#palaeontology

[saint-nevermore]

a festive Parasaurolophus in reindeer inspired colours and tack :D 🦌🎄

[bearye-draws]

Sunrise

[stavrosskundromichalis]

A young Afrovenator abakensis suddenly lunges out of a copse in an optimistic attempt to hunt a midsized sauropod in Niger during the Middle Jurassic.

[yaboi-julien]

Spinosaurus mirabilis my beloved

[thatshowthingstarted]

Lascaux Cave, Montignac, Dordogne region, France,

Lascaux Cave is famous for its exceptionally well-preserved Palaeolithic paintings.

The cave, discovered in 1940, features over 600 painted and drawn figures, primarily animals like horses, deer, and bison, as well as nearly 1,500 engravings. 

The paintings, dating back to around 17,000 to 15,000 BCE, are considered some of the finest examples of prehistoric art.

[bobnichollsart]

NEW ARTWORK for Fossil Friday Here is "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.

[epicness1000]

Someone wants a hug! He may be a massive carnivorous carnotaurus, but how can you say no to a face like that?

[makairodonx]

We Three Spinosaurus

Top: Portrait of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus from the Kem Kem Beds of Morocco, based on FSAC-KK-11888

Middle: Portrait of the newly-describes Spinosaurus mirabilis from the Cenomanian Farak Formation of Niger

Bottom: portrait of Spinosaurus sp. from the Kem Kem Beds of Morocco, based on FPDM-V7011, now on display at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan