Jakub Zalewski

he/him 🌿24 🌿 paleoart and graphic design 🌿 paleontology student

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[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

I'm back! Sorry for the long break - it's been a busy year with new projects. Now it's time to upload them!

Mioeuoticus shipmani from the Miocene of Kenya lurking on his 'dinner'. As the new day rises, the primate is about to fall asleep soon.

Source project in comments ⬇️

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

My first personal merch, available at #eavp2026 conference in Vilnius ✨

[Gael casas @GaelCasart]

Little permian mexicoceras smithi
Also known as waagenoceras gualapense smithi

[물감여우 @dydrkflqo]

암모나이트 낙서 모음

[ひゆう かとる/Hiyu Catoru @asihida_asihida]

Painter

[CJSea @CJSeaArt]

A sketch of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, the newly described yet highly controversial large cirrate octopus.

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@T29HeavyTonk Yes! I wanted to make it closer to modern cirrates + I stuck to the bottom of the estimated range rise

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

https://t.co/zfTTlZgZbL

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

Current paleontogical star: giant cirrate octopod Nanaimoteuthis haggarti hunting on a baby mosasaur.

Check out the article: Ikegami et al., 2026, link in com.

#paleoart #digitalart #procreate #ceohalopod #Nanaimoteuthis

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

https://t.co/zfTTlZgZbL

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

What a time for cephalopod paleontology! We may "lose" one cirrate octopod (redescription of the "oldest octopus" Pohlsepia, Clements et al., 2026) but we got a new, possible huge one (post soon).
#paleoart #cephalopoda #pohlsepia #mazoncreek #carboniferous

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

It was a great experience, along with the possibility to present my paleoart!

[Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @IBE_Warszawa]

Congratulations to our Master's student @ArtXaime on winning the competition for Best Poster at the Młodzi w Paleontologii XIV Conference! 🎉🥳

[Niki Joy @paleobug]

Trade with @dudziari !

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@SoulFullHyena It's beautiful! And it's cool to see one of my favourite sculptures as a drawing!

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@John56532395736 I believe he tried his best 🥹

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

Mongolemys (Szczygielski et al., 2025)

Poor Mongolemys was heavily burned after wildfire. Its shell started to heal already. Although leeches took advantage of that and attached themselves in the most vulnerable places.

#paleoart #cretaceous #digitalart

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@Seashocker23 Thank you ☺️

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@leguanx I can dig out my references (it was a long time ago 😅) and check this for you and reach in dm ;)

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@MesozoicDream @leguanx Don't want to say too much, as it will be published soon, but yes, there are two distinct types of pathologies on the carapace and this is their most plausible interpretation by the paper's authors.

[Jakub Zalewski @XaimePaleo]

@leguanx Thank you! It's a poster from EAVP Szczygielski et al., 2025 Report of multi-causal shell abnormalities in the Late Cretaceous turtle Mongolemys elegans Khosatzky and Młynarski, 1971 (Pan-Testudinoidea) and the paper about this study is in prep.