Ilari Pätilä
@pelican-man.bsky.social
Palaeornithologist, Extinct & Modern Wildlife Artist, animation fanatic and storyboard artist Cartoonist Stuck in the Paleogene Gondwana Fan
The extinct Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), from my book A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press. a.co/d/6rKgbMQ 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #extinct
20 years ago today, the first episode of Prehistoric Park aired. If you haven't seen it yet in the intervening time, I highly recommend tracking it down. It's a very fun show, a grounded (excepting time travel) take on the dinosaur park concept that we haven't seen on screen since
Results from tonights #paleostream! You might notice a slight parental theme ;) Apteribis, Parachoerodon, Lavanttalornis and Maiacetus.
Today, David Attenborough has turned 100! Happy birthday to a truly legendary and one-of-a-kind naturalist www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
A life in pictures: Celebrating Attenborough at 100
As the British naturalist celebrates a milestone birthday, we take a look at how his work has shaped science.
nature.com
Lazy sunday sketching. Deinotherium and some funky bipedal apes in a watering hole somewhere in east africa #sciart
There are two ways to portray Hațeg Island in paleodocumentaries: 1. Tropical jungle paradise with beautiful sandy beaches 2. Gloomy mountainous horsetail land with killer pterosaurs
princess 💕🏳️⚧️@thysannia.bsky.social · 5mo agoObviously liberties will have been taken with both, both for thematic purposes and the practicality of filming, but I'm curious how much of what is shown in each is based on our actual understanding of the island, and if there's been much written or researched about it beyond just its inhabitants.
A short thread with thoughts on Disney's Dinosaur, which I rewatched recently to commemorate the loss of Dinoland USA. I always forget just how dark this movie is, inarguably the darkest in the entire Disney filmography. There is SO much death and suffering both on and off-screen, it's truly grim!
Palorchestes has got to be one of the most absurd marsupials ever What's not to love?
Gastornis/Diatryma meets one of their non-flightless neighbours, the stem-parrot Cyrilavis Originally made as gift art for @kulindadromeus.bsky.social
At the moment, the cranes that nest in Finland are wintering in Africa along the Nile in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. Looks like this particular one has some friends to meet there! Yes, I know all these guys don't share ranges, no need to put that in the replies
Older Andrewsarchus reconstructions look like the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus if it was a mammal
Every year, this couple of Palaeoloxodon falconeri visit a communal site to mourn the dead. As a token, they leave stones for the cairns Island life shrunk their bodies, but not their brains, which are in proportion to their body size match early humans. Who knows what was churning in their heads
In continuing celebration of TWENTY YEARS OF TETRAPOD ZOOLOGY, I've just published an article listing some of my personal highlights. The article is here if you want to check it first... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/1/... but I'm also going a build a thread, discussing and linking to my highlight articles.
After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights — Tetrapod Zoology
A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…
tetzoo.com
Dinosaurs were nearly wiped out 66 million years ago, long before the start of the Quaternary ice age. However, #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge shows that the few surviving dinosaurs (birds) would go on to become highly successful. Let's meet the ice age dinosaurs featured in the series! 🪶🧪
The image in question is from the website of @australianwildlife.bsky.social , which has a whole host of amazing images of conservationists handling Aussie wildlife, gotta be my favourite genre of photography www.australianwildlife.org/what-we-do/r...
Restoring wildlife
AWC’s world-leading reintroduction program returns animals to landscapes where they’ve been lost, restoring ecosystems and preventing extinctions.
australianwildlife.org
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 7mo ago@pelican-man.bsky.social just showed me this very good image
A simple portrait of Teratornis merriami, done in coloured pencils
Just a Dimetrodon out fishing, not much else He looks nice to hang around with, and it'd be nice to just relax for once
Go check out this video if you haven't already, it covers incredible paleoart by an incredible wildlife artist, and it's presented expertly It's awesome!
RustledDoodles@rustleddoodles.bsky.social · 8mo agoyoutu.be/FgaZZXQdGaM?... My latest video! An artistic analysis discussing the great Alaskan Wildlife Artist, William D Berry and his incredible wildlife and paleoart works! #rustleddoodles
We are NOMINATED‼️ This gonna be the LAST CHANCE for anime adaptation, and I believe we have the power to make it happen! Please VOTE for Dinosaur Sanctuary from the link below▼ anime-japan.jp/activities/a... I'll show you how to vote in the replay below.
An extinct condor from the open & semi-open ecosystems of eastern Brazil in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene - part of a diversified guild of scavenging #birds that suffered severe #extinction when South America's rich #megafauna was decimated by Homo sapiens www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!
The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles. This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology
