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

Spotted a couple of goofs when revisiting this after lunch, so here's a slightly revised version 2.

They fit with the general pattern that has emerged from the Mesozoic fossil record: that dinosaur diversity was substantially higher than officially 'accepted', named taxa imply. There are just so many additional taxa yet to properly document and name....

I incorporated the gulls' movements and added features of Rhamphorhynchus when animating it in Procreate. One detail I wanna mention is I included a hypothesis proposed by Hone et al. (2015) that the terminal wing phalanx would bend while flying (yes rounded wing tips). (5/7)

I was able to identify four types of flying, which I dubbed (rough translation from Chinese) fast flapping advancing, fast flapping hovering, gliding advancing and gliding hovering (4/7)

Excellent work here! Combination of literature review with their own original research to inform paleoart! Recommended reading (with autotranslate if necessary) for pterosaur artists.

what is this? some sort of... 'new blood'? (individual animals in the thread below) a tribute to the late Ben Bartlett #WalkingWithBenBartlett

how your email finds me

There are so many bad recipes on the internet I might just have so start sharing my own recipes out of sheer spite

Skye McDavid

Hi, does anyone know the current institutional abbreviation for paleontological collections of the University of Uppsala Museum of Evolution?

This is interesting. I had a recent experience with JSP (not JVP) where both the editor and a reviewer said they failed to reproduce the results we reported based on our dataset. 🧵

I hate the new "Carousel" view for photos on @bsky.app. Makes the app worse. Give us photos in DMs instead!

I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.

Getting closer....

The #fossil of Irritator challengeri is finally going back to Brazil after 35 years in Germany. This is a major event for #DecolonizeScience and the #restitution of natural history specimens. Let's talk about #IrritatorBelongstoBR. [1/17]

🦖⚖️ Major dinosaur repatriation news: Irritator is finally going home! After years of tireless work by @alinemghilardi.bsky.social and colleagues, #IrritatorBelongstoBR is finally becoming reality. This is a milestone for decolonising palaeontology; thread to follow very soon!

Why does (almost) nobody talk about #restitution in natural history museums? After all, paleontological/botanical/mineralogical specimens are cultural property under #internationallaw and often have a dark past. My new #OA paper deconstructs this false dichotomy. [1/13] 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1028...

PAPER ACCEPTED! We got some words about a fragmentary but interesting little guy. Image dubiously related @skyemcdavid.com

Just submitted revisions on an exciting manuscript with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social, hopefully coming soon to an OA journal near you! 141 pages of manuscript and 41 separate files that had to be uploaded to the submission platform.

First - "ontogenetic nihilism" is a term I use for the attitude that because some traits change with growth, we can't *possibly* erect species based on juvenile/perceived juvenile specimens. (I am making a *bit* of a straw man here, but some comments on this & other work reaches very close to this)

The number of adult americans who give 'pterodactyl' as their favorite dinosaur makes me sad.

I said this yesterday but today we get Ptychotherates bucculentus, a new Herrerasaurian from GRCQ, and a formal name Morphoraptota for the North American Herrerasaurian Clade! Ghost Ranch Coelophysis Quarry is so much more than just Coelophysis!

The Ghost Ranch Coelophysis Quarry really is a gift that keeps on giving! Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, a new short snouted sphenosuchian-grade crocodylomorph described today!

If you stand in front of your bathroom mirror and say "beyond the scope of this study" three times, the ghost of reviewer 2 will emerge from the toilet and make inane comments about your manuscript.

Minor revisions!

Gen et comb nov good enough I think? @rv-pegas.bsky.social

Is the @researchgate.bsky.social android app just completely broken now?

I love Anurognathids

Thanks, @skyemcdavid.com <3 A reply is in the works and we do have plenty of new microscopic evidence that will reinforce the pterosaurian nature of Bakiribu. It will take us some time to wrap up the manuscript, though.

At this point I'd recommend looking up the histology of actual fish gills....

I’ve been told that I “dress like a geologist” and I have no idea what this means.

How should I publish my digital fossil? Recommendations for the publication of comprehensive 3D datasets in palaeontological studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daniajinn.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social @dfg.de @datadryad.bsky.social #FossilFriday

TODAY

Pigeon proposing the novel "perch for sunbathing" hypothesis of Diplodocus tail function

One of my favorite genres of business names is a local business named after its owner/founder who coincidentally has the same name as a famous criminal. Examples I've come across recently include Epstein's Deli and El Chapo Auto Parts.

Surprised it took until April to get ANYTHING

the number of times i've had to explain that yes i'm asexual, but no i'm not aromantic is staggering.

THIS FRIDAY I am presenting at NERVES 2026 about my work with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social about Cretaceous toothed pterosaurs and specifically "Lonchodectidae", the most disastrously polyphyletic taxonomic concept that refuses to die.

TIL that Ella Red is younger than me and I don't know how that makes me feel.

Xiphosakura

The AI enshittification of Duolingo has gone so far that it gave me a blatantly wrong grammatical explanation... I already cancelled my premium subscription but I think this is the last straw for me.