Louder for the ones in the back!

Don't mind me, just going to be over here fantasizing about living as a Tyrannosaurus in the Late Cretaceous away from this annoying human stupidity currently.

"They want you hopeless" is pretty bad about actually peeling back the hopelessness, but if you can find something that genuinely negates it - then that's the trick I believe. For me? Paleontology surprisingly still does the trick. I would say focusing on science in general helps with it too.

They did it! Go PRI!!!

New season of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory drops today - gonna binge it!

I want to see some really nice posable/articulated Terror Bird figures at some point. There is some static models already, but yeah.

Throwing this out there: The reason the right is spreading memes about people rioting against them is that they fear that end. They have decided to weaponize their fear of people uniting against them and turned it into a shackle for us so they can make more attempts to dissuade aggressive action.

Mood

Megatron

The more I learn and understand how and why Megatron becomes evil in Transformers with the Decepticons, the more relatable he becomes. Started off fight for social equity and equality to being conscripted into death duels for the elite to stop him from speaking out. Sounds & feels familiar.

The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...

Animated Scutellosaurus!! (Also Dilophosaurus, prosauropods, and dimorphodonts, but I think I've seen animations of all those before...) youtu.be/BYCjeNQvISM?...

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus #paleoart #dinosaur #art

Injuries are actually fairly common to find in fossil specimens, even in the seaway that used to cover Kansas! This #FossilFriday pic is the end of the tail of a Clidastes mosasaur. The gnarly mass in the middle is around 6 vertebrae that fused together due to trauma, likely an infected bite.🧪

For #FossilFriday some iguanodontian dorsal vertebrae with ossified tendons which would have formed a crisscross pattern. First appeared Late Jurassic associated with increased mass and quadrupedality. From #IsleofWight in the collections of @nhm-london.bsky.social.

The fierce carnivore Inostrancevia is one of the species of synapsids that went extinct in the Great Dying, known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction event. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

#MasterPaleoartAppreciationPost ANDREY ATUCHIN × DMNS = FLAWLESS BEAUTY

This is how I feel daily due to my trauma responses. It is why I can not keep watching it all happen passively. It is only making it worse. I am tired of feeling existentially fucked by this shit.

I seriously need this...Dolores is a perfect cinnamon roll. a.co/d/ilnQiMv

The big tableau of early Permian synapsids in the next gallery unified a bunch of mounted skeletons that had previously been in separate cases. A nearby lab area covered the concept of extinction ("the fate of all species") in general terms.

Alien Earth finale was interesting. I'm eager to see what season 2 looks like ahead. Also, now I want a Xenomorph I can be mutual besties with.

For #TrilobiteTuesday, here’s the aptly named Kayserops megaspina, a Devonian trilobite. First printed in castable resin, then cast in sterling silver and oxidized to yield blue highlights. Sculpted from scratch, no scans. #paleoart #sciart

I feel like this juvenile Gorgosaurus skull is a good base for a dragon's head design

Rapture? Really? The last one was called off due to...*checks notes* rain? I wonder how many times the blind sheep are going to use this excuse for the umpteenth time.

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/...