Did #dinosaurs pollinate some #Mesozoic#gymnosperms?
This is an idea I've had which is explained below, but there are some caveats to this, one of which being a lack of corresponding/ conspecific female organs also with suitable anatomy. Thoughts? #paleobotany#paleoart#plants
Today's not-so-random portfolio artwork (sticking with the Urvogel) is my life-size model of Archaeopteryx (50cm long), which I built for the Cole Museum (Reading University), in 2021. [The mould was built by my friend Jade Hughes.]
A picture of a stylized #Microraptor - a dromaeosaur from China, characterized by its four winged limbs as well as likely iridescent feathers. A #paleoart commission.
I'm Bob, I've been a full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist for over 20 years. If it's dead & long gone, I'll bring it back to life. You will have seen my art in a book, a museum, or on TV somewhere.
I'm sharing something non-planty for this #FossilFriday. Here's a selection of #dinosaurs🦖 and a pterosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, which I designed for a board game a few years ago. I'd like to come back to this project at some point. It was fun! #paleoart#paleontology
New #paleoart at #Patreon! Here's an image that I'm sure won't cause any upset at all among tyrannosaur fans: giant azhdarchid pterosaurs drive T. rex away from a juvenile Triceratops carcass. High-res version, WIPs and discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103222863#sciart#dinosaurs
Thaumatodracon – the 'Wonder Dragon' – is a large-headed plesiosaur I co-named with Ricardo Araújo in 2017. It is known from a single specimen, an almost complete skull and neck from Lyme Regis, UK.
One of the best thing that happened in dinosaur paleontology is discovering the rest of the body of the used-to-be mysterious Deinocheirus. Until then only the giant arms were known.
Giant camel duck is something nobody expected and I love that.
Today is the 200th anniversary of a Geological Society meeting where two amazing events occurred. The first named dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was described while, simultaneously, the first complete skeleton of Plesiosaurus was revealed to the world. What a day for vertebrate palaeo! #paleoart#sciart#dinosaurs
In 2002 I was commissioned to do my first ever cover art, for Alan Holman's Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America, published by Indiana University Press. This was an exciting one!
The 2008 book, A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS; I'm posting more of my illustrations (it is a fictional story, so be prepared for plenty of inaccuracies). Here are the Triassic reptiles that feature in the book.
The 2008 book, A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS; I'm posting a few more of my illustrations (it is a fictional story, so be prepared for plenty of inaccuracies). Here is a Barosaurus.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Microraptor.
Happy #FossilFriday. Here's my illustration of Williamsoniella coronata, a bisexual bennettitalean cone from the Middle #Jurassic of Yorkshire, England. This plant had a cone with both male (bright yellow outer) and female (inner cone) sections. #paleobotany#paleoart#plants