I thought it was going to be too hot to paint again, but it's not as bad as yesterday. We are, however, forecast to reach 36°C next week and I'm already profaning wildly at the thought. 😫😩😖😣

just a widdle treat #birds #nature #comics #art

#FossilFriday The Triassic predator Prestosuchus @amnh.org

Paleoartists really should stop shrink-wrapping theropods. Not just because it's unrealistic, but because dinosaurs sealed in plastic will asphyxiate.

So even with the latest Windows updates the taskbar is just broken i guess... microslop just completely abandoning the concept of QA now?

🩷They're both girls🩷 #pride #dinosaurart #paleoart

We'll never have a model of an AI Major-General, It's decisions are delulu and hallucinates quite visceral, It plagiarizes tactics from the real and from the fictional, From Agincourt to Red Alert it thinks them both comparable.

IM ANIMATION MAXXIMG

CHEMISTRY TEACHER: who can tell me what bond is formed between oppositely charged ions ALANIS MORISSETTE: isn’t it ionic

T. rex vs. T. rex.

What sets apart extinct species from still-living species? After doing years of palaeontology research, I can confidently tell you that extinct species 'roamed the earth', while living species just kinda, you know... walk normally. 🌏🌐🦕

:) www.deviantart.com/paleohistori...

I cannot take the city name of Boca Raton seriously. What do you mean your city is called Mouse Mouth.

142 pages of manuscript (not including supplement) 50+ specimens Research visits in 9 states + DC Years of work.

SVP Abstract submitted! @rv-pegas.bsky.social @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and others not on bluesky!

The @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social sample abstract never fails to make me laugh

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Went to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. today, & as a geologist I was horrified by the overcrowded conditions of the caged rocks there. Let them fall freely, as rocks are meant to do! 🪨

boop the real size snoot

New at #Patreon: Stop press (literally, in my case)! Fossils suggest that the tapjearid Sinopterus had blue-green/magenta iridescence? Huge implications for #pterosaur #paleoart and just one of a suite of new papers reinventing tapejarid pterosaurs. Discussion at www.patreon.com/posts/159645...

My nephew just removed the cheese off a slice of pizza and ate it without the bread. This kid is going places.

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Mesadactylus, color scheme based on model made by @novastein.bsky.social #paleoart #sciart

🚨New Pub!🚨The earliest European Azhdarchoid: reappraisal of “Palaeornis” cliftii Mantell, 1844 from the Wealden of Cuckfield, U.K.🦴🇬🇧by Thomas & McDavid www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So my patient chart says I'm "delightful" which feels like a mistake...

New paper!!!! In which @skyemcdavid.com and I reassess a broken pterosaur humerus from the early Cretaceous Tunbridge Wells Sand, formerly known as "Palaeornis" cliftii www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

LIVE MISTUKURINA FOOTAGE, and it's not a plastic toy this time!

Say hello to Rexarthuria cliftii - a new name for an overlooked historical taxon that represents the oldest azhdarchoid material in Europe. @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday I started on #paleostream a new series: #PocketPrehistry, in which I draw extinct animals in life size on postcard formats, meaning the animals can't be much longer than 15 cm max! Here the first 3 results Scalacurvichthys, Arcticodactylus, Iberomesornis with Eoalulavis, Kreischeria...

Whoops my hand slipped

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I, on the other hand, will continue to confuse nematologists by talking about the filter-feeding pterosaur, C. elegans.

Welcome back to #Fossilfriday Here is a "sea scorpion" or the Eurypterid Eurypterus remipes. This specimen comes from the Upper Silurian Fiddler Green Formation in Herkimer Co, New York. This happen to be the state fossil of New York. Some such as the Pterygotids could reach enormous sizes!

Finally, a train to Poughkeepsie that doesn't feel like you time traveled to the 1970s!

Despite the dumpster fire things have been recently, America can still create great things.

As a French New Yorker, I am unreasonably excited that one of my local haunts now has Everything Croissants

I like books about birds

Quetzalcoatlus northropi and Parasuchus hislopi At Museum of the Texas Tech University

show me your favorite painting of a pterosaur!

You: Please act normal, you need these people to like you. Me: OK! People: Hi. Me: Remoras, marine fish known for attaching themselves to larger marine animals, have been recently documented plunging into the cloacal orifice of manta rays, a behavior scientists officially named "cloacal diving".

Sinosauropteryx! #art #sciart

Velociraptor Asexual Pride is here. Original paleoart by @webvein. Feathered, sharp, in pride black, gray, white, and purple. Two of 6 dropping daily for pride. 252mya.com/avelo

Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/

New #paleoart of the Welsh theropod Dracoraptor hanigani, restored with appropriately neotheropodan features. UK marine sediments have a glut of small Jurassic theropods, with Dracoraptor one of the best-known. #sciart Like this image? You can own a copy! www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...

don't worry there's more coming

Hello Laueropterus vitriolis, a new non-pterodactyloid Monofenestratan from the Mörnsheim formation in Bavaria. Phylogenetic analysis forthcoming. peerj.com/articles/212... @davehone.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social

Made this years ago but it's too good not to repost... goose sauropod hybrid, aka 'Brantasaurus'

Of course the company that T&F outsources typesetting to for the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has misspelled my name again... in addition to fabricating a second superfluous author contributions statement out of nowhere.

Tilly Edinger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_E...

Could've just asked us to write alt text.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social