Lord Dampnut, amazing. Going to use this. I felt this was important enough to share and delightful enough to invoke laughter in a mocking sense.

I am proudly now displaying my Xenomorph affiliations on my desktop.

Mood is better today, but the day is still young.

This is what it feels like seeing the stream of social media posts "raising awareness" about things as well. I definitely come on here to have some level of escapism. My depression makes me desire a black hole at times to engulf the Earth. So, I think escapism is essential for mental health reasons.

Starting 2022's #paleoart October List stuff with some crocs!

Words of wisdom from an angry old coot: Don't fuck up a good thing you've got.

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

My mood is a bit dark tonight because I need distractions to not think about the near constant heaps of existential dread and dumpster fire that the world is around me. Ruminating about how terrible things are only makes it worse. I know this from my own experience of constantly doing as such.

This is what people are doing right now about things. The difference is that humans aren't helpless like the dinosaurs here, and yet all we want and can do about this is sit around and talk about how bad things are and how much it sucks. Instead of focusing on other things that inspire hope & joy

🔴LIVE🔴 We are finishing our 5 star park, and going to check out Isla Sorna in JURASSIC PARK OPERATION GENESIS! Then, if we have time, we will be beginning our playthrough of THE LOST WORLD for Playstation!!! HOP IN ♡[ twitch.tv/palearaptor/ ]♡ #vtuber #JurassicPark #Dinosaur

We have a new paper out - spearheaded by the brilliant Madison Tripp and Kliti Grice at Curtin in Western Australia: Biomarkers preserve exceptionally well in diagenetic carbonates rather than phosphates. #paleontology #astrobiology #geochemistry Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Not all art hangs in museums. Across 1 trillion web pages it lives in sketches, fan sites, & web design. The Wayback Machine keeps this digital gallery open for all to enjoy. 🎨🧑‍🎨 📝 Tell us what irreplaceable works the Wayback Machine saved for you! ⤵️ forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... #Wayback1T

I miss the days when I could follow artists and scientists and geek out about fossils and comics and other nerdy stuff. I still try to do that. But I'm trying to balance staying informed and staying sane with everything falling apart. It just seems to be harder to do.

Acquired Jurassic World Dino Reveal Minmi and Herrerasaurus along with the Protoceratops and Alioramus today. I had to go online to acquire them as no stores in my area had them.

A poor Sunkahetanka learns a hard lesson to stay vigilant during its hunt. Sespia is happy to escape in the commotion. This painting is commissioned by the NPS to depict species present in the Scotts bluff National Monument, Nebraska.

Helicoprion is a large eugeneodont shark, most famous for its buzzsaw-like jaw configuration. Depicted here hunting Mooreoceras. This painting is commissioned by the NPS and highlights fossil specimens known from Guadalupe Mountains Park, TX

Very exciting new study in PeerJ on #azhdarchids, with two new taxa (Gobiazhdarcho and Tsogtopteryx), multiple new clade names and new placements for key taxa... peerj.com/articles/197...

While it's easy to make friends with a passing herd, it still pays to watch for what's lurking in the shadows... This painting was commissioned by the NPS to showcase potential species that create the busy trackways from the Naturita Formation and Colorado National Monument.

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Nine out of ten fish doctors recommend you watch this video just for the halibut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueym...

Kimmig, J., Nanglu, K., & Jamison, P. G. (2025). A problematic soft-bodied fossil from the Cambrian (Miaolingian, Wuliuan) of Utah. Geological Magazine, 162, e37. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Ouranosaurus. An iguanodontid with a strange like hump that was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation in what's now West Africa, and lived during the early Cretaceous. 💚/🔄s are welcomed! #ArtistOnBlueSky #AS05 #Dinosaurs #Paleoart #DigitalArt

New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae | Scientific Reports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Edmontosaurus from the Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta, and its chronostratigraphic position in the Late Cretaceous Brazeau Formation and correlative units in western Canada cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Tiny dinosaur in the form of a long-tailed tit early in the blueish morning #photography #birds

"The dating of the eggs is significant as it places them at a time of global climatic upheaval. The team believes dinosaur eggs like those they’ve dated may be able to tell us more about how dinosaurs adapted during these times of great change." 🥚🦖🦕🔬 #DinosaurEggs #China #Paleontology #Science

Life’s great flourishing 520 million years ago may have been sparked by shifting oceans and the rise of new predators. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... #fossils #paleontology

A new neosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Holly Creek Formation of southwest Arkansas and its implications on the relationships of Goniopholididae: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There were curators around showing collection items and we were able to visit their fossil lab too and see what they’re working on. A very old paleontology collection and they’re actively excavating in Montana.

Everything is terrible so here are some pictures from the awesome Cincinnati natural history museum. The museum conference I went to last week had an evening event here which was amazing.

The weird and wacky Compsognathus reconstructions of the 20th century are a testament to how rare good reference material once was for dinosaur artists. We’ve had good specimens for as long as we’ve known it, yet these were the norm in books for ages! It’s easy to forget how good we have it now.

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

I usually don’t name art but this one of Pentaceratops chasing a pair of Sphaerotholus is called “Get off my lawn.” #paleoart #watercolor #sciart #dinosaur

Revisão do dinossauro terópode Camarillasaurus cirugedae do Cretáceo Inicial (Barremiano) da província de Teruel, Espanha palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

Rauhut, O.W.M. et al. 2025. Revision of the theropod dinosaur Camarillasaurus cirugedae from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Teruel province, Spain. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a40 doi.org/10.26879/1543 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5627-revision-of-early-cretaceous-theropod-dinosaur

New dinosaur day! Meet Zavacephale, the oldest and most-complete pachycephalosaur yet described. And it’s tiny, a beeper that only weighed about 10kg. I’ll tell you all about it at NatGeo.

After watching Alien: Earth tonight. Awww! I want a pet Xenomorph friend to do things for me!

So long Facebook and Instagram. I got rid of it altogether because of the woeful stupidity and enshitifcation of it all. You can reach me here and Discord.

Finally, I tracked down a DOOM Slayer figure! Actually fairly happy with it.

Binged all of Helluva Boss yesterday since it came to Prime, no regrets.

RIP to one of my paleo inspirations.

I really dislike how Instagram forces me into request queues to follow people's public accounts. Like seriously? Are you people morons intentionally or does it just come naturally? Also, not a bot. Just a person trying to watch cat videos, look at memes, and dinosaur collectibles.

Mental health is definitely better after I took the steps I did. I really was circling the bottom there. Hopefully and assuredly I can keep making progress within that. Also Facebook is staying deactivated longer to continue to help me stay stabilized.

Made steps for myself to be more avoidant of political outrage. I know I've posted about it before, but not anymore. I don't have the spoons. I want something positive, I want joy, I want science, paleontology and fucking dinosaurs. Don't like something? Talk about what you loved about it instead!

Very belated podcast round-up: 1 - @jordanjessego.bsky.social (PMMMP) on Alex Inc. E3! 2 - Palm Springs finale on Keanan And Lakin 3 - @kellynugent.bsky.social (@teencreepspod.bsky.social) was on JJGo! 4 - @jurassicpedia.bsky.social’s @tyrannosaurtj.bsky.social digs deep on See Jurassic Right!

New osteological characteristics identify the first stem sleeper goby (Gobioidei, Odontobutidae) from the upper Eocene onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:

Big step for me: Deactivating my Facebook. It is freeing finally.

#ICYMI @jurassicpedia.bsky.social’s @tyrannosaurtj.bsky.social and I talked on See Jurassic Right about being part of the Jurassic Generation and the ways we keep our love of dinosaurs alive today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

If you’re interested in continuity, canon, world-building and how commerce and pop culture effect it in franchises, this is the episode for you! @jurassicpedia.bsky.social’s @tyrannosaurtj.bsky.social and I discuss it ALL on See Jurassic Rightt: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...