Two Denversaurus meet at sunset. Referenced from a photo I took in Montana this summer. Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.

THE BIRD OF ALL TIME

Nothing brings the comfort of autumn like a fall feast! And our Pterodactylus aren't missing the party. We offered our last pumpkins at the zoo filled with bugs and fish, and the winged reptiles balance their weight and challenge themselves for a treat. 🐟🧠 ##ArtemisPaleozoo

Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.

How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down. #KOSA #Censorship #Boston @warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social

Mary Anning famously survived being struck by a bolt of lightning when she was 15 months old. From this and her extensive work on fossils and geology, we can infer that she was likely Ground-type

Congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social et al 2025 for the publication of their Oxroadia paper! And thanks for bringing me onboard to do some restorations of this relative of Lepidodendron and Isoëtes from the Carboniferous of Scotland. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #FossilFriday #paleobotany

The Ice Age megafauna has never felt so real: the art and science behind ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’, a #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge interview with myself and series producer Matthew Thompson... 3dvf.com/en/redaction...

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

Buffa et al.’s paper on the enigmatic Permian reptile 🦎 Galesphyrus and the origin of Neodiapsida is out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology! Read the thread 👇 for some important takeaways from our study @valentinbuffa.bsky.social #Paleontology #Reptile #Permian doi.org/10.1080/1477...

GAY PTEROSAURS 🏳️‍🌈

The preservation of the crest in this specimen demonstrates further that Tupandactylus imperator's crest had a swooping back margin, tapering towards the top. Cool!!!

Results from the #paleostream! Dodo, Oneirosaurus, Thikarisuchus and Bakiribu

My cabbages! An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away. This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

#2025SVP was a hit for Idaho and the IMNH, with a big showing for Peecook Lab members past and present! @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @slvrhwk.bsky.social @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @paleorob.bsky.social @idahostateucose.bsky.social

Get domed. #pachycephalosaurus

I have a shirt with a drawing of wiwaxia on it and one time someone said "Hey I like your Ween shirt" and now the Ween logo is forever a wiwaxia to me.

#2025SVP ”SVP is not afraid of the word diversity. Thank you very much.”

from @inspectoir.bsky.social on twt, a pair of male t. rex courting one another 🦖🏳️‍🌈 as the artist pointed out, same-sex relationships are quite common among both extant theropods as well as terrestrial megafauna

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

It's bird day at #2025SVP! If I'm counting correctly, we have six talks from the @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social lab in the morning and five posters in the afternoon, including mine on the fossil record of nightjars. Come talk to us if you like birds! 🪶🧪 (📷Daniel Field)

It's quite unusual www.bbc.com/news/article...

How about a monster trilobite for #FossilFriday? This is an Isotelus maximus from the late Ordovician near Cincinnati, Ohio. The Friends of UMMP purchased this specimen and it is on display @ummnh.bsky.social

I can finally share this!!! a huge Thanks to both @skyemcdavid.com and @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social for allowing me to do a Nyctosaur for this poster!!!

My poster on #Twitch paleontology livestreams is now up at #2025SVP! Come find me upstairs to talk about how YOU can live stream your fieldwork to audiences around the world (and supercharge your outreach and fundraising in the process). If I can do it, you can too 💪🏽

Poster is now publicly available on ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Tomorrow’s the big day. Feel free to stop by my poster on the evolution of pan-cheloniid pelagic specializations! #2025SVP #SeaTurtle

Endless forms most beautiful...

Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social! If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

If you’re at #2025SVP, I’ll be available to chat about this work this afternoon! Our poster on it is at the very end of the balcony (left of the stage) in Hall 3.

New paper out in JSP! 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬: the phylogeny of Azhdarchoidea (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) and the evolution of giant size in pterosaurs by Thomas & McDavid (2025) buff.ly/j9OujIm #PaleoSky #Dragons #Pterosaurs #2025SVP buff.ly/3w48C05 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @skyemcdavid.com

The Lapworth Museum is overlooked by the most ominous clock tower on this island

You can see Bakiribu fossil in 3D! Access it here: www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

Checked in and all set for #2025SVP!!!! If you see someone with a beanie, a bunch of pride pins on their name tag and nails like obsidian - that’s me, let’s chat!

This handsome mastodon on display in London is one and the same as Missourium, a chimeric super-mastodon created by showman Albert Koch in 1840. Multiple skeletons were combined to extend its length to 40 feet, and the tusks were mounted sideways so they looked like aggressive tusks.

Checked in and all set for #2025SVP!!!! If you see someone with a beanie, a bunch of pride pins on their name tag and nails like obsidian - that’s me, let’s chat!

Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP

I can just imagine Ozzy riding one of the really big azdhachids into one of sabbath's gigs.

Sighted not far from the #2025SVP venue. Even the construction crews took note

Had to cut over and pay my respects at the Black Sabbath bridge, which is right next to the #2025SVP venue 🤘🖤🤘

Just arrived in Birmingham for #2025SVP! Looking forward to seeing everyone. Ever wondered about the evolution of filter feeding in Antarctic seals? If so, come along to my talk on Wednesday at 4pm in Hall 1.

🚨Another new paper alert!! 🚨 We present the first histological analysis of an ornithocheirid pterosaur tooth from Brazil’s Crato Formation, revealing exceptionally rapid tooth growth and thin enamel adapted for efficient replacement. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Chilean paleontologists named a fossil species of sawshark after pochita, meet pochitaserra patriciacanale.

Our recent azhdarchoid phylogeny paper has gotten a David Peters blogpost. I am now officially a pterosaurologist

While going through ptero collections with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk

🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩 🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳 The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

We should rename Los Angeles County to Smilodon County

Back to the skies of the Kem Kem, we find one of the many toothed pterosaurs of the region, Siroccopteryx! This critter has somewhat modestly sized teeth compared to it's cousins, and I've illustrated it here with a speculative crest. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Arriving in Birmingham, England, and the industrial areas on the outskirts of the city remind me of Birmingham, Alabama.