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Dynamognathus
@dynamoterror.bsky.social
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Wildlife, rewilding, spec-evo, and paleontology enthusiast/artist.
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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · Jan 2
Starting off 2026 with a commissions announcement! I’ve drawn a few commissioned pieces in the past, but haven’t widely advertised it before. If you would like to fund custom-made drawings from a young artist, contact me and we can discuss all the details. #commissions #paleoart #wildlifeart
An advertisement/announcement for commissions, featuring several pieces of my artwork on a dark grey background, arranged by approximate difficulty and corresponding price range. Grayscale subjects without backgrounds are roughly twenty-five to fifty dollars, colored subjects without backgrounds are roughly thirty to seventy-five dollars, infographics (either colored or grayscale) featuring text and drawings are roughly fifty to two-hundred dollars, grayscale full scenes are roughly one-hundred-and-fifty to two-hundred-and-fifty dollars, and colored full scenes are roughly one-hundred-and-seventy-five dollars to three-hundred dollars. Pricing is flexible depending on the complexity and subject matter of the piece.
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
Some Kaimeran cheetahs and their prey:
September 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
A commissioned lineup of the proboscideans of Sukaya (the Africa-equivalent continent of a friend’s #worldbuilding project). Elephants are definitely becoming some of my favorite animals to draw! #specevo #Tyrannoc #elephants
A size-chart lineup of colored-pencil-drawn elephants, all in lateral view facing towards the left side of the image against a white background. The first two are the real African Forest and African Bush elephants, the next is a species of African Mammoth, then a large species based on Palaeoloxodon recki, then a deinothere based on Deinotherium bozasi, and then a much, much larger species with four tusks that is entirely fictional (it specializes on browsing magical trees in this worldbuilding setting). All are some variation of brownish grey, with the forest elephant being notably darker and the deinothere possessing a slightly rusty-colored dewlap under its throat and chest.
September 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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talesofkaimere.bsky.social
The Permian Islands have a great many domesticated flora and fauna. Among the most important are the manticores ridden like horses, gorgons used for meat and labor, and fauns with long wool.

Link to episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm0y...
August 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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prehistoricmidwest.bsky.social
Cuvieronius was an elephant relative with spiral-shaped tusks! The genus was found in parts of North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch
June 12, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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prehistoricmidwest.bsky.social
Some paleoart I made of two types of mammoths! The Midwest wasn't home to just one type of mammoth during the Pleistocene epoch. Woolly mammoths lived further north during this span of time while most of the Great Plains and central lowlands were home to herds of Columbian mammoths!
September 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
Where a river empties into the Sundance Sea, one of the first Gars cruises past rows of horsetails while an early Brachiosaurid approaches the shore. A speculative scene inspired by talking with @seismic-shrimp.bsky.social about the origin of Lepisosteidae. #paleoart #sciart #sundayfishsketch #gar
A colored pencil drawing of a half-underwater scene in western North America during the late Middle Jurassic. The water is brown and murky, darkening towards the sandy bottom. In the foreground is a small, relatively short-faced basal Gar resting in the water column. It is greenish brown with yellowish fins and faint horizontal stripes along the head and body. Its tail is partially obscured by the dense bundle of half-underwater horsetails that frames the right edge of the drawing. The surface of the water is still and reflects the background, which is comprised of a horsetail-lined shore, two large and low pale sand dunes, and a tall sauropod dinosaur walking towards the water from between the dunes.
August 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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literallymiguel.bsky.social
Deinosuchus riograndensis, a robust, and very menacing 9+ meters long eusuchian from the cretaceous, with proportionately giant jaws compared to its body, it was very at home in water, including seas
Paleoart commission for ExtinctOnImpact!
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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deadbovids.bsky.social
Dinofelis mandible dating to 1.9 million years ago from Koobi Fora, Kenya for #FossilFriday
Dinofelis sleeping in a tree
August 28, 2026 at 1:54 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
As much as the genus as a whole is mentioned/depicted tangentially, most of the various species of Stegodon still feel very underrated to me. Like Stegodon ganesa. The cranium is four feet long, and it hails from the Plio-Pleistocene Siwalik deposits of northern India. #paleoart #sciart #pleistocene
An original figure illustration from the old paper Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, depicting the partially-reconstructed cranium and reattached tusks of Stegodon ganesa in dorsal view and in angled front view, labeled as “Elephas ganesa”. The same skull in dorsal view as in the first image, but with the bent left tusk slightly re-angled in photoshop to be symmetrical with the right tusk. All on a white background. A quick black-and-white pencil sketch of the head of Stegodon ganesa in front/dorsal view (minus the ears), drawn over the skull with a re-angled left tusk in the previous image.
August 28, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
FINALLY, I can reveal that we weren't showing C. spelea, but another, larger species: the newly announced Cryptoprocta bevatabe Lewis et al., 2026. We got the scoop on this animal years back, deliberately portrayed it in the show... cont
Montage showing giant black fossa with C. ferox, drawings by Darren Naish.
August 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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maijakarala.bsky.social
Ichneumonid wasps

A few wasps I've seen in recent years. These parasitoid insects are incredibly diverse, yet poorly known with possibly as little as a quarter of living species even named. They're famous for making Charles Darwin doubt the existence of God simply by existing in nature.
A collection of seven parasitic ichneumonid wasps of different shapes and sizes, drawn with white on a black background. Most are of unknown (to me) species, though the large one in lower right corner is a sabre wasp (Rhyssa persuasoria), a parasite of large wood wasps and longhorn beetles.
August 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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wrycritic.bsky.social
A thread of abolsutely fantastic woman and enby pterosaur palaeoartists (you should follow, platform and shower with compliments) 🧵

Like, look at avi🌧️ over here, baller:
barghest-land.bsky.social avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Nov 9
i think it's time to introduce Gentle Wind - my personal project about pterosaurs. there will be quite a few animations done to appreciate those beautiful creatures. here's one of them :)
more to come! i'll be talking about it under #gentle_wind tag☁️
#paleoart #sciart
August 5, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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branartworks.bsky.social
Physeteroidea indet. from the late Miocene of the Paraná Fm. Very, very hypothetical, consists in two teeth, MAS Pv 1361 and MACN Pv 8926, in the size range of modern Physeter and are somewhat similar, largest one would have been 19-20 cm long with the tip.
#paleoart #sciart
August 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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branartworks.bsky.social
Different sharks scavenging the giant carcass of Livyatan melvillei~
#paleoart
June 11, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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diegooa.bsky.social
#SundayFishSketch
🐠Part 1 is now complete!
Top row: Brembodus ridens, Macromesodon gibbosus, Girodus circularis
Bottom row: Piranhamesodon pinnatomus, Mesturus verrucosus/Goodichthys prettii, Turbomesodon praeclarus
#paleoart
Drawings of pycnodonts, a group of prehistoric fish Top row: Brembodus ridens, Macromesodon gibbosus, Girodus circularis Bottom row: Piranhamesodon pinnatomus, Mesturus verrucosus/Goodichthys prettii, Turbomesodon praeclarus
August 9, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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midkil.bsky.social
Waxing Crescent
August 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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seismic-shrimp.bsky.social
My first 4 submissions for phase 5 of Lemuria. Trying to make some things more weird than last phase but still plausible. More fish will be on the way!!
June 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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seismic-shrimp.bsky.social
Been a while since I've posted stuff in general so I thought I would post the 20 minute sketches from tonight's flocking! Waptia, Megapterygius, Eomola, and Talpanas
#paleostream #paleoart #sciart
August 8, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
In preparation for @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social's Family Fun Day next week, I've made a large poster of Middle Jurassic Chinese plants for an activity I'm running. But what will I be doing with it? Perhaps it involves a few hidden beasties.

#FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany
A photo art composite landscape of a jurassic forest, with a real photo background of a tree base and various jurassic plan drawings extending in from the edges of the image.
August 7, 2026 at 2:12 AM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
Here are all of the fictional creatures and plants I’ve created for phase 3 of the #LemuriaChallenge, a speculative evolution #Paleostream project. This final phase just concluded a few hours ago, and although I’ve not drawn as much as in previous phases I am still happy with the results. #drawing
August 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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branartworks.bsky.social
Imagine you are one of the smallest marine mammals ever and you had to share the sea with the two most impressive marine predators ever...🫠among a horde of smaller "versions" of them and marine gharials... that was Australophoca's life...
#paleoart
August 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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csapa.bsky.social
Eomyodon volkeri, a terrestrial eomyid rodent of Late Oligocene Europe
August 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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wrycritic.bsky.social
Got to finally meet in person, the extremely talented @somniosa.bsky.social. Follow them for absolutely top notch palaeoart coming from China.

Just look at these postcards 💜
Dinanomodon guoi postcard, Cretaceous landscape postcard and mock Prehistoric Planet postcard
July 28, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
End cretaceus hell
July 26, 2026 at 7:04 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
Up in the #Appalachian mountains during the Pleistocene, a young Mastodon is very excited to have found a new playmate. The playmate in question is not nearly so enthused but also can’t do much about it. This is a sketch I began a while ago but only just returned to. #paleoart #pleistocene #sciart
A colored-pencil drawing of a very fluffy, reddish-furred juvenile Mastodon against a white background, drawn in a running pose with its mouth open in joy while lifting a screaming raccoon into the air above its head with its coiled trunk. The mastodon has very short but still protruding tusks.
July 26, 2026 at 10:28 PM