NANOTYRANNUS IS BACK, and WE ARE STREAMING ABOUT IT! Join us Tuesday, November 4th, at 8:30 pm Eastern time for all of your questions about NANOTYRANNUS, and why we're all #backinhell after Lindsay Zanno and our very own @jgn-paleo.bsky.social published the paper of the year!

Today's bombshell in @nature.com by Lindsay Zanno & James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social (bit.ly/4qBE6ng) shows that putative juvvy T. rex fossils actually are Nanotyrannus. I reviewed the manuscript, so Nature invited me to write the News & Views commentary. Free link: rdcu.be/eNv94 🦖

True story, folks. Enjoy reading, but please refrain from posting about content until it is presented! #SVP2025 #2025SVP And even then, follow the presenters’ wishes on their slides/posters. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Hi everybody! We are excited to share that we will be streaming the brand new Jurassic World Evolution 3 TOMORROW Oct 21, 830pm ET! Be sure to stop by & check it out with us!

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The Skeleton Crew is taking a break from their hiatus to STREAM TOMORROW, Tuesday, October 7th (9 pm to 12 am EDT) to raise awareness of two very important fundraisers in the world of paleontology! Want more details? Check the latest post on our channel page on YouTube!

"I Contain Multitudes" This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today. The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

I was collecting #quail #embryos this morning and found an individual with albinism! Look at the lack of pigment in the retinal epithelium! Reminds me of finding a leopard #gecko embryo with the same condition during my PhD.

Jormungandr walhallaensis

no offense, but when I am complaining about some aspect of the professional world sucking, please take a moment to think before commenting "well, I am in this field, and I did not share this experience". congratulations dear, happy for you, but I really don't know how to respond to that.

stylised Protosphyraena concepts, honestly quite happy with these and will probably make more with different taxa #paleoart #sketch #stylised #conceptart #fishart

3 days left to back my art book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni... Special last minute addition here, working on a piece to add to the tier 4 print set! Will be added to the book as well. Classic T.rex vs Triceratops battle. RTs hugely appreciated. Thank you for the support guys!

Task completed (easy): freeing Stan from his old Podium Next Objective (difficult): getting him Off the Surprise Table that we found under the Podium #MuseumMonday

Happy #FossilFriday! While you may have seen this cast of Tylosaurus elsewhere, this specific one is special: it is the *first* cast of the fossil that was made. Currently on display in the lobby of the History Museum at the Castle. Exciting things coming to the Castle soon - stay tuned!

I missed #MosasaurMonday but holy moly, Winnie is prepped! Here's the main part of the skull, without the palate laid out. She came out great and im so happy she's covered in pathologies. Just like me, we both have interesting skeletal injuries. Lower Niobrara, 86.5 million years old 🧪

How we feel looking at all the incredible details on our 55-ft mosasaur! ✨ #edelmanfossilparkmuseum #rowanuniversity #dinosaurs #paleontology #mosasaur #jurassicpark #jurassicworld

Huge congratulations to current/former instructors @tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social, @eury-speir.bsky.social, Dr. Emily Simpson, and soon-to-be-Dr. Jessica McCraw for landing permanent paleo career jobs this summer! Proud of all three of you and excited to see you thrive in your new academic homes!

Thrilled to share that starting in late August, I'll be Natural History Museum Specialist for the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, WI! I'll be overseeing the exhibition and programming of the nat. his. collection, which is being moved from the old Weis Earth Science Museum.

Happy #FossilFriday, have a funy lizard Tylosaurus FHSM VP-3

Exciting new research out today in Nature on the evolution of theropod wrist bones by Skeleton Crewmembers James & Alex!! Tune in to our livestream at 8pm et TONIGHT to learn more as we play a topically relevant board game (Wingspan) together! Art by Henry Sharpe; link to paper in the next post.

Happy #FossilFriday from an undisclosed Kwik Trip as I embark on my trek to Kansas for my first @sternbergcamps.bsky.social !

Excited to share a new #OA paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social detailing evolution and development of hemibacula: bizarre mineralized elements in hemipenes of croaking geckos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GeckoEvoDevo #Aristelliger

Kicking off #JurassicJune with a new episode of #DINODNA on @jurassicparkpod.bsky.social 🌊 Join me and the amazing Amelia Zietlow @tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social to hear about all things Mosasaurus, including what we've seen of the Rebirth version... www.jurassicparkpodcast.com/home/mosasau...

it's easy to observe this in the increasingly homogenous "rural" culture and identity becoming unmoored from region or geography. regions that were once totally distinct, applachia, the lowland south, the great plains, the interior west, now all have a shared faux-redneck culture

Happy Tylosaurus Thursday! These murder lizards from the late Cretaceous came in all sorts of sizes, with the juvenile on the left possessing a 14-inch long skull and the print of Sophie's quadrate belonging to a noggin over 5 feet long.

WOOT one of my favorite fishes that is almost the name of a mosasaur. This arrow-like body shape and elongate snout have evolved multiple times in fishes, associated with rapid body acceleration and high velocity jaw closing. I have a paper coming soon on this very subject!

Happy #TylosurusTuesday! Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

#DinosaursandMOR #FossilFriday Getting ready to start!!! Member's night kick-off! Unveiling a NEW mount of a holotype!!.... any guesses?? @emularge.bsky.social @tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social @formorphology.bsky.social

Happy #FossilFriday! Here’s a sneak peek of a new 3D printed #skeleton that will be unveiled at the member’s event at #MOR tonight as we kick off the 4th annual #DinosaursandMOR festival. Can you guess who these #teeth belong to?

Happy #FossilFriday - here's the very first mosasaur skull that I ever studied, Tylosaurus FMNH P15144, almost exactly six years ago. I've since seen over 300 of these things, & written tens of thousands of words about them in a dissertation submitted yesterday 🦎🎉

Meet the Speakers: #DinosaursAndMOR! 🌿Dr. Cathy Whitlock takes us through Paleoecology, Climate Change, and Yellowstone, exploring how the park’s past can inform our climate future. 🦖Dr. Sabre Moore highlights how #CarterCountyMuseum has become a rural epicenter for paleontology and citizen science.

Meet the Speakers: #DinosaursAndMOR! Dr. Jordan Mallon highlights The Sternberg Family’s Fossil Hunts, revealing their impact on dinosaur discoveries. Dr. James Napoli dives into The Paleospecies Problem—are we misidentifying dinosaurs or oversimplifying their diversity? #Paleontology #FossilMystery

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dissertation due tomorrow

For #FossilFriday today, Homer the Triceratops, at the Burpee Museum's Paleofest last weekend

I have some good news: I have accepted a tenure -track position at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as their first paleontologist! I would love to connect with scientists, and especially paleontology/herpetology/wildlife folks in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, etc.

dissertation due in three weeks

It's #Tylosaurus Tuesday my dudes! Every now and then we find some baby mosasaurs in Kansas that don't quite make it very long in life. A lucky few of them don't end up as shark puke either. Here are 2 premaxilla snoots, the left one from Clidastes and the right from Tylosaurus with a little prow 🧪

Happy #FossilFriday & #PaleoFest eve! Attending tomorrow's PaleoFestivities? Prepare to meet TEX; genuinely one of the coolest critters I've had the pleasure of working with! Here's a pterygoid from "the Black Knight," a specimen that exemplifies our beast's capacity for violence

Paper submitted - my second dissertation chapter & the first of several major Tylosaurus projects I've got on deck. Just a little something that, in my opinion, was long overdue...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's the mosasaur half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Featuring Platecarpus fleeing Tylosaurus. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Platecarpus #Tylosaurus #Mosasaur #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

Happy #MosasaurMonday & hope to see you at Paleofest 2025!

When folks say that everything is bigger in Texas, does that include the mosasaurs? (spoiler: oh yeah) Thrilled to be presenting our *new beast* for the first time at PaleoFest!!!

Happy #MosasaurMonday from the Pit of Despair (end stage PhD work), here's an appropriate lizard: Tylosaurus "Heath" on display at the Perot Museum in Dallas. Does "everything's bigger in Texas" apply to its mosasaurs? I've got a few upcoming public talks addressing just that...& more. Stay tuned!

Today's #FossilFriday falls on the 179th 'birthday' of the city of Milwaukee! 🍻🎉 so, here's our Torosaurus, on display in the MPM

wahoo!