After going through Cambridge Greensand pterosaurs in several collections, I can confirm that Cambridge Greensand has the worst snoots to boop.

Since several people asked why we didn't name a new genus for "Quetzalcoatlus" lawsoni --- that requires a whole lot more detailed anatomical comparisons to be done properly, so we thought it would best go somewhere else. Also, we were already above the normal limit for manuscript length for JSP.

Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28

Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23

JUST PUBLISHED!!!! A major azhdarchoid phylogeny paper coauthored with @skyemcdavid.com - the fruit of years of work - is now out in @journalsystpal.bsky.social! New clades, reconstruction of size evolution, and more. Full thread to come soon! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

eepy taco

✨ her ✨

I schlepped all the way out to Crystal Palace Park only to find the Dinosaurs* covered by tarp and surrounded by construction equipment. (*the statues are collectively referred to as the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but only some of them represent dinosaurs.)

Azhdarchid?

The British Museum ships Gilgamesh x Enkidu?? Gilgkidu?

I have never been more disappointed that something had been temporarily removed from display

Theropods are NOT minding the gap.

Navigator of the River Lethe #Nanotyrannus

Filthy boy. Needs a bath

Literal Easter egg I stumbled upon in the NHM London pterosaur collections.

An interesting quirk of today's taxonomic revision is that one jacket from the Jane Quarry, long assumed to contain specimens of famous species, actually contained what would become two holotypes of two distinct species — Infernodrakon hastacollis and Nanotyrannus lethaeus

Night at the Museum?

In 1874, Richard Owen named two scrappy pterosaurs, Pterodactylus mansellii and Pterodactylus pleydellii, in the same publication. Both based on scrappy humeri from the Kimmeridge Clay. And both named for the same guy: John C. Mansell-Pleydell, Esq.

Going through AMNH collections fuels my hatred for Edward Drinker Cope. Going through YPM collections fuels my hatred for Othniel Charles Marsh. Going through NHMUK collections fuels my hatred for Richard Owen.

The frequency with which people see my name written down, spelled correctly, then transcribe it incorrectly is staggering. Skye. 4 letters. It's not hard.

Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special: $̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY. #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca #fingerlakes www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...

Fossils are cultural objects - and this is not some woke b*llshit that people come up nowadays to spoil the fun in #palaeontology; this classification actually has a long history. If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...

Hello from the Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social

Theropods of London

You know what goes really well with brunch? Pterosaurs.

Going to the UK via planes, trains, and automobiles. Couldn't get a pic of the plane I'm on so here's a random other plane instead.

Vote. It matters now more than ever.

SVPers, come see my work on pterosaurs from Appalachia: several new morphotypes of pteranodontians and azhdarchoids. Thursday Poster Session B199 #2025SVP

Azhdarchoids would do this

to whomever labeled a cast of 'Quetzalcoatlus' lawsoni as Triassic on the collections label: I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Hello new followers who followed me from the starter pack.... just an FYI that I spend a lot more time on this app complaining and talking about science than I do arting. But I do repost a fair amount of art, so there's that.

Life size ballpoint pen drawing of Makrodactylus, recently described by Hone et al. (2025) doi.org/10.26879/1542 #paleoart #sciart

me: writing a MS on a new pterosaur: gen. et sp. nov. autocorrect: did you mean gen. Et sp. November?

This is important - remember a few years ago when people were hyping 5G as something that would drastically change the world, and now that 5G is everywhere it's just a marginally better internet connection that we use for the same things we would be doing anyway? That's the hype cycle. 🧵

Continuing my recent trend of #Yanliao beasties, here's an updated, more serious attempt at #Jeholopterus for #FossilFriday!!! The camouflaged colouration is based in #Ginkgo bark, which would have grown in contemporary forests. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaur #Jurassic #paleobotany

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

academia or mobile game for kids?

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Does anyone actually believe this kind of utter nonsense is actually going to change the world rather than just enshittify it?

Rhamphorhynchus Was intended to be just a sketch but I spent 2 or 3 too many weeks on it. #paleoart #sciart

Manuscript submitted - what @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and I initially thought would be a quick paper redescribing a handful of specimens but grew into 53 specimens, for which we traveled to 10 states plus DC... with some exciting implications.

Today I recorded a Common Raven (Corvus corax) in New York's sound shore region. I haven't seen or heard a raven here in years as their populations were drastically reduced by West Nile Virus since the 2000s. I'm so happy to hear these birbs again. Recording: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

A brilliant palaeontologist, Dr Tsogtbaatar, is facing a tough battle and needs help with medical expenses. Please consider donating or sharing the link: every bit truly helps. Thank you!

boop the snoot

Actual highlight of yesterday was having a woman in the botanical gardens overhear us talking about work and say "Oh, I didn't think paleontologists existed anymore".

I am no longer involved in The Sanctum or any projects involving Omar Lagarda González, aka The Darknix.

Renanalysis of Alwalkeria maleriensis restricts hypodigm to femora and reinterprets as pterosauromorph. Authors establish new genus Alickmeron with no justification - same holotype and type species as Alwalkeria. Alickmeron is therefore an objective synonym of Alwalkeria.

reality vs creationism

Say hello to Makrodactylus oligodontus, a new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan from the Mörnsheim Formation, Late Jurassic of Germany! palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025... @davehone.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social

New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate! experiment.com/projects/rea...