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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

Ok dino guys. Sure. Small semiarboreal lizards that sprint on water & swim to evade threats are The Best Soft Tissue Analogues for 8000kg fish-eating #dinosaurs ... but arent yall curious what would happen if we tested a #Spinosaurus model w/ known swimmy archosaur soft tissues?

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Brian Engh

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Let's get the word out that the ancient shark this age data was collected from is in fact dead (& not the one pictured) cuz it was caught in a fishing net. It should serve as a sober reminder that sharks & other marine species are under ever increasing pressure from fishing 1/2

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This dino foot puppet will illustrate how #dinosaur swim tracks were formed @SGDinoDiscovery Took me 2 days to figure out the mechanism, but turns out the working design is crazy simple. Biomechanics = elegant AF Explanation on #Ichnology #FossilFriday

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1 year

If you thought the mitten-ification of hadrosaurs was out of hand, BEHOLD THE MOLA MOLA

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@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

@Mosasaurologist Only one beast has achieved the final full body mitten form...

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2 years

"Giant quadrupedal dinosaurs couldn't rear up on their hind legs - they were much too front heavy"

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

Listen idk how this info will help you, but i do feel it's important for ppl to know that there were smol species of #Dimetrodon that lived in the mountains & were only about the size of a chunky lil pitbull (around 25kg {55 lbs}). #permian #paleoart #2022SVP

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Brian Engh

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2 years

That feeling when @BLMUtah drives a back hoe over a fragile fossil site that you and a bunch of amazing paleontologists, paleoartists & local citizens poured their heart and soul into excavating, studying & interpreting for all to enjoy. The board walk was a "tripping hazard"🤬

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Brian Engh

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4 years

ALWAYS TRY UR BEST

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

"We used the complete DNA of a FROG to fill in the holes and complete the code!" #dinosaur #frog #amphibian #DNA #genetics #developmentalbiology #JurassicWorldDominion #jurassicpark #JurassicWorld #buildabetterfaketheropod

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Brian Engh

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10 months

That nature fact person you follow on the social medias: "HORSESHOE CRABS HAVE NEVER EVOLVED & HAVE REMAINED UNCHANGED SINCE BEFORE THE TIME OF THE DINOSAUR" Meanwhile, #HorseshoeCrabs , evolving constantly for the last 485 million years:

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

😂ok but hear me out bruh... #spinosaurus #paleoart #palaeoart #paleontology #boring

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Brian Engh

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3 years

Paleoartists (& occasionally paleontologists): "We can accurately predict the life appearance of dinosaurs' facial skin based on subtle textures on the surface of their skulls." Actual dinosaurs:

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Brian Engh

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5 years

One of my supporters on asked me for pointers on drawing @SUEtheTrex . Most #paleoart of #TyrannosaurusRex ignores how rotund, squat, gnarled and hideous Sue's skeleton tells us she was, so I drew this #sketch sheet based on a photo of her @FieldMuseum

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Brian Engh

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1 year

Humans: "Birds are the only animals to evolve the complex branching dermal structures we call feathers." Spiders: "We are birbs" Photo from:

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

7 years

#FossilFriday pic of the insanely awesome (unpublished??!?) bearded/crested #Pterosaur #fossil @ the Czerkas #Dino museum in #Blanding #Utah

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Brian Engh

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3 years

In an effort to glorify your creations, please respond here with examples of #paleoart that people rudely, wrongly, or unnecessarily criticized and I will tell you the things I like about it. #palaeoart #paleontology #dinosaurs

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Brian Engh

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2 years

Hey paleontologists, credit paleoartists. Most artists work on a contract to contract basis. I hear scientists complain abt facing instability every 1-3 years in non tenured positions. Many artist contracts are only for 1-3 months & we have to set up the next jobs while working.

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1 year

I'm lucky that the multi-billion year freak-orgy/brutal cannibalistic baby-eating slaughterfest of #NaturalHistory is considered family-friendly content even by most puritanical Americans. So here's a #Tyrannosaur getting recycled by #Deinosuchus to show your kids.

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Brian Engh

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2 years

The new #histology study on #Amargasaurus ' spines has implications for #paleoart beyond what has been depicted: As suggested by Diplo soft-tissue studies by @DoubleBeam , @SV_POW , Schwarz & others, Amargas' spines were likely connected by soft tissues along the >midline< (thread)

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Brian Engh

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4 months

For #FossilFriday check out the highest res pictures I could find on Chinese news websites of the apparently darn near plateless(!) #Hebei #Stegosaur with skin preserved across most of the body. See thread for skin & huge keratin sheathes on the tail spikes!😵‍💫

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Brian Engh

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1 year

diplodocoid #sauropod #dinosaur & semionotiform #fish grazing on #algae drawn for my friend/mentor Mathew Wedel #paleoart #palaeoart

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

Good reference/reminder for #paleoart - this is how much the keratin sheath adds to the beak of a Hawkswbill Sea #Turtle 👇thread with more cool anatomical detail #paleontology #herpetology #dinosaurs #ceratopsian

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

9 days

The detail | The painting (more details below too)

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@DragonsofWales

10 days

The detail | The painting

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

Today seems like a good day to remind fans of #dinosaur #Paleontology that Grizzly Bears and Polar Bears - which are skeletally distinct (check the long necks on polars!) - can hybridize & make Pizzly/Grolar bears, which are fertile & spreading: #Trex

'Pizzly' bear hybrids are spreading across the Arctic thanks to climate change

The hybrids may have an advantage over polar bears because their jaws enable them to eat a more diverse range of foods.

www.livescience.com

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

re-posting for reasons.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

found a mummified spinosaur in the Morrison. (more photos below)

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 years

my twitter feed is approx 80% depressing shit that i already knew about but didn't particularly need a reminder of at this moment, 18% depressing shit i knew nothing abt & can do nothing abt and 2% cool ppl & weird animals. So, I'm changing how i use it. 1/x

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Brian Engh

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6 years

just fyi there are a few species of giant horsetails still alive today. One species in Chile gets about 5m tall & one in mexico gets 7m tall & both basically look exactly like stuff from the fossil record over 200 million years ago. Check this out:

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Brian Engh

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8 months

I feel wild lucky to get to do what I do. Huge thanks and shoutouts to all my supporters. Here's a lil #Jurassic #troodont that will soon be a fully animated character in #JurassicReimagined . #paleoarprocess #birdsaredinosaurs #birdwatching #hesperornithoides

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 years

Hi yall. All I want for xmas is for you to watch the trailer for the documentary about the #Jurassic #MorrisonFormation I've been working on for the last 5 years. Part 1 of the doc comes out Jan 7.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 months

Whoever did this art is off their rocker and needs to rein it in

Definitely Not Pedro - Paleoart

@NotPedroAndrade

3 months

I wanna see more dino art with interesting colorations and soft tissues. Most modern animals, carnivores and herbivores find unique ways to camouflage and disrupt their outline to be difficult to spot. Experiment with color, feathers, ornamental scales, etc! Art by Brian Engh

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 months

Happy #LunarNewYear yall. Here's a luminous #Guanlong (aka "Crowned Dragon") for an auspicious #YearOfTheDragon . #paleoart #dinosaur #birdsaredinosaurs #恐龙

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

7 years

it is my scientific-ish opinion that hatchling #dromeosaurs esp in their northrn range wer approximatly this murderdorable #paleoart #raptor

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

Of all the "Dinosaur Rennaissance" era paleoartists John Gurche is the one whose influence, technical skill, and actual plausibility of reconstructions is in my opinion the most tragically overlooked and underrated by todays fans of #paleoart 📸

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 years

Hey yall, lets build a #StruthioFlock ! I've created a #Struthiomimus #dinosaur #skull #puppet pattern that you can print & build at home with a piece of cardboard, some glue and/or tape and a pair of scissors. Download the free pattern on my website:

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Brian Engh

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1 year

bivalve #paleoart is my actual lane tho

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

The soft-tissue ornamentation of #agamid #lizards makes even mad speculative #paleoart seem basic af.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

#Jakapil as a armored spinoff of a basal #marginocephalian (the group that includes #Pachycephalosaurs + #Ceratopsians ) cuz we DO NOT know what this animal looked like, & its skull material is more Marginocephalian than anything else (& its Late #Cretaceous !) #paleoart

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

We had so much to finish before opening the new #MenefeeFormation exhibit @WesternCenter that I didn't even get any pics of the #Dynamoterror head sculpture in full light after final touch ups were made. Grateful to @CharlotteHohman for catching this last bit of #paleoartprocess

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 years

I think we're going to have leftovers.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

" #Dinosaurs probably became less colorful & flamboyant as they evolved larger body sizes." what? why? #paleoart

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

I'm always amazed when ppl have time to watch entire series of shows and/or play video games. When do yall find time to summon ancient monsters from the depths of time??!?

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

5 months

#DeepTimeSoDeep I will always bet on #biodiversity . In form, in habit, & in habitat. #Paleoart is an #Ornithomimosaur timeline commissioned by @Paleochick for her description of #Arkansaurus (which includes a nice review of the known foot anatomy of these #dinosaurs ) 👇 for more

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Brian Engh

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4 years

Did you know that many #birds & #reptiles are even more colorful than our mammal eyes can even perceive? A new paper by @DoubleBeam , @tetzoo & @JamieDunning suggests that the keratinous coverings of non- #bird #dinosaurs may have fluoresced under UV light! #birdsaredinosaurs

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Brian Engh

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2 years

Imo the primary aim of #paleoart should be to glorify the mind-bogglingly vast, complex, & nearly-eternal beauty of our living planet. (This piece from #SavageAncientSeas , a 2018 collab w/ @TrieboldPaleo & @Mosasaurologist ) #naturalhistory #nature #biosphere #marinebiology

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Brian Engh

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1 year

Whenever I do multiple reconstructions of the same prehistoric animal (or group of related animals) I try to find ways to make each one of them a bit different. Why? 1 its more fun 2 repeat recons confer false confidence 3 change is how #evolution >actually happens< #paleoart

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Brian Engh

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4 years

#Paleoart is, at it's best, a fiction based on science, AKA science fiction.

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Brian Engh

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3 years

#TIL when a #bird gets swallowed and pooped out by a #whale it has the pebbly "scaly skin" texture that we reconstruct every #dinosaur with in #paleoart . Full paper one whales partially digesting & pooping out whole #dinosaurs here: #Taphonomy

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 years

#JurassicReimagined part 1 is now (finally) live. I hope you enjoy it.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

Ayo #FossilFriday , here's that hot pink #Dilophosaurus for @ZionNPS yall ordered. I turnt the noggin up to full reef fish mode for the breeding season. Full view next tweet. #paleoart #traditionalpainting

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Brian Engh

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3 years

" #paleoart depictions of predatory animals are too 'monsterized' and feature too much exaggerated violence and gore" meanwhile, on a golf course in Florida... Amazing image series here: (monsters exist)

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

don't act like your #paleoart is superior because you're afraid to be wrong about the >unknown<

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

5 years

Today I'm working on the mechanisms for a fully articulated #practicalfx #Megapnosaurus #puppet for @SGDinoDiscovery . This dino will be swimming & fishing in an early #Jurassic lake that once existed in #Utah ! For more #BehindTheScenes support my art on

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

11 months

#FURCATOCERATOPS is finally published! I had the pleasure of doing a life reconstruction of this animal for @WesternCenter a few years back because they bought a cast of the skull from @TrieboldPaleo . #Dinosaur #ceratopsian #paleoart

Dactylioceras

@Dinoh555

11 months

Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation, Montana, USA

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Brian Engh

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2 years

Scientifically, artistically, & socially, over-confidence about hypotheses is worse than acknowledging unknowns & allowing yourself to freely explore/express/depict new ideas. It's better to be proven wrong than to pretend your preferred ideas have been proven when they have not.

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Brian Engh

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4 years

For your #TheropodThursday evening viewing pleasure, my overdue #Dilophosaurus #PaleoartProcess video: FULL VIDEO 👉 This #paleoart video is the culmination of 5 years of collab w/ @NotThatMarsh , @AndrewTracks , @stgeorgedino , @JWBonde & @LVNHMuseum

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Brian Engh

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1 year

ok but forealztho, I am not against reconstructing #Spinosaurus with soft tissues inspired by tiny semiaquatic #lizards , but let's explore that (wildass speculation) further...🧵 #paleoart #dinosaurs #basilisk #sailfindragon #hydrosaurus #herpetology

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Brian Engh

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2 years

The life sized #Carnotaurus sculpture by Steven Czerkas is the most life like dinosaur sculpture I have ever seen. Sadly it is sitting collecting dust in storage and no longer on display at @NHMLA . I saw it as a kid and it set the standard for professional #paleoart sculpture.

Siaka Dibba

@SiakaDibba

2 years

What is the best piece of dinosaur art ever?

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Brian Engh

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5 years

This #FossilFriday I'm unveiling the life-sized #Caiuajara #pterosaur #sculpture I made for the @National_Aviary in #Pittsburgh as part of their new #LivingDinosaurs #exhibit ! FULL VIDEO FULL OF LIVING DINOSAURS: #paleoart #palaeoart #paleontology #bird

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

#Dilophosaurus details in #clay . 🦖🦚🦢🐓🦆🦅🦤 #birdsaredinosaurs #paleoart #dinosaur #paleontology #fossil #jurassic #palaeoart #sculpture #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #sculpting #traditionalart #exhibit #museum #practicalfx #naturalhistory #prehistoriclife #恐竜

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

#MillCanyonDinosaurTracksite update: Concerned citizens who visited the site today to assess the damage have reported that about 20%-30% of the site has been damaged mostly from @BLMUtah DRIVING A BACKHOE over these rare #fossils to remove a boardwalk. #paleontology #publiclands

Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

That feeling when @BLMUtah drives a back hoe over a fragile fossil site that you and a bunch of amazing paleontologists, paleoartists & local citizens poured their heart and soul into excavating, studying & interpreting for all to enjoy. The board walk was a "tripping hazard"🤬

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Brian Engh

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1 year

but dont get it twisted yall, just because the #palaeoart audience only remembers the dino carnage i'm mostly known in these streets for my obscure armored #trumpetfish #paleoart #teamfish #fish #marinebiology #reeffish #fossil

Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

I'm lucky that the multi-billion year freak-orgy/brutal cannibalistic baby-eating slaughterfest of #NaturalHistory is considered family-friendly content even by most puritanical Americans. So here's a #Tyrannosaur getting recycled by #Deinosuchus to show your kids.

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Brian Engh

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2 years

Curious about the idea that #dinosaurs went into #caves ? Then check this post by Matt Wedel of @SV_POW Afaik this is the first instance of a paleontologist suggesting this & it inspired me to do this #paleoart in 2013 #PrehistoricPlanet

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

So after 4.5 years (!!) I've finally finished the #KayentaFormation timeline #mural for @SGDinoDiscovery , based on new discoveries by @AndrewTracks & his team. Here's a closeup of my favorite section, and a wider view of the whole timeline. #paleoart #Jurassic #Dilophosaurus

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

7 days

The detail | The painting (plus a few more details below)

Sarah - Doe Dryad Art

@DoeDryadArt

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The detail | The painting

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Brian Engh

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2 years

just some #Triassic #art because weirdos #pappochelys #turtle #evolution #botany #paleobotany

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

doodle imagining #Spinosaurus belly-sliding across mudflats like a #crocodile & using its long snout to pull snacks from the mud like dozens of species of long-billed #shorebirds . #paleoart #palaeoart #dinosaur #mudskipper #slipandslide

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

dont mess with dinosaurs

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3 years

Peace was never an option. Canada goose

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

5 years

New #TyrannosaurusRex #paleoart & youtube video, based on a new biomechanics study! This art was commissioned by @CrocHolliday for a new study lead authored by his student Ian Cost. 2m Video: blog post w new scientific paper:

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

idk how to do social media, but i can draw monsters

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

Let me re-phrase: the boardwalk meant to protect #fossils from ppl stompin which can be maintained by simply unscrewing and replacing individual planks for a few bucks and which IS IN THE #UTAH DESERT WHERE RATTLESNAKES & CACTUS & ROCKS LIVE was a "serious trip hazard"

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Brian Engh

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1 year

#lifesize #Dilophosaurus #sculpture #paleoart #naturalhistory #exhibitdesign #animalsculpture #dinosaur #dinosaursculpture

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

11 months

For #pterosaurptuesday , here's a #pterodactyl relative i painted in acrylic for #JurassicReimagined . We know several families of #pterosaurs were flipflappering around N. America's late #Jurassic ecosystems thx to fragmentary bones & tracks, but what they looked like is unknown

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

Not that I have time for any more projects (like, maybe ever), but I'm curious what prehistoric ecologies or evolutionary stories yall think I should be doing art/documentary work around. Pitch me your ancient realms and sell me on why u think the stories they tell matter.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

11 months

Biological diversity -in ecosystems and human societies- is essential for adaptation and survival through challenging times. This is one of the most universal lessons repeated countless times across deep time and human history.

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Brian Engh

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1 year

In case you were wondering, this is what a large #Dilophosaurus head and neck looks like in the back of a chevy astro van #paleoartprocess #paleoart #sculpture #dinosaur

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

4 years

Sirenians and Dolphins have been evolving alongside each other for somewhere between 5 and 10 million years. So many games played in that time. The rarity of seeing these games is likely because both were once much more abundant, but our species has killed most of them.

See Through Canoe

@SeeThroughCanoe

4 years

#Manatee playing with a pod of dolphins. Although #dolphins & #manatees regularly cross paths, it is extremely rare to see them interact. To my knowledge this is the only footage showing the 2 species actively interacting for more than a few seconds. #nature #florida #amazing

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

all hugs n snuggles

dinokingthing

@creatureking1

1 year

YOU, PALEOARTIST show me your work of a prehistoric animal not fighting, or doing anything crazy, just chilling and enjoying life

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Brian Engh

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1 year

The #fossil record is spooky. For many extinct animals we only have 1 specimen. That 1 specimen often represents an entire lineage: many species of that tribe of animals living & spreading across complex landscapes for 1000s of yrs. Only 1 remains #FossilFriday #Diabloceratops

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

How today started. #Dynamoterror & I just arrived @WesternCenter .

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

whoever made this meme that perfectly encapsulates my entire perspective on dinosaur #paleoart , I salute you.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

11 months

As an artist who often works from home, multitasking is very important. #paleoartprocess #paleoart #carnivoran #ginkgo

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

5 years

hey #birding twitter can you plz help me ID? was swimming in a lake in St. George Utah. Has pretty legit talons. and teeth. #birdwatching #birder #practicalfx

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Brian Engh

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3 years

This is how tiny the scales found associated with the neck of #tyrannosaurs are (detail of life-sized #sculpture WIP for @WesternCenter ) Similar skin textures on naked necked/headed birds are often larger and more "scale-like" than what you see here. #fossilfriday #paleoart

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4 years

Ohyeah it's #FossilFriday ! Wanna talk about the weirdo body proportions of #Dilophosaurus , based on @NotThatMarsh 's newly published & crazy thorough #osteology ? I've been workin on a *few* things based on Adam's work, including a life-sized #paleoart #sculpture for @LVNHMuseum .

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@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

One of the many times when #Utah had lots of beachfront property, 160 ish million years ago in the middle #Jurassic . #paleoartprocess of struggling to paint this landscape below #JurassicReimagined

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

1 year

#titanosaur doodle

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

6 months

Lil bebe #Diplodocus I painted for #JurassicReimagined . Over the next few weeks I'll be posting videos on paint-tree-eon on painting this + thoughts on why I'm not reconstructing it with an "egg horn" as has been suggested for some titanosaur embryos. #FossilFriday #paleoart

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3 years

More shoutouts to the squad that helped build the #AztecSandstone exhibit (now open @LVNHMuseum !) @Thuat_Squared putting some finishing touches on the #Dilophosaurus crest. Thuat painted a significant %of the side of the #sculpture he's standing on. #paleoart #paleoartprocess

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Brian Engh

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I know i know it's disappointing for some ppl to learn, but not all #dinosaurs looked like badass coolguy #dragons . Many of them were/are derpy, & had snoods, wattles, funny hairdos and whatever tf this wonky floppy skin hat thing is (a real feature of #Edmontosaurus )

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

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For anyone visiting the @WesternCenter , there are animals hidden in the mural that I don't think anyone has noticed yet: in addition to the obvious dinosaurs and turtles There is a small #mammal , an #enantiornithine bird, and a pair of #Azhdarchid #pterosaurs .

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

today i learned that jackalopes are real, but they're just rabbits horrifically affected by papilloma virus wtf monsters exist photo from here

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

My perspective is that we should embrace the unknown & the creative possibilities that uncertainty opens up for us, & (correctly) view scientific #paleoart as a space to explore new hypotheses. Good paleoart is plausible fiction inspired by hard science; aka hard science fiction.

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

New blog post on the #paleontology & #biology that went into the #Ornatops #paleoart I made for @WesternCenter ... ...& why this differently colored version could be exactly the same animal as the official version. HRŌNK!👉 #paleoartprocess 🦆👹🦢

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

2 years

2021 was an weird, exhausting, sad, & intense year. But fortunately also productive. Here are some of the big projects finished in 2021. I owe a huge thanks to the friends who helped me complete #paleoart sculptures and #murals now on display at @LVNHMuseum & @WesternCenter .

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

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Somehow, after nearly 2 years since we painted this mural @WesternCenter , nobody on the whole internet has commented on the fact these baby #hadrosaurs are hungrily approaching a pile of poop. #paleoart #palaeoart

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

3 years

Dear paleotwitter, just reciting facts &/or unsolicited correcting of randoms on the internet about specific niche knowledge does not make more people interested in paleontology, but it does make the online community of paleotweeps look like an writhing swarm of "um actuallys".

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Brian Engh

@BrianEngh_Art

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And also paleoartists: Help elevate each other's work, not nitpick & cast doubt on other artists' "accuracy" etc. We know yall just doin that cuz u think it makes u look smart, but it doesn't. It looks petty & shuts down plausible creativity (ultimately including your own).

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