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Bob Nicholls Art @[email protected] · 2026-02-24 · 16:16 UTC

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

#kimmeridge #thrissops #grendelius #nannopterygius #ichthyosaurs #rhamphorhynchus

The Inquisitive Biologist @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 11:45 UTC

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some more unusual acquisitions from 2025.

- I purchased the last copy of the definitive retrospective on the #palaeoart of Zdenek #Burian from Albatros Media. Volume 3 focuses on his artwork of prehistoric humans. All these books are written in Czech, but the artwork is just lavish, and I'm a sucker for period palaeoart.

- I found a second-hand copy of the reissue of #AlexanderVonHumboldt's Views of Nature, released by the University of Chicago Press.

- #Spookslot - 44 jaar te gast bij de geesten, a Dutch book I hunted down via a friend, which was released to commemorate the closure of one of the most beloved attractions, Het Spookslot (a haunted house), in De #Efteling, a well-known Dutch amusement park I used to go to quite often as a child. I know they have completely rebuilt it into a new ride now with nods to the classic panoramic show, but I haven't visited it yet.

#Books #Paleontology #Palaeontology #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

#newbooks #palaeoart #burian #alexandervonhumboldt #spookslot #efteling

Bob Nicholls Art @[email protected] · 2025-02-11 · 16:13 UTC

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A close up view of my 2021 press release painting of the Rutland Sea Dragon, a huge 10m long Temnodontosaurus.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur #Temnodontosaurus #SeaDragon #Jurassic

#art #painting #paleoart #palaeoart #sciart #scicomm

Bob Nicholls Art @[email protected] · 2025-02-11 · 10:07 UTC

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2021 press release painting of the Rutland Sea Dragon, a huge 10m long Temnodontosaurus. Amusingly, a BBC news article called it the "Sea Dragon Dinosaur Dolphin," or something like that.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur #Temnodontosaurus #SeaDragon #Jurassic