#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Gracanicanetta happi! #sciart #paleoart

#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Dibango volans! #sciart #paleoart

ニュース バーミンガム大学 科学者らが白亜紀ヨーロッパで角竜の存在を示す最初の明確な証拠を発見 www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/sc... 論文 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

白亜紀後期のヨーロッパに角竜類が生息していたこと、確認される アイカケラトプスは間違いなく角竜類 ラブドドン科に分類されていた別の恐竜、モクロドンも同じ種であると思われる 歴史的にラブドドン科に分類されていた他のヨーロッパの恐竜は、おそらく誤認されており、これらも角竜類 ルーマニアの恐竜ザルモクセス・シュキペロルムは、これまでイグアノドン類とされていたが、角竜類の新属 Ferenceratops に（ノプシャにちなむ） これらこの再分類により、ヨーロッパの白亜紀後期の生態系に関する科学的理解が大きく変わる ニュース 英自然史博物館 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Did you know almost every body of water is connected in Riparia? Redwood Lake and Wollemi Forest have enormous caverns letting aquatics traverse to the high plateaus. While Black Fern Forest and Dry Fang Canyon are isolated from the ocean. #pathoftitans #dinosaurs #game #gaming #newmap #Riparia

Might as well try to post some of my formline art!! Here’s a collection of animals!! 🦦🦭🍊🐦 #formline

HOMECOMING #formline Because the heart knows where it's home is, wherever it may be 🐺🌫️

This is a really great paper, with a big boost from new fossils for Ajkaceratops. European ceratopsians are weird--and a ceratopsian identity is the hypothesis best supported by the evidence. Some thoughts / notes...

Zalmoxes shqiperorum is now considered a ceratopsian within the new genus Ferenoceratops! And new skull of Ajkaceratops! That's interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Relatives of Triceratops have never been found in Europe – until now. New research reveals that many rhabdodontid dinosaurs might actually be ceratopsians after all - rewriting what we know about Cretaceous Europe! Find out all about these dinosaurs 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

accurate depiction of my reaction upon learning that zalmoxes may be a ceratopsian, per a new study on european ceratopsians by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

People may circulate some sensitive media today. A reminder that you can disable videos from autoplaying by going to: SETTINGS > CONTENT AND MEDIA > toggle AUTOPLAY VIDEOS AND GIFS to OFF.

Looking for nature valentines cards? Last year's comic is now available as cards! They start shipping Jan 12. topatoco.com/collections/...

The deadline for graduate student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) summer school is this Friday, January 9th! paleoCAMP is completely free for all students selected to attend paleoclimate.camp/apply

oh yes and d'oh, the awesome art by @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social !

Our paper is published in @nature.com today! Big thanks to Susie, Richard, Attila, and our coauthors Luke Meade, Zoltan Csiki-Sava & Felix Augustin! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And this solves a long-standing mystery. There were tons of ceratopsians in North America & Asia during the Cretaceous. But where were the European horned dinosaurs? Turned out they were there all along—hiding in plain sight as rhabdodontids.

Susie led a phylogenetic reassessment of all of these dinosaurs, and my small role on the team was running the Bayesian analyses. This is the family tree. Ajkaceratops is a rhabdodontid. And rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are in the Triceratops group!

It's a new skull, found in Hungary by Attila Osi and his team. It belongs to Ajkaceratops, which Attila & @richardjbutler.bsky.social described in 2010 as a ceratopsian. But other researchers disagreed, and considered it an ornithopod.

For years, Susie had been suspecting that rhabdodontids—those weird island-dwelling insular Cretaceous European ornithopods—were actually ceratopsians. But the face of this new fossil proved it to us:

A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians. There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary! Check out our new study, led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social ⤵️

Europe's Missing Ceratopsian Dinosaurs Have Been Found And They're Quite Diverse By @iflscience.com Reconstruction by @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/europes-miss...

Europa Clipper is on its way to Jupiter but it was in the perfect position to study the comet's tails after its closest approach to the Sun. www.iflscience.com/interstellar...

The UN list of the most populous cities will look very different by the end of the 21st century. www.iflscience.com/why-tokyo-is...

Dunkleosteus terrelli #sciart #cleveland #placodermi #arthrodira #dunkleosteus #devonian

Next Thursday in Los Angeles, @ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of activism art! We'll be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city. RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social! Please repost, LA!

WOW!!! 🤩 “An ‘extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet that may have links to the Celtic tribe led by Boudicca in the period they were battling the invading Roman army has been discovered by archaeologists in Norfolk”. www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #Archaeology

Our moose don’t mind a little rain. ☔️ 📹: Keeper Jordan

New (to me, anyway) scam: I've been contacted by "book clubs" who want to do a group order of my book, and discuss it together. Great! But they want me to sponsor their book club with a donation of... DRAMATICALLY more money than I've made in sales of the book in the past year.

This winter's @instbirdpop.bsky.social thank you card might be my favorite one yet! I painted a pair of Sandhill Cranes investigating Ackerson Meadow in #Yosemite, where ongoing restoration of the meadow did actually draw in some of these birds during our 2025 banding season! 🎨 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt 🌎

Megaladapis and parson's chameleon

Migratory freshwater fish are in crisis. Monitored populations have declined by 81% and only 23 species are under our Convention. A new paper highlights CMS' potential to safeguard freshwater fish by filling knowledge gaps, strengthening cooperation across river basins & expanding species under CMS.

My dad died of Parkinson's. If you've seen neurodegeneration up close, you understand why prevention matters. COVID has been linked to increased neurological risk, including Parkinson-like syndromes. Some viruses are known to cause long-term neurodegeneration. fortune.com/well/2024/01...

Díaz-Martínez, I., Navarro-Lorbés, P., Isasmendi, E. et al. Footprint morphology sheds light on running strategies in non-avian theropods. Sci Rep 15, 44217 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Diprotodon and Genyornis from the Pleistocene of Australia will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

Join us for Grains of Change: A Festival of Rice Across East Asia on Thursday, January 22! This evening event is a celebration of the cultures of East Asia through one of the region’s most fundamental staples: rice. This program is for ages 21+. Get tickets.👇

Selected species of Dimetrodon. Here are various sketches showing some species of Dimetrodon, which was a quite diverse genus during the Early Permian. The genus includes about a dozen of species #paleoart #sciart #synapsids

The first snow fell.

Hunting is fun even in the snow

Bacia do Pantanal: origem, evolução e mudanças ambientais revistas.ufpr.br/geociencias/...

Leonardo da Vinci's burial site was disturbed early in the 19th century, and he had no direct descendants. Finding his DNA is “about as hard a target there is,” experts say. Now scientists may have made a breakthrough... Cool story by @richardastone.bsky.social for @science.org

Scientists report that a hardy group of ammonites survived the dino-killing asteroid for over 68,000 years. Once considered a “textbook victim” of the calamity, the new research shows mass extinctions aren’t always as tidy as portrayed. #Paleontology #MassExtinctions 🧪🏺 New for @science.org

www.yumpu.com/en/document/... Best regards to Finn McElrue-Inch

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🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social

Reminder that #DinoConUK venue info is up NOW, and we're accepting vendor applications AND hotel places (do not wait to the last minute!). Tickets are not YET on sale but things are coming together. Our 2025 meeting in Exeter was huge, we expect Birmingham 2026 to be bigger! www.dinocon.co.uk