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markwitton.bsky.social
Big news: @chrismanias.bsky.social and I are planning a #PALEOART MEETING in London for early next year: a whole day devoted to palaeoart practice, science, history and culture. Interested? Please complete and share this survey to help shape our plans!

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Charles Knight's awesome mural of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs with the words "The Palaeoart Salon: a proposed meeting about palaeoart, Survey" written over it.
October 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #TyrannosaurusRex #PrehistoricPlanet #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
October 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
ivan23.bsky.social
#PortfolioDay - I draw stippled ink #palaeoart and wildlife art.
October 14, 2026 at 12:13 PM
susieoftraken.bsky.social
Would be amazing to see lots of plant palaeoart representation at this meeting 🌲🌿🌱 - please share!
markwitton.bsky.social Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 2d
Big news: @chrismanias.bsky.social and I are planning a #PALEOART MEETING in London for early next year: a whole day devoted to palaeoart practice, science, history and culture. Interested? Please complete and share this survey to help shape our plans!

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Charles Knight's awesome mural of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs with the words "The Palaeoart Salon: a proposed meeting about palaeoart, Survey" written over it.
October 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
I won't rest until I've seen EVERY work of palaeoart in EVERY medium.
October 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
therhinoscaros.bsky.social
Our new article on ichnofossils in turtles from Tiupampa is out today in Journal of Paleontology: doi.org/10.1017/jpa....

Amazing palaeoart again from @literallymiguel.bsky.social
October 12, 2026 at 8:14 AM
tetzoo.bsky.social
Aww man, the visuals in this talk. A #palaeoart treat. Bob Nicholls @bobnichollsart.bsky.social at #MarineReptileConf2026
Bob Nicholls palaeoart slide, Bob on stage. Bob Nicholls palaeoart slide, Bob on stage. Bob Nicholls palaeoart slide, Bob on stage.
October 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
That’s a concept that’s always on my mind when looking at especially pseudosuchian looking retro palaeoart!
October 16, 2026 at 12:20 AM
markwitton.bsky.social
Owing to the fractured state of social media, please also share this link with anyone who might want to attend. Chris and I are on a number of social media sites but not all, and we have no reach into places with large palaeoart communities, like Discord.
October 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
chrismanias.bsky.social
And calling this a "salon" started off fairly ironically, but has now stuck!

(not least because we want to include the artistic and historic dimensions of palaeoart as much as possible)
October 14, 2026 at 8:26 AM
markwitton.bsky.social
Our aim is a friendly, low-cost, conference-like event and anyone seriously interested in palaeoart (especially those who create, consult on and research it) is welcome. So, artists, scientists, historians, enthusiasts... use the survey to tell us what you'd like to see at an event of this nature.
October 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
brianbrachiopod.bsky.social
Creating a first class compartment on a home-built aircraft makes sense when a first class passenger needs a flight, especially if the passenger has a giant pink backpack larger than a wardrobe.
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
October 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
brianbrachiopod.bsky.social
We learn something important at the hospital today:
OXYGEN IS INCREDIBLY HEAVY.
(No wonder they keep it outside with no lock on the cylinder cage).
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
@foreignsubstance.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
October 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
I haven't seen these in ages! Is Stolpergeist doing alright, does anybody know? They seem to have disappeared from the online palaeontology/palaeoart community completely and with very little warning.
October 16, 2026 at 7:23 AM
brianbrachiopod.bsky.social
I do have to freely admit, if I was asked to explain what breathing felt like, I'd be hard pressed to give a sensible answer.
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
(The shopping expedition in the £0 store went well though).
October 13, 2026 at 8:28 PM
markwitton.bsky.social
A few more details can be found in the survey itself. And yes, if this goes ahead and is a success, we'd like to make it a regular fixture. No other events in the UK provide a platform to discuss palaeoart at a professional level, despite the clear potential and benefits of doing so.
October 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Today's four random works of palaeoart:

Jan Sovak's Jobaria and Afrovenator, @markwitton.bsky.social's Dimorphodon, Peter Zallinger's Scelidosaurus, and Steve Kirk's Liopleurodon!
A earthy-toned Jobaria rears up in a defense as an Afrovenator charges toward it. Clouds of dust billow into the air with he movement of the giant reptiles, and a group of pterosaurs soar overhead. A reddish brown Dimorphodon with wings streaked with violet, red, and yellow soars through a cloudy orange sky. A spiny, studded Scelidosaurus with a coppery-coloured hide stands on a sandy riverside, investigating the vivid green ferns sprouting up around it. A torpedo-shaped pliosaur with broad, oar-like fins and an inky grey-white pattern on its glossy skin.
October 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
brianbrachiopod.bsky.social
When your plane passenger says she wants to go to hospital but she's not ill, should you still panic?
(It's good they're not the panicking type).
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
October 11, 2026 at 8:30 PM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Reply to this post to receive a random piece of palaeoart. Dipping into the depths of my collection has revealed some very fun ones that I'm eager to share!
October 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Today's four GHOULISH works of palaeoart!

Art by Ely Kish, Nebraska State Museum, Tony Gibbons, and George Solenovich!
A towering, tail-dragging Tyrannosaurus with an abbreviated skull and an expression like a cheap hollow plastic toy. An armoured, hunchbacked Allosaurus with a drooping, kangaroo-like tail. It gapes its toothy jaws at the viewer in a threatening pose. A Pachycephalosaurus with a dome that extends over the entire upper half of its head including its snout. Its yellow eye sits low on the head, in line with the fanged mouth. It has no visible nostrils. A dumpy, tail-dragging Brontosaurus hauls itself out onto a riverbank. Its eyes, milky white and without any pupils, stare inscrutably over its surroundings. Its tail slithers in and out of the water.
October 15, 2026 at 8:34 AM
pensoft.net
📷 Image captions:
Figure 1. Palaeoart reconstruction of the Haţeg Island coastal ecosystem, showing the diverse vertebrate fauna. Figure 2. Palaeoart reconstruction of the Haţeg Island inland ecosystem. Illustrated by Peter Nickolaus © Peter Nickolaus

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October 13, 2026 at 8:35 AM
brianbrachiopod.bsky.social
"The maximum speed of an aircraft is inversely proportional to its size."
This is the sort of thing they teach you in Future Bay.
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
October 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
fr.pensoft.net
📷 Image captions:

Figure 1. Palaeoart reconstruction of the Haţeg Island coastal ecosystem, showing the diverse vertebrate fauna.
Figure 5. Palaeoart reconstruction of the Haţeg Island inland ecosystem, showing the diverse vertebrate fauna. Illustrated by Peter Nickolaus © Peter Nickolaus

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October 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Today's four GHOULISH works of palaeoart!

Art by Mario Kessler, William Stout, Pham Kim Quang, and Ronald Swanwick
A lizard-skinned, theropod-like Teratosaurus with a tiger-striped pattern and scute-covered hands and feet in a threatening pose. Its muscles are taut and imposing, fully filling out its frame without any hint of fat or other tissues between them and the overlying scales. A pair of rangy Deinonychus with thick sickle claws and skeletal faces face off in a sandy clearing, moments away from exploding into violence. A scaly, bottom-heavy Deinonychus messily gnaws on a bloody strip of flesh, tearing it apart with its recurved teeth and clawed hand. A bipedal, spindly-limbed Iguanodon with long, bony fingers and a short, rod-like. It stands in a wide-stanced posture, as if sizing up the viewer.
October 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Today's four GHOULISH works of palaeoart!

Art by Dinosaur World, Graham High/Centaur Studios, Luis Rey, and George Thompson!
A rough-scaled, fish-lipped Minmi stands amongst green undergrowth, looking up at the viewer with its diamond-shaped eyes. Its hide is decorated by square scales, little bony studs, and ridges that run down the length of the face. Front-facing view of a leathery-skinned Tyrannosaurus head with long, yellowed teeth and bright green eyes. Its fleshy nostrils flare and its meaty tongue curls in its maw. A pair of spiny-feathered Tyrannosaurus battle in a clearing. The foreground individual attempts to flee as its rival bites down on its tail, severing it at the midpoint in a spray of gore. A slick-skinned, wiry Struthiomimus with smooth, brown skin and blue stripes looms over a nest of eggs. Its skeletal fingers are held outstretched on short, muscular arms held at right angles. Its sinuous neck curves back over its shoulder, giving a full view of its sunken eyes and tight-lipped mouth.
October 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM