Ole Zant

@thebiobob.bsky.social

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Scientific illustrator / Paleoartist. Museum fossil preparator and researcher. Admirer of theropods and Cretaceous Saharan Africa.

Photograph by Tyler Keillor
Iguanodon from the movie Dinosaur (2000). Showing wrinkly small-scaled skin.
Paul Sereno (left) and Ole Zant (right) in the Fossil Lab. With a Spinosaurus aegyptiacus skull in the back.
Reconstruction by Tyler Keillor, Lauren Conroy, Erin Fitzgerald, Paul Sereno.
Figure featuring cervical skin of Carnotaurus by Christophe Hendrickx and Phil Bell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104994 Jacob Baardse claims to have sculpted the model, but I'm pretty sure he just 3D scanned a dead Carnotaurus found somewhere.
Reconstruction from paper by Sereno and collegues. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80092
A cast of the fossil arm of an Archaeopteryx
A Dimetrodon covered in snow. Observed safely through glass.
A theropod bites the wing of a pterosaur trying to fly off.
Posterior cervical vertebrae of Ardetosaurus viator. Preserved bone in white, preserved but later lost bone in light grey, unpreserved bone in dark grey.
Skeletal reconstruction of Ardetosaurus, surrounded by photographs of the bones. Articulated anterior dorsals photographed by me. Caudals by Tom van der Linden. The rest of the photographs in this figure are courtesy of Sauriermuseum Aathal. Skeletal reconstruction also by me. Photographs not to scale.