New! The gigantic marine turtle, Archelon ischyros, crawls up a beach, ready to lay her eggs—Pteranodon and Parasaurolophus in the background. Late Cretaceous, Pierre Shale, Kansas, USA🇺🇸🐢

New! A Spicomellus afer in a dry lakebed.
Middle Jurassic, El Mers III Formation, Morocco 🇲🇦

The enigmatic african thyreophoran Spicomellus recently got a new paper describing more armour, and it is stranger and spikier than we imagined!

New! A big low-poly scene with the animals of Australia 🇦🇺50 thousand years ago.. The fauna is largely based off the superb Pleistocene assemblages of South Walker Creek, Queensland and Wellington Cave, NSW.
a long belated follow-up to my ice age europe scene

In the topsy-turvy Land of Pleistocene Sicily 🇮🇹 a male Dwarf Sicilian Elephant, Palaeoloxodon falconeri ,less than 1m tall at the shoulder shoos of an intimidating foe, the Giant Swan, Cygnus falconeri, who towers of him 🐘🦢

A pair of the strange-looking bear-like "marsupial tapir" Palorchestes azael find an unusual food source: tree sap. Their smaller relative, a common wombat, Vombatus ursinus, walks past, unbothered. Pleistocene, New South Wales, Australia.🐨🇦🇺

A mother scimitar-toothed cat, Homotherium latidens walks her cubs in heavy snow Pleistocene, Siberia, Russia 🐯🇷🇺

Life reconstruction of the cubs based on an incredible mummified Homotherium cub discovered in Siberian permafrost last year

A pair of "demon ducks' or Genyornis newtoni, patrol a small pond, where some Diporotodon are drinking. Pleistocene, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺🦆

A pod of the Killer Sperm Whale Livyatan melvillei pursue a frightened trio of the small, walrus-tusked whale Odobenocetops. Late Miocene, Pisco formation, off the coast of Peru.🐳🇵🇪

A pod of huge predatory Sperm whales, Livyatan melvillei, fend off an equally giant predator, the infamous giant shark Otodus megalodon! Miocene, Pisco formation, Peru🦈🐳🇵🇪

A mating pair of rhino-like Toxodon platensis 'enjoy' themselves, while a Glyptodon and a herd of Guanaco (Llama guanacoe) walk past. pliestocene, argentina 🇦🇷

A bit belated but:
a new render of Two individuals of the newly described sailed Drepanosauroid, Mirasauragrauvogeli, in the trees.
Middle Triassic, Grès_à_Voltzia Fm, France 🦎🇫🇷

A huge flock of Pterodaustro guinazui, an unusual filer feeding pterosaur binge on plankton in an isolated brine lake, Early Creataceous, Lagarcito Formation, Argentina🇦🇷

The small, bipedal mammal, leptictidium nasutum escapes the clutches of the ancient boa, Eoconstrictor fischeri. 🐭🐍

Eocene, Messel Formation,Germany🇩🇪

a giant predatory Ichthyosaur, Cymbospondylus petrinus, leaps out the water in pursuit of a much smaller relative, the mixosaurid ichthyosaur Phalarodon fraasi.

Late Triassic, Prida Fm, Nevada USA

As voted in the poll: A lone Cryolophosaurus ellioti cries at dawn over its misty forest home.

Early Jurassic, Hanson formation, Antarctica 🇦🇶🦖