Your favorite paleoart

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Temnodontosaurus is a macropredator that I feel doesn't get a whole lot of attention. So paleoart of it in action is always cool to see.

This is a piece by RJ Palmer->. Looks very photorealistic.


Temnodontosaurus eurycephalus preying upon Ichthyosaurus breviceps by Mark Witton->. I'm fond of the yellow-ish, orange sunset incorporated into this piece, for some reason. It just makes the scene look more visually appealing in my personal opinion.


This one is by Gabriel Ugueto->. Again, it looks real enough, and I'm fond of the (mostly) counter-shading pattern on the Temnodontosaurus.


This last one is by John Sibbick->. Sibbick's art style has always appealed to me for some reason. Something about that eye, though.

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A piece by Gregory S. Paul. Though not depicting any actual dinosaurs that have lived, given that it's a speculative evolution piece, it's still based off of paleontological knowledge (at the time), is an attempt at feasibility, and relates to extinct life in one way. So consider this an unconventional piece in this thread. Plus, what it's meant to depict is still very intriguing.


In 1990, Paul wrote a mostly critical review of Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs (read it here->). At the end of it, he provides his own take on what dinosaurs might have looked like in the Cenozoic had the K-Pg extinction never occurred. The piece is set in the "Late Tertiary" (Neogene?). There's a cursorial tyrannosaur (only its forelimbs were reduced to fleshy nubs), a square-beaked grazing lambeosaurine, large protoceratopsid descendants, a cud-chewing small ornithopod (obviously you can't see its cud-chewing aspect), burrowing horned mammals, and...geese, which still managed to evolve in this alternate timeline.

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Patagotitan by Julius T. Csotonyi

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NOTE: Yes, I know I am posting an image of a book cover, but this is the only picture I could find of the paleoart I wanted to post.

These Deinocheirus by Greg Paul is very eye-catching:

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I'd be remiss to not mention Mauricio Antón's work.

Pleistocene Pampas.


Miocene Cerro de Batallones (I use this as my desktop wallpaper now).


The Cradle of Humanity (northern Tanzania).


Homo floresiensis hunting what I presume is a dwarf Stegodon.


And Homo floresiensis in conflict with Komodo dragons (according to Antón's blog, this and the previous image were made for a documentary, and the producers asked him to show the biggest oras that could exist to show the contrast between them and the tiny hominins).

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Not sure who made this, but it's certainly an.....interesting take on Sauroposeidon

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Triceratops by Andrey Atuchin. Beautiful, plus one of my favorite orbital horn depictions for Triceratops in light of one of Mark Witton's posts regarding keratinous horn sheath shape (the upwards curve is there, but it's not ridiculously prominent).


Image source

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Here's 2 Brontosaurus and a crocodile, also by Andrey Atuchin.

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Velociraptor hunting Avimimus by Luis V. Rey. Doesn't seem to be every day you see this predator-prey relationship.


Another Rey piece. Some birds (enantiornithines, if I remember correctly?) perching on the head of a Tyrannosaurus. It's definitely the concept that draws me to this piece, even if today there are a few things I'd change if I were the artist.


Fun fact: towards the end of Thomas R. Holtz's 2007 dinosaur encyclopedia, there is a painting by Rey that's like this, but the T. rex's face is morphed into that of Dr. Holtz's, just for laughs. I'll see if I can find it online.

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Not paleoart per se, but it features extinct animals wiped out by humankind since the 1700s. I couldn't help but post it here anyway. The piece seems to be called Gone, and it is done by Isabella Kirkland-> (2004).

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This is a screen capture I took from a PDF of All Your Yesterdays (they didn't align perfectly on my computer in double screen view). It's called A Test of Strength by Ethan Schmunk. On the one hand, I like it because it really emphasizes the physical strength a Tyrannosaurus would have; it's the size of an elephant, and what better way to show off its strength by pushing down a tree (like an elephant)? On the other hand, while I'm sure a T. rex could fell a tree, I'm not sure how to feel about it balancing on its tail while pushing with both of its legs while doing it.

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Another Mauricio Antón piece (link->. Palaeoloxodon recki and Deinotherium bosazi. The latter is the last survivor among the deinotheres.


And now for some pieces by Julio Lacerda (link->. Diplodocus march.


It's right above me, isn't it?

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Dilophosaurus by Joanna Kobierska->.


Bloody Brontosmash by John Conway->.

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Gryposaurus fight by Davide Bonadonna->.



This is based upon a Gryposaurus specimen with pathologies. The exact cause does not appear to be known, but violent intraspecific competition was thought by the authors of the paper to be reasonable speculation (Bertozzo et al., 2017).

"The pathological dorsal vertebra is imagined to be the result of intraspecific competition, with this type of injury probably being not uncommon among gregarious hadrosaurs (Tanke & Rothschild, 2002, 2014). Aggressive behaviour during territorial disputes or between rival males was possibly prevented thanks to other forms of competition."

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Deinosuchus hunting Appalachiosaurus.



Dryosaurus portrait.



Both images are by DastardlyDilong->