The only tyrant or king I respect is Tyrannosaurus rex. The current administration makes me sick and the energy from the protests needs to be carried towards political action. Call your senator and representative and tell them to change before the US is extinct. #NoKings

I don't know who needs to hear this but you can call for the regulation of the private fossil market AND call for Brazilian fossil repatriation. Big Rex auctions just increase the demand fulfilled by the illegal trade of Brazilian fossils.

Among the thousands of dire wolf specimens at La Brea #TarPits is this 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘺𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘶𝘴 lower jaw. Known as “The Endling”—the last known #direwolf fossil on Earth—this fossil is dated to be approximately 13,082 years old. See the fossil now on view in our Fossil Lab!

Watching more movies and decided to play into me being a mid-20s white guy and made a Letterboxd. May God have mercy on my pasty soul. letterboxd.com/paleodude/

Happy #TylosurusTuesday! Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).

A guide to the exoparia: the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account: #scicomm #paleontology #dinosaur #sciart

#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pliocene Scientific art helps to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in our exhibits. 🗝️ Check out the art + key and bonus fossils for gomphotheres, early artiodactyls and more: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...

Begging Democrat politicians to stop fighting to win over conservatives, and start winning over the 90 million Americans who just didn’t vote at all in the last national election. A meaningful chunk of those 90 million are absolutely looking for progressive policy directions.

Happy #FossilFriday! For today enjoy this itty bitty baby Triceratops and the much more irritable mammal Didelphodon. Both of these animals (the species not the skeletons) lived during the last days of the dinosaurs. Side note; more universities should have fossil displays. #paleontology 🧪

I'm super excited to announce that I'll be joining the Maddin lab at Carleton University for my PhD this Fall! Expect lot's of really cool synapsidy research on this feed soon!

This is like the highlight of the year so far I'm not even kidding.

Join our team teaching Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Calgary! We are hiring two positions to start in the Fall teaching in our new integrated curriculum.

Unicorns are one thing but every kid I knew who got into dinosaurs was equally interested in extant animals. Dinosaurs are just a gateway into the natural sciences for a lot of kid. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rewatching the Simpsons Season 8 and oh my god it's kind of impressive how basically every episode in it is absolutely peak. May just be my favorite.

I present you the whole collection of bonobo drawings. These are all part of the same illustration, but they are not the final version; I still want to correct some details and then I will share the whole composition. #Sciart #art #primates #mammals

Museum peeps, what's your least favorite conversation to have with people outside the field? For me, it's screens and buttons. "I hate how new exhibits are full of screens and buttons" or "you should add more screens and buttons for the kids." Both takes are missing the point! A thread. 🧵

De-extinction is the “let’s colonize Mars” for Biologists. Instead of working to fix & be sustainable, its a frat boy mentality that we can just trash it all and science will undo it. We don’t need to change our behaviors because we can control Z it

One of the most accurate representations of grad school applications.

There's nothing more heartbreaking than finding out that you've missed out on a PhD position thanks in entirety to the hell that is the federal government at this point. Science in the states is basically dead or dying.

Hoping all of you stayed warm this #FamilyDay with Alberta's last cold snap of the year hitting hard. Luckily I was able to escape the cold at the Royal Tyrrell Museum where I didn't have it as bad as these snowy Pachyrhinosaurus. #paleoart #paleontology #museum

Anyone who uses any other palico voice besides the funny meows in Wilds is insane and I do not trust their moral character.

Pair of small dicynodonts Diictodon snoozing in their comfy burrow

Any recommendations for reliable phones? Thoroughly disappointed by Google Pixel having to replace a screen due to a manufacturing error and now dealing with the phone not charging properly.

Homo sapiens

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Looks like with the NSF funding freeze I'll really have no other option than to remain in Canada for graduate studies. What an absolutely devastating and cruel administration the GOP has run.

I made a Lythronax

Who has two thumbs and submitted his first manuscript? This guy! Stay tuned for the deep history of bad luck within Synapsida. #paleontology

Day 5 of rebuilding a #LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the largest lizard Varanus priscus (the artist formerly known as Megalania). Larger than today's Komodo dragon, V. priscus would've been the top predator of the Ice Age outback. 🧪

Day 4 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Finally decided to build a dinosaur out of the dinosaur set, that being the Mongolian weirdo Therizinosaurus. When it's extremely long claws we're found scientists thought they belonged to a giant turtle! 🧪

Day 3 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the "first apex predator" Anomalocaris. With complex eyes and a set of grasping claws it was the terror of the Cambrian seas. 🧪

Day 2 of rebuilding the same LEGO set into different critters. This time it's a life size Tully monster! These weirdos are found only in Illinois and for the longest time people weren't sure what kind of animal they were. Recent studies suggest they are chordates. 🧪

Having found a site which gives you alternative instructions for LEGO sets I've decided to do one for the Creator Dinosaur set daily. Day 1 this awesome Diplocaulus by Ambrosino.

Slow year for dinosaurs if "Labocania aguillonae" is considered news worthy, let alone in the Top Ten Discoveries. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

I may have just turned 24 today but this funny little robot toy is still cool as hell. Here's hoping 2025 has even more cool robot toys.

Happy #FossilFriday! This terror bird at the Science Museum of Minnesota is harassing a glyptodont, an enormous armadillo relative. While the group is extinct their closest relatives, the seriema, still terrorizes small prey across South America. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

Can we talk people out of donating to Salvation Army entirely, please! They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance. AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic! Fund better charities!

Are you a fan of Warhammer 40k, Dinosaurs, or tabletop games in general? Then check out Clone-A-Saurus! It was a pleasure working with the team to ensure that you learn a thing or two about dinosaurs while mobilizing your units. #paleoart #dinosaurs

ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.

Hot take; the response people have to weight loss through Ozempic really shows that people don't want to see people get healthier they just want to belittle and mock us for being fat.

Happy Post-Thanksgiving #FossilFriday! Not quite a turkey, this New Zealand Giant Moa at the Museum of Comparative Zoology would've been one hell of a dinner with direct evidence of human hunting. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

Happy Thanksgiving

Finally making the transition from the other site to here, thought I should share some recent art for my first post. I designed this colour scheme for Torvosaurus tanneri, definitely amongst my favourite jurassic theropods. #paleontology #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart

Next up is Deltadromeus agilis, definitely an interesting taxon to try to reconstruct! We went down the carnivorous noasaurid route in the end. This colour scheme was partially inspired by the Tigrisoma heron species, particularly the Fasciated Tiger-Heron. #paleontology #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart

Drawing the rhinos and associated fauna of the ashfall beds. I would love to recreate this in 3d but I think to do it justice I would need more info and data than currently is available to me

Allosaurus fragilis at the @natural-history.bsky.social looming and conniving over a similarly dead sauropod. Note the large and boxy head, an outdated holdover of scarce Allosaurus skull material in the early 1900s. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

Maybe I'm wrong but a lot of the times with spec evo people just make weird hodgepodges of extinct and extant animals and this is especially noticeable when reinterpreting designs from popular media. I don't know maybe have a little joy and whimsy?

Oh look at the time, it's #FossilFriday. This week it's Dimetrodon milleri at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. With a stout skull and relatively large orbits, D. milleri is considered the most basal Dimetrodon species and adorable. #paleontology #paleoart #fossil 🧪

Today was not a good day for the native Dimetrodon population.