Paleoctober Day 9: Longisquama
October 10, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Paleoctober Day 9: Longisquama
May 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
In the trees, a determined Longisquama makes themselves known with a display and loud warning call. Personal paleoart I made 😁
May 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM
In the trees, a determined Longisquama makes themselves known with a display and loud warning call. Personal paleoart I made 😁
Zdenek Burian’s Longisquama!
December 13, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Zdenek Burian’s Longisquama!
More leaves and a little "Blep" from a sneaky Longisquama.
#Ginkgo #Longisquama #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart
#Ginkgo #Longisquama #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart
September 26, 2023 at 4:49 AM
More leaves and a little "Blep" from a sneaky Longisquama.
#Ginkgo #Longisquama #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart
#Ginkgo #Longisquama #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart
It occurred to me to update my Longisquama skeletal reconstruction with recent findings of close relation to drepanosaurs.
The first one was dozens ans dozens of years ago, rendered from bad photographs. It's really bad.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
The first one was dozens ans dozens of years ago, rendered from bad photographs. It's really bad.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It occurred to me to update my Longisquama skeletal reconstruction with recent findings of close relation to drepanosaurs.
The first one was dozens ans dozens of years ago, rendered from bad photographs. It's really bad.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
The first one was dozens ans dozens of years ago, rendered from bad photographs. It's really bad.
#drepanosaurs #sciart #skeletal_reconstruction #longisquama #mirasaura
Is that a Longisquama?
May 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Is that a Longisquama?
Longisquama! A prehistoric lizard from the late triassic. I love his back fan. So cool! And more importantly adorable!!!
#paleoart #dinosaur #prehistoriclizard #lizard
#paleoart #dinosaur #prehistoriclizard #lizard
March 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Longisquama! A prehistoric lizard from the late triassic. I love his back fan. So cool! And more importantly adorable!!!
#paleoart #dinosaur #prehistoriclizard #lizard
#paleoart #dinosaur #prehistoriclizard #lizard
Mirasaura is similar to #Longisquama, a controversial Triassic reptile described in the 70s. Longisquama remained a mystery due to its poor preservation and it was used as an alternate bird "ancestor". With Mirasaura, we can now also finally put the Longisquama debate to rest.
July 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Mirasaura is similar to #Longisquama, a controversial Triassic reptile described in the 70s. Longisquama remained a mystery due to its poor preservation and it was used as an alternate bird "ancestor". With Mirasaura, we can now also finally put the Longisquama debate to rest.
Day 22: Longisquama
What would you name this lizard if it was your pet? I’m leaning towards Mr. Flappy
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Reptile #SciArt #Triassic #PaleoArt #Nature #Animal
What would you name this lizard if it was your pet? I’m leaning towards Mr. Flappy
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Reptile #SciArt #Triassic #PaleoArt #Nature #Animal
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Day 22: Longisquama
What would you name this lizard if it was your pet? I’m leaning towards Mr. Flappy
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Reptile #SciArt #Triassic #PaleoArt #Nature #Animal
What would you name this lizard if it was your pet? I’m leaning towards Mr. Flappy
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Reptile #SciArt #Triassic #PaleoArt #Nature #Animal
Finally we can confirm that longisquama is NOT a series of unfortunate lizards that died on top of a plant.
July 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Finally we can confirm that longisquama is NOT a series of unfortunate lizards that died on top of a plant.
November 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I'm going to share something very old, which I don't normally like doing, but it's #invertefest and it's relevant. There's *a lot* I'd do differently now, but I am still proud that I took the opportunity to show just how honkin' large Gigatitan was compared to the more iconic Longisquama. #sciart
September 1, 2023 at 12:48 AM
I'm going to share something very old, which I don't normally like doing, but it's #invertefest and it's relevant. There's *a lot* I'd do differently now, but I am still proud that I took the opportunity to show just how honkin' large Gigatitan was compared to the more iconic Longisquama. #sciart
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 (!!!)
Back in the 1970s, researchers angsty with the idea that birds were dinosaurs seized on the discovery of Longisquama, a very weird and enigmatic reptile with featherlike structures. But as it became clear that the dinosaur/bird link was undeniable, Longisquama proved very hard to place.
July 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Back in the 1970s, researchers angsty with the idea that birds were dinosaurs seized on the discovery of Longisquama, a very weird and enigmatic reptile with featherlike structures. But as it became clear that the dinosaur/bird link was undeniable, Longisquama proved very hard to place.
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 did not wake up this morning expecting Longisquama to be solved, but wow, it was just solved - thanks to this newly-described relative Mirasaura!
Proud to make my National Geographic debut with this incredible discovery: an extremely weird little guy with independently-evolved "feathers" that solves a longstanding Triassic mystery and makes one of the period's oddest families even stranger
Crested Triassic Reptile
Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.”
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I did not wake up this morning expecting Longisquama to be solved, but wow, it was just solved - thanks to this newly-described relative Mirasaura!
Drawing from late 2023, kind of speculative drawing of longisquama with the things on it's back to camouflage with the lycopsids. + a neuropteran also from the Madygen Formation.
#palaeoart #paleoart
#palaeoart #paleoart
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Drawing from late 2023, kind of speculative drawing of longisquama with the things on it's back to camouflage with the lycopsids. + a neuropteran also from the Madygen Formation.
#palaeoart #paleoart
#palaeoart #paleoart
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
The “plumes” of Mirasaura and Longisquama likely evolved separately from the feathers or feather-like structures we know in Dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Like other Drepanosauromorphs, Mirasaura also had a weird, bird-like and mostly toothless skull
#paleoart
#paleoart
July 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The “plumes” of Mirasaura and Longisquama likely evolved separately from the feathers or feather-like structures we know in Dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Like other Drepanosauromorphs, Mirasaura also had a weird, bird-like and mostly toothless skull
#paleoart
#paleoart
June 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The elaborate crest represents a new perspective in the evolution of feather-like structures in reptiles. Mirasaura was related to another bizarrely-crested reptile, Longisquama, and both appear to belong to an already very weird group: Drepanosauromorphs
July 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The elaborate crest represents a new perspective in the evolution of feather-like structures in reptiles. Mirasaura was related to another bizarrely-crested reptile, Longisquama, and both appear to belong to an already very weird group: Drepanosauromorphs