Zhengheornis buyu gen. et sp. nov. Wang et al. (2026) Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds Science Advances 12(27): eaeb5202 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ae b5202 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy #FossilFriday! It's Hell Creek time Maybe I'll find more of this mystery critter when I'm out in the wilds.

The paper describing Changzhousaurus (previously missing various pictures ) has been replaced by an updated version www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/...

Woah. Calamosaurus from the Wessex Formation reidentified as an alvarezsauroid... I'm reeling and certainly didn't see that one coming :) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dinosaurs

For #FossilFriday a panoply of the basal #ankylosaurid Liaoningosaurus, known by literally dozens of juvenile specimens. The largest specimens are around 50 cm #thyreophora #ornithischia

Maybe a bit late for web timing, but ehy, NEW PAPER ON #fossilfriday!!! I am proud to present you Haolong dongi gen. nov. sp. nov., a new hadrosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China! The specimen, almost complete, is a juvenile iguanodontian from the Yixian Formation of the Barremian (125 Mya).

Really taken with Haolong dongi, out today from Jiandong Huang, Pascal Godefroit and team. Just submitted news article on it. An iguanodontian with abundant hollow spikes across the neck and body, projecting from among conventional basement scales, and with rows of plate-like scales along the tail.

Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart

Since it's #haolong day and #fossilfriday here's some #iguanodontian specimens from Liaoning, spanning from 40 cm to over 8 m, many preserved with soft tissue.

Manipulonyx, new WEIRD alvarezsaurid A.O. Averianov, A.V. Lopatin and A.A. Atuchin (2025) Forelimb structure and function in a new Late Cretaceous parvicursorine theropod dinosaur from Mongolia Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 382–408 www.zin.ru/journals/tru... …

Wang, L., Li, X., Wen, Q. et al. Gastroliths in hatchling Psittacosaurus show early dietary habits. Sci. China Earth Sci. (2025). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Latest paper in the Lance Grande volume is out! Several more are at proof stage so should be appearing soon.

Untangling the identity of Romualdo pterosaurs: ‘Cearadactylus atrox’ as a junior synonym of Brasileodactylus araripensis (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae): Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A região occipital do Amargasaurus (Sauropoda, Dicraeosauridae): reconstrução das inserções musculares craniocervicais, com comentários sobre estratégia alimentar onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper alert! (My first!) This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible! giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

Skull roof elements of Tuojiangosaurus. The supraorbital (n.6)show and interesting pattern of conspicuous tubercles. While stegosaurs have often ornamentations in the shape of grooves and pits the supraorbital of T. vaguely recall the caputegulae of ankylosaurs #thyreophora

A little #FossilFriday mystery from the Hell Creek for you other experts. I found this in a bunch of pieces trailing down the outcrop. What is it? Smooth on the underside, horns. Sutures? Definitely not Pachycephalosaurus, can't place it on a ceratopsian either. 🦕🧪

I'm putting the new weird horned dinosaur that I found in Montana away, but wanted to compare it with the same bones from Princess Lumpybumps. I am surprised at how different they are, especially the fused frill lumps (episquamodals) in overall size and proportions. Can't wait to dig more ! 🧪

Results from the #paleostream! Dodo, Oneirosaurus, Thikarisuchus and Bakiribu

Rex, all hail the king #sciart

Does anyone have this ref? Nopcsa F (1925) Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen IV. Die Wirbelsäule von Rhabdodon und Orthomerus. Palaeontologica Hungarica 1: 273–304 Thanks!

Whooooaaaa, this is extremely neat! And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙 In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material. 🔭🧪

Forelimb morphology of the early short-tailed avialan theropod Confuciusornis: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 🪶🧪 (📷Duan et al.)

Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP

A new, exquisitely preserved skull of a basal neornithischian from the Morrison Fm www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

M. W. Maisch, L. S. M. Maisch 2024 Neubewertung von „Plateosaurus“ ornatus von Huene, 1908 – ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed? Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 180. Jahrgang

"Oh, my God" "What is it?" "It's a birdcage" "For what?" My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)

Restos de anquilossauros de uma nova localidade do Campaniano-Maastrichtiano no norte da Patagônia, Argentina doi.org/10.1080/0311...

Leaving this here for no particular reason... #spinosaurus #theropoda

I made another discovery today: a new (old) instance of the Demonic Elongated Quetzalcoatlus! And It's attacking London! Apparently it is from Look and Learn, a British educational magazine for children published in 1982.

neck details

more progress....almost done with the head details

Thinking about ankylosaur cervical spines (neck armor) today in the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social collections. How many morphs are there? What bones are homologous? Can I just have ONE articulated animal?!?

The ginkgo-mimicking hangingfly Juracimbrophlebia, from Jurassic China. Places like the Haifanggou Formation are known for an insane quantity of full-body insect fossils, some of which even preserve color patterning #paleoart #sciart #entomology

"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social ! uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon... 🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺

Unveiling the Eotrachodon: Alabama's Newest Dinosaur Comes to Life at McWane YouTube · McWane Science Center youtu.be/CmCSdCoFKPM?... #ornithischia

Denmark's #Evolutionsmuseet Knuthenborg, home to the famous #Lokiceratops fossils and the 97%-Complete Camarasaurus, appears to be readying itself for yet another key specimen... The original announcement was posted 5 days ago, so we may expect to hear news very soon...

Common Bronzewing (male) preening on my balcony. #birds

- Sebecus icaeorhinus - For a prototype, I am quite happy with the result. #Crocodylomorpha

Great Yingshanosaurus skeletal by @slvrhwk.bsky.social www.deviantart.com/slvrhwk/art/... and a translation of the original paper t.co/YZCaUZoG9E

#FossilFriday A few more views of the holotype brain case of the giant Albian nodosaurid Peleroplites. CEUM 26331

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Han solo, Tameryraptor, Rhizodus and Dinornis

I know....., we have growth series of 2 species of large iguanodontion that get pretty big and two fused up sacra in this size range. A 3rd small taxon in the bone bed escalates the taxonomic complexities. Need to pull together the associated skeletons.

I'm absolutely exhausted due to all the fossils this #FossilFriday. @stupond.bsky.social and I spent Tues & Wed unpacking and cataloguing an ankylosaur.. 357 bones... while @valdosaurus.bsky.social , Ricardo and I spent Thur& Fri working on an iggy from Sussex.. another new species, maybe.

The Triassic of India is pretty under sampled so always good to see a new taxon!

So, we have a late Cretaceous Lagerstätte...in Africa!? Finger crossed for further development www.palaeosa.org/uploads/4/5/...

If you see this, post a vampire.

Dzharacursor gen. nov. Averianov, A. O., & Sues, H. D. (2025). A new ornithomimid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Pdf here we.tl/t-5TwRJkujbs