The first image is a wonderful reconstruction of the abelisaurid dinosaur, Aucasaurus garridoi; by the talented artist @serpenillus.bsky.social. The first (and only) fossils for Aucasaurus garridoi to be unearthed were discovered in the Rio Colorado Subgroup, in the Neuquen Basin of Argentina (

The first image is a spectacular illustration by the talented artist Adrian Blazque Riola. Long ago in ancient Spain, during the Early Cretaceous Period. Two Riojavenatrix lacustris are enjoying successful hunts along the riverside. The first fossils

The first image is a fantastic illustration by the talented artist @prehistorica.art. Long ago in ancient Czech Republic, during the Early Cambrian Period. A Kodymirus vagans is searching the sea floor; waiting for the chance to use its large appendages to

The first image is a fantastic illustration by the talented artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient Antarctica, during the Late Cretaceous Period. A Morrosaurus antarcticus curiously stares at its own reflection in a frozen river. The first fossils for

The first image is a spectacular reconstruction of the alvarezsauroid dinosaur, Bonapartenykus ultimus; by the talented artist @somniosa.bsky.social. The first fossilized remains to be unearthed for Bonapartenykus ultimus were

It's extremely saddening to hear the loss of the greatest primatologist of my lifetime, Jane Goodall. Who died yesterday at the age of 91, she will forever be one of my favorite wildlife heroes. 🥰🥺🦍🦧🐒 "Only if we understand,

Cretaceous sea turtle soft tissues clarify ancestry of scale loss in chelonioids: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

The upcoming third season of Prehistoric Planet in November, along with the change of the season, brings this picture to mind. A magnificent illustration by the talented artist @dragonsofwales.bsky.social. Long ago, somewhere in ancient northern Eurasia,

Precisely!

I agree, very well said. "Prayers don’t stop bullets like in Minneapolis. If your plan to combat school shootings is asking an invisible sky-being for help, then kids are doomed. Religion is harmful when it replaces critical thinking and real action with “thoughts and prayers.”

Some awesome news for armored dinosaur lovers! More material for Spicomellus afer has been announced. This armored dinosaur hails from the African country of Morocco. What's most astounding about this specimen, at 165 million

Ever since I was first told about the mythical tale of Moses and learned that the Christian god killed every firstborn child in Egypt because the Pharaoh didn't do what he wanted. I often asked, "Why didn't he just kill the Pharaoh?" It wasn't until I read the bible that I learned

The first image is a spectacular illustration by the talented artist Sergey Krasovskiy. Long ago in ancient New Mexico, during the Late Cretaceous Period. One late morning, a single, huge tyrannosaurid named Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis is keeping an eye out for potential danger while it patrols its

I can only imagine how much better the world will be once the three most violent religions in the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are gone.

Among my favourite marine reptiles are the temnodontosaurs, mostly big, predatory #ichthyosaurs, mostly from the European Early #Jurassic. WHAT were they doing, how were they making a living? An extraordinary new #OA paper in Nature provides some answers... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A look when our world appeared very alien. The first image shows a beautiful reconstruction of Timorebestia koprii; along with the pelagic ecosystem, and with the other species shown in the foreground are Kiisortoqia, Siricaris, Kerygmachela, Pauloterminus,

Say hello to Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newest identified species of tyrannosauroid dinosaur. An amazing illustration by the talented artist @juliuscsotonyi.bsky.social. This fascinating specimen was unearthed in Mongolia and lived approximately 86 million years ago. It's nicknamed the

The first image shows a fantastic reconstruction of the omnivorous dinocephalian, called Jonkeria truculenta; by the talented artist @serpenillus.bsky.social. Jonkeria once had a large number of species attributed to it,‭ ‬but re-examination of the remains has found that many

Happy National Dinosaur Day!

A failed attempt to create Yi qi? Perhaps, and if so, I prefer the original. 🤓

Congratulations to Joe and the whole team! This video with Jean-Bernard Caron shows a closer look at the fossil. Research paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Mesozoic void beasts, ancient creatures of the night.

Happy Star Wars Day! 🤓🌟

The first image is a wonderful reconstruction of the titanosaur, Bustingorrytitan shiva; by the talented artist @ponka4651.bsky.social. Bustingorrytitan is known by four specimens, which include parts of the dentary and postcranial skeleton. The holotype specimen - labeled

The first image is a beautiful illustration by the talented artist @orribec.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient northern China, during the Neogene Period. During the dry season, with no trees in sight, a single amebelodontid proboscidean called Platybelodon grangeri is searching hard for a place to

The first image is a spectacular illustration by the talented artist Brian Engh. Long ago in ancient New Mexico, during the Late Triassic Period. A single armored typothoracine aetosaur called Typothorax coccinarum is walking on the banks of a river accompanied by a few early pterosaurs (based on

The first image is a fantastic illustration by the talented artist @prehistorica.art. Long ago in the ancient seas of the Silurian Period. Walking on the seafloor looking for food is a single eurypterid - aquatic arthropod, informally called sea scorpions - called Slimonia acuminata.

The first image is a beautiful illustration by the talented artist @serpenillus.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient Brazil, during the Late Triassic Period. A pair of proterochampsid archosauriforms called Proterochampsa are fighting over a tasty Pelorocephalus (a chigutisaurid temnospondyls).

I stand with Zelensky!

The first image is a fantastic reconstruction of the large dromaeosaurid dinosaur, Achillobator giganticus; by the talented artist @somniosa.bsky.social. This bipedal carnivore was first unearthed by a Mongolian and Russian Paleontological Expedition near the Gobi

Happy birthday to both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln!

The first image is a gorgeous illustration by the talented artist @orribec.bsky.social. Long ago in ancient Portugal, during the Late Jurassic Period. A single, mighty Lusotitan atalaiensis is taking a stroll on the beach enjoying the evening air - whilst looking for substance - it turns its

Welcome to Nazi America, everyone!

The first image is a wonderful reconstruction of a large theropod dinosaur, Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis; by the talented artist @somniosa.bsky.social. Chilantaisaurus has had a jumbled taxominc history since its initial discovery. This is mainly due to poor fossil material,

What was the point in having over 416,000 soldiers die when we were just going to become the new Nazi country in time anyway? It took Nazis 78 years, but they finally captured the United States.

The first image is a wonderful reconstruction of the basal thyreophoran dinosaur, Yuxisaurus kopchicki; by the talented artist Adrian Blazquez Riola. Yuxisaurus was first named in late 2021 through bioRxiv ("bio-archive" - an open access preprint repository for the biological sciences), but due to

Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Graciela Piñeiro, Pablo Núñez Demarco and Michel Laurin (2025) [2024] The Largest Mesosaurs Ever Known: Evidence from Scanty Records Fossil Studies 3(1): 1 doi: doi.org/10.3390/foss... www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/...

The first image is a beautiful illustration by the talented artist Julia d'Oliveira. Long ago in ancient Brazil, during the Late Triassic. A Staurikosaurus pricei is pulling a mammaliform from a rotting log; while a group of Buriolestes schultzi are walking upstream in a drying riverbed in the

EARLY-MIDDLE PERMIAN GORGONOPSID from Mallorca (Port des Canonge Formation) [Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids] Art by Henry Sharpe www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Megatherium by the artist George Johann Scharf (1788-1860) which measures a whopping 2.46m x 5.7m - the lovely @andreahart.bsky.social is my scale bar - sandy colour were the parts that Owen had to work with at the time - grey areas show those parts of that were missing (& thus not so accurate)

Racicot, R.A., Mourlam, M.J., Ekdale, E.G., Glass, A., Marino, L. & Uhen, M.D. (2024) Variation in whale (Cetacea) inner ear anatomy reveals the early evolution of “specialized” high-frequency hearing sensitivity. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–13. Available from: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

The first two images are fantastic illustrations of the basilosaurid whale, Perucetus colossus; by the talented artists Julio Lacerda (top) and Anthony Hutchings (bottom left). Long ago in the ancient seas of Peru, during the Paleogene Period. A single Perucetus

The first image is a wonderful reconstruction of the little anchiornithid theropod dinosaur, Fujianvenator prodigiosus; by the talented artist Chuang Zhao. Long ago in the ancient swamps of China, during the Late Jurassic Period. A Fujianvenator prodigiosus takes one moment to celebrate a

The first image is a beautiful reconstruction of the tiny hypsilophodontid ornithopod dinosaur, Vectidromeus insularis; by the talented artist Emily Willoughby. On an ancient forgotten river in a long gone forest of Early Cretaceous England. A pair of Vectidromeus insularis are attempting to

For #FossilFriday have you ever considered the scorpion fossil record? This is surprisingly rich, but how we categorize these animals transcends being a hot mess. It's a spicy disaster. My colleague Jason and I wrote a paper on it which came out today: peerj.com/articles/185... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Archaeopteryx by Maurice Wilson (1950) 😍

The first image is a beautiful illustration by the talented artist Gabriel Ugueto. Long ago in ancient California; during the Late Cretaceous Period. On a beach, right after a storm, two Augustynolophus morrisi are cautiously inspecting the body of a huge

Unearthed from a long gone ancient floodplain in Sussex, southeast England. Amateur fossil hunter Dave Brockhurst has discovered fossilized teeth from an unknown member of the tyrannosaur and velociraptor family. Living side-by-side with spinosaurids about 135 million years ago during the early