OrigamiPete
@origamiPete
Origami designer • Armchair palaeo-nerd • Enby/Ace • Profile pic by @ImpulseImpact • #Papiroflexia • #Origami • #折り紙
Some trilobite origami for #FossilFriday. 😊 I need your ideas! A squad of squid. A 'blank' of trilobites. Any fun names to call a group of trilobites? 🤔
Cover to my first art book collection Carbon Based. Hoping people will dig it & hoping it’ll allow me to catch up on some things & hopefully seek relief for my back problems I’m always whining about. Thanks guys! kickstarter.com/projects/onipr…
I can't believe we're all talking about Mirasaura and sleeping on Palaeocanpa- a chemically defended, freshwater lobopodian from the Carboniferous
Meet Palaeocampa anthrax, a newly discovered Carboniferous lobopodian, and 150 year old mystery fossil! Palaeocampa is an exceptional lobopodian - it lived in rivers and lakes, bristled with thousands of poisonous spines, and more. 🧵 Open access: nature.com/articles/s4200…
Didn't want to get lost in too much detail with this drawing. Original available if anyone would like more info. #drawing #art #pencilart #lions
The elaborate crest represents a new perspective in the evolution of feather-like structures in reptiles. Mirasaura was related to another bizarrely-crested reptile, Longisquama, and both appear to belong to an already very weird group: Drepanosauromorphs
Poor little Longisquama still getting dragged into BANDIT (birds are not dinosaurs) talks in the year 2024...
#SVPCA Southampton... we now have Mike Howgate on an effort to show that furculae in non-bird theropods are not furculae. This is, he notes, part of an effort to try to remove evidence for an origin of birds within theropods.
longisquama Disney's dinosaur concept art by Ian Gooding
Its finally out! Please Welcome Mirasaura! A new drepanosaur from the Middle Triassic of France. @SerpenIllus made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time =)
You all already know that I made the "Allosaurus had never seen such BS" meme, but I'm also the one who made this image:
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Today is Prehistoric Park's 19th Anniversary and i'm just getting a piece made for it, i won't be able to finish it today (i've got a uni deadline to reach) but i promise it'll be something fantastic.
I coined the name Wolverine Shark for Hemipristis serra. See, it makes sense because its a huge weasel shark. Besides, in Spanish you say Tiburón Glotón which rhymes and denotes its great appetite. It’s just perfect! One day everyone will call it that one day. Mark me words. 😌
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The new Titanosaur tracks reminded me of this old diagram I made back in the 1940s (I know "P. becklesii is actually Haestasaurus becklesii)
Not only do we need to start drawing our sauropods with more scale diversity, I think we also need to start making them a whole lot bumpier. First two images from nemegt sauropod tracks, third image diamantinosaurus skin.
Carbon Based: The Art of Lewis LaRosa collecting some of my best work over the past 20 years is coming soon guys 🔥 backerkit.com/call_to_action…
The weird, WEIRD Eretmorhipis. Oh, the Triassic 😅
Anteaters are the mammal version of crab. academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…
WTF UOU MEAN THERE IS A VENOMOUS BEETLE WITH STINGER ANTENNAS !!! onychocerys albitarsis! ITS GOT ANTENNA CONVVERGENT WITH SCORPION STINGERS !?!?!?!?!!?!!?
Temnodontosaurus flipper: How the story began In 2017, I received an email from fossil collector Georg Göltz with photos of a peculiar fossil. He was aware that my research focus was on marine reptiles, so he wrote that he had found something unusual. 1/9 #FossilFriday #Germany
New paper day! Phil Bell led a great study on some *INSANELY COOL* titanosaur tracks our expedition found in Mongolia. The scales in particular are extra awesome - they're like little pyramids, and they *may* have helped with scratch digging and/or walking on sandy surfaces!
Oh BOY! Story time! All the way back in 2016, on our way back from Munich for a EAVP meeting, @dinosven got a mail by Georg Göltz, attached were some first images of an incredible specimen. That evening we went over the material again and again...