#mesozoic

[bearye-draws]

Sunrise

[mesozoic-menagerie]

Tupandactylus imperator with Ginkgo huolinhensis. Both species from the Early Cretaceous. There is an interesting paper which discusses how pterosaur pycnofibres may be synonymous with bird feathers featuring T. imperator. Cool stuff!

Colours and patterns were inspired by toucans, various parakeets and monarch butterflies :)

[leaves-and-inks]

[ID: Digital illustration of Spinosaurus Mirabilis floating over a blue rectangle on a light blue background. It faces right, its head bowed and jaws open. Its chest is slightly at 3/4 view, while its hindquarters twist back to be in profile. Its tail is unnaturally gathered underneath it. Its front claws sit in front of it below its head, while one back leg is raised and the other lowered. In the bottom right corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS” /end ID]

Mesozoic March 3 | Spinosaurus

[slowthypiglordblr]

There's an obscure and criminally underrated anime based on the children's book "You're Umasou" which follows a young tyrannosaurus unwittingly adopting a newborn ankylosaurus and having to raise him. This film deserves more attention.

[pokemonarchive]

Pokémon Fossil Museum (2021) Illustrator: Hitoshi Ariga

[stavrosskundromichalis]

Xingxiulong chengi staring you down in the Early Jurassic woods of China. From my book ”När dinosaurierna tog över”

[thedrawinggizzard]

First big(ish) paleoart piece of the year: a Mosasaurus Hoffmannii. Its patterns are inspired by rainbow trout, with a bit of influence from the Prehistoric Planet mosa.

[kiabugboy]

Rows of Hyphantoceras drifting near the sunlit surface