Paleo-yapping

Hello, hello!! Hope you're having a great day! My main blog is @alexandrias-zines, and subsequently my name is Alexandria!! I'm 22, use it/they/she pronouns, and I have an ever-growing obsession with paleontology!

On this blog I plan to share my notes on paleontology, as well as tips/advice for you to self-study paleontology (like I do), and this blog will also serve as a spot for me to share some of my paleo-themed artwork!!

This introduction post will be pinned, and I'll also link my larger post series to here for easy navigation!

This list will be updated as I find more websites! Also, please feel free to add your own websites in the comments or the reblogs!

Facts.app

(check it out for yourself here!)

This is one that I absolutely love for quick facts and art references! I cannot recommend this site enough! Although they have currently a limited selection of which prehistoric creatures they feature; they have 3d models of all the ones they do feature already! And, you can move said 3d model around to get a full 360 of the animal!

I also really enjoy the layout of this site; especially on the computer!! It might just be me, but it gets a little difficult to navigate via mobile or tablet devices; but it is completely manageable.

biodiversitylibrary.org

(check it out for yourself here!)

This is a very good site that allows free access! It is a library site, so there’s limited pictures on the sites interface. However, they have a plethora of resources that you can search through in their database! These sources are (from what I’ve found) mainly older sources, which is great if you’re someone like me that wants to see if you can pick up on the discrepancies that modern research provides in lieu of the older research!!

I personally have not tried this site on mobile or tablet, but I’d imagine it’d be a little overwhelming!

paleobiology.org

(check it out for yourself here!)

This one is a little bit on the advanced side of things, though I do still enjoy this website! A downside to this is like I said, this site does require a bit of knowledge on how to properly lookup a fossil or report on a fossil.

priweb.org

(check it out for yourself here!)

The Paleontological Research Institution’s site is still somewhat new to me, so I don’t have too much to say at this moment! However, I was able to skim through their blogs in the education section of their website, and it does seem like it’d be a great resource for me!!

This isn’t my greatest piece ever; but I was testing out Procreate for the first time!! I typically draw on paper—but I thought that digital art would be fun!

Also, if you wanted to follow me on Instagram; the user name is Dinosaur.Doodler