Goal for this year: Reach expert level at depicting Nodosaurs/ankylosaurs. Small sketch from last night but expect plenty more paleoart of them 😁
January 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Goal for this year: Reach expert level at depicting Nodosaurs/ankylosaurs. Small sketch from last night but expect plenty more paleoart of them 😁
And here's a bird's-eye view of the four nodosaurs found in the Iberian Peninsula. From left to right: Struthiosaurus, Polacanthus, Europelta, and Dracopelta.
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And here's a bird's-eye view of the four nodosaurs found in the Iberian Peninsula. From left to right: Struthiosaurus, Polacanthus, Europelta, and Dracopelta.
#SurvivingEarth Episode 4 observations:
* Not in the control of the production, but subtitlers called the nodosaurs "Nothosaurus" and the pliosaurs "Pliosaurus"
* Would production teams STOP GIVING MARINE REPTILES WHALESONG?? Please???
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* Not in the control of the production, but subtitlers called the nodosaurs "Nothosaurus" and the pliosaurs "Pliosaurus"
* Would production teams STOP GIVING MARINE REPTILES WHALESONG?? Please???
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July 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
#SurvivingEarth Episode 4 observations:
* Not in the control of the production, but subtitlers called the nodosaurs "Nothosaurus" and the pliosaurs "Pliosaurus"
* Would production teams STOP GIVING MARINE REPTILES WHALESONG?? Please???
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* Not in the control of the production, but subtitlers called the nodosaurs "Nothosaurus" and the pliosaurs "Pliosaurus"
* Would production teams STOP GIVING MARINE REPTILES WHALESONG?? Please???
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Nodosaurs and Ankylosaurs, so much fun to see finished, a nightmare full of nooks, spikes, and plates to design. But you learn a lot in the process.
April 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Nodosaurs and Ankylosaurs, so much fun to see finished, a nightmare full of nooks, spikes, and plates to design. But you learn a lot in the process.
April 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I love designing nodosaurs, they are a nightmare because osteoderms take a lot of work, but they are so much fun to make. As for Iguanodon, well, you have to love that animal, we have no other option
November 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I love designing nodosaurs, they are a nightmare because osteoderms take a lot of work, but they are so much fun to make. As for Iguanodon, well, you have to love that animal, we have no other option
“A Quiet Dying World.”
My submission for @dinoguy.bsky.social Denversaurus art competition 🦧
#paleoart #denversaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurart #paleoartist #nodosaurs #cretaceous #Hellcreekformation
My submission for @dinoguy.bsky.social Denversaurus art competition 🦧
#paleoart #denversaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurart #paleoartist #nodosaurs #cretaceous #Hellcreekformation
July 21, 2026 at 7:38 PM
“A Quiet Dying World.”
My submission for @dinoguy.bsky.social Denversaurus art competition 🦧
#paleoart #denversaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurart #paleoartist #nodosaurs #cretaceous #Hellcreekformation
My submission for @dinoguy.bsky.social Denversaurus art competition 🦧
#paleoart #denversaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurart #paleoartist #nodosaurs #cretaceous #Hellcreekformation
They are perhaps most famous for their extensive osteodermal #armour plating, which is very similar to that of #ankylosaur dinosaurs, particularly nodosaurs such as #Gastonia. However, aetosaurs independently evolved this morphology many millions of years before in the Triassic.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
They are perhaps most famous for their extensive osteodermal #armour plating, which is very similar to that of #ankylosaur dinosaurs, particularly nodosaurs such as #Gastonia. However, aetosaurs independently evolved this morphology many millions of years before in the Triassic.
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It's a common mistake in depictions of Ankylosaurus to give it a row of spikes on each side. In reality, this is a trait of nodosaurs, which WERE a group of ankylosaurs, but one Ankylosaurus did not belong to. Notably, nodosaurs lacked tail clubs.
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's a common mistake in depictions of Ankylosaurus to give it a row of spikes on each side. In reality, this is a trait of nodosaurs, which WERE a group of ankylosaurs, but one Ankylosaurus did not belong to. Notably, nodosaurs lacked tail clubs.
"Nodosaurs can make for ideal farm hands all year round, but it’s during harvest times that they really shine. Perfectly at home slowly ambling down rows of crops, their wide, low stance allows them to comfortably carry...
April 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Nodosaurs can make for ideal farm hands all year round, but it’s during harvest times that they really shine. Perfectly at home slowly ambling down rows of crops, their wide, low stance allows them to comfortably carry...
Nodosaurs deserve more respect. No tail clubs but they went ornate with the spikes
April 5, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Nodosaurs deserve more respect. No tail clubs but they went ornate with the spikes
Europelta was also the basis for a small musculature study, something I rarely see for nodosaurs. It's based on the one Matt Dempsey did for Stegosaurus, and I tried to adapt it to this animal. I hope it worked!
June 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Europelta was also the basis for a small musculature study, something I rarely see for nodosaurs. It's based on the one Matt Dempsey did for Stegosaurus, and I tried to adapt it to this animal. I hope it worked!
I collect Ankylosaurs partly by routine. It's been my favorite dinosaur since childhood, and over the years family members defaulted to that for gifts. I'd go nuts and broke trying to collect every Ankylosaurus trinket I see, but I'll occasionally buy a cheap one for myself. Nodosaurs also count!
October 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I collect Ankylosaurs partly by routine. It's been my favorite dinosaur since childhood, and over the years family members defaulted to that for gifts. I'd go nuts and broke trying to collect every Ankylosaurus trinket I see, but I'll occasionally buy a cheap one for myself. Nodosaurs also count!
Looks like it's OK to share parts of my new Scientific American #paleoart. The theme is "old vs. new" restorations of #dinosaur horns and armour: cue stereotyped past and progressive modern takes on Borealopelta, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Full artworks: www.scientificamerican.com/article/dino...
March 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looks like it's OK to share parts of my new Scientific American #paleoart. The theme is "old vs. new" restorations of #dinosaur horns and armour: cue stereotyped past and progressive modern takes on Borealopelta, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Full artworks: www.scientificamerican.com/article/dino...
This is the illustration for Polacanthus, a nodosaur described in 1865, but about which we also don't have much information. Much better known are some relatives of the clade it namesake, Polacanthinae, whose position and relationship with the rest of the nodosaurs is still debated
May 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is the illustration for Polacanthus, a nodosaur described in 1865, but about which we also don't have much information. Much better known are some relatives of the clade it namesake, Polacanthinae, whose position and relationship with the rest of the nodosaurs is still debated
You can tell the difference between Nodosaurs and Ankylosaurs by the tails. Nodosuars don't have the clubs at the end, and they also have narrower heads. My printed authorities also tell me they may have made honking sounds.
February 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You can tell the difference between Nodosaurs and Ankylosaurs by the tails. Nodosuars don't have the clubs at the end, and they also have narrower heads. My printed authorities also tell me they may have made honking sounds.
And of my favourite kind of dinosaur, I love the nodosaurs, like ankylosaur
Little talking tanks
Little talking tanks
September 26, 2024 at 2:34 AM
And of my favourite kind of dinosaur, I love the nodosaurs, like ankylosaur
Little talking tanks
Little talking tanks
Wait, is this another “I have no unique experiences as an autistic/ADHD sexual & gender minority type person” things? Is love of nodosaurs and ankylosaur another sign?
February 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Wait, is this another “I have no unique experiences as an autistic/ADHD sexual & gender minority type person” things? Is love of nodosaurs and ankylosaur another sign?
It's hard to find anything like this about nodosaurs online, so I decided to do it with Europelta. The basis was Matt Dempsey's muscle study for Stegosaurus. It's not the same animal, but it's a thyreophore, and it's the only reliable reference I could find.
May 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's hard to find anything like this about nodosaurs online, so I decided to do it with Europelta. The basis was Matt Dempsey's muscle study for Stegosaurus. It's not the same animal, but it's a thyreophore, and it's the only reliable reference I could find.
Ankylosaur and the nodosaurs in general
November 9, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Ankylosaur and the nodosaurs in general
#specevo #speculativeevolution #inktober2025 #inktober
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January 29, 2026 at 4:32 AM
#specevo #speculativeevolution #inktober2025 #inktober
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Fucking bullshit theropod privilege.
Where my parasaurolophus peeps?
Let's see some nodosaurs represent!
And Dracorex hogwartsii, it's not your fault JKR went cissexist Nazi. Stop hiding in the corner. Someone here will help you file that name change paperwork.
Where my parasaurolophus peeps?
Let's see some nodosaurs represent!
And Dracorex hogwartsii, it's not your fault JKR went cissexist Nazi. Stop hiding in the corner. Someone here will help you file that name change paperwork.
May 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Fucking bullshit theropod privilege.
Where my parasaurolophus peeps?
Let's see some nodosaurs represent!
And Dracorex hogwartsii, it's not your fault JKR went cissexist Nazi. Stop hiding in the corner. Someone here will help you file that name change paperwork.
Where my parasaurolophus peeps?
Let's see some nodosaurs represent!
And Dracorex hogwartsii, it's not your fault JKR went cissexist Nazi. Stop hiding in the corner. Someone here will help you file that name change paperwork.
The "knobbed lizard" #Nodosaurus has been the namesake for its entire clade of armoured dinosaurs since 1890. Despite being poorly known compared to some of its close relatives unearthed in the past 100 years, it holds the clade name due to precedence rules by the ICZN.
March 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The "knobbed lizard" #Nodosaurus has been the namesake for its entire clade of armoured dinosaurs since 1890. Despite being poorly known compared to some of its close relatives unearthed in the past 100 years, it holds the clade name due to precedence rules by the ICZN.
Wikipedia devotes a lot of article to how they had FIVE different types of osteoderms and then goes off on a tangent about different types of sacral shields (something I didn't know about), and it mentions nodosaurs having a hyoid bone (another thing I didn't know). This is just cool.
April 5, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Wikipedia devotes a lot of article to how they had FIVE different types of osteoderms and then goes off on a tangent about different types of sacral shields (something I didn't know about), and it mentions nodosaurs having a hyoid bone (another thing I didn't know). This is just cool.
Still hungry, the Iguanodon notices some plants in a cave/canyon, and with no nodosaurs to killsteal, goes for it - but what's this? The aspect ratio is changing? And why the bones?
July 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Still hungry, the Iguanodon notices some plants in a cave/canyon, and with no nodosaurs to killsteal, goes for it - but what's this? The aspect ratio is changing? And why the bones?