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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Flight evolved independently in Dromaeosauridae, Archaeopterygidae, Anchiornithidae, Scansoriopterygidae, & whatever Rahonavis is. Here's #Rahonavis from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Benton (@princetonupress.bsky.social).

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #YiQi
June 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Flight evolved in Dromaeosauridae, Archaeopterygidae, Anchiornithidae, Scansoriopterygidae, & whatever #Rahonavis is. Here's #Microraptor (Dromaeosauridae) from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Benton.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Flight evolved in Dromaeosauridae, Archaeopterygidae, Anchiornithidae, Scansoriopterygidae, and whatever #Rahonavis is. Here's #Yi qi from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Benton (@princetonupress.bsky.social).

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #Raptors
June 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
palaeojules.bsky.social
Forgot to share sooner, but here're some details of the feathers from the Rahonavis wing. #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs #art
September 7, 2024 at 2:08 AM
skyemcdavid.com
Oh this is very cool
Size comparison of Rahonavis ostromi and Beelzebufo ampinga Size comparison of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and Archaeopteryx lithographica
August 28, 2026 at 6:50 PM
palaeojules.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure I haven't shared my Rahonavis wing sketch here before, so here you go!
#paleontologist #paleoart #dinosaurs
September 6, 2024 at 12:19 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Flight evolved in Dromaeosauridae, Archaeopterygidae, Anchiornithidae, Scansoriopterygidae, & whatever #Rahonavis is. Here are #Archaeopteryx & #Anchiornis from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Benton (@princetonupress.bsky.social).

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Raptor
June 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
skybuster98.bsky.social
#Dinocember #Dinocember2025 3 - Rahonavis Ostromi

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Rahonavis #Dinosaurs #Theropod #Cretaceous #Extinct #PrehistoricPlanet #DinosaurArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #BskyArt #Art #Drawing #Illustration
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
feraldactal.bsky.social
Here are some cool dinosaur names and what they mean.

🦖 Rahonavis ostromi - “cloud menace bird”

🦖 Thanatotheristes degrootorum - “reaper of death”

🦖 Moros intrepidus - “harbinger of doom”

🦖 Siats meekerorum - “man eating monster”

🦖 Saurophaganax maximus - “lord of lizard eaters”

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May 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
pijonmustard.bsky.social
A Rahonavis illustration from my honours project Paleo-Protocol!

#art #paleoart #digitalart #dinosaur #clipstudiopaint #illustration
February 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
nahart.bsky.social
Majungasaurus crenatissimus
Rahonavis ostromi
Rapetosaurus krausei
Falcatakely forsterae

#BRart #paleoart #dinosaur
November 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM
armanafzadeh.bsky.social
But it wasn’t until the fibula was reduced – and effectively liberated from the ankle joint – that avialans like Rahonavis and Ichthyornis could really spin their knee joints using the same mechanism retained by birds today.
November 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
feraldactal.bsky.social
I like you, have a dino fact.

Rahonavis it was a small bird like theropod that lived in what is now Madagascar in the Late Cretaceous.

It’s name means ‘cloud menace bird’.

It’s exact classification is debated. As some think it belongs to dromaeosaurids (raptors).

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Rahonavis a small theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.
August 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
zman1902.bsky.social
I was on a plane for much of the day. I doodled.
A pencil sketch of Abigail Horridus, a cavewoman-esque Tiefling. Pencil doodles of Carnotaurus, which is objectively the best dinosaur, at various ages and a paravian head for some reason. Pencil sketch of Rahonavis, a bird (?) from Madagascar. There are a lot of eraser marks. An extremely loose, frankly BAD sketch of Dejah Horridus, Abigail's demonic alter-ego. I will never ever settle on her design.
May 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
omegayumiart.bsky.social
Old art (2022)
Raptor Report
#jojo #jjba #WeatherReport #Weather’sStand #raptor #rahonavis #omegayumiART
Weather Report from Jojo Bizarre Adventure as rahonavis A white rahonavis with red eyes and spiral clouds on his shoulder and 5 horns on the head
June 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
alinemghilardi.bsky.social
Check out our new paper! 🚨🤩

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The evolution of the air sac system in theropod dinosaurs: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar
Theropod pneumatic bone tissues show an increase in complexity from the ceratosaurian Majungasaurus to the early paravian Rahonavis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 20, 2024 at 12:38 PM
dinosly.bsky.social
Backlog time! These pieces were all centered on the Maevarano Formation of Cretaceous Madagascar. The pieces include Majungasaurus, Simosuchus, Masiakasaurus, Madtsoia, Falcatakely, Rahonavis and Beelzebufo!

#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #Dinosaurs #Majungasaurus #Beelzebufo #sciart #art
A Majungasaurus defends its pilfered nest from a dastardly Simosuchus. The Simosuchus is caught red handed with egg on its face. A lot of speculation is used for this piece; the life appearance of the Majungasaurus with facial rugosities, the omnivorous pseudosuchian, the flora of prehistoric and arid Madagascar, and more big words that make me seem smart. Two Masiakasaurus try to fight a Madtsoia in the ancient Madagascar bogs. In the background I just realized that I put two Mahajangasuchus as well. This piece was inspired by the late Steve Irwin, whos videos I watched for reference for the snake and background. Good times, I should watch those documentaries again. A forest scene where Falcatakely comes back to their nest to find it ransacked and their mate attacked while a flock of Rahonavis watch ominously at what they did. Strangely another egg plundering art, its not a lot but its weird that I thought about making it twice. This one looking back feels too dark and I probably anthropomorphized the animals too much. The open mouth shock and the preening at blood feathers looks too much like theyre using their wing hide in shame. Lots of stuff id do differently. Still proud of the wings tho. A Beelzebufo on a log in the swamps of Madagascar, Rahonavis in its mouth. This must have been a mix of comedy by drawing the famous frog, on a log, as well as catharsis from the previous drawing where Rahonavis was used as a villain archetype. The reference photos were great to look up, horned frogs are adorable goofy, tho one study recently postulates that it could be closely related to Hylids, or tree frogs.
November 30, 2024 at 12:41 AM
aguy.makeup
Tsarina Shadow
Alluring Mosaist
e/em
cyber brown eyes
is never late
favorite dinosaur: Rahonavis
September 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
plasmacrowcodile.bsky.social
Rahonavis Ostromi
#RahonavisOstromi #PlasmaCrowcodileArt
May 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
despite their proposed role in courtship, it's unlikely that the horns were a sexually dimorphic feature, as there is no evidence for this in the related majungasaurus, which also possessed cranial ornamentation
(art by gabriel ugueto)
art showing a pair of majungasaurus in the maevarano formation. one looks curiously at a madtsoiid snake constricting an adalatherium while the other inadvertantly startles a rahonavis, and a herd of rapetosaurus walks by in the background
January 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
alinemghilardi.bsky.social
5) 🦖New insights into the evolution of theropod air sacs! Our study “The evolution of the air sac system in theropod dinosaurs: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar” revealed distinct evolutionary paths in theropod pneumatic bone tissues.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The evolution of the air sac system in theropod dinosaurs: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar
Theropod pneumatic bone tissues show an increase in complexity from the ceratosaurian Majungasaurus to the early paravian Rahonavis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:44 PM
ghostloonstudios.bsky.social
1:1 Rahonavis Model
WIP update #1
By William Krings
March 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
mmarcosaurus.bsky.social
@titoaureliano.bsky.social @alinemghilardi.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The evolution of the air sac system in theropod dinosaurs: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar
Theropod pneumatic bone tissues show an increase in complexity from the ceratosaurian Majungasaurus to the early paravian Rahonavis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 18, 2024 at 1:03 PM
yutytyrant.bsky.social
🦖 Daily Dino 🦖; Rahonavis ostromi

A small bird-like creature from Late Cretaceous Madagascar whose direct classification is disputed; some consider it an avialan, while others suggest it was an unenlagiine dromeosaur. It is generally agreed that Rahonavis could fly
August 17, 2023 at 9:58 AM
remtheraptor.bsky.social
Fact 28: Is often misidentified as a Velociraptor (actual genus is Rahonavis).
July 20, 2026 at 7:14 PM