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Brennan Stokkermans

@brennanstokkermans.bsky.social

Oh wow I missed that we passed 3k thank you so much everyone!
We’re racing towards Twitter follower levels like this megaloceras in no time :)

November 25, 2024 at 2:24 PM

Christopher DiPiazza

@chrisdipiazza.bsky.social

Newest watercolor in time for Christmas, is Megaloceras. This scene takes place in early fall, when deer shed the velvet from their antlers. 🦌 #sciart #paleoart

December 22, 2024 at 2:26 PM

Kieran

@toadally.bsky.social

Shout out to my girl the STAG-MOOSE! No one talks about them and they’re so much cooler than megaloceras, sorry, not sorry!

Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · Jan 19

As MUCH as I love them, Woolly mammoths and sabertooths are too overused in fantasy. I even bequeathed my beloved wooly rhino into the arms of extinction. But I still have these prehistoric weirdos walking around in Kieran’s world (or things related to them, at least.)

A chalicothere (some species actually lasted into the Pleistocene, which is super cool.)

January 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM

Hazard

@datgreenmonstah.bsky.social

Now that I’m almost done with my ceiling crocodile replica, I’m
Thinking about recreating a megaloceras skull to hang on the wall overhanging out stairs

July 23, 2024 at 11:14 PM

Sophie M.

@sophiesaurus98.bsky.social

Today's four random pieces of palaeoart:

Johan Egerkrans' Anurognathus, Maurice Wilson's Cynognathus, Charles Knight's Megaloceras, and @rebdart.bsky.social's Triceratops!

A white-furred Anurognathus zooms through a forest in pursuit of a red-eyed insect. Moonlight from a crescent moon filters through the barren tree limbs, casting the scene in a off-white glow.

A pair of smooth-skinned, ink-coloured Cynognathus in an arid landscape. One stands over the carcass of a smaller therapsid, blood staining its fangs and claws.

A Megaloceras stag stands behind a grassy hill, head held high despite the great spread of its enormous antlers. The ground is covered in a mix of foliage, dotted with patches of snow.

A close-up of a pastel blue Triceratops resting its heavy head on the ground. It has several prominent, greyish scales decorating its skin, and the point of its upper beak rests directly upon the earth below.

September 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM

Sword Vixen, Still Standing

@threetails.bsky.social

"Megaloceras"
Museum Koenig, Bonn
📷Pentax K1000
🎞️Kodak Tri-X
f/2.8 1/30s
#filmphotography #paleontology #fossil #photography #blackandwhite #bonn #Germany

Sepia toned black and white photo of the skeleton of an enormous prehistoric deer with antlers at least 2.5m wide.

July 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM

London Geodiversity Partnership

@londongeodiversity.bsky.social

We had a very enjoyable trip to Crystal Palace Park today to visit the newly restored prehistoric creatures and geological illustrations. We were unanimously impressed! It’s great to be able to see everything so clearly #urbangeology #crystalpalacedinosaurs @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social

The sculptures of Megaloceras (Giant Irish Elk)

July 27, 2026 at 7:39 PM

Tyler

@tyleraptor.bsky.social

Grandma got run over by a Megaloceras (feat. Megaloceras giganteus)

#iceage #paleoart #christmas #irishelk #megaloceras #happyholidays

December 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM

Kieran

@toadally.bsky.social

I think about this guy every month. People get so hung up on megaloceras that they miss out on this big boy.

January 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM

Oisin Duffy

@oisinduffy15.bsky.social

Y'know it's fitting that Megaloceras went extinct in part due to their antlers being too big. The Irish elk killed by their big Irish heads.

August 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM

CasualSoapMuncher

@casualsoapmuncher.bsky.social

Tonight’s #Paleostream flocking results!!
Bathornis, Quinkana, Acanthostega, and Megaloceros!
#paleoart

A bathornis holding a small rodent it has killed by the tail on a grassland

Two Quinkana battling in a stream with branches overhead, one has another by the throat, and is dragging it through the water

A singular acanthostega exiting a small body of water, rising one of its paddles up to wave at the viewer

A megaloceras balancing itself on the peak of a thin, tall, rock.

December 14, 2024 at 3:07 AM

Alex Weston (he / him)

@northbynorthweston.bsky.social

#Inktober Day 5.

Prompt: Deer

A skeleton of a megaloceras, also known as the “Irish Elk” (a misnomer since it is neither specifically Irish nor is it an elk), an extinct species of deer that used to range across Eurasia.

#inktoberday5 #inktoberdeer #inkdrawings #paleoart #noai #maderbyahuman

October 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM

History of Geology Group

@hoggroup.bsky.social

Great to see #Megaloceras hitting the limelight, the fine specimen in the entrance of the Museum Building @tcddublin rather hid in the shadows on the HOGG conference tour 2023, but has been a part of the 'furniture' since excavation from Lough Gur in the late 19thC. View here shorturl.at/2ae11

December 4, 2024 at 11:11 PM

Kieran

@toadally.bsky.social

That’s the same thing as a megaloceras (though they were more closely related to fallow deer than to elk.) Cool but I like the antlers of Stag-Moose more.

January 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM

dinosly.bsky.social

@dinosly.bsky.social

Oh god oh fuck. Bsky Art Train! Here's some stuff! I mostly do paleoart and will post miniatures soon!

I also nominate @ppaleoartist.bsky.social @6ftturkey.bsky.social @themorrisonman.bsky.social to the train, others are free to join as well!

PaleoArtists UNITE!

#art #paleoart

A Paleolithic Human tries to fight a Megaloceras, who has already killed the human's hunting partner.

The last Mommoth of Wrangel Island mourns over their dead relatives' skeleton

A flock of Nyctosaurus and a lone Pteranodon rest on an Ice Flow in the far North of the Western Interior Seaway. Curious Elasmosaurus poke their heads out of the water to observe.

A scene of Carboniferous Nova Scotia. A Denderpeton holds onto the log they used as a nest as a Hylonomus and its former prey, a Weygoldtina, get swept up in the current.

October 21, 2024 at 3:40 PM

Memento Morlys 🍉

@aardwyrm.bsky.social

I'm tired here's the whole ass ice age it's beautiful

La brea specimens of saber tooth and dire wolf, a cave bear and a short faced bear, mammoths and mastodons and megaloceras beyond

August 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM

🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖

@isaiahctorre.bsky.social

Close-ups of the individual panels/floors.

Each level reads from bottom to top, left to right, and represents a different stage of Earth history. Can't remember why I never colored them (either I didn't want to after coloring the background or just ran out of time.)

(2/2)
#paleoart #comic