To be born into the waves and die as foam

Basilosaurus

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don't know a thing about 3d printing!! but one day i'll make a whale skeleton that's small enough to hang from my ceiling like they have at museums and it's going to be sick as hell

my vision btw

A pair of Hungry Therozinosaurus forage on the leaves of deciduous trees as they stroll through the woods of what is now the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia, 70 million years ago

Short post of paleontologists absolutely slaying photo shoots with their discoveries. Please add more such images if you have them.

Here’s some bon(e)us ones: José Bonaparte with Carnotaurus and (the late) Jorge Calvo with a lower jaw of the largest described Giganotosaurus. 

(1st photo by Louie Psihoyos, 2nd photo from Calvo's Twitter)

Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar and the arms of Deinocheirus

Short post of paleontologists absolutely slaying photo shoots with their discoveries. Please add more such images if you have them.

Here’s some bon(e)us ones: José Bonaparte with Carnotaurus and (the late) Jorge Calvo with a lower jaw of the largest described Giganotosaurus. 

(1st photo by Louie Psihoyos, 2nd photo from Calvo's Twitter)

Keraterpeton galvani here was part of a group of amphibian-like early tetrapods called lepospondyls.

Living in what is now southern Ireland during the Late Carboniferous, about 318-314 million years ago, this 30-40cm long (~1'-1'4") fully aquatic animal was the earliest known member of the diplocaulid lineage (although its skull was much less elaborately modified than its famous boomerang-headed relative Diplocaulus).

It had a broad short-snouted head with eyes set far forward, and a pair of backwards-pointing bony "horns" at the back of its skull. Its forelimbs were smaller than its hindlimbs, and unlike most other diplocaulids it had five fingers on its hands instead of four.

Its vertically flattened paddle-like tail was also around twice as long as the rest of its body, and was probably its main source of propulsion in the water.

Keraterpeton seems to have been quite numerous in the coal swamps it inhabited, representing the most common species preserved in the Irish Jarrow Assemblage site – a location where fossil specimens were uniquely "cooked" and partially replaced with coal during the fossilization process.

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Speculative breeding colors bull Lambeosaurus with a big dewlap doing a big stomp to impress the ladies! I realized I’d drawn lamb less than I thought, which is a tragedy because its one of my favorite dinosaurs.

Tarbosaurus bataar, or as I like to call it, “We have T. rex at home”.

Okay, that’s not fair, Tarb was pretty neat in its own right. It wouldn’t have offered much you wouldn’t get more of with Rex, it was a little smaller and more slender, but the fact that we have two dinosaurs like this is nothing to get complacent about if you ask me.

PS: this is a redraw. Now with 40% less muscular shrinkwrapping!

Mike Milne with some of the cast of Walking with Dinosaurs.

The cover art for that book that the baby Diplodocus is standing on looks familiar.

Velociraptors and Deltatheridium by Doug Henderson