I've just received a number of invites for Bluesky if anyone wants one. I'm happy to hand them over to anyone, but I'd particularly like to help #paleoart and #scicomm folks who are struggling in light of recent changes to Twitter's algorithm.

Get PhyloPic posters and Pocket Phylogenies as reward add-ons for backing the PALEOCENE #4 crowdfunding campaign by @keeseycomics! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852 #sciart #scicomm #biology #evolution #evolutionarybiology #paleoart #deeptime #prehistoric #silhouette

You can now get @phylopic posters and Pocket Phylogenies as reward add-ons for backing the PALEOCENE #4 campaign! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852 #sciart #paleoart #scicomm #evolution #evolutionarybiology

This is only the beginning....
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I mentioned I'd upload my shitty amateur Dickinsonia reconstruction a while back but never did, so here it is. #paleontology #ediacaran #Dickinsonia #paleoart

Only 11 days left to back the new issue (#4) of PALEOCENE! Find out how our tiny primate ancestors survived after the asteroid hit 66 million years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book #paleoart #paleofiction #comic #comics #comicbooks #comicbook #paleontology #evolution #evolutionarybiology

That new #Jehol #stegosaur is little and podgy, so deserves to be drawn. Here it is snacking on some Ginkgo apodes, surrounded by a collection of ferns, bennettitaleans and the Early flower Leefructus. #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleobotany #stegosaurus

A quick little sketch of Fujianvenator prodigiosus, the newly described avialan from the Late Jurassic of China !

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I doodled the new little feathery #dinosaur-birdy-type-thing everyone's been talking about (#Fujianvenator prodigiosus). This one's just curious about a little snail sitting on a fallen Yimaia twig.
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False teeth
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The campaign to print PALEOCENE #4 is half over! I've posted a couple of page previews for backers:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3901359

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The first page of the issue #4 of PALEOCENE! The campaign to print it is half over -- discover what happens in Mamma and Brother's search for Sister. https://kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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#Neogene

The world turned colder and dryer in the Neogene, leading to the spread of large grasslands, like these South American ones. Phorusracos, a large terror bird, has caught a Thoatherium on the edge of the forest they both live in. South America was an isolated continent for the duration of the Neogene, leading to a quite unique fauna.

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(13/14)

#Paleogene

The Paleogene featured some of the highest global temperatures of all time, leading to tropical climates all over the planet, including at this lake in what will one day be Messel, Germany. Darwinius, a close cousin to our own ancestors, is having a staredown with the lizard Geiseltaliellus.

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(12/14)

#Cretaceous

The Cretaceous featured some of life's most gorgeous crescendos of diversity, like the Yixian formation, where a Psitaccosaurus wants to visit the favourite tree of a group of Sinosauropteryxes, who are having none of it. This is still one of my favourite pieces I've ever drawn.

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(11/14)

#Jurassic

I had three different option for Jurassic paleoart to showcase, so I picked the most experimental one. These backlit insects are not butterflies, but kalligrammatids, a group of large-winged neuroptera, some of which even mimicked maniraptoran dinosaurs like this iridescent Caihong with their patterns.

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(10/14)

#Triassic

One mass extinction later, the archosaurs are diversifying all over Triassic Pangaea. Here we have the three main groups of them: Paratypothorax, a pseudosuchian in the background; Peteinosaurus, a pterosaur on top of the cliff; and Procompsognathus, a dinosaur climbing the cliff.

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(9/14)

#Permian

Among the many fantastic creatures of the Permian were our own cousins, the synapsids, like these lovey-dovey Moschops. As you can see, this picture and the previous one are done in coloured pencils instead of watercolour, because they're the oldest images I'm including in this post. I only very rarely used watercolours before this year. I think it means I should do some more Permian art, it's such a cool and underexposed period.

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(8/14)

#Carboniferous

The end of the Carboniferous saw some quite large bugs, like these two Mazothairos chasing off an interloping Meganeura. They're representatives of a pretty interesting group of basal insects called the Palaeodictyoptera, who have a set of weird little extra wings on their thorax.

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(7/14)

#Ordovician

Life continued to diversify in the Ordovician, and among this diversity were the cephalopods. They produced the largest animals yet to exist, the orthocones, who hung vertically in the water column and decended upon their prey like a claw game.

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(4/14)