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Renato Santos

@dracontes.bsky.social

Portuguese. Atheist. Queer. Furry. Bachelor's in Biology, minor in Earth Sciences. Amateur at paleontology. Amateur at art. Palaeos.com custodian. DA gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/dracontes (He/Him; 42; Algarve, Portugal | 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇹 )

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Renato Santos@dracontes.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fun tidbit to find that Greek, Latin and the latter's descendants like Portuguese, kept the original name, as 'arktos' and 'ursus' respectively, which, Incidentally, feature in the animal's scientific binomial, Ursus arctos. I suppose Bergmann's rule was afoot making southern bears less dire.

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂ŕ̥tḱos - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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outsidewolves@outsidewolves.bsky.social · 4d ago

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A cartoon drawing titled “Color is here!” It is colored in three shades of brown. An anthropomorphic wolf side hugs a television set, proclaiming, “It’s BROWN!” Onscreen, a brown bear says “You mustn’t call my real name. Lest you summon me.” In the background, a brown bear lurks, waiting.
Jay@kakapojay.bsky.social · 5d ago

With the chaos of DinoCon, I forgot to share this! Scott's website has been THE resource for paleoartists for decades, and this new overhaul has made it such a breeze to use! Go check it out!!

Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor@skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey everyone - For #FossilFriday, I'm relaunching a completely overhauled Skeletal Drawing dot Com. Check it out, read the welcome post (below), and let me know what you think! www.skeletaldrawing.com/blog/welcome...

Renato Santos@dracontes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/ cryptid K-T boundary (now 'K-Pg boundary') mountain bicycle seasonal affective disorder world-building (Maybe not perfect: was accused of one, afflicted by another, indulged the rest.)

😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸@hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/ AIDS (yikes) CD-ROM cellphone dry-erase board FLORUS gender transition

Renato Santos@dracontes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Schedule kinda slipped on the #art unrusting. Here's something mammalian for a change of pace; it was pared down from a scribble blob I made to check which, if any, of the remaining brushes on MS Paint were interesting enough to use. Finished with the charcoal pencil brush.

A digital drawing done on MS Paint with a number of its tools. It's a grayscale shaded drawing depicting a strongly foreshortened large mammal's head, reminiscent of anything from a moose to a horse, tapir, or reconstructions of extinct animals like paraceratheres or ground sloths. While the head has been rendered with detail, the neck has been left as an unfinished impression.
Renato Santos@dracontes.bsky.social · 7d ago

It sure is something to do a minimal background check on an YouTube account before I share one of their shorts displaying interesting animal behavior, and immediately come across obvious AI slop. Way to torpedo your credibility.

Dr Matt Dempsey@sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · last wk.

For about a year, I've been working as vizdev artist, science guy, & 3D CAD designer on an awesome project - Future Fossils. Directed by Jay Jay Burridge, Future Fossils is manufacturing a pack of life sized Megalosaurus skeletons, stylised as living machines. A thread (1/6) 🧵

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Renato Santos@dracontes.bsky.social · last wk.

Pregaming for #Smaugust again. A perennial issue doing #art is getting too much in the weeds layering sketches & with line work. This time I attempted skipping all that, paring down from a blob of scribbles on MS Paint. Reasonably time effective. Reminiscent of flamingos & shovel-tusked elephants.

A digital drawing done on MS Paint with the charcoal pencil brush. It's a volumetric rendering of a reptilian head, maybe a dragon. It's long and shallow, with a sharp downturn midway along the snout, reminiscent of a flamingo's profile. Four tusks protrude downward from the tip of the upper jaw, the outer pair longer. Another pair of tusks juts horizontally from the lower jaw. The eyes are set far back on the head with horizontal bar pupils. There's a pair of characteristically draconic fins or ears just behind the eyes: webs of skin stretched between bony struts.
Renato Santos@dracontes.bsky.social · last wk.

It's been a while since I've drawn… anything. I heard there was something or other for #Smaugust. Thought I should unrust. So here's perhaps a dragon, definitely ugly as sin, done with MS Paint's charcoal pencil brush. Shades of wolffish? Not sure I can meet the challenge's one #art piece a day.

A digital drawing done in MS Paint with the charcoal pencil tool. It's a head shot of a reptilian head, blocky in shape (short-faced), jaws closed. The short jaws have a meandering, moderately snaggletoothed jawline almost as if the jaws had been smushed back into the skull. A large fang protrudes down and slightly forward from the upper jaw, the tip reaching just below the lower jaw. There's a row of spines over the midline of the head continuing onto the neck and another shorter one on the eyebrow. The eye has a slanted slit pupil reminiscent of a gecko's. The ear is a crocodilian-like horizontal slit behind the eye.
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w ago

American buffalo (Bison bison) once ranged from northern Mexico to Georgia to ... well, Buffalo, NY, which is one theory of how it got its name. They were a keystone species in so many areas, aerating soil, recycling nutrients... the landscape was changed by their sudden absence.

Dwindling Buffalo Herds, 19th century, including original extent in brown, range in 1870 in light brown, and six small islands in 1889.
Tom Kimmerer, PhD@tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I visited my local bison herd this morning. It is good to remind ourselves that bison are not strictly western animals. They were the dominant herbivore of the Bluegrass and created our woodland pasture ecosystem. More at Our Trees.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w ago

This 2012 electron microscope video is from James Tyrwhitt-Drake, a scientist at University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility. In order, you're looking at: An amphipod (~5 mm = 5000 microns) A diatom (50 microns) A bacteria (1 micron). Life at every scale! (📷: James Tyrwhitt-Drake)

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hollaar, T.P., Kent, M.S., Lomax, B.H. et al. Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during end-Triassic greenhouse warming. Nat. Geosci. (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during end-Triassic greenhouse warming - Nature Geoscience

Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis of the d...

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