#FossilFriday (well, really "#SubfossilFriday): Skeleton of a female upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) @OtagoMuseum

Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity - Sharpe - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

While birds and bats both developed adaptations for flight, the way they went about it is so fundamentally different it affects their possible ecological adaptation. Specifically, birds can easily shift to a walking lifestyle, bats can't. 🧪 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#temnovember2025 day 27: Rewana And now for the last round of #temnovember and we have #Rewana quadricuneata a #rhytidosteid from the early #triassic of Australia, realally cool for the lack of osification on their vertebra, leathing to them being divided on 6 diferent bones

King of all the antlers. #Prehistoricplaneticeage #Megaloceros #ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

”Bloody Mary” Nanotyrannus #sciart

Have you ever seen a baby gar eating? This little Spotted Gar is about a week old and has started feeding on zooplankton (in this case brine shrimp/Artemia/ aka "sea monkeys").

Psephoderma doodlings #sciart

Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859

Bucket list sloth butt selfie!! This beautiful specimen is from Anza Borrego and it has THOUSANDS of in situ osteoderms. There are only two specimens with in situ osteoderms (that I know of) in North America and I’m spending the day with this one.

Today's random piece of nostalgic palaeoart: John Gurche's Tyrannosaurus! Commissioned to accompany the Field Museum's exhibition of Sue the T.rex, this is among the definitive works of 2000s T.rex artwork. It's a moody piece that makes good use of Gurche's mastery of texture and lighting. (1/6)

Em abril a @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social e Instituto Dom Luiz estiveram no XXIII Encuentro de Jóvenes Insvestigadores en Paleontología com @lexfonseca.bsky.social que falou sobre: "Appendicular myological reconstruction of Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis (Camarasauridae, Sauropada). #dinosaurs

Just published: "A revised name and new insights into the Middle Jurassic sauropod trackways from Portugal", by Vanda Santos! The Galinha Quarry footprints have a new name: Galinhapodus gomesi. Link to paper below 👇

Iguanodont swimming, digital. Originally started somewhere in 2022/23. Finished today.

Why are we still teaching 100-year old statistics? scienceforeveryone.science/p/why-are-we... 🧪

😊🦕🦕🌈As últimas semanas foram intensas! Os meus alunos apresentaram o trabalho desenvolvido nos últimos meses em torno dos dinossáurios saurópodes e no âmbito dos projetos conduzidos pelo grupo de Paleontologia da @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social e IDL (ULisboa) com a @uneduniv.bsky.social

E por outro lado, P. Fonseca (@lexfonseca.bsky.social , @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social ), com "Appendicular myological reconstruction and functional analysis of Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis (Camarasauridae, Sauropoda)", em colaboração com Daniel Vidal (@uneduniv.bsky.social , University of Chicago)

Newest #watercolor in time for Valentines is of Khaan, two of which were discovered with slightly different tail vertebrae. Males may have had more muscles there for courtship displays. #sciart #paleoart

Full article: Revisiting Bird’s swimming sauropod: new insights on Manus-dominated Dinosaur Tracks from the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, Texas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Jurassic avialan Baminornis zhenghensis: www.nature.com/articles/s41... The oldest known avialan with a pygostyle! 🪶🧪 (📷Chen et al.)

Welcome Baminornis! Only the second undoubted bird from the Jurassic. Joining the iconic Archaeopteryx. But Baminornis could fly better! My thoughts in this commentary for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A LATE JURASSIC short-tailed bird from China www.nature.com/articles/s41... Baminornis zhenghensis gen. et sp. nov. Art by Zhao Chuang

My predecessor as State Paleontologist, Dave Gillette passed away on Feb. 10th. He will be missed. He oversaw the excavation of the Huntington Mammoth. @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Pre-assembly for a new preparation lab, in Fes, Morocco on the hotel floor with Susie @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and Richard @richardjbutler.bsky.social #fossils #dinosaurs #fossilprep #zoicpalaeotech

Ajji M, J. & Lang, J.W. (2025) Gharial acoustic signaling: Novel underwater pops are temporally based, context-dependent, seasonally stable, male-specific, and individually distinctive. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–29. Available from: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

For #FossilFriday, here's some #paleoart of a casual afternoon in the Early Cretaceous Wealden group, with iguanodonts, tyrannosauroids, polacanthids and sauropods making a mess of a watering hole. The mashed-up muds left by these animals can be found to this day in Wealden rocks. #dinosaurs #sciart

New sauropod dinosaur teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal & their implications for sauropod dental evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology

If you need a summary of recent advances in the field of bird paleontology, my labmates at @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social have a new paper out reviewing the origins of the avian brain, palate, wing skeleton, and air-filled bones! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🪶🧪 (📷Field et al.)

“Drop that baby!” My watercolor of Leptoceratops defends their young against Quetzalcoatlus. I do think smaller ceratopsians were punching above their weight class and made sure to convey it here. #paleoart #sciart

#Commissions Open! Updated commission board.

Panthera uncia lusitana subsp. nov., a snow leaopard from Portugal "Insights on the evolution and adaptation toward high-altitude and cold environments in the snow leopard lineage" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Pyramid" Tameryraptor markgrafi, digital, ~2hrs #paleoart #dinosaurs #paleontology

Redescription of Stromer's carcharodontosaur: "Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I wonder if a l live-stream field trip would be possible..?... in St George during paleo-salvage project at SGDS.....

Tower of Ferns First piece of the year! Featuring Tempskya and Ferrodraco

Count Orlok, digital, ~2hrs #nosferatu #horror #film

Balaur bondoc, here interpreted as a bird, being harassed by small, colorful azhdarchids. #paleoart #sciart #paleostream

A piece capturing the rise of dinosaur (and pterosaur) age, for a Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich

𝒢𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝑒 I like this version better #paleoart #sciart #paleontology #dinosaur

"Enya", original character. Digital, ~3hrs #OC

I have greatly expanded the info about the history and research on the Portuguese Allosaurus specimens on Wikipedia. Please give it a read, if you will :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosau...

A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic) doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

Gnatalie, digital, ~2hrs. A quarry in south-east Utah has produced a fantastic skeleton, composed of two or more individuals of a diplodocine sauropod. Notably, the bones are green-ish in colour. Read more: nhm.org/gnatalie #paleoart #sciart #paleontology #dinosaur

From the smallest to the largest new dinosaur in our museum – here is the tale of H.Q. 1, the largest of the Siber Collection dinosaurs making the new Natural History Museum UZH its home in this 2nd part of the #NMZChronicles 1/n (📸 Lukas Keller)

Number of new Mesozoic dinosauromorph* species/year, from 2003 until 2024. (* For historical reasons, lagerpetids are in this list; however, they are now considered pterosauromorphs and not dinosauromorphs). Average is 44.9; 2024 is back to pre-pandemic levels.

Burigo, A., & Mateus, O. (2025). Allosaurus europaeus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) Revisited and Taxonomy of the Genus. Diversity, 17(1), 29. doi.org/10.3390/d170...

Squeezing in one more art piece before the end of 2024, a year after having the opportunity to do fieldwork in the Candeleros Fm of Argentina's Neuquén Basin. That trip inspired this piece, which depicts a group of titanosaurs traveling a dry interdune riverbed at sunset. #paleoart #sauropods 🦕

Gnatalie, digital, ~2hrs. A quarry in south-east Utah has produced a fantastic skeleton, composed of two or more individuals of a diplodocine sauropod. Notably, the bones are green-ish in colour. Read more: nhm.org/gnatalie #paleoart #sciart #paleontology #dinosaur

baby girl nosferatu