Tom Parker

@tomozaurus.bsky.social

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Scientific researcher, author and illustrator focused on Palaeontology and Palaeobotany.

apatosaurus sketch
Pencil sketch. Foreground: two dacentrurine stegosaurs drinking from a stream in front of an embankment covered in a Gleichenia thicket. Equisetum grow by the streamside. In the background an adult and juvenile Stegosaurus wander through osmundaceous ferns. A Ptilophyllum-type bennettite stands from among the ferns.
Alnashetri cerropoliciensis pencil sketch
Spinosaurus mirabilis sketch
Taurovenator violantei pencil sketch. Large ventral and caudal scutes are like those found on Allosaurus and Concavenator. Vertical pointing "arrowhead" shaped scales inspired by those seen on Juravenator.
Pencil line reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex based on AMNH 5027, gaps filled with the holotype.
Illustration of Haolong dongi with Laura Dern for scale (the animal is about the size of a large dog or a minature pony)
Passage from The Lost World by Michael Crichton describing Lewis Dodgson as an unscrupulous hack whose only talent is stealing ideas from other people and presenting them as his own.
Bucklandia indica, a thick, scaled, cycad-like stem with a Ptilophyllum-type leaf attached.
Reconstruction of a Williamsoniacean bennettitale baring Ptilophyllum type leaves by Jason Broughham from 2013. He almost perfectly predicts the growth habit revealed of Ptilophyllum-type bennies revealed with the 2025 publication of Ohaniella ptilofolia.
Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.
Sketch reconstruction of a large Edmontosaurus annectens about 9 metres long (Laura Dern silhouette for scale), shown in side view with a frill-like soft-tissue ridge running from its neck to its hips. To the right is a smaller, fully coloured version of the same dinosaur, featuring patterning inspired by The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade game.
Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)
Pencil sketch of pachycephalosaur Zavacephale in its environment.
Sketch of the dromaesaurid Shri rapax with the fossil
Edited shot from Jurassic World Rebirth showing the head crest of Thalassodromeus visible between the aisles of the convenience store like a shark's fin.
Drawing of the pterosaur Thalassodromeus with colors inspired by the "Mutadon" from Jurassic World Rebirth.
Quetzalcoatlus mounts an aeroplane
Quick thumbnail sketches of Two Medicine Formation and Cloverly Formation environments.
Coloured pencil sketch of Compsognathus
Diagramic reconstructions of a number of Cretaceous angiosperms for Prehistoric Kingdom's Mesozoic Temperate and Mesozoic Tropical biomes (2023).
lineart sketch of tyrannosaurus rex
Pencil sketches of the Tyrannosaurus from the Jurassic World Rebirth trailer
Scientific diagram of a Jurassic Araucaria, based mostly on Araucaria delevoryasii from the Morrison Formation.
Pencil sketch of Velociraptor mongoliensis, figure of holotype fossil is used for the background.
Spinosaurus skeletal drawings from Hone & Holtz 2021.
Screenshot of the Titanosaurus from Jurassic World Rebirth
Tweet from "MandJTV" reading "thank god for character customization bc I am burning that slimy street magician's fedora immediately" in reference to the character designs from Pokemon Legends ZA
Sketch of a diplodocid with cycadales and araucariales
Rough colour sketches of Hatzegopteryx, Tyrannosaurus and "Titanosaurus" (Isisaurus with a diplodocid-like tail and small sails) depicted with colours and other features based on designs from the Jurassic World Rebirth trailer. Referenced skeletals by Greg S Paul (Tyrannosaurus), Mark Witton (Hatzegopteryx) and Scott Hartman (Isisaurus).
Witchmon card from the Digimon TCG
Reconstructions of the mesozoic ferns Coniopteris and Todites
Australian 1998 Pre-Release Pokemon Poster with the monsters listed under their Beta names.
loose sketches of various mesozoic animals and plants
Ginkgo leaf shaped like a heart
Laura Dern as Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park
University of Oregon
Photos of Australian wilderness at sunset
photo of a Solenodon, photo credit WIRED
Illustration of Metricanthosaurus
New growth on the main shoot of a young Ginkgo. Probably around 40cm worth!
VERY rough coloured pencil sketch of a Cretaceous volcanic landscape featuring Keteleeria and titanosauriform sauropods.