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Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· 12d

So, I bumped into one of the vendors from #DinoConUK at a “night market” in Lincoln today & bought a couple of prints that I’d overlooked at the weekend. It was great chatting ŵ you @ianjacksonartist.bsky.social !

Linocut prints of dinosaur skulls in plastic envelopes on a wooden table. On the left, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus; on the right, Tyrannosaurus rex. #humanMade

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· 13d

Maybe _Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?_ by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld? First published in 1995, second ed. 2003. I’m not sure which edition this cover is from …

Cover of _Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?_
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. A small brownish feathered theropod displays its feathery wings against a background of vegetation & a large rising sun.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· 13d

Possibly Gregory S. Paul’s _Predatory Dinosaurs of the World_ from 1989 … ? I can check my copy (recently found by my daughter in a charity shop) for the image you mentioned once I’m up & about tomorrow.

Cover of Gregory S. Paul’s _Predatory Dinosaurs of the World : A Complete Illustrated Guide_. A greyscale theropod dinosaur stalks across a bright yellow background.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· 13d

This comment of Fb is about Christopher Nolan’s _The Odyssey_, but ŵ appropriate change of details it could be about #paleo #palaeo documentaries …

Screenshot of a comment on a Facebook post:

Renee Kilmer

I welcome any well-made movie that introduces contemporary audiences to the classics. The fact that a movie or tv series isn’t absolutely faithful to the original is far less important than its ability to draw new interest in classical works.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· 18d

Ready for a tour? @ @dinoconuk.bsky.social #JurassicPark

Photograph of two Jeeps and other vehicles in Jurassic Park liveries outside the Hilton Birmingham Metropole.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Jun 21

Avē! 🖖 Happy Summer Solstice! (Happy Winter Solstice to my antipodean friends!)

The large megalithic structure of Stonehenge silhouetted by the rising Sun against a background of clouds in an orange sky.

Image credit: Anton Petrus via Getty Images

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Jun 17

A photograph of the Reflecting Pool in Washington D.C. showing large swaths of green algae obscuring the “American flag blue” bottom. At the bottom of the photo is the caption, “Making Algae Grow Again”.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· May 14

Bulette …

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Mar 20

A v late, “Avē! 🖖” & happy spring† #equinox! † autumn/fall for you south-Earthers

A photo of white cherry blossoms, likely from a Prunus species such as the wild cherry (Prunus avium), which flowers in early spring.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Mar 15

The showcase animatronic at @nhm-london.bsky.social …

Photo of the animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex at the Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Mar 15

Did you filter out glam rock results … ? 😏

Portrait of Marc Bolan by Patrick Woodroffe, his hair replaced by leaves and globular jewels.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Mar 7

Avē! 🖖 Last night, we won …

Photo of Mornington Crescent underground station at night In the rain

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Mar 4

Indeed it is!

Sketch of an anthropomorphic mouse in ancient Egyptian garb and double-crown. A speech bubble spells out ANT in mouse hieroglyphics (square spiral, eye, mouse).

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Feb 12

This was my attempt at recreating something like this, about 25 years ago. Sadly the ears broke off …

A polymer-clay model of any Egyptian hippo, painted turquoise with dark red rosettes, two on its side and one on its back. It has lost its ears, revealing the white clay underneath. It stands on a silver herringbone mat.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Feb 12

Happy #DarwinDay! #evolution Art by @juliuscsotonyi.bsky.social

A signed sketch by Julius Csotonyi showing a Galapagos “finch” perched on Charles Darwin’s famous “tree of life” sketch, interpreted as a living plant. Text reads: “Happy Darwin Day!”

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Jan 12

Photo of a shelf showing four LEGO models built from the 3-in-1 “Mighty Dinosaurs” set (31058) – a Tyrannosaurus rex, a Triceratops, a Sauropod & a Pteranodon – along with two LEGO vehicles.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Jan 9

+ This was a lucky practice game starting ŵ Komodo dragon which gave me Toxifera. I then guessed rattlesnake which gave me Viperidae, leading to a correct guess of viper.

A screenshot of a practice game of Metazooa.

It shows a phylogenetic tree starting with Metazoa in a red box at the top. A line connects this to Toxifera in a yellow-green box. From here two lines connect to Komodo dragon and Viperidae in a green box. From here two lines connect to rattlesnake and viper (the correct answer) in a green box.

The text above the tree says:
Metazooa
Practice
You win! The answer is viper.
17 remaining
Guess (in a box)

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Jan 1

Avē! 🖖 Wishing everyone the happiest possible New Year!

The number 2026 laid out as 20 above and 26 below, slightly overlapping the 20. The digits are fat and coloured to represent a starry nebula. The 0 has a ragged outline and a swirling pattern. The centre of the 6 is a five-pointed star.

Source : https://www.deviantart.com/ronopoldo/art/2026-1281458688

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Dec 26

Ah! That was one of the books I received from my extended family, in this case from my nephew & niece.

A photo of three books laid on a multicoloured rug. _Hokusai beyond the great wave_ (with part of the great wave woodcut on the cover), _The Princeton field guide to Mesozoic plants_ by Nan Crystal Arens (with some green ferns on a buff background), & _The Undead_ by Johan Egerkran (with a small inset picture of a monstrous black dog with glowing eyes & hold lettering on a black background).

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Dec 20

“The #1 Movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”

Poster for the 1971 film version of _Fiddler on the Roof_.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Dec 3

I think this kind of diagram shows better how things (may have) happened. This probably doesn’t reflect recent findings.

Model of the speciation of Hominini and Gorillini over the past 10 million years; the hybridization process within Hominini is indicated as ongoing during roughly 8 to 6 Mya. Credit Wikipedia.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Nov 21

😮 How did the Romans know about these … ?!

Roman dodecahedron in bronze, 150 to 400 AD, location: Tongeren, Leopoldwal, 1939, collection Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren, Belgium.

Source : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentagon-dodeca%C3%ABder_in_brons,_150_tot_400_NC,_vindplaats-_Tongeren,_Leopoldwal,_1939,_collectie_Gallo-Romeins_Museum_Tongeren,_4002.jpg

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Nov 18

A great example of how stupid & misleading genAI can be. The first image is by artist “rcris” on Tumblr; the second is his description of the set of images this comes from; & the third is Google AI’s description of it … 🤦 #genAI #palaeoart #paleoart #speculativeEvolution #confidentlyWrong

Image by rcris showing the speculative evolution of a fictive animal group called the Mestoldontids. There are five animals, increasing in size moving down the image, the first being some what dog-like, the others becoming more like some kind of bear-procupine hybrid. The text on the image says:

A GATHERING OF
MESTOLDONTIDS
Akuikuiko (52,000 years ago)
Hicaiko (~30,000 years ago)
lhonosek (~12,000 years ago; last glacial maximum)
Carabara (extant, appeared 6-8,000 years ago)
Buhrabarara (6-7,000 years ago)

Image of the text from rcris’s Tumblr post:

Speculative evolution of a fictive animal group called the Mestoldontids inspired by @JuliotheArtist / @paleoart’s evolution charts!!!! The species names shouldn’t sound like anything scientific; they’re all using colloquial names the same manner ‘lion’ is.

It also comes with a bunch of 'scientific’ illustrations/diagrams depicting or explaining various fossils + an explanation in line with youtube/discovery documentaries on prehistoric animals. And the last one should be a diagram/textbook illustration of skulls of extant members of the Mestoldontid order, identified by their dentition, most similar to Diprotodontia.

#speculative #speculative evolution #speculative biology #critters #animals #fossil #Illustration #artists on tumblr
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Image of the text from Google AI’s description of the first image:

This image is a scientific illustration titled "A Gathering of Mestoldontids" and displays five different extinct megafauna species with their estimated time of extinction.
Top: Arctotherium angustidens (extinct ~82,000 years ago), a species of short-faced bear.
Second: Diprotodon optatum (extinct ~30,000 years ago), the largest known marsupial to have ever lived.
Third: Ursus spelaeus, or the Cave Bear (extinct ~11,000 years ago), a large bear species whose remains are primarily found in caves.
Fourth: Palorchestes azael (extinct ~40,000 years ago), an extinct genus of marsupial tapir.
Bottom: Arctodus simus, or the Giant Short-Faced Bear (extinct ~10,000 years ago), one of the largest known terrestrial carnivorans.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Nov 18

Ah. So sad. I only just “discovered” him, through a second-hand copy of _Dinosaur impressions : postcards from a paleontologist_, an impulse purchase from Oxfam in Lincoln.

Cover of _Dinosaur impressions : postcards from a paleontologist_ by Philippe Taquet. The title is in “Jurassic Park” style lettering. There’s a photo of Taquet lying on the ground propped on one elbow and peering at a just uncovered fossil.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Nov 12

It’s v much like that scene in _Jurassic Park_!

A screen cap from _Jurassic Park_ (1993) showing Laura Dern as Ellie Sattler seeing living dinosaurs for the first time.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Nov 10

@robwords.bsky.social Hi! I enjoyed your video about temporal terms. Re the use of minutes & seconds in geometry as well as time keeping, did you know that both are used in astronomical coordinates? Declination is measured in degrees, minutes & seconds; right ascension in hours, minutes & seconds.

Right ascension (blue) and declination (green) as seen from outside the celestial sphere.

Source: Wikipedia.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Oct 31

There’s this …

Skeletal reconstruction by Dr. Scott Hartman © 2025:

Nanotyrannus lethaeus
Long assumed to be a juvenile T. rex, a recent paper by Zanno & Napoli (2025) suggests the juvenile specimen known as "Jane" is the first known specimen of a new species of tyrannosaur, Nanotrannus lethaeus. The rigorous reconstruction shows what is known of BMRP 2002.4.1.

https://www.skeletaldrawing.com/

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Oct 29

Yeah, majestic slop from the genAI plagiarism machine. 🙄 🚫🤖🎨

Screenshot from sightengine.com showing that the image in the previous post is 99% likely to be AI generated.

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Oct 22

PS. Re Arctic/Antarctic & Earth itself …

An image of text:

[A yellow bird icon.] ayellowbirds
"So your planet, 'Dirt'—"
"'Earth.'"
"Right, Planet Dirt. It has two massive polar regions?"
"Uh-huh?"
"…named, 'Bearlandia' and 'Nobearlandia'?"
"I think something went wrong with the translation software."

Ant 🐜 𝖷𝖸 𝗁𝖾·𝗁𝗂𝗆 🖖 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🚫🤖🎨@antallan· Oct 8

Balaur bondoc by Gaëlle Seguillon @gaelleseguillon on Instagram One of the prints I bought at DinoCon!