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Achillobator | The Mongol Empire

Featuring the uurga and the steppe! Wanted this to be more of an action-focused piece.

Art marketing below:

Oviraptor is actually such a slanderous name, bro was just discovered on some eggs and we just assumed they stole them. When they where just chilling on their nest before becoming fossilised just to be accused of a crime millions of years later

(also the weird flash if blue is cos I was messing around with colour grading and the iPad crashed making me start the paint job from scratch )

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Prehistoric Monsters, Cavemen and Mammals - Marx Toys (c. 1960)

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Oviraptor is actually such a slanderous name, bro was just discovered on some eggs and we just assumed they stole them. When they where just chilling on their nest before becoming fossilised just to be accused of a crime millions of years later

(also the weird flash if blue is cos I was messing around with colour grading and the iPad crashed making me start the paint job from scratch )

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Thank you for existing. I’m gonna miss you.

(Vent art. Dedicated to my aunt who passed away a few days ago. I’m gonna miss you, Julie 🕊️💔)

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Another dino I didn't want to miss, it's velociraptor day!

The colors/pattern is inspired by the velociraptor in the game Paleo Pines

2026 dinosaur prompt list

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(based on the baby pelican thumbs down meme)

edit: btw, the design's from Prehistoric Kingdom! it's a really cool game that's on Steam so check it out if you're into dinos :)

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On this episode of Fossil Friday Chats, we are joined by paleontologist, Kevin M. Madalena (Pueblo of Jemez), to discuss the ongoing and con

"Indigenous Science: Defending Ancestral/Public Lands" w/ Kevin M. Madalena | Fossil Friday Chats

On this episode of Fossil Friday Chats, we are joined by paleontologist, Kevin M. Madalena (Pueblo of Jemez), to discuss the ongoing and contemporary challenges of preservation and conservation of Indigenous Ancestral Lands, Public Lands and the Fossil Record in the national monuments like Bears Ears National Monument, Chaco Region, Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and New Mexico.

Kevin M. Madalena from the Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico, and is a geologist and paleontologist. He works in conservation in trying to preserve Indigenous ancestral lands and Indigenous ancestral structures with the fossil record in our public lands and monuments.

Credit: Alf Museum of Paleontology

Indigenous Americans' Contributions to Paleontology

Adrienne Mayor, a folklorist and historian of science, investigates ancient myths and indigenous traditions about puzzling natural evidence, such as remarkable fossil remains of long-extinct animals. Her research in ancient "folk science" often turns up surprisingly perceptive insights and parallels to modern scientific discoveries, and her work on pre-Darwinian fossil legends has opened up a new field within geomythology. She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University, since 2006. Her books include "The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth"; "Fossil Legends of the First Americans"; "The Griffn and the Dinosaur," a co-authored children's book; "Gods and Robots" on ancient automations in myth and history; and most recently "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws," a collection of essays about mytho-scientific mysteries.

Credit: Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science

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an updated Raptor Red portrait

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prints of this drawing (and more) are now available on my store!

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Vintage Magazine Cover | Austroraptor

This was my part of a paleoartist collab! Based the layout off of Leyendecker's beautiful work - genuinely had so much fun with this one <3

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every time i say velociraptor is very important to imagine a turkey-sized predatory bird and not the weird lizard thing from jurassic park

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you have to love her. you have to

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art by Curtis Lanaghan

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Imagine washing up on Dinotopia and getting a talk saying "unfortunately, you can't escape this island! You'll never go home or see your loved ones ever again" & then while you're crying they say "I'm sorry, you'll just have to live on the island of dinosaur communism for the rest of your life" and you look up through your bleary eyes and go. Wait what

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I will find you in every life (threat)

I am forever fascinated by the arms race between coelurosaurs and ceratopsians. Among the most famous rivals in palaeomedia growing up was Velociraptor and Protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, and of course I had to add two of my faves, Gorgosaurus and Styracosaurus!

Long time followers may recognise the bottom two skulls as art I have made previously, fun fact I have been sitting on this idea for a little over two years!