CONGRATS, CARY! Exciting stuff

...and here's a slightly larger project I also have to finish tonight

Here it is with the seams filled — ready for smoothing epoxy!

In the middle of a dozen other projects, I've been working on a life-sized, 3D-printed vaquita porpoise for @kaseysnow.bsky.social to show off at #TwitchCon 🐬 🤞🏽 Cross your fingers I have enough time to paint it properly before I fly out on Wednesday 🤞🏽

FINALLY (for now).. what about the vendor hall?! SO much amazing stuff: art, books, models, figures, badges, plushes, replica skeletons ... the few pics here don't show half of what was on show! More info at tetzoo.com/blog/2025/8/... and be sure to check @dinoconuk.bsky.social and our website :)

Spinosaurid manuscript submitted. Azhdarchid manuscript to be submitted this week.

New paper by Martínez et al. describing a new basal theropod #dinosaur 🦖 from the Late #Triassic of Argentina 🇦🇷 alongside an analysis of faunal assemblages that helps clarify how early dinosaurs diversified & expanded their ecological roles ⬇️ #Paleontology #Science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're gonna be at #TwitchCon San Diego this year, flag me down and I'll give you some stickers! This year I've got the Paleontologizing logo, as well as a leatherback turtle design I put together to raise awareness about these superlative creatures

🏞️ Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1908. [Source]

Here is the finalised list of builds for my next #Lego #Advent #Calendar. Written to be a trip through time, from the start of life until now. I chose 1 or 2 different animals per time period as follows Ediacaran - Charnia Cambrian - Haikouichthys Ordavician - Endoceras 1/2

It is about time, #FossilFriday that I promoted Christa Sadler's wonderful book on the globally unique Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah again. Someday, I hope it leads to a Dawn of the Cretaceous Fossil Beds Nat. Monu. managed like John Day Fossil Beds NM in Oregon. this-earth.com/dinosaur-fro...

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

This is bad news overall, and I worry about its impact on paleontological fieldwork in the region. www.hcn.org/articles/dec...

We've got another paleoartist on here now! Tyler just joined Bluesky and his work is quite impressive. Give him a follow!

I need some new tent stakes for this upcoming round of fieldwork, because the hard Wyoming ground really messed 'em up. Just LOOK at this one

MORE CRETACEOUS FIELDWORK! I'm back out in the Cedar Mountain Formation with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social, digging up dozens of ankylosaurs and streaming each day at 1pm Pacific Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're finding and ask some questions!

A wind storm *destroyed* our shade tarp setup and made me end the broadcast early, and now I've got a clip of it 💨 Enjoy 💨 www.twitch.tv/paleontologi...

I can't watch this because I'm out in the desert, digging dinosaurs again for two weeks but YOU should watch it and tell me how good it is! www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Chaos plantpdate again. A few plants have revealed themselves to be definite spinach or dill. I believe there are at least 3 cilantro. What the hell are these others, which had literally no indication of weird looking seeds 🌱🤣 Bonus: bigger but still too small to harvest spinach 🥬

Couple of noodles in a cuddle puddle

A reminder that everything is on a 20% SALE in honour of bisexual awareness week! If you want a cute pin, sticker, or even a mug to celebrate bisexuality and other queer identities,or to just support a loved one, get your fabulous bi merch in our store! Link to store: www.etsy.com/shop/Palaeoiris

Find yourself a man who looks after you like this frigatebird looks after its stick

All birds are dinosaurs and I love when it shows.

On the mend, speaking on the terminal mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of Jurassic in Moab, UT next Wednesday and on Oct. 16th at UFOP meeting at DNR in SLC. Megafaunas are sensitive to ecological disruptions. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @richardjbutler.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

A new update is coming this Friday, and among some cool changes, a few new skins will be coming as well! To start off, the most hard-headed herbivore is rolling out with a new look: “Scoria” Ancient Bison, a tier 2 skin priced at 500 tracks

Not too shabby today 🐋 Animal #778 🐻‍❄️ I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟧🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6 metazooa.com #metazooa

It's our last #Twitch stream until I'm out in the field again this weekend! We're discussing a new fossil genus of leatherback turtle (Ueloca colemanorum!) plus the results of dinosaur extinction on Paleocene landscapes, and a sneak peek of upcoming fieldwork Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Look who showed up to release a butterfly! Thanks for visiting! #ishowspeed #ishowspeedinhouston #houstonmuseum

We've got another BRAND-NEW DINOSAUR to discuss on #Twitch today -- Cariocecus bocagei -- and we'll be interviewing the lead author on the paper (@fbertpaleo.bsky.social) to get the inside scoop on what makes this new iguanodont so special. Join us at twitch.tv/paleontologizing to watch & chat!

Nice... @renpoole.bsky.social @valdosaurus.bsky.social

A thread of every Edmontosaurus skeleton on my phone, just because #FossilFriday

Here's a dinosaur trace for this week's #FossilFriday — a footprint of a large 'carnosaur' (likely a carcharodontosaur) at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Track Site outside of Moab, Utah. This is easily one of the most impressive dinosaur track sites in the world, and it honestly needs more protection

We've got another newly-published dinosaur genus (Newtonsaurus!) to discuss today -- but how 'new' is it? Plus there's that possible Judith River Formation deinocheirid, and some updates on OPERATION: LEATHERBACK! There's Thursday BIRDSday later too, so join us at twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Sometimes I drop subtle hints on student assignments about my professional life.

Okay time to do this locally!!

The girls.

Piglet squids (genus Helicocranchia) are a genus of small cranchiids known for their goofy appearance. They have a rather large siphon that make them look like a pig with a snout. Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo. #SQUIDtember

Publishing 3-D photogrammetry models is the future! Particularly, as this ability is built into every phone. Just remember, the scale.

Utah Friends of Paleontology Sept 11, 7 PM MT meeting at UGS! Niki Krivka: a young researcher, volunteer, and intern at the Natural History Museum of Utah. "Pterosaurs, lagerpetids, and Dromomeron: some strange prehistoric critters" online meeting option. meet.google.com/wva-reps-dad

This mid-Jurassic (Bathonian) terrestrial sequence (El Mers 1 Fm.) in Morocco looks very good for vertebrates. Find more dinos, an ankylosaur skull would be nice, my friend, Omar Zafaty. Wish I was younger. @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @geosociety.bsky.social

Now that I'm back from Cret. Symposium, I'll be getting back to describing the new polacanthids from the lower Yellow Cat (basal Cret) and checking out correlation of Poison Strip polacanthines following J/K Dino extinction in Moab on 24th. @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @richardjbutler.bsky.social

Hey, surprise at staff meeting! I just got the Crawford Award for the Mancos Group Guidebook as the top UGS publication for 2025. I did not even know I was nominated. Nice to come home to. @paleontologizing.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @andrewtracks.bsky.social

I guess it may not be Covid positive, but I am getting sicker by the minute..Hard to breath, caugh worsening...

Well following my return from 12th Int'l Cret. Symposium, I have tested positive for Covid. Tomorrow I go to urgent care and get onto an antiviral. Get those Covid booster shots before SVP2025. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

Came back from Germany to see Ethan had prepared two nice juvenile iguanodont jugals from "Jim's Place" in the Doellings Bowl basal Cretaceous Bone Bed that I had labeled as high priority more than 15 years ago. @renpoole.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Today's was *not* easy (weird clade!) but I got it 🦊 Animal #772 🦒 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟧🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6 metazooa.com #metazooa

There's SO MUCH #paleontology news to cover today -- new coelacanth species, new insights into shark evolution, new ancestral lizards, new Solnhofen pterosaur fossils, and even a new fossil sea turtle! Join us to discuss @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

I just got some Emu chicks for the property. Meet Benedict and Florentine. Its so fun to watch the way they move and look for food in the grass. These guys really are dinosaurs.

Meet Bettongia haoucharae, a new species of extinct bettong from the Nullarbor Plain and Great Victoria Desert. doi.org/10.11646/zoo...