Official #Paleoctober prompt list for this year just dropped!

First quick paleoart sketch for this year's #Paleoctober with the Cretaceous insect Libanoculex.

Jour 1 du #paleoctober2025 ! 🪱 Spriggina (~550 Ma) Ce petit organisme marin segmenté vivait avant même l’explosion de la vie du Cambrien. 🦟 Libanoculex (~120 Ma) Un moustique fossilisé du Crétacé, découvert au Liban. #art #paleoart #digitalart #dinosaur

I cant believe I was about to be angry at Merriam-Webster. Sorry I didnt understand your game.

Jour 2 du #paleoctober2025 ! 🦎 Eothyris (~280 Ma) Il appartient aux tout premiers amniotes, ancêtres des reptiles et des mammifères. 🪱 Pikaïa (~505 Ma) Ancien représentant connu des chordés. Le groupe qui inclut… nous ! #paleoart #dinosaur #digitalart #nature

Paleoctober day 2 paleoart sketch of the primitive synapsid Eothyris.

Jour 3 du #paleoctober2025 🐚 Plectronoceras (~500 Ma) Un minuscule céphalopode du Cambrien, considéré comme l’un des premiers ancêtres des teuthides. 🌱 Runcaria (~385 Ma) Une petite plante du Dévonien, proche des premières plantes à graines. #paleoart #dinosaur #fossils

#paleoctober 2025 Day 1! (I’m a little late to the party, forgive me) Libanoculex! (The insect, not the dinosaur)

Paleoctober day 3 paleoart sketch of the middle Devonian seed plant precursor Runcaria.

Beast Fables Weretober 2025 - Meiolania Myle's step granddad, Nullah, regales a tale from his younger days. A rite for many a young man, he had to do battle against a most persistent foe: a Quinkana Lindwyrm. #fantasyart #weretober2025 #paleoart #paleoctober

Paleoctober day 4 paleoart sketch of the Holocene horned stem-turtle Meiolania.

#Paleoctober day #2! Eothyris Midterms start Monday so I’m lacking behind as of now but I’m gonna lock in after them trust

Eothyris. Paleoctober day 2 (Permian planet) #Paleoctober #Paleoctober2025 #Eothyris

Paleoctober day 5 paleoart sketch of the Mesozoic coral Isastrea.

#paleoctober day #3: Runcaria in the morning dew The likely progenitor of all seed plants!

#paleoctober day 4: Meiolania Very large stem turtle with a surprisingly long, club like tail!

Do you notice how when folks advocate for mosquito torture and extinction, it's never people who spent their entire lives learning and teaching about the natural world? No instead it's Redditors and Twitter NPCs who can't tell the difference between a mantis and a grasshopper.