Check out this magnificent oak

I'm still delighted by this image of a T. rex at rest. The idea was to capture the vibe of a lion or big gator just sitting in the middle of everything because it knows nothing is going to mess with it.

Good luck to fed friends and their families. You don’t deserve this bs

At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!

Hey London area fam, I’m coming through the first week in November. Hit me up if you want to meet up at a museum or whatever!

Tyler Greenfield (why isn't he on here?) recently posted that the Field once had a reconstructed set of O. megalodon jaws that predate the famous AMNH version by over a decade. Sure enough, here they are in the OG Field Columbian Museum fossil hall: incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/t...

After a 3-month hiatus, thread number 3! Band of Brothers is the third episode of WWD2025, and focuses on the coming-of-age story of George the teenage Gastonia as he is pursued by Utahraptor, framed around the Lorrie’s site quarry in the Cedar Mountain Formation. (1/40)

I firmly believe screenshot/meme/text-as-graphic post sharing is a corrosive practice. It divorces everything from context that might let you know where the info came from, is it now out of date, has the original poster (or their followers) made clarifying comments downthread etc

Guess we'll see what dupe pays a few million for what looks like a few limb bones and a lot of plastic? And like, we know what juvenile Triceratops skulls look like and it isn't that. news.artnet.com/art-world/ph...

Imagine dragging yourself around with your abs all day

I do still have it!!

Hey American friends! Tomorrow is National Public Lands Day ~ free admission to state and national parks. Here’s me celebrating National Public Lands Day in 2023 - but every day is a good day to explore our natural spaces & wild places.

Bump for the #FossilFriday crowd

Hopefully these can find good homes!

Bump for the #FossilFriday crowd

I’d like to contribute something insightful to the current moment, but all I have is deafening rage at the greedy, entitled ghouls that dragged us to this place. So here are some of my favorite recent paleo-art pieces that have been uplifting. Remember even the tiniest acts of resistance help.

This rules!! Anyone else have old Life Over Time photos? Especially of the bouncy trilobites and fish head guy?

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

Junior Sandhill Crane (centre) and entourage. The metallic copper colour of those feathers is really something #birds

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

I have a picture of the curtain! Nothing from inside, though. I visited in summer 2001.

Make your cool thing. The way you feel about the cool things other people create? People will feel that about your cool thing, too.

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

Here's some dork giving the irreplaceable Dean Lauvina a tour of SUE's exhibit www.instagram.com/reel/DOyuddb...

Delighted to have found an actual floorplan of Life Over Time this morning!

Take a moment to think about midcentury dinosaurs today

Natural bristles from a brush glued onto snout, trimmed and painted for a subtle fuzzy display…I think it’s done! I‘ll add some final thoughts on my new Cyonosaurus sculpture in a follow up thread next-

Tiamat/Tia/Green Boy/Green Bean/Bean Man/Liz Bean/Tiamat Esmeralda Lizkovitz and Freddy/Freddy Mac ‘n Cheese/Cheese Man/Cheese Dude/Noodle Man/Froodle/Freddy Spaghetti

This Irish elk was reconstructed using real deer fur and hooves, love how it looks and so HUGE

Inside you there are two Utahraptors #FossilFriday

This summer I had the pleasure of collaborating w/ researchers Naiomi Cookson & Arjan Mann (Field Museum) to reconstruct a flesh-model bust of Cyonosaurus. After getting to meet the holotype, I started roughing out the skull armature. More of the process to follow! #paleoart

rocking covid, flu, and mmr shots this morning. Come at me bro

New blog post: in lieu of finishing any research projects, here's a bit of the thinking behind my day job exhibits Reptiles Alive and After the Age of Dinosaurs: extinctmonsters.net/2025/09/18/i...

Prepping for the start of this year's teaching this #FossilFriday, starting with a story about Ginkgo leaves which fell in an Autumn 160 million years ago, and how the microscopic details of those fossil leaves can tell us about climate change. ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌲💚

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

Frankly I think they’ve earned those six parking spaces

How long do you bet it will last before crumbling to bits with pyrite disease? 10 years? 5? stpeterising.com/home/a-76-mi...

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

New blog post: in lieu of finishing any research projects, here's a bit of the thinking behind my day job exhibits Reptiles Alive and After the Age of Dinosaurs: extinctmonsters.net/2025/09/18/i...

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

You know how in pre-1998 movies, a character will ask to use a store or restaurant’s phone, look up an address in the phone book, then rip out the entire page to take with them? Did anyone actually do that? I hope they’re in hell.

In support of Science, Art, Kindness to counter my sense of malaise over the state of the world these past years, Bluesky seemed a good change: here’s a timelapse of me basecoat painting my Tiktaalik sculpture recently for a new display in Singapore!

Places the Parthenon Marbles should be: 1. The Acropolis Museum (It's architecturally beautiful and every piece of marble can be displayed in its correct position.) Visiting made me so angry at the BM...

more like giraffic park amirite

Back in 1986 I put together Mamenchisaurus on it's first trip outside of China to the National museum of Wales Some not very good pictures of it scanned from my old 35mm slides #dinosaur #fossil #geology #NMW

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.

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

The most satisfying switches and keyboard I’ve ever encountered. Feels like I’m on the Nostromo

The Green River Formation is rich in species diversity. This snapshot captures nocturnal animals emerging as their diurnal neighbors start to settle in. This work is commissioned by the NPS to highlight species found in the Fossil Butte Monument in Wyoming.

Strutting Stegomastodon, ca. 1925