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  A portrait of Dale Russell's "dinosauroid" for #FossilFriday. The creation of this iconic #specevo concept is stranger than most of us realise, being inspired not only by science but also (probably) Russell's faith and worldview, too. This artwork is based on a maquette created by Ely Kish...

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  I've just uploaded three new #paleoart pieces to my print store (which itself may be news to Mastodon users: I make and sell prints now!). They are my new Baryonyx portrait, Callovosaurus, and Cetiosaurus. Choose from over 140 pieces of my art to own at https://www.markwitton.co.uk/category/all-products. #dinosaur #sciart #paleontology #fossil

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  Last month I presented a poster about the inferable facial tissues of Baryonyx (and, by extension, other #spinosaurs) at SVPCA 2026. Not wanting to keep that information locked up, here it is. Plans are afoot to turn this into a peer-reviewed paper, so stay tuned. #dinosaurs #paleoart #sciart

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  Filling in more #paleoart from my posting hiatus: near-monochrome and full-colour takes on Styracosaurus albertensis. They serve as the opening and closing images for my upcoming book "The Colors of Dinosaurs and the Prehistoric World" - a review of the colours, patterns and pigments known in the fossil record. It's out next March. More details: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691282886/the-colors-of-dinosaurs-and-the-prehistoric-world #dinosaurs #paleo...

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  More new-to-Mastodon #paleoart: this is the sauropod Xenoposeidon and the theropod Altispinax. Their collective fossil inventory is a whopping four vertebrae, so take everything you see here with a shovel load of salt. #paleontology #sauropod #dinosaur #fossil

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  Another new-to-Mastodon update: I have another book coming out next year! This one is about the fossil record of colours, patterns and pigments. #Dinosaurs are the title and cover stars (for reasons I needn't explain) but the book covers everything about the field of palaeocolour, from how it is preserved and interpreted, to colour data in lineages from microbes to mammoths. Much #paleoart (and palaeoart-relevant info) lies within. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691282...

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  Today's not-yet-posted-to-Mastodon post: a juvenile diplodocid. This combines skull data from a young Diplodocus with the proportions of a near-complete juvenile diplodocid skeleton: small #sauropods seem to have been more compact than their parents. The mottled body pattern is inspired by palaeocolour data, though it should be noted that the paper I took this from has since been seriously challenged. #dinosaurs #paleoart #paleontology

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  A bespoke Mastodon #FossilFriday to catch up on my #paleoart backlog: three Pelorosaurus against a stormy sunset. Peleorosaurus was one of the first sauropods known to science but it remains poorly represented, so we don't have a great handle on what it was or looked like. Seems like an obvious candidate to just show in silhouette, then (which sauropods look ace in, regardless). #dinosaurs #fossil #paleontology

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  Knowing that some good friends and colleagues still rate Mastodon, and with Meta's social media sites only getting worse, I figure it's time to start posting here again. To kick things off, here's some recent #paleoart of the iconic #sauropod Cetiosaurus in a Jurassic landscape. All the plant recons are based on work by @Palaeojules@sauropods.win. The composition is heavily indebted to a famous (non-palaeo) artwork. #dinosaur #art #fossil