Spinosaurids are as enigmatic as they are diverse, Suchomimus at perhaps 11 metres was the largest known member of the Baryonychinae, while Irritator at around 6 metres is regarded as the smallest of the Spinosauridae. More WIP on displays for next months @dinoconuk.bsky.social charity auction 🏴‍☠️🦖

Thought I’d get myself a T-shirt printed for DinoCon next month, so people know who I am. Putting my name on it seemed a bit naff, so I did this instead. I think it’s very “me”. 🤷‍♂️

A closer look at one of the featured digsites in Walking with Dinosaurs - Pipestone Creek! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our report on employment is out in Paleobiology (They did let us append that the paper was accepted before the election/changes to NSF and other granting agencies) Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am very pleased to announce that my first scientific paper & first author paper, has just been published ! Rise of the King: Gondwanan Origins and Evolution of Megaraptoran Dinosaurs royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Congratulations to my good friend @stevoallain.bsky.social for his new paper on Palaeontology, it’s deliciously open access and concerns tyrannosauroids and megaraptorans in terms of origin, size and distribution. Love you my friend and proud of you! 🦖🖤

The @iknowdino.bsky.social reward just arrived, & I’ve been a backer of this wonderful podcast for many years! Allosaurus is iconic, from Dinamation, Lapworth Museums Big Al, to a stunning graduation commission for my good friend @dinomaster.bsky.social via the mighty @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social 🖤🦖

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨 We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction! www.cell.com/current-biol...

We have a rich fossil heritage on the south coast, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, the first humans on these islands... And everything in between. Come and find out about it at our new exhibition, running from April 4th to June 1st. godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/exhi... @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Tickets are available to buy now! 🦖🦕🥳 www.dinocon.co.uk/tickets #DinoConUK #Devon #Exeter #Dinosaur #Convention #Event #UniversityOfExeter

For #valentinesday and #FossilFriday, here's Tyrannosaurus engaging in face biting, a behaviour evidenced from numerous tooth gouges and puncture wounds in their skulls. Among living species, face biting is strongly correlated with the onset of sexual maturity, so this image is love-adjacent, sorta.

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪

#Iguanodon was formally named 200 years ago today in 1825. The second dinosaur to be named after Megalosaurus, and one of three genera originally used to define Dinosauria.

Happy 200th birthday #Iguanodon! Despite being the first dinosaurs to ever be discovered, it was the second dinosaur to be described and named. This iconic ornithopod was quite wide spread across Europe. It boasts a large thumb spike likely for grasping plant and could be used to defend itself.

Happy 200th Birthday Iguanodon! Very much a fan of your early-20th century look depicted by Gerhard Heilmann, with prehensile tongue and power-walk

Iguanodon was named 200 years ago today, so here's (AFAIK) the first time it appeared in #paleoart: an 1833 watercolour/pencil study "Reptiles Restored, the Remains of Which Are To Be Found in a Fossil State in Tilgate Forest, Sussex" by George Scharf. That's Iguanodon on the left. #Sciart thread...

Sombathy, R., O’Connor, P.M. & D’Emic, M.D. (2025) Osteohistology of the unusually fast-growing theropod dinosaur Ceratosaurus. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–25. Available from: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

My poster on the life appearance of Megalosaurus, as presented at SVPCA 2024. A paper on this, and the history of M. reconstructions, is currently in the system and should (hopefully!) be published later this year. Posting this in the interim as a poss. useful #paleoart reference. #Sciart #dinosaur

We'll be having the online launch for Palaeontology in Public on Tue 18 Feb 18:00-19:30 UK-time It will feature comments from Mike Benton, Riley Black, Natalia Jagielska and Alison Laurence, & discussion with some of the chapter authors More info & signup link here: forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk

The newly described carcharodontosaur - #Tameryraptor markgrafi, looks a bit as if an Allosaurus wants to cosplay Ceratosaurus.

So, you want to be a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life, but don't know where to start? Maybe you worry you're not good enough? That you can't do field work? Or you can't afford it? Let me take you through different options for making it in the field 👇(🧵)

Happy New Year! The UK's biggest ever dinosaur track site has been discovered, with @richardjbutler.bsky.social: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A. Danison et al. (2024) Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12(1): 81-114 doi: doi.org/10.18435/vam... journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.p...

Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future. svpow.com/2024/12/22/a...

Published today ... our study of predatory dinosaur diversity in the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Group of the Wealden. New data on one of the oldest Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages, revealing new spinosaurid, tyrannosauroid and dromaeosaurid lineages ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #dinosaurs

For the 165th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, here are two theropod dinosaurs—T. rex & a hummingbird. Despite all the differences, T. rex is more closely related evolutionarily to this hummingbird than T. rex is to, say, Allosaurus! Still blows my mind! 🦖 More... 1/2

The Paleobiology Database has landed on Bluesky! ✨ Here we'll be posting database updates, new publications and all things fossil-data-related 🌍🐚 Be sure to check out our website for more info on how to contribute to and use PBDB data as well as loads of other resources! 🦕📊 paleobiodb.org

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Description and Analysis of an #Allosaurus fragilis (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Skull by Rush and Storm, 2024. The authors informs researchers that CMP 279 is open for study by all interested parties regardless of their perspectives on creation or evolution. *This is the “Ebenezer” Allo specimen.

Ok, so the news is still new. I have a new paper out today naming a cool new pterosaur: Skiphosoura bavarica (Bavarian sword-tail), from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany. The full paper is here with all the info: www.cell.com/current-biol... Artwork by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

Made it to the other side - hi Bluesky, I'm a paleontologist working on ecology, growth and morphology (among other things) of Jurassic fossil marine crocs and their living "relatives"! Why not celebrate with photos of some of the awesome animals I work on?

This is still a better representation of a living dinosaur than you would find in most museums, and a couple of people did this in a couple of days and it's entirely edible. One of my favourite things ever.

Looking at #Gnatalie, our new dinosaur displayed at the newly opened #NHMLA Commons Entrance. The material you see here is a composite of 5 diplodocids representing a new species, all from a quarry in southeast Utah that is rich in celadonite which turned all the bones in the locality green.

Just found these incredible dinosaur stickers at Waterstone’s in Leicester 😁 It’s got an #Allosaurus!!

The UK now has a #dinosaur and #palaeontology -themed convention, #DinoCon. Talks, displays, events, stalls, merch and more. For 2025, we're at Exeter University on the weekend of 16-17 August. More info at www.dinocon.co.uk

Kulindadromeus is friend-shaped. Reworking an old drawing to offer up for sale next week.

Unsurprisingly, research shows that people in the UK like dinosaurs, even if their choice of favourite dinosaur is questionable. yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Lovely to see a little Mary Anning ichthyosaur in the Oxford University Museum this week. This one even has stomach contents showing #ichthyosaur #oxford #geologicalcuratorsgroup #oxforduniversitymuseum @historyofgeology.bsky.social

I created this paleo starter pack here 👇🏼, but it only holds 150 people because that's Bsky's limit. I'm going to build a second one, so if you're a paleontologist, paleoartist or paleontology communicator and would like to be included, leave a message down here ✌️😊. go.bsky.app/QWhLarC

I haven’t been up on Blue Sky much recently but I’m very grateful for the sudden surge of followings recently. Here’s some pictures I’ve taken from my visit to the NHM London last week to see Fern the bronze Diplodocus cast of the famous Dippy that toured around the UK a few years ago.

Only two pieces in tonights #paleostream Kvabebihyrax and Sarcosuchus. We were silly. #paleoart #sciart #scicomm

Hatzegopteryx

Growing up, I’ve always thought of having to go to far flung places to find #dinosaur fossils, but I have never crossed my mind they were just under my feet in my tiny home town Hong Kong. There are small outcrops baring Mesozoic aged rocks, but WOW! www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-new...

This is cool: New fossils show that some Cretaceous-era birds had super-strong feet to catch and carry away small prey, some of the earliest evidence of avian predators. By @lbaisas.bsky.social. 🪶 www.popsci.com/science/exti...

Block early, block often. If they just vibe wrong, block. If they're definitely shitheads, report and block. But block. Don't argue, don't quote-dunk, just block.

Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals by Gayford et al., 2024. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Meep! Meep! concept sketch of a group of Berthasaura Berthasaura leopoldinae was a small noasaurid (a group of abelisaurians) that lived during the Late Cretaceous in South America. In the background you can see a group of Caiuajara (a tapejarid pterosaur) flying around 🎨 🐡 🧪 #paleontology