During the Neogene period, millions of years before mammoths were primitive elephants who looked like fun house mirror versions of the ones today. Art from my new book: DINOSAURS get your copy here: a.co/d/2Zumfv6 #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart

I like doodling, helping people and volunteering in my free time. It brings me joy and a sense of civic duty that disappears once the act becomes transactional and commercial. Weirds me out when people disapprove that I don't monetise every element of my life and put a price tag on goodwill.

We're doing a weekly dino drawing for september in my #paleoart server. Last one! This lil pal is called; Nqwebasaurus and they're not a fond of raindrops 🌧️🌿 #TheDinosaurMann

Third of women report facing sexual harassment at university in England, survey finds

News @ Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (UMO) in Bayreuth: new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, named today after UMO's prime excavation site, the Jurassic clay pit Mistelgau. @olorotitan.bsky.social beautifully reconstructed the to-be fossil on a belemnite battleground typical for the locality.

Introducing Joaquinraptor casali, a new megaraptoran dinosaur from Patagonia🧪⚒️🦖 (Image credit: Andrew McAfee) wp.me/p3ihHu-5no

This is one of the funniest statistics I've seen.

Pterosaur mimics

The newly discovered Huashanosaurus qini singing by himself in the marshlands of southern China during the Early-Middle #Jurassic #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Here is the trilobite Angelina sedgwickii from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) Dol-cyn-afon Formation from Wales, U.K. This trilobite is slightly distorted due to tectonic forces. It is a great teaching piece to discuss structural geology.

Is there a weird correlation between economic crisis and men throwing tantrum at diverse, expressive art?

Stylized & cartoony is way better than the generic realistic. You can only do so much with realistic while stylization explodes with possibilities.

🚨Registrations are open for the upcoming "Image Science" Gordon research conference , to take place in Italy, April 26-May 1, 2026. Check out the amazing program, tell your friends and share, APPLY! 🚨 www.grc.org/image-scienc...

Laughing Falcon at @casabentbill.bsky.social #birds #nature #costarica

In honour of #FatBearWeek.

Feeling particularly depressed today, have a happy Dearc to cure the ills

For these keeping track of immigrants and asylum seekers in the UK: eating swans was mentioned in 2003 (it was the "eastern European asylum seekers"), in 2007 it was Poles eating carps, in 2012 East Europeans eating swans, again, and now, it is both! I've links of all accounts below🧵

More and more such incidents happening daily www.bbc.com/news/article...

Zavacephale, just a little domeheaded fellow

Share your favorite black and white movie.

When palaeoart becomes real

For the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Joaquinraptor, a new species from a very cool family of dinosaurs: long-armed, hook clawed (possible) tyrannosaur relatives from South America

My favourite bus shelter often has plume moths. Yes, there are plume moths. Here are two.

major traffic incident

Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

Annoying thing is that, we, immigrants & refugees, were droning about systemic xenophobia for over a decade. But you could feel the disinterest, or judgement each time you brought it up. Fascism in the UK didn't come out of nowhere, it was passively normalised, because nobody cared to listen or act.

four color riso with Nova Community Arts ✨ last piece for my class!

Slowly, slowly seeing more and more of China

Finally got the Welsh Red Dragon finished

For #TrilobiteTuesday, here’s the aptly named Kayserops megaspina, a Devonian trilobite. First printed in castable resin, then cast in sterling silver and oxidized to yield blue highlights. Sculpted from scratch, no scans. #paleoart #sciart

a warm welcome to joaquinraptor casali, a megaraptorid from maastrichtian patagonia 🦖 several features of the animal's anatomy suggest that megaraptorans retained robust arms and gracile skulls even at large body sizes, contrasting other massive theropods (art by andrew mcafee)

So many facets of palaeontology are weird and cute and interesting, we need more communicators popularising their work and wonders of natural history.

Froggy doggy

We have described about twenty species of sauropods in the Iberian Peninsula; it's one of the most abundant dinosaur groups here. One of the latest additions to the list is Garumbatitan, a huge somphospondyl that may have grown to over 20 m in length

Wild things happening. On an evening walk in the city... someone shyly approaches me. I assumed, lost tourist. But they asked about my nationality, if I work in science & that they know me from social media and "You described Dearc!" 86 million people in the Greater Bay area & stumbled on a fan!

This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb

Fishing day

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

Natural bristles from a brush glued onto snout, trimmed and painted for a subtle fuzzy display…I think it’s done! I‘ll add some final thoughts on my new Cyonosaurus sculpture in a follow up thread next-

I saw a bunch of cool leopard seal character today so it's my turn. She's a mean lesbian.

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

Feeling particularly depressed today, have a happy Dearc to cure the ills

Lithograph by Rabindranath Tagore, ca. 1928–30 (V&A IS.89-1961). The V&A describes the subject as a 'a prehistoric looking creature'. Interesting, given that Tagore's Hibbert Lectures of 1930 alluded to extinct 'megalomaniac monsters' whose weighty armour hindered their 'true progress'.

Currently *OBSESSED* by this tunnel-parallel cross-section along the Channel Tunnel between England and France 😍 #geoscience #geology ⚒️ Source: @geolsoc.bsky.social (www.geolsoc.org.uk/science-and-...)

That's the thing. Most not only don't care. They have to actively fight the urge to care, because thatbwould put their responsibility to do something before them. And they just won't do anything.

Yeah, I can't wait to hear the good old "but it's not about immigrants like you" once again. Yes it is, it's about all of us.

In the Brexit years, I never once saw coverage on the emotional impacts of the chaos on EU citizens who had made their lives in the UK. Doubtless this indifference will continue.

At the risk of repeating myself: there’s no bargaining with these people. What they’re calling for now is mass expulsions of long-term residents deemed insufficiently economically productive. There’s no way these demands won’t get even more extreme by election time.