Don´t you hate it when you time travel and ur buddy gets stuck inside a giant clam and gets turned into a pearl shaped like a Pompeii victim and u realize ur rich but would be in bad taste to sell him on the black market and ur conflicted and ammonites seem to be judging u and...
Mark Witton is writing his own upcoming speculative evolution dinosaur book, which he announced on Patreon yesterday (and Bluesky today). This is one of the creatures appearing in his book.
Awesome new research into Tylosaurus by @TyrantLzrdQueen et al. Redescriptions for two species of Tylosaurus, linked below. Plus maybe the best art of this animal I’ve ever seen!
Art by Andrey Atuchin
Portunatasaurus hunting in the waves.
This early mosasauroid lived during the late Cretaceous in what would become Croatia.
This is an extended/updated version of an older artwork.
What do you think?
#paleoart
While working on Inoceramus, thinking it's the largest bivalve🤡, it was today that I heard of Platyceramus.
Sorry for the absence, been super busy the past few months✌🏽.
For scale, swimmer is over 2m from head to fin.
#marine#mollusk#paleoart#megabivalve#sizecomparison