I made a little ceramic drepanosaur! His name is Gigan, and I love how he came out
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I made a little ceramic drepanosaur! His name is Gigan, and I love how he came out
To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data...
#sciart #fossils #paleontology
#sciart #fossils #paleontology
October 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data...
#sciart #fossils #paleontology
#sciart #fossils #paleontology
Gigan the ceramic drepanosaur has stolen a fruit off of our evening picnic, the rascal
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Gigan the ceramic drepanosaur has stolen a fruit off of our evening picnic, the rascal
Its finally out! Please Welcome Mirasaura! A new drepanosaur from the Middle Triassic of France.
@serpenillus.bsky.social made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time... =)
@serpenillus.bsky.social made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time... =)
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Its finally out! Please Welcome Mirasaura! A new drepanosaur from the Middle Triassic of France.
@serpenillus.bsky.social made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time... =)
@serpenillus.bsky.social made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time... =)
and it's here! mirasaura grauvogeli, a new and delightful drepanosaur from triassic france
(art by tobias wilhelm)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(art by tobias wilhelm)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
and it's here! mirasaura grauvogeli, a new and delightful drepanosaur from triassic france
(art by tobias wilhelm)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(art by tobias wilhelm)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today is a very good day for long-standing enigmatic weirdos being pretty conclusively figured out. Longisquama is a drepanosaur, Nectocaris is a chaetognath, and Palaeocampa anthrax (metal name) is an aysheaiid (!!!)
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Today is a very good day for long-standing enigmatic weirdos being pretty conclusively figured out. Longisquama is a drepanosaur, Nectocaris is a chaetognath, and Palaeocampa anthrax (metal name) is an aysheaiid (!!!)
New art!
Mirasaura grauvogeli, the new Triassic Drepanosaur and close relative of Longisquama!
#paleoart #SciArt #art #reptiles #drepanosaurs
Mirasaura grauvogeli, the new Triassic Drepanosaur and close relative of Longisquama!
#paleoart #SciArt #art #reptiles #drepanosaurs
July 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New art!
Mirasaura grauvogeli, the new Triassic Drepanosaur and close relative of Longisquama!
#paleoart #SciArt #art #reptiles #drepanosaurs
Mirasaura grauvogeli, the new Triassic Drepanosaur and close relative of Longisquama!
#paleoart #SciArt #art #reptiles #drepanosaurs
I made a weird little dude today! This is Gigan the Drepanosaurus, a Triassic species that is very tricky to model out of ceramic clay. He’s got his big digging claws up in a defensive posture and speculative, Mirasaura-like pseudo-feathers.
Can’t wait to see how he looks painted!
Can’t wait to see how he looks painted!
August 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I made a weird little dude today! This is Gigan the Drepanosaurus, a Triassic species that is very tricky to model out of ceramic clay. He’s got his big digging claws up in a defensive posture and speculative, Mirasaura-like pseudo-feathers.
Can’t wait to see how he looks painted!
Can’t wait to see how he looks painted!
The amazing and arboreal Drepanosaur Megalancosaurus from Late Triassic Europe
Day 16 of my ink-marker sketches
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
Day 16 of my ink-marker sketches
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
October 16, 2023 at 2:18 PM
The amazing and arboreal Drepanosaur Megalancosaurus from Late Triassic Europe
Day 16 of my ink-marker sketches
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
Day 16 of my ink-marker sketches
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
This tiny guy not only shows strucutres that are basically the same as in Longisquama, it shows that Longissquama was likewise a drepanosaur and that reptiles experimented with beta keratin structures way earlier than we thought so far.
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This tiny guy not only shows strucutres that are basically the same as in Longisquama, it shows that Longissquama was likewise a drepanosaur and that reptiles experimented with beta keratin structures way earlier than we thought so far.
Now here's Mirasaura, or "miracle lizard." It's a drepanosaur with pseudofeathers, like the mysterious Longisquama! That suggests that a.) the latter's been a drepanosaur all along (!?) b.) complex, feather-like structures evolved independently *at least twice* in reptiles!
July 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Now here's Mirasaura, or "miracle lizard." It's a drepanosaur with pseudofeathers, like the mysterious Longisquama! That suggests that a.) the latter's been a drepanosaur all along (!?) b.) complex, feather-like structures evolved independently *at least twice* in reptiles!
Hypuronector a drepanosaur, its a small arboreal animal from
New Jersey and can be described as a chameleon and a leaf crossed together.
Model by @sophiethehadrosaur.bsky.social
Pose by me
#minecraftmodding #paleoart #Drepanosaur
New Jersey and can be described as a chameleon and a leaf crossed together.
Model by @sophiethehadrosaur.bsky.social
Pose by me
#minecraftmodding #paleoart #Drepanosaur
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Hypuronector a drepanosaur, its a small arboreal animal from
New Jersey and can be described as a chameleon and a leaf crossed together.
Model by @sophiethehadrosaur.bsky.social
Pose by me
#minecraftmodding #paleoart #Drepanosaur
New Jersey and can be described as a chameleon and a leaf crossed together.
Model by @sophiethehadrosaur.bsky.social
Pose by me
#minecraftmodding #paleoart #Drepanosaur
We scanned the tiny Mirasaura skull (compressed to be <1 mm(!!) thin) using @esrf.fr synchrotron radiation. It reveals the most bird-like drepanosaur skull to date, with a mostly toothless snout, large forward-facing orbits, and a wide, dome-like skull roof for a sizeable brain
July 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We scanned the tiny Mirasaura skull (compressed to be <1 mm(!!) thin) using @esrf.fr synchrotron radiation. It reveals the most bird-like drepanosaur skull to date, with a mostly toothless snout, large forward-facing orbits, and a wide, dome-like skull roof for a sizeable brain
I'm hoping for a drepanosaur
September 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm hoping for a drepanosaur
Working on #paleoart of the fantastic new drepanosaur Mirasaura today. I don't think it's mentioned in the paper, but there's a significant size range in the skin appendages: here's the biggest isolated example vs. the (juvenile) holotype. Neat. #fossil #paleontology
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Working on #paleoart of the fantastic new drepanosaur Mirasaura today. I don't think it's mentioned in the paper, but there's a significant size range in the skin appendages: here's the biggest isolated example vs. the (juvenile) holotype. Neat. #fossil #paleontology
Toying with Rebelle 7, and enjoying it. Here's an in-progress color rework of my sketch of Gigan the Drepanosaurus
August 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Toying with Rebelle 7, and enjoying it. Here's an in-progress color rework of my sketch of Gigan the Drepanosaurus
It is finally out! Welcome the new Triassic weirdo, the drepanosaur Mirasaura! Hunge congrats to all my colleagues here at the SMNS and beyond! 🤩
I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It is finally out! Welcome the new Triassic weirdo, the drepanosaur Mirasaura! Hunge congrats to all my colleagues here at the SMNS and beyond! 🤩
All of these animals are only known from the claws, but drepanosaur claws are surprisingly diagnostic - you can tell which species of drepanosaur you have from just the claw! This suggests that claws in different drepanosaurs may have been adapted for different functions, like digging or climbing
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
All of these animals are only known from the claws, but drepanosaur claws are surprisingly diagnostic - you can tell which species of drepanosaur you have from just the claw! This suggests that claws in different drepanosaurs may have been adapted for different functions, like digging or climbing
Drepanosaur hand claws often make me hungry for charro beans. 🧪 Some Triassic drepanosaur species had a single large claw on each hand as well as a modified vertebral ‘claw’ on the end of their tails.
August 13, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Drepanosaur hand claws often make me hungry for charro beans. 🧪 Some Triassic drepanosaur species had a single large claw on each hand as well as a modified vertebral ‘claw’ on the end of their tails.
Look at this perfect Triassic friend. Mirasaura was a "monkey lizard" with a prominent sail on its back that wasn't really like scales or feathers. Studying these fossils also revealed that the enigma Longisquama is a drepanosaur with a fan, too. I'll tell you more at @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
This Surprising Ancient Reptile Had a Colorful, Corrugated Sail on Its Back. New Research Suggests It Was Used to Communicate
A 247-million-year-old fossil from a German natural history museum reveals the secrets of Mirasaura
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Look at this perfect Triassic friend. Mirasaura was a "monkey lizard" with a prominent sail on its back that wasn't really like scales or feathers. Studying these fossils also revealed that the enigma Longisquama is a drepanosaur with a fan, too. I'll tell you more at @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mirasaura grauvogeli
From Middle Triassic France, "wonderful lizard" is a newly described drepanosaur sporting a crest of feather-like appendages that preserve melanin similar to those found in feathers, thus pushing the origin of such integuiment further back
From Middle Triassic France, "wonderful lizard" is a newly described drepanosaur sporting a crest of feather-like appendages that preserve melanin similar to those found in feathers, thus pushing the origin of such integuiment further back
July 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mirasaura grauvogeli
From Middle Triassic France, "wonderful lizard" is a newly described drepanosaur sporting a crest of feather-like appendages that preserve melanin similar to those found in feathers, thus pushing the origin of such integuiment further back
From Middle Triassic France, "wonderful lizard" is a newly described drepanosaur sporting a crest of feather-like appendages that preserve melanin similar to those found in feathers, thus pushing the origin of such integuiment further back
Oh, but this wasn't enough.
A new paper by Spiekman et al. now propose Longisquama is a drepanosauromorph --or simiosaur, whatever -- and this comes it more peculiarites. It makes other things MAKE SENSE, too. Those RIBS.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
A new paper by Spiekman et al. now propose Longisquama is a drepanosauromorph --or simiosaur, whatever -- and this comes it more peculiarites. It makes other things MAKE SENSE, too. Those RIBS.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
August 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oh, but this wasn't enough.
A new paper by Spiekman et al. now propose Longisquama is a drepanosauromorph --or simiosaur, whatever -- and this comes it more peculiarites. It makes other things MAKE SENSE, too. Those RIBS.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
A new paper by Spiekman et al. now propose Longisquama is a drepanosauromorph --or simiosaur, whatever -- and this comes it more peculiarites. It makes other things MAKE SENSE, too. Those RIBS.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
What has a bird-like skull, a lizard-like body and a clawed tail?
It's a drepanosaur! New research has revealed another odd thing about these bizarre Triassic reptiles: a feather-like structure that's nothing to do with birds!
Find out all about it for #FossilFriday 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
It's a drepanosaur! New research has revealed another odd thing about these bizarre Triassic reptiles: a feather-like structure that's nothing to do with birds!
Find out all about it for #FossilFriday 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Bizarre new fossil reptile had crest unlike anything seen before | Natural History Museum
Mirasaura grauvogeli is changing our understanding of reptile evolution.
www.nhm.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What has a bird-like skull, a lizard-like body and a clawed tail?
It's a drepanosaur! New research has revealed another odd thing about these bizarre Triassic reptiles: a feather-like structure that's nothing to do with birds!
Find out all about it for #FossilFriday 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
It's a drepanosaur! New research has revealed another odd thing about these bizarre Triassic reptiles: a feather-like structure that's nothing to do with birds!
Find out all about it for #FossilFriday 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...