates, the source of their pink bodies.

Pink pterosaurs, pink water. A flock of pterosaurs adapted for filter-feeding soar along a Jurassic coast undergoing a phytoplankton bloom, exposing the source of the pink carotenoids that they sequester into their fuzz to make their bodies and faces pink. Marine carotenoids would have been especially common from the Mesozoic onwards, and it's very plausible that animals like pterosaurs would have picked them up in their diets.