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punkpaleo, 2 days ago to science

Happy #FossilFriday, check out this skull from a juvenile Gryposaurus! These hadrosaurs called North America their home roughly 75 million years ago, and this particular individual would have enjoyed the lush jungle that makes up the Kaiparowits Formation. (1/2)
#paleontology #dinosaur #science

punkpaleo, 3 days ago to art

Sleeping Dragon

#art #science #paleoart #paleoartist #dinosaurs #meilong #theropod

punkpaleo, 13 days ago to DnD

Not the typical art I post, but I finished up this character sheet for Bella and her Clawfoot, Fig!
#dnd #dnd5e #dndart #dungeonsandragons #art #dinosaur

punkpaleo, 16 days ago to random

For #FossilFriday, we're taking a look at not true fossils, but preserved mud cracks. Below this incredible natural cast of a Eubrontes track, the wide mudcracks were formed during a period of drought and later preserved by water carrying sediment. (1/3)
#paleontology #ichnology

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to science

Happy #FossilFriday, these are the broken lower leg bones (fibulae) of the tyrannosaurs Teratophoneus and Lythronax! Partial healing has occurred in both specimens, indicating the animals lived with the breaks for a short time before dying. (1/2)
#paleontology #pathology #paleopathology #dinosaur #science

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to random

Been working on a redesign for my druid, Bella, and her Clawfoot, Fig. :^)
#oc #dungeonsAndDragons

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to random

Some mourning doves :^)

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

As much as it blows my mind that we can see the skeletons of creatures that lived over 65m years ago, that we can also see footprints boggles the mind.

I do often wonder how much of a slice we see though. Do those found dinosaurs represent 50% of those that lived? 5%? 0.5%? Less?

From: @punkpaleo
https://sauropods.win/@punkpaleo/112179348805468606

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to science

Happy #FossilFriday, here's a natural cast of a hadrosaur track from the Blackhawk Formation in Utah! Groups of hadrosaurs walked across a squishy swamp during the Early Cretaceous, leaving behind prints that would have later been filled in by sand. (1/2)
#paleontology #ichnology #dinosaur #science

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to art

Skulls from February 2023.
#paleontology #paleoart #dinosaur #art #science

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to random

elk sketches

18+ punkpaleo, 1 month ago to random

Gradually working on my gunslinger Tobias' full-body reference sheet! Humans AND clothes are pretty tough for me, but I'm happy so far.

punkpaleo, 2 months ago to art

Metoposaurus skull, from January 2023.
#paleontology #paleoart #art #science

punkpaleo, 2 months ago to random

Traces in the desert

Two scratch circles caused by tiny grasses have been swirled into orange sand. Above the scratch circles is a tiny pair of bird tracks with a particularly wide middle toe, and to the left is a scale bar in inches and centimeters. The scratch circle closest to the scale bar is roughly 8 centimeters in diameter.
An arthropod trackway, likely made by a beetle, cuts through orange sand in the center of the image, starting at the top right. Above the trackway is the base of a wild buckwheat plant, and to the left is a scale bar in centimeters and inches. The trackway is roughly a centimeter wide, and it's long enough that it goes out of frame at both the top and the bottom of the image.
Multiple bird tracks of varying sizes are impressed in bright orange sand alongside an arthropod trackway, likely made by a millipede. The author's finger pins down a scale bar in centimeters and inches at the bottom right of the image. The largest bird tracks are roughly centimeters long, and the millipede trackway is roughly half a centimeter wide.

punkpaleo, 2 months ago to science

Happy #FossilFriday! This is the partial pelvis of Supersaurus, just one of many sauropods living in the Morrison Formation during the Late Jurassic. It was certainly among the largest, with estimates putting its body length at easily over 100 feet. (1/2)
#paleontology #dinosaur #science

punkpaleo, 2 months ago to science

Check out these swim tracks attributed to a prosauropod for #FossilFriday! Four-toed Sarahsaurus would have lived nearby during the Early Jurassic, and it could have swam through shallow rivers connected to an ever-shrinking lake, Lake Whitmore. (1/2)
#paleontology #ichnology #dinosaur #science

punkpaleo, 3 months ago to art

wanted to show how little this kitty from last september is. dime for scale.
#paleontology #paleoart #hoplophoneus #art

punkpaleo, 3 months ago to random

forces u guys to look at my #dungeonsAndDragons characters

A digital sketch of a cowboy with ill-fitting clothes standing in front of a tavern, his hands on his hips as he smiles loosely. In the foreground, three weapons are pointed at him, and in the background, there's messy sketch of a person lying down in the Peter Griffin death pose in front of a tavern. The cowboy has a speech bubble to the left of his head that says, "Now, officers, I was simply actin' on man's oldest law... Self preservation."
Multiple digital sketches of a goblin wizard with particularly large pointed ears and rounded eyes. In the center is a colored sketch featuring the goblin in a giant blue hat with yellow stars and an oversized blue and yellow robe. The goblin's face is largely hidden by the hat in a few sketches, only exposing bright yellow eyes and green skin.
Multiple digital sketches of the heads of a variety of diverse characters. The characters range from typical humans, to humanoids with animal or fantasy features, to dragonborns, Leonin, and even a warforged. Each character has their name and pronouns messily written beside their head.

punkpaleo, 3 months ago to science

It's #FossilFriday! This is the holotype skull of Diabloceratops, discovered in the Wahweap Formation. While its horns may have been for identifying other members of its species, they could have served as protection against its contemporary tyrannosaurid, Lythronax.
#paleontology #dinosaurs #science

punkpaleo, 4 months ago to random

Happy #FossilFriday! When a plaster jacket is ready to be opened, it can be quite the event, especially for one as large as this! Two years ago, the Museum of Ancient Life cracked open this Barosaurus jacket, and museum volunteers have been cleaning it since. (1/2)
#paleontology

A man with white hair, a blue mask, safety goggles, and a blue lab coat cuts into the white plaster jacket using a yellow handheld circular saw. To his right, a woman with brown hair, a blue mask, safety goggles, and a blue lab coat holds a long dust collector tube to the portion of jacket being cut.
While lifting the cut edge of a large, white plaster jacket, the author, a young person with curly brown hair, a colorful mask, safety goggles, and a blue labcoat, smiles at the camera. Behind them and to the right, a woman with brown hair, a blue mask, and a blue lab coat has a bright expression.
Inside of a white plaster jacket, thick grey matrix swirls over dark grey and black Barosaurus tail bones. The bones are broken and heavily covered by rock.