🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨 Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher! paper below:

Result from the Pleistocene Sicily #paleostream! This piece was a fascinating up and down to construct and to research. While certainly iconic our understanding of these faunas is not complete and misinformation and memes plaster ones way. Center of this piece...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

Acrocanthosaurus inspired by jpog

Regarding events of last week in SVP and the wider vertebrate paleontology community.

Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.

A Smilodon for the ice age. Protect your neighbors. #pleistocene #sabertooth #megafauna #iceage

Ferenceratops #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Prognathodon currii swimming near small Enchodus pack. Art was inspired by some Pseudorca photoes. #paleoart #mosasaur #prognathodon #mesozoic

An adult Ceratosaurus nasicornis caught juvenile Torvosaurus tanneri. These theropods, like an Allosaurus, were found in the famous Morrison Formation, but their remains are much less common. Despite some differences in food sources, they competed and killed each other from time to time. #paleoart

Unfortunate hunt on Megaloceros giganteus #art #paleoart #cenozoic

Apatosaurus louisae #paleoart #dinosaur #jurassic #apatosaurus

Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands! The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!

Bad Worm Rising: I've written a post about Gordius wulingensis - a white hairworm that lurks in limestone caves and turn camel crickets into living incubators #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/12/gord...

New at Tet Zoo: a rescued old (2011) article on vombatiform diprotodontians, the marsupial group that includes koalas and wombats .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #marsupials #FossilFriday #TetZoo

Got informed about some sad news. Garfield Minott, a prolific dinosaur modeller, special effects and palaeoartist, recognised for contributions to the description of dinosaur binocular vision, passed away at age of 58.

Old news, but still news!

Nanotyrannus lives yall!

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

Great video by @edgescience.bsky.social I think that the whole Manospondylus gigas situation is a testament as to how flawed the ICZN nomenclature rules are (or at least how they fail to account for certain situations like this one). youtu.be/i71NeMdE8Ok?...

It was a great honor to be in this video by @edgescience.bsky.social about what makes the Tyrant Lizard King so special. Plus I can now say that I've been in a YouTube video with @arctomet.bsky.social. #120YearsOfTrex #TyrannOThon www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5F...

@edgescience.bsky.social is putting something together to commemorate #120YearsofTrex. Anyone is free to contribute by sending in a video ansering the question "What does T. rex mean to you?" youtu.be/WWqawo1qwAA?...

Cratoavis #paleoart #sciart

𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴-

Some more T.rex stop motion practice after work. It was getting late and I had no clue how to end the shot, so.. "Boop" The winder rig in the backgroung is from Kinetic Armatures

Saturnalia munching on plants --------------------------------------------------- Artist - James Field As Seen In - Saltopus and Other First Dinoasurs --------------------------------------------------- #dinosauyr #dinosaurs #dino #dinos #sauropod #sauropodomorph #prosauropod #saltopus

A Brontosaurus from 1988 by James Seward. #dinosaurs #dino #dinosaur #dinos #paleoart #paleo #paleontology #Brontosaurus #sauropod #vintagepaleoart #jamesseward #jamessewardart #Jamessewardpaleoart

Baryonyx, obviously 😉

Charging Ankylosaurus - Wayne Barlowe

With the trailers for both #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorld Rebirth apparently showing swimming Spinosaurus, I thought it might be time to go over why I think these animals were not good swimmers. After all, it's something I've written a fair bit about (with @arctomet.bsky.social) 1/many

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: battling Borealopelta with deep (instead of "high waisted") armour and pigmentation. There's a scientific rationale behind this #ankylosaur #art, which you can read here, along with viewing the hi-res and WIPs of the painting. www.patreon.com/posts/130274... #sciart

Some new #paleoart to welcome my 1000s of new (bot?) followers: here's Cooksonia, the First Vascularised Plant™ from the Silurian. Contra. classic reconstructions, the stems were probably too narrow for photosynthetic pigments, which were instead located in gametophytes at the plant base. #sciart

Ankylosaurus charge - Wayne Barlowe From the book - Alphabet of Dinosaurs. This organization of osteoderms was the prevailing hypothesis for Ankylosaurus until 2003, when a group of scientists re-evaluated the evidence based on the then large amount of new data from new relatives.

Platybelodon reconstruction

Présentation d'un MOC – Deinocheirus #MOC #lego chezyannoch.com/moc-deinoche...

Updated 🧪 #paleoart reconstruction of the #fossil #mammals short-faced kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, after sitting with and incorporating some feedback. Still very uncertain about the reconstruction, but it's a start. I really wish for a detailed study of the group to happen!

Here’s the sketch vs the final piece of my Mothman illustration~ My initial sketches are an absolute mess most of the time, & I’ll usually make multiple passes & layers to build it up before inking starts! #art #illustration #cryptids #darkart #monsterart

Sketched some early tetrapods recently. From the top down : Whatcheeria deltae Megalocephalus lineolatus Neopteroplax conemaughensis Eryops megacephalus #paleontology #paleoart #paleoartist #carboniferous #permian #tetrapods #amphibians

Sketches of Endoceras, a giant early nautiloid from the Ordovician. 🦑 #paleoart #paleontology #marinebiology #nautiloid #Ordovician

The scientific name for the oak rough bullet gall wasp is Disholcaspis quercusmamma - "quercusmamma" which can roughly be translated to "oak mommy milkies" because whoever that named this wasp thought its galls looks like a tiddy. #insect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disholc...

New paper out in Geology. Fossil feathers mineralized in zeolite from the Colli Albani (Pleistocene, Italy). Out article in The Conversation tell the story of this remarkable historical and iconic fossil from Italy! theconversation.com/the-30-000-y...

Jane. BMRP 2002.4.1. Nanotyrannus / Young Tyrannosaurus rex. (?) #HellCreekFormation #Nanotyrannus #Youngtrex #dinosaur #tyrannosaur #Jane #Theropod #cretaceous #cretaceousperiod #paleoart #palaeoart #paleontology "palaentology #prehistory #prehistoric #prehistoricanimal #animal

Emergency paleontological salvage work begins at the forthcoming electric substationsite at St George Dinosaur Discovery Site /Washington County, UT. Need power equipment. Unique urban site. 2nd most significant dino tracksite in NA at risk of losing most basal Jurassic bonebed in North America.