Who’s a good boy? Bear sized carnivore Inostrancevia is showing its impressive teeth. They lived some 250 million years ago, and were the apex predators of their time. This illustration was made for an upcoming new book. More will follow soon! #SciArt #paleoart #gorgonops #animalart #animaldrawing

The Impossible Pictures Instagram page has reported that Benjamin Bartlett has passed away. May he rest in peace and I wish the best for those closest to him.

I made some lil trilobites! 🩷 Sewing pattern is for patrons till May 5. www.patreon.com/nazfx_studios #plush #plushart #trilobite #sewing #cuteart More info ⬇️

Nature News straight-up uses "kraken" as a common name for Nanaimoteuthis, and so it joins the Siberian unicorn (Elasmotherium sibiricum)

What a lovely day to have takoyaki for lunch

New giant fossil cephalopod from Japan, you say?

GIANT CRETACEOUS OCTOPUS

I say we adopt what Tumblr users did and not update the app

"ballyhooed" is an inherently funny word

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This week's new article is out! Honestly, I can't gush about these fossils enough. Three protomammal embryos, all from a species that survived one of the worst mass extinctions of all time? It's amazing.

My favourite fun fact about Chinese oviraptorosaurs is this nomenclatural ouroboros

I like how the Ouled Abdoun Basin hadrosaur names get less creative with each new one. We got Ajnabia odysseus - Odysseus, the stranger. Minqaria bata - duck beak. Taleta taleta - the third one.

I love when I see little birds hop, two feet to a bounce. I’ve seen Triassic tracks from little three-toed somethings that moved like that. How many millions of years life’s been hopping around.

Ecstatic to share my latest published research, the last chapter of my PhD dissertation. 🦕 Iguanodontian dinosaurs may have originated earlier than we thought. 🦖We identified a new clade of 'sail backed' iguanodontians, we formally name it Ouranosauria.

In Tübingen this week, and encountered some fossil agglomerations, and long-necked and toothy beasts, in the university palaeontology collections

CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PAPER ACCEPTED! We got some words about a fragmentary but interesting little guy. Image dubiously related @skyemcdavid.com

Watching old monster movies on Tubi hits the nostalgia button. It’s pretty much the same as catching monster marathons on TBS or TNT when I was a kid, complete with the most banal and nonsense commercials that act as natural soda refill breaks.

"The end of Marine World Africa/U.S.A. in Redwood City, like the beginning, sounded completely made up." Where I pay tribute to the bonkers theme park of our youth, and how its move cemented a Silicon Valley takeover. Gift link for the Peninsula kids 🎁 🐬 🐯 ⬇️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

🌲Permian Mallorca🐾🦎 During the Permian period Mallorca was located on the Equator and was not an island, but part of the mainland. Some terrestrial creatures are known from that time, mostly from the tracks they left behind #paleoart #Permian #Mallorca 🧵Thread for additional explanation

Blorbotherium

This Stegosaurus illustration of mine turned 4 years old today (he's old enough to start school, send him good vibes). While I think my skills have improved since then, I still see this as an important milestone in terms of nailing the anatomy & my thoughts on stegosaur life apperance.

Good morning to the beans, queens, and Mr. Green Jeans

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

The abstract volume for CSVP 2026 is now available. Check it out to see the amazing research that will be presented! journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.p...

Baby what are you doing

New paper: possible track evidence of a small reptile or salamander being pursued by an azhdarchid-like pterosaur. Validation of the Witton and @tetzoo.bsky.social model of azhdarchid foraging? Maybe. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

trying to post through it rn

A new paper I'm on is out today! Led by Stanley Somogyi, we suggest that ancestrally variable characters stabilized independently in different bird lineages, causing distantly related groups to retain similar traits and creating headaches for bird systematists. www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪

Here's the art I did for the new SciAm article on why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the K-Pg event! Read it here www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a... 🪶🎨🐡

Smithsonian Magazine asked me to highlight five Hell Creek Formation discoveries that changed what we know about the last days of the dinosaurs. I was happy to include @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social's Infernodrakon in the short list.

Wayne D. Barlowe

Well this was a work of more than 2 months that just ended up taking longer than necessary due to procrastination, I have seen little or almost no work done on skeletal reconstructions of Temnodontosaurus so I decided to work on a modern one with the new flippers.

everyone is so mean 2 me💔

Results from the #paleostream! Don Juan (still unnamed rat fish relative), Muttaburrasaurus, Lystrosaurus (baby) and Bakonydraco!

Who remembers the Jurassic Park Institute?

If you have Angelfire or Tripod webpages, or Angelfire email, back it up now. A shutdown within the next 27 days is coming but they have not given us an exact time yet.

I was kind of hoping this was going to happen

Thanks, @skyemcdavid.com <3 A reply is in the works and we do have plenty of new microscopic evidence that will reinforce the pterosaurian nature of Bakiribu. It will take us some time to wrap up the manuscript, though.

Teratorns weren't very vulture-like ecologically (being that they were most likely terrestrially-foraging predators) but I can't help but picture them skulking around like old world vultures.

Life size velociraptor

hey i’m being real fucking serious right now call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections. im too mad for words.

More popular musicians should put >10-minute-long prog epics at the end of their albums

⛅ Moon Pteranodon? 🌜 ______ #ocsky #paleofur

LOOK AT THE BABY LYSTROSAURUS

Learning that one of my go-to coffee shops (with an entirely queer staff) is gonna be forced to remove all of pride flags by executive mandate and so I will have to take my business elsewhere

Why does he look like that