Another gigantic Paraentelodon skull in Shenzhen Natural History Museum.
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The very first Alvarezsaurids of Ganzhou basin, Jiangxi province, South China. Photographed in Shenzhen Natural History Museum.
Continuing with the first episode of Surviving Earth (which premiered last Thursday on NBC/Friday on Peacock) here is another look at one of the animals for which I created the concept design. Meet the super cute Elph borealis, a small Late Permian dicynodont
Megistotherium osteothlastes doodle, the very first procreate test. Thanks to @villesinkkonen.bsky.social for create these wonderful fur brusheset, so cool.
Ziheng Zhu, Xi Yao, Wenjie Zheng, Xing Xu, Cranial osteology and ontogenetic variation of the Late Cretaceous ankylosaurid dinosaur Pinacosaurus grangeri, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 207, Issue 2, June 2026, zlag060, doi.org/10.1093/zool... It's finally out now!!!
Very soon(ETA June? July?), we'll have another Pinacosaurus systematic review paper coming out with many new specimens described. And, of course, my illustrations...
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe morphology and systematics of Pinacosaurus: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The variability of giraffe skull morphology - Kargopoulos - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The variability of giraffe skull morphology
What does giraffe skull shape tell us about their development and evolution?
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Parachoerodon rhynchus, a new genus and species of choerolophodontids from the Miocene of northern China. The skull is based on the holotype IVPP V23457 and paratype IVPP V23213.
Lazy sunday sketching. Deinotherium and some funky bipedal apes in a watering hole somewhere in east africa #sciart
Working on describing new polacanthid ankylosaur species from the lower Yellow Cat, basal Cretaceous, Berriasian. Got to playing around with my ilia overview fig. and it got out of control... So I guess, I got a bit more done on our ankylosaur character appendix as well for #FossilFriday.
#FossilFriday I know today is not Friday but I can't wait to share it. Holotype of the "Shanshanosaurus huoyanshanensis", which is now a synonym of Tarbosaurus bataar. Photographed in Shanghai natural history museum by me. Noted the subcutaneous flange of the maxilla.
The very difference between Spinosaurus aegyptiacus and mirabilis is the chin process protruding beyond 1st dentary alveoli or not.
Finally we have Spinosaurus mirabilis Sereno et al. 2026 here
One day I shall return and complete this one -.-
Some more pics. Paint job was done by wnbb. It will be available in 1/35 and 1/18 scales.
Had the pleasure of making a sculpture of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex for SHOWANNA Studio. 🦖 Pretty pleased with how this one turned out, I got to nerd out on all of her unique pathologies. The old girl lived a hard life!
happy #fossilfriday! this is postschizotherium, a rather strange hyrax that lived in the pliocene and early pleistocene of russia and china. weighing over half a tonne, recently described skull material indicates that it likely had an amphibious lifestyle like a hippo (art by @somniosa.bsky.social)
