Dragonthunders

Hobbyist in speculative evolution, art and scientific knowledge

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#Paleostream 2/05/2026

here's this week's #Paleostream flocking results!

this week we drew Epidexipteryx (mine is a juvenile being chased by a Pterorhynchus), Witwatia, Ceratosuchus (the bird behind it is Diatryma), and Prognathodon (mine has caught a young Archelon)

[palaeoplushies]

My latest creation! A 1/2 size realistic, pose-able Protoceratops.

This one is a LOT of fun to pose and has so much character. Thrilled with how it turned out! For sale over here: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/12-pose-able-protoceratops

[palaeoplushies]

This guy is still for sale! He's big reduced now, I really need to make some cash money soon...

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#Paleostream 25/04/2026

his week's #Paleostream flocking was themed around the Walking With series of palaeontology documentaries to honour the last Ben Bartlett who passed yesterday

we sketched Ornithocheirus, Brontoscorpio, Liopleurodon, and Koolasuchus

[simon-roy]

the very cool guys at Grafito Editorial are putting out a spanish version of my book Habitat RIGHT NOW (check out the pre-order page here)

Even cooler, they're including the story @turndecassette2 and I made as part of this new edition!

[dragonthunders01]

Spec Evo Vault, Lank

One of the most iconic reatures in The New Dinosaurs by Dougal Dixon that inhabits the African grasslands, the Lank is an animal that surprises not only because of its derived form compared to its ancestors due to become a flightless herbivore, but also because of how closely it resembles actual large pterosaurs of similar size.

Although for us today this animal is more mundane compared to Azdarchid pterosaurs with some rare anatomical details such as its fourth digit reconfigured as an ungual foot, around the late 80s and early 90s the image of pterosaurs in general did not differ extremely from one or the other, especially when most of their morphological diversity was limited to taxa such as Pterodactylus or Pteranodon, with early representations of azdarchids like Quetzalcoatlus being crouching long-necked beasts, the lank is in such context an animal that had a quite radical set adaptations to live as a flighless animal.

The Lank in its world is a curious creature, they became the lineage that dominated the herbivorous niches in Africa instead of the dinosaurs and although it convergently evolved a form and coloration similar to giraffes, it is adapted to a different ecological niche, since they are grazers that take advantage of their tall anatomy to be able to move and see their environment properly, their tall legs move synchronized one in each side while running, their heads have long flat muzzle that resemble the ones of hadrosaurs or anatids, this help them to reach the food while keeping their eyes above the line of sight over the grass to check on threats like predators.

[paleo-yappology]

I’m back

it’s been a really long while since I’ve posted ānd a lot has changed! My brain has been rotting from reading Homestuck, I’ve been preparing for fiest year in college ānd generally just tryna stay alive I guess. I’ll try to be more active here !

(Take some of my primate art)

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Result from the Pisco Formation, please leave all your angry comments below! The Miocene of the Pisco basin is an absolute insane hot spot for marine life, over the course of millions of years the sediments recorded dozens of large mammals, especially whales...

which are often times recorded in astonishing details. Because of this abundance of megfauna, it became necessary to narrow it down for this piece. We went with the Sud Sacaco locality which records life of a large bay, making it possible to include some coastal and benthic...

species, importantly the sloth Thalassocnus and the whale Odobenocetops. Nowadays the Pisco basin shows little of this former biodiversity, being largely desert with many specimens laying on, or just below the surface. This makes it easy to spot them but the high levels of...

erosion also means we are losing many fossils to the elements. And of course that means that small stuff is lost quicker than big whales. Subsequently, and because of other reasons, small stuff from here is little understood while...

when you look at the 1m+ animals you are getting swarmed by fantastical creatures. Weirdly enough, you will notice that Livyatan is in our size chart but it's actually not in the piece and it would not be in the locality, not just geographically but also temporary...

And speaking of the large stuff from here: there is of course a certain shark in the room that i reduced to a pile of verts and jaw fragments. The nature of this assemblage makes it next to impossible to include it Size charts by Discord members Tim, Armin and Avery

[blondebrainpowered]

The Problem We All Live With, 1964

Illustration for Look, January 14, 1964. Oil on canvas. 

Artist: Norman Rockwell

[dragonthunders01]

Well this was a work of more than 2 months that just ended up taking longer than necessary due to procrastination, I have seen little or almost no work done on skeletal reconstructions of Temnodontosaurus trigonodon so I decided to work on a modern one with the new flippers.

As well finishing this skeleton, it was important to reconstruct it on the flesh, a peculiar form even among ichthyosaurs with its giant pairs of wing-shaped flippers, and a gigantic semi-lunar tail that would have allowed it to swim quickly.

Worth to mention too, I finally considered starting a blog to collect and display my entries while I continue deciding which other apps and sites can offer better hosting, you can fin more imput regarding minor details as well some things regarding Temnodontosaurus gigantism.

The Stealth Sea Dragon

Locked in a fight, two of the most formidable marine predators of the Toarcian tear and ram each other until one of them surrender or perish

[dragonthunders01]

This is not exactly part of any future project, but as concept idea inspired by somebody's brainstorm that I discussed a long time ago, I had the sketches for a while with vague description so I decided to at least flesh out a little more these future chameleons of a far away seed world.

[birbliophile]

made a thing.

[bobnichollsart]

It's Fossil Friday!

Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The Sea Rex" (probably Pliosaurus), Hybodus, Hypsocormus, Metriorhynchus, Aspidorhynchus, and lots of Allothrissops.

[dinodanicus]

Now that I've turned 30 I have become a real dinosaur.

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Birthday Oviraptor

birthday gift i made for @/Philoceratops on twitter a while ago

[petitepaleoartist]

new palaeoart post for those who follow for that

[dragonthunders01]

Spectember D30: Your favorite spec critter!

I guess when it comes to plausibility this animal from its world settling to its anatomy and physics might have aged terrible for many people, but I genuinely have a lot of appreciation for the Megasquid, since I was young and watched the TFIW series, this was one of the things that made me interested in spec evo in the first place (unitl I watched Dragons a fantasy made real) when I was young with interests for the peculiarity of its design and behavior, the idea that earth wouldn’t be only so alien but also animals would turn totally apart of what they were their ancestors, a walking behemoth elephantine squid that is the largest terrestrial animal of its time.

[aberrantologist]

Flocking Paleostream 9/22/2023

Another Friday, another batch of silly little fellas I must very quickly draw in about 20 minutes each for the week's #paleostream and they are, as always, deeply and sincerely unserious. Featuring Geosternbergia, Archocyrtus, Titanophoneus, and Besanosaurus. Very blue today.

[comixqueen]

Repostober #2, this piece from uni! Watercolors on.... cold press? I think?

Still one of my faves.