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  1. NEW-ish ARTWORK
    Ichthyosaurs (unnamed specimen), one adult and two juveniles, painted in 2025 for Lynn Museum: lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/
    Also pictured are Caturus, Ptycholepis, and Saurichthys fishes; crinoids, Apoderoceras ammonites, and Belemnoteuthis belemnites.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me

  2. NEW-ish ARTWORK
    Ichthyosaurs (unnamed specimen), one adult and two juveniles, painted in 2025 for Lynn Museum: lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/
    Also pictured are Caturus, Ptycholepis, and Saurichthys fishes; crinoids, Apoderoceras ammonites, and Belemnoteuthis belemnites.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me

  3. NEW PAINTING TIME!

    Here is "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 different species of marine reptiles, fishes, echinoderms, crustaceans, isopods, ammonites, belemnites, teuthoids, nautiloids, gastropods, brachiopods, bivalves, annelids, bryozoans, cnidaria, and microbial mats. There are also coprolites and burrows.

    #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #SeaRex #Pliosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Thalassodraco #Sharks #Chimaera

  4. NEW PAINTING TIME!

    Here is "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 different species of marine reptiles, fishes, echinoderms, crustaceans, isopods, ammonites, belemnites, teuthoids, nautiloids, gastropods, brachiopods, bivalves, annelids, bryozoans, cnidaria, and microbial mats. There are also coprolites and burrows.

    #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #SeaRex #Pliosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Thalassodraco #Sharks #Chimaera

  5. Here are some crops from "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

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Alt4Me

  6. Here are some crops from "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

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Alt4Me

  7. Here are some crops from "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.

    #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Alt4Me

  8. Here are some crops from "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.

    #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Alt4Me

  9. NEW ARTWORK for #FossilFriday
    Here's "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of #Thrissops, #Grendelius & #Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving #Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, #Caturus, #Gyrodus, and #Pachycormus fishes, a #Dakosaurus croc, & 3 #Kimmerosaurus.

    #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Ichthyosaurs #Pterosaurs #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Alt4Me

  10. NEW ARTWORK for #FossilFriday
    Here's "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of #Thrissops, #Grendelius & #Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving #Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, #Caturus, #Gyrodus, and #Pachycormus fishes, a #Dakosaurus croc, & 3 #Kimmerosaurus.

    #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Ichthyosaurs #Pterosaurs #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Alt4Me

  11. Remembering my friend Richard Forrest, a marine reptile expert, with a week or two of marine reptile artworks. I'll start with this old acrylic painting, called The Wreck, which I created for Richard back in 2004.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me #MarineReptiles #Fossils #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plesiosaur #Plesiosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Pliosaurs #JurassicWorld

  12. Remembering my friend Richard Forrest, a marine reptile expert, with a week or two of marine reptile artworks. I'll start with this old acrylic painting, called The Wreck, which I created for Richard back in 2004.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me #MarineReptiles #Fossils #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plesiosaur #Plesiosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Pliosaurs #JurassicWorld

  13. Ancient #BoneEatingWorms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons phys.org/news/2025-07-ancient- paper by Sarah Jamison-Todd et al.: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

    "These bone-eating communities are ancient, and have been on Earth for at least 100 million years. Before #whales existed, bone-eating #worms were eating into the skeletons of #mosasaurs, #ichthyosaurs and #plesiosaurs... New research has named seven of these burrow types... some are very similar to the burrows of living #Osedax worms."

  14. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Crinoids #Ichthyosaurs #Ichthyosaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

  15. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Crinoids #Ichthyosaurs #Ichthyosaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

  16. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2021 I created a bunch of paintings for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. I painted four murals and three illustrations for graphics boards. Here's one of the illustrations featuring the ichthyosaur Baptanodon.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Baptanodon #Ichthyosaurs #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark

  17. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2021 I created a bunch of paintings for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. I painted four murals and three illustrations for graphics boards. Here's one of the illustrations featuring the ichthyosaur Baptanodon.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Baptanodon #Ichthyosaurs #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark

  18. New addition to the bookshelf, ‘Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs’ by Bardet et al. First impressions are positive. It’s great to see obscure groups getting coverage with plenty of diagrams and artwork, not just the #plesiosaurs, #ichthyosaurs and #mosasaurs.

    #bookstodon #book #paleontology

  19. New addition to the bookshelf, ‘Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs’ by Bardet et al. First impressions are positive. It’s great to see obscure groups getting coverage with plenty of diagrams and artwork, not just the #plesiosaurs, #ichthyosaurs and #mosasaurs.

    #bookstodon #book #paleontology

  20. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the limited edition print I designed and signed.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Pterosaurs #Dimorphodon #Ichthyosaurs #Temnodontosaurus #Plesiosaurus #Coins

  21. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the limited edition print I designed and signed.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Pterosaurs #Dimorphodon #Ichthyosaurs #Temnodontosaurus #Plesiosaurus #Coins

  22. Apex predators in prehistoric Colombian oceans would have snacked on killer whales today phys.org/news/2025-01-apex-pre paper: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar

    "The Paja ecosystem thrived with #plesiosaurs, #ichthyosaurs, and abundant #invertebrates, giving rise to one of history's most intricate marine food webs... The discovery of giant marine reptile apex predators occupying a seventh trophic level underscores the Paja ecosystem's unmatched diversity and complexity"

  23. Apex predators in prehistoric Colombian oceans would have snacked on killer whales today phys.org/news/2025-01-apex-pre paper: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar

    "The Paja ecosystem thrived with #plesiosaurs, #ichthyosaurs, and abundant #invertebrates, giving rise to one of history's most intricate marine food webs... The discovery of giant marine reptile apex predators occupying a seventh trophic level underscores the Paja ecosystem's unmatched diversity and complexity"

  24. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's a clip of me painting "Mortality in Blue," showing a Stenopterygius having complications during labour in the warm Jurassic sea roughly 180 million years ago (created for LOCKED IN TIME, by Dr Dean Lomax).

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaurs #Stenopterygius

  25. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's "Mortality in Blue," showing a Stenopterygius having complications during labour in the warm Jurassic sea roughly 180 million years ago. This was an unused test artwork for LOCKED IN TIME (by Dr Dean Lomax).

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaurs #Stenopterygius

  26. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's "Mortality in Blue," showing a Stenopterygius having complications during labour in the warm Jurassic sea roughly 180 million years ago. This was an unused test artwork for LOCKED IN TIME (by Dr Dean Lomax).

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaurs #Stenopterygius

  27. Discovery of rare new #fossil sheds light on #NewZealand's extinct dolphin-like reptiles phys.org/news/2025-01-discover

    A platypterygiid #ichthyosaur from the #Cenomanian of central New Zealand tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    "This #discovery is particularly exciting because the specimen is about 98 million years old. This is about four million years before the final #extinction of #ichthyosaurs, which makes it one of the youngest semi-complete ichthyosaur skeletons known."

  28. Discovery of rare new #fossil sheds light on #NewZealand's extinct dolphin-like reptiles phys.org/news/2025-01-discover

    A platypterygiid #ichthyosaur from the #Cenomanian of central New Zealand tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    "This #discovery is particularly exciting because the specimen is about 98 million years old. This is about four million years before the final #extinction of #ichthyosaurs, which makes it one of the youngest semi-complete ichthyosaur skeletons known."

  29. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my "Transient Oasis" painting, depicting animals in and around a colony of crinoids growing on driftwood.

    cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-i

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Crinoids #Ichthyosaurs #Fish #Ammonites

  30. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my "Transient Oasis" painting, depicting animals in and around a colony of crinoids growing on driftwood.

    cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-i

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Crinoids #Ichthyosaurs #Fish #Ammonites

  31. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, written by Prof Mike Benton. Here's my painting of Stenopterygius.

    This book would make a great Christmas gift!
    thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/d

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaurs #Stenopterygius

  32. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, written by Prof Mike Benton. Here's my painting of Stenopterygius.

    This book would make a great Christmas gift!
    thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/d

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaurs #Stenopterygius

  33. This #FossilFriday a special Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil arrived at Wollaton Hall on loan from the University of Nottingham.

    This is the type specimen of Protoichthyosaurus applebyi, which is going on display in a new gallery of dinosaur-age fossils opening this summer at the #NottNatHist museum.

    @MrIchthyosaurus led the move with help from others including @WitcherClo

    #ichthyosaurs #fossils #museum #jurassic #Nottingham #WollatonHall #NaturalHistory

  34. This #FossilFriday a special Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil arrived at Wollaton Hall on loan from the University of Nottingham.

    This is the type specimen of Protoichthyosaurus applebyi, which is going on display in a new gallery of dinosaur-age fossils opening this summer at the #NottNatHist museum.

    @MrIchthyosaurus led the move with help from others including @WitcherClo

    #ichthyosaurs #fossils #museum #jurassic #Nottingham #WollatonHall #NaturalHistory

  35. The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size - Enlarge (credit: Sergey Krasovskiy)

    Blue whales have been cons... - arstechnica.com/?p=2018235 #ichthyosaurs #paleontology #evolution #science #biology #fossils

  36. The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size - Enlarge (credit: Sergey Krasovskiy)

    Blue whales have been cons... - arstechnica.com/?p=2018235 #ichthyosaurs #paleontology #evolution #science #biology #fossils

  37. #Paleontologists unearth what may be the largest known marine reptile phys.org/news/2024-04-paleonto #paleoart by @serpenillus

    The last giants: New evidence for giant Late #Triassic (Rhaetian) #ichthyosaurs from the UK journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

    "This new specimen is more complete, better preserved, and shows that we now have two of these giant bones—called a surangular—that have a unique shape and structure."

  38. #Paleontologists unearth what may be the largest known marine reptile phys.org/news/2024-04-paleonto #paleoart by @serpenillus

    The last giants: New evidence for giant Late #Triassic (Rhaetian) #ichthyosaurs from the UK journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

    "This new specimen is more complete, better preserved, and shows that we now have two of these giant bones—called a surangular—that have a unique shape and structure."

  39. Volunteer @WitcherClo has been matching and fixing ichthyosaur bones in the #NottNatHist museum this week, but in this pic it looks more like she's growing a bumper crop of ichthyosaur ribs.

    #FossilFriday #ichthyosaurs #fossil #conservation #restoration #collections #WollatonHall #Nottingham

  40. Volunteer @WitcherClo has been matching and fixing ichthyosaur bones in the #NottNatHist museum this week, but in this pic it looks more like she's growing a bumper crop of ichthyosaur ribs.

    #FossilFriday #ichthyosaurs #fossil #conservation #restoration #collections #WollatonHall #Nottingham

  41. The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is not on #Mastodon yet, but they just posted somewhere else 🤓 , featuring my book #ThePlesiosaursNeck and @TetZoo's new book Ancient Sea Reptiles:

    "We’ve had some awesome new toys in to go along side our books! These make a perfect souvenir after visiting our Attenborough #seadragon and Raffle the Plesiosaur!"

    Well worth a visit this summer and you might even find some fossils on the beach!

    #plesiosaurs #ichthyosaurs #Dorset #Charmouth

  42. The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is not on #Mastodon yet, but they just posted somewhere else 🤓 , featuring my book #ThePlesiosaursNeck and @TetZoo's new book Ancient Sea Reptiles:

    "We’ve had some awesome new toys in to go along side our books! These make a perfect souvenir after visiting our Attenborough #seadragon and Raffle the Plesiosaur!"

    Well worth a visit this summer and you might even find some fossils on the beach!

    #plesiosaurs #ichthyosaurs #Dorset #Charmouth

  43. A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
    This Arctic Ichthyosaur Should Not Exist
  44. A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
    This Arctic Ichthyosaur Should Not Exist