punkpaleo

punkpaleo, 6 months ago to random

feeling pretty neutral toward my art lately, and i'm not sure how to get around that. i don't like it, but i don't hate it either. i feel like i should feel something more than "that sure is a drawing" whenever I finish something.

punkpaleo, 5 months ago to random

Made some chocolate chip ammonites for this #FossilFriday!

A close-up image of a chocolate chip cookie with an ammonite impression sitting on a white plate. On either side of it are two ammonite fossils, the left one brown and the right one brownish-yellow.

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, 11 months ago to random

It's another #FossilFriday, and I've got a fun one for you. This 200-million-year old coprolite, possibly produced by a dinosaur, is absolutely packed with fish scales! Note how they have been tightly rolled around a red central mass in the coprolite.
#paleontology #ichnology

punkpaleo, 8 months ago to random

This is an impression of the bony armor surrounding Stegosaurus' throat for this #FossilFriday! These small, bony ossicles would have served as valuable protection. This specimen is housed at the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah. (1/2)
#paleontology #stegosaurus #dinosaur

punkpaleo, 7 months ago to random

Happy #NationalFossilDay! I'd like to celebrate by showing some of the incredible fossils from my neck of the woods, southern Utah! I'd like to start off with some tracks, naturally! Theropods related to Megapnosaurus and Dilophosaurus left behind these three-toed traces.(1/5)

#paleo #paleontology #dinosaur

A three-toed Eubrontes track with wide pads impressed in orange sandstone. From Warner Valley.

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, 7 months ago to random

miss getting to hold big moth 😔

punkpaleo, 4 months ago to random

working on something a little different

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.

punkpaleo, 1 month ago to random

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

punkpaleo, 10 months ago to random

Psittacosaurus and Repenomamus sketch
#paleontology #paleoart #dinosaur #psittacosaurus #repenomamus

punkpaleo, 17 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, 9 months ago to random

Allosaurus
#paleontology #paleoart #allosaurus #dinosaur

punkpaleo, 28 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, 5 months ago to Archaeology

Happy #FossilFriday, this is a trilobite pendant recovered from the Baker Archaeological Site on the Utah-Nevada border. As such fossils aren't found nearby, it was likely traded to the Fremont people and possibly initially found nearly 100 miles away.
#paleontology #archaeology

punkpaleo, 2 months ago to art

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

punkpaleo, 4 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, 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, 10 months ago to random

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's a replica #Apatosaurus femur compared to a anatomical human skeleton model, both housed at UT Tech. Like many Morrison Formation sauropods, Apatosaurus was massive, easy reaching lengths of over seventy feet. (1/2)
#paleontology #sauropod #dinosaur

punkpaleo, 18 days ago to art

Sleeping Dragon

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

punkpaleo, 9 days ago to random

A loose study of Soldat und Tod by Hans Larwin, featuring a younger, alive version of Tobias, my undead gunslinger. During his time in the military, he went on his fair share of missions, none of them with goals he believed in.

punkpaleo, 1 month 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, 29 days ago to random

Art of the desert

A blanket of purple hairy dewflowers (Drosanthemum hispidum) springs up from the top of tiny, green succulent leaves. Sunlight reflects off many white anthers, giving the flowers a soft glow.
A single yellow desert evening-primrose (Oenothera primiveris) stretches out from orange sand, its yellow face directly visible. Just below the long anthers in the center of the flower, a yellow crab spider (Misumena sp.?) puts on a threat display, its first and second pair of legs raised high.
A bright red desert paintbrush (Castilleja angustifolia) stands tall above a mixed array of scrubby desert plants. Further scrub and orange sand makes up the background landscape.