Result from the Florissant Formation #paleostream! While it doesn't look like this this has been one of the most intensely researched pieces of the whole series, but more on that later. On this a late summer evening a Megacerops steps onto a clearing to take a sip from a...

Allosaurus ambushes a young camarasaurus, angering the herd in the process. #SciArt #Paleoart #dinosaur #art #3Dart

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New material of the extinct mustelid, Cernictis, is described from the Pinole Tuff Formation, California. New material provides a better idea of what these things were like - original material described ~100 yrs ago! 🎨: Julius Csotonyi (Enhydrictis pictured)

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A baby/juvenile specimen referrable to the Sauropod, Neuquensaurus, has been described. It was ~44–63% of adult size. This one suggests baby Titanosaurs didn't develop their pneumatic (air-filled) skeletons until later on in maturity.

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New Thai sauropod is described as - Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis. It's a Euhelopodid sauropod known from many trunk elements. Authors estimate it may have been as much as 25–28 tons! 🎨: Patchanop Boonsai

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Paper re-describes many of the specimens applied to the Pinacosaurus genus. New species, Pinacosaurus hilwitnorum, is named from specimens applied to P. grangeri. P. mephistocephalus is too distinct and put in a new genus, Eopinacosaurus. 🎨: @olorotitan.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A new specimen of Sinopterus dongi is examined using Micro-XRF, SEM, FIB-SEM, EDS, ToF-SIMS. Melanosomes and their structures were observed, and they correlate to green to magenta iridescent coloration. Another huge step in paleo coloration! 🎨: Chaung Zhao

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New pterosaur is described - Laueropterus vitriolus. Based on nearly complete specimen from Mörnsheim Formation (Above Solnhofen). It had a 1m wingspan and was adult when it died. 🎨: rlatkdwls + Dr. Matt Dempsey

BRAND NEW VIDEO! I talk about "Vectispinus" Art by @dragonsofwales.bsky.social

I'm well into the swing of Spino Summer! My first video is about the possibility of Spinosaurs in Cretaceous Australia! Follow the link below to watch the video in full! Thumb by @literallymiguel.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A new Eocene ape is described - Saharopithecus salemi - based on two molars found at the Dur At-Talah locality 2, Dur At-Talah escarpment, central Libya. It's uncertain where it places phylogenetically but may be related to the Proteopithecids. 🎨: No Art!

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A new nearly complete specimen of the Ichthyosaur, Stenopterygius quadrissicus from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Whitby Mudstone Formation at Ravenscar near Whitby, Yorkshire, England is described... 🎨: Somniosus insomnus

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Possible evidence of burrowing in "Prosauropod," Anchisaurus, is briefly noted in a much larger volume on the Triassic-Jurassic Lagerstätten in Newark Supergroup Rift Basins. The specimen is the Neotype of Anchisaurus, found in the 1800s 🎨: @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New basal whale is described from Eocene of India as Kalakocetus aurorae, based on a jaw and some teeth. That may seem odd, but remember that mammal teeth are highly diagnostic to species-level, unlike dinos. 🎨: Sergio Perez

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Gobiconodon zofiae is re-described, and the list of traits that diagnose it are further solidified - a new species is also named Gobiconodon gongzhulingensis, based on some chunks of the face and teeth. 🎨: Joschua Knuppe

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🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New Greek Miocene Badger is described as Archaeomeles neglecta. It was unique from living Badgers for its long low snout indicating a diet of small verts, inverts, and plants. 🎨: Irini Antoniadi

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New specimen of a potential Temnodontosaurus trigonodon - UMO BT 011237.00 - is described from the Upper Toarcian Jurensismergel Formation, of Mistelgau, Germany. These bones are 3D and preserve stomach contents and gastroliths! 🎨: @literallymiguel.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New species of bony spur-thighed tortoise from Early Pliocene Jradzor site, Armenia is described - Testudo sahakyanae. 🎨: Joschua Knuppe

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Somehow the Prehistoric Kraken™️ returns! New beak fossils of the large Cretaceous Cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis, prove they could potentially reach mantle sizes of up to 14 ft with tentacles stretching that out even further ~60ft+! 🎨: Yohei Utsuki

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A new 2.7m long squalodelphinid species with a domed supraorbital process from the Lower Miocene of New Zealand is described as Fordycetus taitonga. These whales are related to modern river dolphins and many looked rather similar, but were ocean faring.

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Myanmar Blood Amber has been described - an inclusion of a small true bug (Heteroptera) from 100 MYA. Named Carcinonepa, it convergently evolved a crab-like shape and crab-like claws - not first time it has evolved in non-crab bugs either 🎨: @hodarinundu.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New Oviraptorosaur specimen atop a nest (IVPP V34154) is described from Upper Cretaceous, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, southern China - contains enough info linking it to Huanansaurus & Corythoraptor - Authors lump them altogether as one species. 🎨: See Below

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New sauropod, Phosphatotitan, named off some vertebrae from the back, hips, tail, and some hip bones from the Maastrichtian aged Couche III bed of the Oulad Abdoun Basin, Khouribga Province, Morocco. It was related to Argentinosaurus... 🎨: @olorotitan.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Ornithomimosaur tail vertebra found in Nanaimo Group Cedar District Formation of BC, Canada. 1st definitive dino from area + 2nd reported. Probably from Judith River/2Med time/space. Not much more info from the single bone. 🎨: James Field

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Colossosaurian Titanosaur bits make it the 1st record of dinos in Tena Formation of Oriente Basin, Ecuador. Too fragmentary to name, but complete enough to get a rough phylogenetic idea of. It died in a coastal lagoon with marine incursions. 🎨: James Field

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A new attempt at sinking Raptorex - new study finds that Asiatyrannus and Raptorex don't really have enough diagnostic non-ontogenetically related traits to be considered unique genera and share too many traits with Tarbosaurus. 🎨: Below

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Lowkirkenuinely? The conodont genus, Kirkupodus and its handful of species has been re-analyzed and its evolution explored. Fossils come from across the globe, from Europe to Australia. 🎨: Prehistorica_CM

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New species of existing Hyaenodont genus is named Metapterodon anari based on teeth from Mid-Late Miocene Siwaliks of Pakistan. Mammal teeth are easier to diagnose as species than reptile teeth, so it's not crazy. It's crazy they have no paleoart.

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New ichnotaxon (Fossil footprint "species") is named Janjuichnus procerus based on large pterosaur tracks found in Cretaceous-aged South Korean sediments most likely belonging to an Azhdarchid pterosaur. 🎨: Jun Seung Yi

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New Macronarian sauropod from Jurassic Argentina is named Bicharracosaurus based on a pretty good spinal column and some ribs. It places among more brachiosaur-type macronarians and not the one it lived with (Tehuelchesaurus). 🎨: Michael Skrepnick

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Medusina atava, a Permian species of Jellyfish, has been found in freshwater deposits of Permian North Africa. They were tiny little critters that floated around like a lot of undecorated jellies today - they look like moon jellies to me! 🎨: Joschua Knuppe

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New saurischian, named Ptychotherates, from Tri Chinle Ghost Ranch. Known from a piecemeal skull & closely related to Chindesaurus, Tawa, and Daemonosaurus. Found in a Coelophysis block. Similar in size to Coelophysis. 🎨: megan sodano

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Giant toothed platypus, Obdurodon insignis, receives new late Oligocene material from the Pinpa Local Fauna at Billeroo Creek, South Australia. AU fossils pre-Pliocene are very rare, only coming from this species, so this adds even more! 🎨: Julius Csotonyi

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New rhynchosaur is named Isodapedon! This pig-lizard is from the beginning of the Late Triassic of southern Brazil. It differs from ones it lived near/time by the shape of its jaw, but was similar to ones found in scotland & Argentina. 🎨: Caio Fantini

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 What was once thought to be Hesperosuchus, has been reanalyzed and named Eosphorosuchus. It had a short reinforced snout with evidence for a strong bite. It was a Lt Tri Crocodylomorph from Chinle Fm Ghost Ranch, NM. 🎨: Julio Lacerda + @literallymiguel.bsky.social

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New remains of Megalibgwilia owenii, a large Pleistocene Echidna, are described from a cave in South Australia. This is the first occurence of the species in SA, filling in a big blank spot in its distribution along the south of the continent. 🎨: Chris Edser

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Koumpiodontosuchus, a little croc from Lower Cretaceous England, was Micro-CT-scanned and its anatomy re-described. It's confirmed related to Bernissartia - together a sister group to all of Eusuchia, which includes all living crocs! 🎨: Mark Witton

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Hadrosauroid Qianjiangsaurus, described 2025, has new skull described. CT-Scans reveal same type of resonance chamber as later Lambeosaurine dinosaurs. Analogous but non-homologous structures prove convergent evolution! 🎨: @CHrattler165

Speculative primitive spinosaurid inspired by megalosaurids and Monolophosaurus Colors based in Potamites montanicola suggested by my friend @cascoclauda.bsky.social as usual c: #paleoart for @edgescience.bsky.social !!

🚨 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