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Marine reptile fun! @WitcherClo led an outreach event at Wollaton Hall #NottNatHist Museum a few weeks ago. We challenged visitors to ID the fossil bones of an ichthyosaur and work out where they fit in the skeleton.

#WollatonHall #Fossils #Ichthyosaur #reptile #palaeontology #museum #FossilFriday

a table with a 2 m long ichthyosaur life model, and several fossils. Chloe is holding a plush toy of a marine reptile.

Two old acrylic paintings of ichthyosaurs exhibited in Birmingham (UK): the 1996 piece was my very first acrylic painting for a museum, and the 2016 piece was my very last acrylic painting for a museum (I started painting digitally).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur #JurassicWorld #Birmingham #Alt4Me

The #Avali pits his powerful respiratory system against the life-sized #Temnodontosaurus' appetite for air. It's probably going to be a stalemate, there's not enough space for the big-eyed #marinereptile to finish growing.

feat. @aphinityavali.bsky.social

#inflatable #ichthyosaur #furryart #wip

A drawing of a normal-sized Avali blowing up a life-sized (and quite large) ichthyosaur toy in a slightly dated-looking room with orangish wall panels and warm yellow lighting.

Day 9: Ichthyosaur

Apparently the closest living relative to an ichthyosaur is a turtle? Can anyone out there correct me on this?

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaur #SciArt #Reptile #Nature #Animal #ocean #blue #mastoArt #CreativeToots

Digital cel-shaded art of an ichthyosaur leaping, dolphin-like, out of an isometric square chunk of open, frothing ocean water. The ichthyosaur has been colored like a mashup between a sea turtle and a common dolphin, with a long white stripe along its sleek body, white countershading on the belly and under each fin, and a pop of yellow around each eye. Its eye takes heavier inspiration from sea turtles with sideways, wrinkly eyelids and broad but hydrodynamic scale patterns all over the face. In most respects this animal looks like a dolphin except for its nostrils being closer to its eyes, tail being vertically-oriented instead of the mammalian horizontal orientation, and a big toothy grin full of reptilian teeth in its beak. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

#NewSpecies!
New lower jurassic ichthyosaur from #portugal just came in:

Gadusaurus aqualigneus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87C4-FFF0-FF88-FFC9-F99F27A8CFF2
Publication: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01199.2024
#ActaPalaeontologicaPolonica #GadusaurusAqualigneus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fossils #fossilfriday #paleo #paleontology #jurassic #reptiles #ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaur reptile Gadusaurus aqualigneus from from the Lower Jurassic. Nearly complete skull in laterodorsal view.

Mary Anning byla bezpochyby jednou z nejvlivnějších postav rané historie paleontologie, ale za svého života byla tak často přehlížena. 19. část projektu Kniha týdne na blogu Blogorgonopsid pojednává o knize The Fossil Hunter od Shelley Emling, vydané v roce 2009, jež vypráví životní příběh Mary Anning.

#books #science #history #maryanning #lymeregis #ichthyosaur #plesiosaur #ammonite #fossil #book #biography

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-fossil-hunter-dinosaurs-evolution.html

Mary Anning was undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in the early history of paleontology, yet in her life she was so often overlooked. The 19th part of the Book of the Week project on Blogorgonopsid covers Shelley Emling's book The Fossil Hunter from 2009 which tells Mary Anning's life story.

#books #science #history #maryanning #lymeregis #ichthyosaur #plesiosaur #ammonite #fossil #book #biography

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-fossil-hunter-dinosaurs-evolution.html

#PaleoMori day 21! You'd think I would've learned my lesson about referencing a crushed skeleton for the drawing of a living creature, but nah.
#paleoart #ichthyosaur

Digital sketch of a blue-grey mixosaurus on a plain brown background.

you can sing ♬ Ichthyosaur Street ♬ to the tune of The Cure's _Fascination Street_ , and ichthyosaurs can be found in Street, Somerset, UK, and that's where I thought this ichthyosaur was found , but actually it's from some other place. Oh well ...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70038

#ichthyosaur
#fossilFriday

New Species of Ichthyosaur Discovered on Dorset Coast

Cool find, shakes up ichthyosaur evolution.

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New Species of Ichthyosaur Discovered on Dorset Coast

A near-complete skeleton discovered on Dorset's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, named Xiphodracon goldencapensis, also called the 'sword dragon of Dorset.' This dolphin-sized marine reptile lived around 185 million years ago and is the only known example of its ki... [More info]

New Species of Ichthyosaur Discovered on Dorset Coast

@aibot How does the discovery of Xiphodracon goldencapensis, the 'sword dragon of Dorset,' reshape our understanding of ichthyosaur evolution and the ecological dynamics of Jurassic marine life, especially given its i...

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It's marine reptile Thursday!

Here's my digital painting of the giant Lower Jurassic ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus, or, as the BBC News website called it, the "Sea Dragon Dinosaur Dolphin." This was commissioned to illustrate the 10m long Rutland specimen, described by Larkin et al 2023.

#Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur #Temnodontosaurus #SeaDragon #WildlifeArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

It's marine reptile Tuesday!

Here's a digital painting from 2021, featuring Baptanodon, a Late Jurassic ichthyosaur found in Wyoming, USA. It was commissioned by The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The greyscale image was my draft drawing.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur #WildlifeArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

26-Sep-2025
New Upper Franconian #ichthyosaur species from Mistelgau

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099884

#science #paleontology #fossils #evolution

Family’s 7.1 metre ancient discovery on outback station sparks excitement: ‘Incredible’

An incredibly rare and ancient discovery in outback Queensland has sparked a frenzy of excitement among Aussies. A…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #AustralianAgeofDinosaurs #AustralianMuseum #CassandraPrince #ichthyosaur #inlandsea #marinereptiles #outback #SamDaniels
https://www.newsbeep.com/83737/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

My 2023 illustration of a mother Nannopterygius giving birth (tail first), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOoqsGk-ApAJkbcLQUtVHL2HSmytEEmaHh-e0IB_O7RcqDk-za5sw

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur #Ichthyosaurus #MarineReptiles #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt

#fossilfriday bones here an #Ichthyosaur show the majority of the animals pectoral girdle.Boxed individually, with a label that read the same. "from the Oxford Clay, Peterborough, Whittlsey, Kings Dyke."going by the labels we would assume the Ichthyosaur is Ophthalmosaurus.We will probably never know if they are associated as there was no further written info with them.They match in size, preservation and fit together so could well be. They would look great displayed together that's for sure.

#ichthyosaur

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